Birmingham Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 57, 5 September 1893, Page 3

Birmingham Notes

[r-noii ocr owx correspondent.] The change in the weather this week has been most beneficial to the settlers, as it has proved very favorable for the lambing season, which is now at its height in this district. The roads Imye dried up very much, causing the meat holes and ruts to show up very plainly ; the depth of some of the holes is quite two feet It is to be hoped that the Kiwitea Eoad Board will squeeze out a few pounds and have these frightful irapWioles filled in. If the surveyor would only have a few saplings and bushes cut down on the road-side from Mr Bainbndge s house up to the K ates of Mr Pettigrews, nncj have ihem laid in the holes it would .^help in some way to malce the road pass* able It seems that the time is now at hand for the Birmingham people to take over the. road< and see if they can- i not keep them in bettor order than those who now have the management. We are now debating, " Who is the best man to ciioose for a J.P. ?" A number of names are on the list to be forwarded tohend-quarlers. It is also on the cards th.it our district is not properly named. " Birmingham " is not a lit name, as the place is not a manufacturing town— or ever will be. The business of the post office is daily increasing and will shortly require an official to devote all his time to the duties of tno office. It would be a move in the right direction if they had the telephone taken on to Pemberton. We shall soon want a bank open for business daily ; or more than once a week, as at preseut, the place being so rapidly built over.