Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 August 1911, Page 1

Useful References

« FDR TRAVWTJ.ERfI AND I"*Y-AT-HOM'B FKOPLI. Rt«BTn<"n» 1mv«» WeTTinefcort for rT hnotch nroh prftoticsHr every «v«n----m7 in thp wwk Afternoon trains frnni pvin with them. Ther* are froqnent trips to ports firther sr>nth. snoh aa Dnnedin and The Rlnff. Steamer? 1 ss.t«« YTellinfl;toTi for Sydney direr* on Friday of ©very weak, and anyone who find? that- dav inconvenient m»T eet to Pvdnev from Anckland, whence a steamer leaves every Monday, n.fter hnvinsr voyatrod np from Wellincton via Napier and Gisborne. The inward steamers from Bvdnev to "Wellinet-nn sro oti to nont.hom ports, and lr«m The Rlnff *h*»r steam np to Melbourne and later on to Bvdnev As a means of enabling the sender of % letter addressed to a place abroad to prepay the postage on a reply, tie Department fasnea reply con pons on payment of a fee of Id. These conponfl may be exchanged for a pnstajje stamp of the rdne of Ssd in any eonntrv wHJcS - !opts tha schemo New Zealand's popnltfion. Including that of the Ocok Islands and oth«r dependencies, ia now well over one million. In J nne, 1808, fHe popnlation of London was 1,718,787. The rateable "valne of property In Enzland and Wales Was risen each vear Bince 1874. The fljpjres ere as follows :— In 1174, x'II.BTO.III. In 1888, 2148.817.144. In 1894, £181,181,578. In 1008. '«11. 787, *58. The total rateable value In 1874 represents an average of £4 17s 6d per head of popnlation, wfiile in 1908 the averaee was £8 per be&d.