Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 May 1911, Page 1

Useful References

FOR TRAVELLERS AND fAT-AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers leave Wellington for Chrietchnrch" practically every evening in Hie week. Afternoon trams from Levin connect witK them. There are frequent trips fo porta further south', snch as Dunedin and The Bluff. Steamers leave Weflint> ton for Sydney direct on Friday of every week, and . anyone who finds thai day inconvenient may get to Sydney from Auckland, wKence a steamer leaves every Monday, after having voyaged up from Wellington via Napier and OWSom*. The inward steamers from" Sydney to Wellington go on tfo southern porta, and from The Bluff they steam up % Melbourne and later on to Bydney. . As a means of enabling the sender of a letter addressed to a place abroad to prepay the postage on a reply, tEe Department issues reply, coupons on payment of * fee .of Id. TK«se coupons may be exeESnged for a postage stamp of *h'e value of I|d in any country wHoH adopts the scheme. : - New BeaTand's populafloo, Including thali of the Oook Islands and other dependencies, is now well over one mHHwn. •_ In June, IWB, tfhe esHmated population of London was '4,7t§,787. The rateable raise of properly In England and Wales Has risen each year since 1874. The Igures are as follows:— In 1874, x'.Ii.HMH. In 1888, £148,5f7,W4. In 1894, £161,181,578. In 1908, £518, 787, '450. The total rateable value in 1874 represents an average of £4 17s 8d per head of population, while in 1908 the average was £8 per head.