What Was Happening Sixty Years Ago

Chronicle (Levin), 14 October 1949, Page 4

What Was Happening Sixty Years Ago

Happenings of interest in, .Levin sixty years ago are provided in the issue of the Foxton Telegraph for July 28, 1899. Among them are the following;^Persons requiring carbide fqr their acetyline bicycle lamps can procure that article from H. Anstice, Levin, who has just received a consignment. • * * * We understand that ihe poll for the erection of a. bridge over. the Waikawa stream was npt carried pn Wednesday." * - * • . ♦ Final arrangements have been made for'" the site of the Levin Co-operative Dairy Company's factory. Ari acre of Mr, Cole's prqperty in Queen Street has been purchased, also a cottage, which is to be utilisgd for the manager's residence, and the building of the factory is to be proceeded with at once. It is to be bullt on the gravitatiop. principle, and the most upr-to-date machinery will be put. in. The site is a most central one, and with the support of the settlers the affai'r will be !a pro.nounced success. Mr. Williams, of Weraroa, wrote • to the Wirpkino Road Board about taking over and maintaining the roads at Weraroa. The board replied that if Mr. Bartholomew • wa§ not going' to construct the roads prior to the- board talfing them over, the ratepayers themselves • should- form their land into. a special rating district and bor* row, under the Government Loans.. to Local Bodies Act, 1886, suffleierit money to construct the said.rdads, the ■ board would Lhen undertake •to assist the said ratepayers in raising the money and carrying out -the required works. * * * Mr. Scott, th6 resident engineer for the Wanganui District of Government Railways, arrived in Foxton on Wednesday evening, with the intention of ) going over the grourid where it is proposed to ru'n the railway to the Foxton Beach. Next morning the Mayor drove Mr. Scott over and- pointed out the benefits such a railway would be tp the whole country around. Mf. Scott will, of course, send in to the Government a report, and there is no reason. to suppose that the report will be unfavourable.