Fairburn.

Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 13, 8 November 1904, Page 2

Fairburn.

(From a Correspondent.)

The vehicle licenses here are just being collected for the year now expiring. The basket social in aid of the church organ fund has been postponed till about March. Messrs. Rogers, Tracey and A. Wallace, new suppliers, began sending milk to the creamery lust week. With the warmer weather the supply of milk has increased very much, owing to the growth of feed. Feed has never been so scarce as during the winter and early spring. A basket social in aid of the public library has been arrauged for December 2nd. Messrs. Curse, William Stanton and Alex. Wallace are appointed a committee of management. The School Committee last week decided to rebuild the school fences, so the paddock will be secure for horses on the occasion.

Messrs. Hoskin and R. May had the misfortune to have their hush whare burnt down last week, while they were bush-felling. When they returned from work at dinner-time they found their shanty reduced to ashes. They lost, a good deal in the way of clothes, a saddle and tools, and a cheque for several pounds.

The Public Works Statement is being eagerly looked forward to this week. A n absurd canard was in circulation last week, staling that the whole of the money petitioned for for tho Flat Bush Road had been granted, and caused no little disappointment amongst the many who do not attach much importance to a good road throughout the whole length between the fingerposts. It is to be hoped that there will be a substantia] sum of money on the estimates, for metalling the road some distance each side of the creamery (more particularly the lower portion), as the road has been in a dreadful state for the carriage of milk to the creamery. Each season the road seems to get more cut* up than before.