NORFOLK ROAD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11823, 21 November 1901, Page 2

NORFOLK ROAD.

j. (From Our .Own, Correspondent.)" f Toniay is a vdry ,wet day, so \tta^_. yesterday, and so also was the tlaj? . : before thai, and indeed the elomenia are. taking' it/out !of .us to moke «n» for the recent » deficiencies.. - . Mr A. Mason's farm . w-as ' to. bava been sold last Saturday/ bu.L I have* not heard who was thu lucky pur* chases. One or two other farms ara in the market, so that if there bft anyone anxious to live in this <te^ lightful district, Bow is tbe time to become possessed of crue or other ol these excellent farpis. / It is my mournful' duty to relate that I will shortly have nothicg to say with. r?gard .to tho railway fenc-' ing, as a fine body of men is now at work erecting, gates, and putting up a luggage siding, , and ' extending the fence onwards towards Durham Road. It is ,pleasant to see one's qfforts to get work „d one rewarded so rapidly— it' is only, abbut three t or four months , since I dr,ew attenr lion, ;to the, fact that these things" wanted doing. I Should; however, like tor see" more substantial gates erected than is the case at present. ' Tfu> engines' tbo, many of them,.* ; are far gone r with asthma,, and^it 1s ! rfeallypitiful' to hear" their J ! dreadful iiacking cough after they have* 1 ascended - the hill to Norfolk Road station^ v . The school -coccert , takes place in about? a months when ,a %pqd muytev of: parents and. friends -is -expect^- . cd. Proceeds, as usual! .t.o..;buy prizrtj. es. .The school, is now thepossessor in addition to the red ensign, hoisted some sixteen mionths'; ago, , of a ,New: r Zealand ensign, which, will vShortly t be hoisted ,by JUx.H. Trhnble. :-» ..Tlje master^ and the i.b'ig, boys; are coa- : structing a swimming pond in 100,, school grounds.. - ; i" » *>•»■.