Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 June 1911, Page 1

Useful References

FOR TRAVELLERS AND fIT-AT-HOME FEOPI/B. Sfceamere fear© WeTflTmtofl for Christchnrcfi practically every erwninjr in the week. Afternoon trains from * evin connect with them. There are freqnent trips fo porta further south, such M Dnneftra and The Blnff. Bteamera leave WeTlinfton for Sydney dSrecfi on Friday of every week, Mid anywne who find" that dav inconvenient m*y pet to Sydney from Auckland, vsjfonoe a steamer leaves every Monday, aftpr having voyaged np from If eliin crtoTi via Napier and OWbora*. The inward steamers frotn Bydnev to Wellrnirton ro mi. *o iwnthern ports, and from The Blif "they steam np to Melhonrn'e and later on to Sydney. As a means of enabling the Bander of ft letter addressed to a place abroad to prepay the poeta*# on * replv, the Department !s*nes replv coupons on payment ef a fee of Id. These coupons may he exeSSnfed for a postage stamp of ?h« vawe of lid in any conntry wbjol Mtopti the scheme. _ New Zealand's popnlafJtm, including that of the Oook ißlihde and other der Q ndenr?r*. is now well over- one toTTUoti. Tn June. 1908. 1 the wvWmatw! popnlatinn of London was 1,71(1.787. The rateable value of property In England and Wales Tiss rfsOTi eftdfi year since 1874. The I*;ureu are as follows:— Tn 1874. x'Ii.BW.BM. Tn 1888, '£148.CT7,M4. Tn 18S4. £1«M!W.578. Tn 1908. £?IS. 757, '450. The total rateable value in 1874 represents an average of £4 17s 6d per head of population, while m 1908 the average was £8 per bead.