Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 July 1911, Page 1

Useful References

FOR TRAVELLERS AND fAY-AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers fea?e Weffingfoa for CThristchurcK practioally erery erening in the week. Afternoon trains from ' evin connect witE them. There ato frequent tripe porta fnrther sontH, buoH as Dnnecßn and The Bluff. Steamers leave Wellington for Sydney d!r«o8 on Friday of every week, and anyone who finds that day inconvenient may get to Sydney from Auckland, Tvfienoe a steamer leaves every Monday, after having voyaged up from Wellington via Napi«r_ and GHrfwrne. The inward steamers fro® Sydney to Wellington go on to southern ports, and from The Muff they steam np to Melbourne and later on to Sydney. As a means of enabling the sender of a letter addressed, to S place abroad to prepay the postage on a reply, the Department !ssne« reply conpons on pr.ymeni of fee of Id. These conpons may 6e exdEanged for a postage stamp of the of 2|d in any country wsJca aaopts the scheme. New Zealand's population, Inclndins th«t of the Oook Islands infi other dependencies, is nnw well over one million. In Jnne. 1308. the estimated rvonnlntion of London 4.7t8^787 The rateable valne of property In and "Wales Tins risen each I'ftnr wne« W74. The flcnreS are in follow.: — Tn I<*74. xMU.SW.BSI. T-n IRS*. 5145.R57J44. In IW, £1«1.13*,578. Tn 1508, £SIS, 757, '450. The total rateable value in 1874 represents an avenaze of £4 17s 8d per head of population, while m 1908 the average was £0 per head.