Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 February 1911, Page 1

Useful References

FOR TRAVELLERS AND TAY AT-HOME PEOPLE.

Steamers leave Wellington for Christchurch practically every evening in the week. Afternoon trams from Levin connect with them. There are frequent trips to porta further south, such as Dnnedra and The Bluff. Steamers leave Wellington for Sydney direct on Friday of every week, and anyone who finds that clay inconvenient may get to Sydney from Auckland, whence a steamer leaves every Monday, after having voyaged up from Wellington via Napier and Gisborne. The inward steamers from Sydney to Wellington go on tosouthern porta, and from The Bluff they steam up to Melbourne and later on to Sydney. As a means of enabling the sender of a letter addressed to a place abroad to prepay the postage on a reply, the Department issnes. reply coupons on payment of a fee of Id. These coupons may be exchanged for a postage stamp of the value of 2*d in any country which adopts the scheme. New Zealand's population, including that of the Cook Islands andothW donendenrtw. is nnw well over one million. Tn June, 1908, the estimated popnlntion of London was 4,795,757. The rateable value of property in England and Wales has risen each year since 1874. The figures ares r>B follows: — In 1874, £115,848,681. In 1888, £145,527,944. Tn 1894, £161.139,575. In 1908, £212. 757, 450. The total rateable valne in 1874 repreeenrfe an average of £4 17s Gd per head of population, while m 1908 the average was £6 per bead.