Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 June 1911, Page 1

Useful References

_^_.—» FOR TRAVELLERS AND fAY-AT-HCME PEOPLE. Steamers i*nv« WeTHngtofi for Chrißtchnrcli practically every evening in the week. Afternoon trains from Levin connect with them. There are frequent tripe $o ports fnrther south', such as Dunedln and The Bluff. Steamers leave WoTKnßton for Sydney direct on Friday of every week, and anyone who finds that day inconvenient may pet to Sydney from Auckland, whence a steamer leaves <>very Monday, after having voyaged op from Wellington vift Napier and Gisfborne. The in-wnrd steamers from Sydney to Wellington po on to souffiem ports, and from The Bluff they steam np to MeThourne and l&fer on to Svdney. As a means of enabling the sender of a letter addressed to a place abroad to prepay th« poefafe on a reply, the Department Issues reply eon pons on payment of a" f*ft_ of Id. These coupons m*y fee exehanned for a postage stamp of fh'e yarne of !Jd in any country wBJoS ftiSopts the schemo. New 55e»T«.nd'(» populafJon, inelndins that of the > Cook Islands and other dependencies, is nbw over one million. In June, 1808. the wdSTmaWI population nf London was '4JM.787. The rateable vnln* of prop»rEy In Ensland and Wales Has "risen each' year since 1874. The figures afe as follows:— In 1874, x'.H.fIIV.UT. In 1888, '£148,0T7,M4. In 1894, £181.18«,67B. In 1908, '£fIS, 757, '450. Th'e total rateable value in 1874 represents an average of £4 17s Bd per bead of popnlation, while in 1008 the average was £8 per bead.