The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1913. MORE LICENSING.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 January 1913, Page 2

The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1913. MORE LICENSING.

Tina month there become* operative the Land Agents Act, which adds one more licensed terror to business existence.. A license is required in New Zealand for practically everything except wifebeating. If a business man has a piece of machinery he must register it and pay a small fee; if a company begins or continues in business it must pay CI 10$ annually for a license; if a man iceeps a dog to bark and annoy his neighbours lie must pay tax for being a nuisance, and the latest proposition is to make it compulsory to have a license before one may keep bees or poultry. These, last two proposals, however- are

nebulous; but the land cigents' new responsibility is real for the Land Agents Act, originally introduced by Mr Witty and taken up and passed by the Massey Government, becomes law on Wednesday. Under its provisions most auctioneers will have to pay two license fees, that is if they sell land privately as well as under the hammer The fee under the new Act is, however, a small one, and objection cannot be taken to it reasonably if the auctioneer acts as a land agent as well as an auctioneer. LEVIN-G REATFOR D R ATLWA Y DEVIATION. Like Hans Urcitnian, the Manawatu Daily Times "smells some mouse.scs." fn its issue of Friday it .sounds the loud tocsin of alarm, as follows:— "Investigation Wanted.— Palmerston inns will require to watch carefully certain proposals to link up Levin and Groatford by a branch railway, which afterwards is to bo made the permanent Main Trunk fine. Tt might be worth while to institute direct enquiries at headquarters ias to whether a definite promise has not been given by the Government that this work is to lie undertaken. The result to Palmenston—and to other towns which iook to Palmerston for many conveniences of any such nlteration in the existing arrangements has been too frequently stated to need further recapitulation. It would be as well, however, to obtain a direct statement from the Minister as to what the future intentions are in regard to this matter" jpwKwr-K"ra«»r -room*!