Hinuera.

Matamata Record, Volume XIII, Issue 1104, 10 March 1930, Page 1

Hinuera.

Bowling Club. The very fine progress made by the recently incorporated Bowling Club at Hinuera, will be of particular interest to all bowlers throughout the Matamata district. Formed less .than twelve months ago, the club has 43 financial members, who have paid their £3 3s in advance to help provide funds for a green, while there are good prospects of another ten to fifteen members joining up. An enthusiastic executive, consisting of Mr Maud, president; Mr. De Renzy, secretary; Messrs. Wheeler, Sweetman, Oates, Hayes and S. Wright, has had solid support from keen members with the result that the new green is expected to open for play by October next. The .club section, of Just over half an acre, which was bought from Mr. Germann, is ideally situated alongside the railway line and next to the lawn tennis courts and croquet green. Some nine months ago the section was stripped of its turf which was stacked in one corner. The sub-soil was then broken up and levelled and ditches, put in. For the past few weeks an enthusiastic band has been hard at work laying the top-soil and putting in the bargeboards, fencing posts, etc., and good progress has been made. The actual work of laying and grassing the green is in the capable hands of Mr. A. Griffiths, of Matamata, who, so far, has about half the green covered, and is making a particularly good job of the work. The grass will be sown this month. It is interesting to note that apart from membership fees only about £2O has been raised, yet everything has been paid for and the policy of the executive to have nothing but the best of materials and work followed. The club possesses a tip-top iron water filled roller and the timber for a sft close-boarded fence is already on the ground. The club is applying to the Railway Department for use, of part of the plantation as a parking space for cars, and everything possible is being done to make the green as convenient and comfortable as that of any country club. Personal. Mr. Mclsaac and his sister, Mrs. A. Rowe, are on a motor tour to the South Island.