Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 June 1911, Page 1

Useful References

——• FOR TRAVELLERS AND fAY-AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers !*ave WeTHngtofl for OhristchnrcE practically every waning in the week. Afternoon trafni from Levin connect with them. There are frequent tripe to porta fnrther sontß, snch as Dnnedln ana The Blnff. Steamers leave Welhngton for Sydney direct on Friday of every week, and anyone wno finds that day inconvenient may get to Sydney from Auckland, wKemoe & steamer leaves every Monday, after having voyaged up from Wellington via Napier and wiflwrfte. The inward steamers from Sydney to Wellington go on t-o BonWern ports, and from The steam np to Melbonrne and later on to Sydney. As a means of enabling the Beiraer of a letter addressed to a plaoe abroad to prepay the postage on a reply, tEe Department Issues repry coupons on payment? of & fee of Id. These conpons may be exefilnged for a pnstage stamp of ?K« I"j^ 6 of Sid in any conntry wWcS ftSopta the scheme. , _ . New Zealand's popHliTOfi, _molnding thai of the „ Cook Islands and other dependencies, is n'ow well over one minion. In * Jnne, 1108. fHe e«HiniiWl population of London was !,T0T,787. The rateable value of property In England and "Wales lias rlws «*cn year since 1874. The Igarefl are as follows:— In 1874, xTIH,BW,«W. In 1888, 36148,517,§44. In 1894, -£181,181,578. In 1908, *£?12, 757, '450. Th'e total rateable valne in 1874 represents an average of £4 17s 8d per head of popnlation, wnfle m JWB the average was £8 per head.