New Brighton Notes.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6649, 13 September 1889, Page 3

New Brighton Notes.

[from our own correspondent.] Timea in New Brighton are looking up, and the place ia fall of \dsitor3. For the last fortnight the demand for houses has been so great that it cannot be satisfied. As an instance of this, two houses proposed I to be built, and not yet begun, are already let — one for six months and the other for two years, while others are applied for several months in advance. There are some bight or nine houses to be built, but those who are building them, it is reported, intend to live in them themselves. If this should be the case, it will be hard to get I into any this season. Three houses have changed hands lately, and no end of sections, but for some unaccountable reason sections are Belling at less than they fetched two years *>go, although some very good offers have been refused, namely, £600 for less than three roods, and .£3OO for half an acre. As a sign of the way in which property has increased in value one block of 50 acres, which could not be sold at £<& per half-acre eight years ago, is now assessed at just under .£22,000. WANT OP SCHOOL ACCOMMODATION. Our school is over-crowded, and it is a fact that there are seventy-seven on the school list, and nearly all attending, as we have no illness to keep them away, and several visitors who would like to send their children have to be refused on account of want of room. Fancy Beventyseven children in a place 30ft by 20f fc, with a master and mistress teaching in the same room, and where the seating is so limited that the classes must stand turn and turn about. It is only eight months since this school was started with forty scholars, and the room taken for a school was supposed to be large enough for at least two year 3, but now it ia considerably too small, and we hope something will be done soon, so that we can have plenty of room. The present room ia engaged for twelve months, but something may be done, so that the infants could be located in another building. NEW BRIGHTON CHURCH This church ia also too small for the requirements of the district, and the Vestry have had to consider the question of enlargement, and intend to build an additional space for fifty worshippers. The average attendance for last month was double that of the corresponding month last year, and last Sunday evening the church waa,crowaed m every part. THE TRAMWAY. Our tramway ia doing a large amount, of busineaß, and there is every chance that the shareholders Trill get a dividend thiß fraaneial'year if-fche business keeps up to anything like, the presentI^«g*s*4 ti^voonsideiable^ jßMafllamaiii'innßitfliiiittiiia mtti 1 n m. 1 in( n 1

church City Coui'.cil tender, which has j always been considered too much ; our I rolling stock and roads are in good con- j dition, and must give satisfaction to all : concerned, and the company will, no doubt, have a good time of it this season. THE PIER. The Pier Company's guarantee must ensure a successful issue, as I am informed that two-thirds of the shades are sold, and that during the la3t week nearly 600 shares have been applied for. The only regret is that the Directors did not accept the guarantee, and so prove that the offer was a bond fide one. I would actviae the Directors to call a meeting of the shareholders at once to settle the matter, and not wait nearly three months to do co. I am informed that £50 a year has already been offered for what is considered one of the rightß of the pier ; ; I hear this is something that had not- been ! thought of by the Company, and there is no doubt that several such offers will be made. • > THE RACECOUHSE COMPANY j seem to have had a good time of it this ' year, and there is every chance of a better next. By the way, I think that the late New Brighton Beach Racing Committee have a very good balance in hand which they don't know what to do with. Might I ; suggest that this should be given towards i buying instruments for a band which it is proposed should be formed here, and that would relieve the trouble of some of the : Baid Committee, and also make our race ', meeting more lively bylfetaving our own band in attendance at the meetings. FORESTERS. The Foresters are an energetic body, and have been "a big draw." They have thirty-two members, some of whom come up from Sumner, and more power to them. This is true brotherhood, and we are proud of them. lam very pleased to have to say that the concert given by the Court was a financial success, and that £8 was netted out of the affair, thanks to those who gave their services, and have promised to do so again. I, for one, hope it will not be long before they have a chance of doing so, as the entertainment was a complete-success.