Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 March 1911, Page 1

Useful References

FOR TRAVELLERS AND TAT-AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers leave Wellington For Christennreh practically every eveiiing in the week. Afternoon train* from Levin connect with them. There are frequent trips to ports further south, such as Dnnedin Mid The Bluff. Bteflmers leave Wellinjcton for Sydney direct on Friday 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 np froml Wellington via Napier and Gieborne The inward steamers from Bydne.\ to Wellington go on '-osotrtj*™ porta, and from The Bluff they steam up to Melbourne and later on As a means of enabling the sender of a letter addressed to a plaee abroad to prepay the postage on a reply, the Department lesnea r*pi.«; coupons on paymen* of a fee 01 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 popnlatioa, 111 eluding that of the Cook Island* and other dependencies, is now wetover one million. Tn June, 1908, the «tan»f*d population of London was 4,796,75/ The rateable value of property rn England and Wales Has risen each year since 1874. The figures are ns follows: — In 1874. £115,6*9,881. In 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 od per head of population, while in lw« the average was £6 per bead.