Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 March 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 aa Dunedin and The Bluff. Steamers leave Wellington for Sydney direct on Friday of every week, and anyone who find? that day inconvenient may get to Bydney 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 southern ports, and from The Bluff tlhey 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 issues 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 Oook Islands and other dependence, is now well over one million. In June, 1908, the frtimated popnlation of London was 4,785,757. The rateable value of property in England and. Wales Has risen each year since 1874. The figures are as follows:— Tn 1874, £115,6*0,681. In 1888, £145,527,944. Tn 1894, £161,139,575. In 1908, £212, 757, 450. The total rateable value in 1874 represents an average of £4 17s 6d per head of population, while in 1908 the average was £6 per head. IIP 1 j.l ■Jill 1 II 'It IWllillllWll I <H| I TIT