MANAWATU
At a meeting of the Manawatu Patriotic Society the statement of finances disclosed the following credit balances on January 31:—General account, ,£967; sick and wounded fund, £52,505; camp comforts and equipment fund, .£134; Y.M.C.A. fund, ii! 9; copper trail, .£7; Anzac fund, .£15,087; 6th Squadron Mounted Rifles, .229; British Red Cross fund, J199; French Red Cross fund, .£203. The following investments had been made to dates Bank of New Zealand, deposits ,£12,000; Bank of Australasia, del»sits, .£7000; National Bank, deposits, £0000; Bank of New South Wales, doposits, .£6000; Union Bank, deposits JBfiOOO; War Loan Certificates, ,£4617; War Bonds, ,£10,200; promissory notea, =£5813; town section, Leyiii, £200; Anzac section find improvements, .£8807; Post Oflice Savings Bank. .£2120; Bank of New Zealand, current account, .£343. _ Improvements' have been carried out at the Manakau cheese factory, chief among which is the installation of a wated-race, which will carry away surplus whey, etc. Taking tho Levin district generally (says tho "Chronicle"), maize has proved a somewhat patchy crop owing to the wetness of the season. There aro exceptions however, and one of them is to be found on Mr. A. W. Woodman's farm in M'DonaUl's Road, Ihakara, whero the crop averages ■ well over six feet in height. „ , , . , Mr. W. Galloway, of Pahautanui, has purchased Mr. O'Connor's Manakau farm property. . The Levin Dairy Company has iust installed an up-to-dato Slikeborg (the "Chronicle" reports) skim-milk pump at its creamery at Ihakara. Tho new pump will greatly expedite the work of transferriiiK tho milk to the elevated tanks and prove an acquisition to tho plant. The creamery is still receiving a largo supply considering the advanced state of tho season. Mrs. Bradshaw, postmistress (it Manakal'.. lifts returned from a holiday spent in various parts of the island, including Wellington and Auckland. Miss Firth, wh i has been relieving, lias returned to Wellington,
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 141, 10 March 1919, Page 8
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