Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 June 1911, Page 1

Useful References

FOR TRAVELLERS AND TAT-AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers leave Wellington f«r ChrietcbnrcE practioally every evening in the week. Afternoon trains from Levin connect with them. There are freqnent tripe $0 porta further south', snob aa Dnnedln and The Blnff. Steamers leave "Wellington for Sydney direct on Friday of every week, and anyone who finds that day inconvenient may get to Sydney from Auckland, wKenoe a steamer leaves every Monday, after having voyaged op from Wellington via Napier and OißOOrne. The inward steamers from Sydney to Wellington go on to eontftern ports, and from The Blnff "tihey steam np to MeTbonrne and later on to Sydney. As a means of enabling tne sender of a letter addressed to a plaoe abroad to prepay the postage on a reply, tEe Department Issace reply eonpons on payment of a fee of Id. These oonpons may lie exenlnged for a postage stamp of £Ee value of S|d in any conntry wHoB adopt* the scheme. New Zealand's popnlafitwi, raclnding that of the Oook Islands and other dependencies, is n'ow well over one million. In Jnne, 1508, Hie eßttmalefl population of London was 1,718,787. The rateable valae of properly in England and Wales Em risen each year since 1874. The Ignrea are as follows In 1874, xTIB.BIB.MI. In 1888, £148,557,944. In 1894, £1f11,159;578. In 1908, £218, 757, '450. The total rateable valne in 1874 represents an average of £4 17s fid per head of popnlation, while in 1908 the average was £8 per bead.