ANDERSON'S BAY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2055, 13 July 1893, Page 23

ANDERSON'S BAY.

July 12.— The attendance at last weeks meeting of ' the Mutual Improvement Society wa3 only fair. Mr Ferrier read some interesting extracts from a book on "Gardening, a short discussion following. The concert to-mor-row night promises to be Ca great success. Next week Mr F. R. Chapman is to deliver a lecture, when the hall will no doubt be hlled to the doors. . Amusements.— Entertainments are coming on thick and fast. On the 19th there is to be a magic lantern exhibition, the proceeds to be devoted to the new hall, at the school. Tickets are fixed at a very low figure, and without doubt there will be a bumper house for this popular show. On the 26th the Anglican Church concert is to be held in the Volunteer Hall. Many kind friends from Dunedin have promised their .services, and the programme will be of a very high order.. The proceeds are to be devoted to the church. Tickets are being pushed vigorously, and the hall will, 1 °^unerai..—l he funeral of the late Mr Sanderson took place on Sunday afternoon, and was very largely attended by friends from all parts of the Peninsula and from the city* I noticed many old identities round the grave. School Committee.— The committee met on Monday evening and decided to. excavate a site for the new hall, with the view of erecting it on a level with the school. The work will be tendered for, upon specifications prepared by the Education Board architect. It was resolved to meet on Friday to make arrangements for Arbor Day, 4c. . , Ferry.— Both dredge and steamer are at anchor in the channel. ,No one seems to know what is to be done or why work is suspended. Shareholders growl and talk about a meeting to bring the directors to book, but no one seems inclined to lead, and meantime all 'Suffer inconvenience and loss. Many prefer to trampeventhe very bad roads which we now have rather than travel m the Road Boabd Vagaries.— The members of the board do not dispense their favours with an even hand. They have given one resident notice to lop off the branches of his trees which overhang the road, and that on a Bteep bank which cannot be used for traffic ; while they have granted permission to his neighbour to plant trees on the level road opposite his property and to erect a fence on the road in order to protect the trees. Strange to say, these trees, which have been planted for the sole benefit of the last-named gentleman out on the road instead of within his fence and not in any way for the public good or to beautify the neighbourhood, have not been touched; while those planted by the public and for the purpose of beautifying the district have been destroyed.