Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 July 1911, Page 1

Useful References

. 9 FOR TRAVELLERS AND fAY-AT-HOME PEOPLH. Sfeamens teare Welfingtefl for ChristennrcK pracfcioally erery ereminj; in tne week. Afternoon trains from ' avin connect witS tnem. There »re frequent tripe $6 porta farther south", snoh as Dnnedln and The Blnff. Bfc&amera leare Wellington for Sydney direct on Friday of every week, and anyone who finds that day inconvenient nmy get to Sydney from Auckland, whence a steamer leaves every Monday, after having voyaged np from Wellington via Napier and Gisborne. The inward steamers from Sydney to Wellington go on to southern porfa, and from The Blnff they steam np to Melhonrne and later on to Sydney. As a means of enatilfng the eender of a Tefter addressed w * place abroad to prepay the postage on a reply, tie Department fssnee reply con pons on payment of a fee of Id. These coapoiia may Bβ exeihifcnged for a postage atamp of Hie value of J}d in any co&ntry wh7cK tdopts the scheme. New Zealand's popiiliSon, !n----j clnding that of tß* Oook Islands J and other dependencies, is now well over one million. In Jnne, 1908, the eeflmafad popnlation of London was '4,718,787. The rateable valee of property in : England and Wales Has risen each year since 1874. TKe flgnree are as follows:— In 1874, • 3 : , .18,6W,W1. In 1888, '£148,517,944. Tn 1894, £181,131,578. 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 £6 per bead.