LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 August 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr R. Tennant, who is at the present time repainting the advertisement curtain of tUie Lev a Town nail, is, m conjunction with Ma- A trover, inaugurating a badness of supplying curtains to the different halls throughout the district, and r\ aS • ■]", sfc -rr C n m^l eted -- one ' f or-' the Druids' ..Hall,' Shannon.-.-...;.., -^-^J.

Arrangements have been completed for a demonstration of paper-bag ••cooking to be given in Levin early in September. Various examples of tho new cookery will bo shown. The teste will be made on the premises of the Sims Hardware Novelty Company, Oxford street.

The ne wfactory at Kaupokonm (Tarnnaki) which is being built m concerto, will cost about C 5.500. With the price of the plant added, the value will bo something like £10,000. During its existenco of fourteen years, tho Kaupokonui Co. lias pa.id' out to suppliers over £700,000.

In another column of to-da-'s paper appears an .announcement concerning the. Hunt Club's ball that is to bo held at Maivakau on Wednesday of next week, in the Town Hall.' A committee ••., uprising Messrs S. Beattie. F Burnell, W. Kirklev and A. V. Wii "o, wit)- Mr W. Bevan, senior, as hon secretary, has tho arrangements *: cood order, and a highly successful g,thor g is being looked forward to

Messrs Martin Winiata, Walter Winiata and J. Sr.iascia, members of the Levin - Wanderer Football Club, left bv Mi is morning's train for Wellington to assist Mr W. Para ta's Native team in its engagement against the Wellington Rppresen tativo tea.ni.' These three players toured with the Maori team which toured Australia a.nd Now Zealand last year. Honaro Rawiri, of the To inn i Club, who also toured with last, year's team, is in Wellington to take, part in tho match.

Rain is badly required in parts of the county. ' Towards .Shannon there is a good growth of grass, especially on the iiat lands, and. numbers of lambs are. now to be seen frisking about tho paddocks. On Uie hiily country, round Ohan and Mawaka'u, the growth of grass is very slow, ami farmers aro anxiously awaiting rain. Tho general opinion in the district is that thero will be an early spring, and conditions are such as, with early rains, thero will again bo a record feed.

Foxton Borough Council discussed at some length on Tuesday evening the question of a Shannon-Eoxton water .supply, when a letter was read from the .secretary of the Shannon Waterworks Scheme Committee, advising that at a meeting of residents a committee had hcen set up to confer with delegates from Eoxton. and asking that a {late be fixed for a conference at Eoxton. Cr Adams said that Mr Climie had given them a rough idea, of tho cost, which would ho .anything from £25,OflO to £-10,000. 'At the lowest estimate it was a very big thing for Foxton. Tt was decided, on the motion of Cr. Carter, seconded bv Cr. Chrystnll. that Friday, 25th August, in Council Chamber, at 7.30 p.m.. be the date fixed, for meeting the Shannon delegates re water scheme.

The local in The Chronicle on hYiday in regard to tho credit system prevailing in this town fliul county generally has brought at least one person up-to-date in a. portion of hi* accounts. Kor many weary month.-; a tradesman in Oxford _ street had heen in the linbit of sending in his ace.unit which ntonthly grew larger. lie had many promises made that the money would he paid "in a !Vw days." hut. these iew days developed into a. few months. On th:> paragraph appeaving, the citizen in question was pricked by ;in exceedingly guiltv conscience. and on the following day he promjrfly pair! up his long-'de,!ay-e;l account, stating" ; ,t the" same time, "I see yen have been enmmuni'eaiing with The Chronicle, and I don't want to he shewn np." As a. matter of fact the tradesman interviewed occupies business premises on the other side of the strer.t!

The inclusion of L'oxton in the Otaki electorate was discussed with a Shannon citizen who visited. I.evin yo-sfonViy by a Chronicle reporter. The citizen in question said that ho thought :i large number ef Loxfon votes would bo east fur .Mr Robertson, and that both .Mi- field and Mr MoiK-klon would suffer. The flax hands, he said, (htenuiued to vote \i,v i\ Labour man this time. lie expre.-sed satisfaction, that Koxton Mas to be included in the elcctoiate in .so far as No-licence was concerned. Seventy-five per cent, of the electors, he averred, would vote for continuance, and ho concluded with what be apparentlv considered was a compliment to l«<>\ : - ton by saying, "It's ,a fine little town, and its Ibe most drunken one on the coast."

i'lie question of land .settlement lormod the topic of conversation among some farmers and bus ; ness men in Levin yesterday. Tho general opinion was that nothing would be done in the uratter, a,s the obstacles in the v;ay were almost insuperable. Hut some very strong criticism was passed on the Levin Chamber of Commerce. A prominent citizen declared that "two months or so bare passed since the Chamber of Commerce met, and there is no sign of that body taking any further action. The chamber's

lie ;i'!:!;Ml. is. in my opinion, not justified!'' Tlio question of ttio lowering of Uorowhciina Lake also cropped up, and it was shited that the waters were higher now than t.hpy u'ere last year, despite the lionxy and continuous ra;in.s twelve uroiiths ■nqjo. "If heavy 7'ain eomos for any loiifftn of time," said a settlor to a Chronielo reporter yesterday, "the Waters will, of course, rise lumber and enii.so widespread loss to us wJio live in that particular locality."

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We understand that it is the intention of the whole of the surfacemen at present in the employ of the Horowhenua County Council to make .application for rc-instatement at the end of a month. The speeches which were made at the meeting of the council on Saturday are warmlv resent oil by the men. especially the remarks of Councillor Stephenson that " Some of the employees aro not worth their salt." One surfaceman said yesterday that this was an unwarrantable slander, a.s every man had done good work for the council. "We are not slaves," ho exclaimed, "and T don't believe the majority of the council for one momenut will endorse Mr Stephenson's _ remarks. Wo have pretty toughish jobs to perform, nincl we do them well. Tf that is not the case why didn't the County Engineer report to that effect to the council? As to going to work with a gun instead of n -shovel. t'l'it's 'all my eye and. Hetty Martin.' When T talk T don't believe in talking through my ncso." One of the

company—nnt an employer of the County Council — delivered himself of tlio cpnio'D that- nn workman .should receive than 10s a dav. "There arc men." he said, "in this tow-iii \\"lio are dailv hroakino; t-lio award. Tliev fpihl men out on cart*, they make them work oxce-s----•sivo :!>onrs and then pay them unfair wa-ees. Between ourselves there's .aoino; to be a lint time for sonic of our principal tradesmen." Many flnttcirin<T reports on the merit? of " Benzoma Cream" have 'been received from users. .Inst now, for chapped bands and rough skin there is nothing to eon-all it. Price, Is 6d jar, from C. S. Keedwell's Pharmacy.—Advt. Visit, tlio Central Mart for birds of every description.—Advt. Booking orders for CorelliV "Life Everlasting" and Ralph Connor's ' "Corporal Cameron." at Thompson's 'Arcade „.- -•. ; \ /„ to