KIWITEA AND BIRMINGHAM.
Dearth of incident has prevented me from corresponding for some time, Nothing very startling ever happens up here, but still we continue to advance steadily. The telephone connecting Birmingham and Feilding has been completed for some time and is a great boon to the district. The contractors are busy metalling the road opposite Mr Lockyer’s and Major Moore’s properties, which was in such a dreadful state last winter. There is now a good metalled road right up to Pemberton, at which place a most comfortable and commodious hotel has just been erected. Feed in the district is still green and abundant.
Mr Lockyer has just harvested a nice crop of oats which but for the sparrows would have yielded quite 80 bushels per acre, but the birds have demolished quite half. His turnips and potatoes are looking very well. AVhooping-cough is very prevalent in the district, and the liiwitea school has been closed in consequence. Charlie Grantham, the popular waiter at Mr Gibbons’ hotel, Marton, has started business in Birmingham. He has erected a very nice billiard-room, and also a hairdresser’s .and tobacconist’s shop, all of which are paying well.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1095, 24 February 1893, Page 18
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193KIWITEA AND BIRMINGHAM. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1095, 24 February 1893, Page 18
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