Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 March 1911, Page 1

Useful References

FOR TRAVELLERS AND TAY-AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers leave Wellington for Christehurch practically every evening in the week. Afternoon trams from Levin connect with them. There Are frequent tripa to ports further south, such as Dunedin and The Bluff. Steamers leave Wellington for Sydney direct on Fnday of every week, and anyone who finds that day 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 to southern ports, and from The Bluff they steam up to Melbourne and later on to Sydney. .' As a means of enabling the oender of a letter addressed to a place abroad to prepay the postage on a reply, th'e Department issues reply coupons on payment of a fee of Id. These coupons may be exchanged for a postage stamp of _ the value of 2id in any country which adopts the scheme. New Zealand's population, including that of the Oook Islands and other dependencies, is now well over one million. • r . In June, 1908, the estimated population of London was 4,795,757. The rateable value of property in England and Wales has risen each year since 1874. The fignres are as follows:— In 1874, £115,648,681. Tn 1888, £145,527,944. In 1894, £161,139,575. In 1908, £212, 757, 450. The total rateable value in 1874 represents an average of £4 17s fid per head of population, while in 1908 the average was £6 per bead.