Levin and District.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 January 1913, Page 2

Levin and District.

LEVIN BEAUTIFYING SOCIETY. A small start in tlio way of iraprovin gthe town lias been made by < the Society on the picce of ground which ad,joins the railway line and ' the main tlioroughfaro of the town just opposite Makomako road. 'Iho ground is being trenched at the Society's expense, and the council ; s carting away the stones —of which there arc not a few. When the ground is once treated in the mannei now being carried out, it will ho ■ivailable for trees and shrubs, grass ir flowers—as the Society may liereifter determine, but nothing can be lone to any good purpose until the noneer work is accomplished. A few evenings since some two or ;hreo members of the Society were mi gaged in working some ol tlie 'round which has been dug, planting i few plants to make a little colour ior the time being, an dalso putLing in a. number of geranium cutlings which may perhaps he more permanent and make a show latei im. A.s these operations were going (in passers-by on the asphalt to and fro between the station and the town were numerous, and the comments were - -well, say, various. One. resident. who came and surveyed the work, was asked to try his hand with a spade. Me. however, declined to come over the fence, on tho ground that lie was out of practice with spade work, and was good at nothing just now but the scythe. Another individual, on seeing the number of workers, murmured as he passed "All that ws left of them! "Left of six hundred." Probably he was a recruit who bad been inspired b.v Tennyson's noble lines. The quotation was hardly apt. however, as Ihe Beautifying Society has not yet reached a membership of (i 0(). but hops to do so anon. Youth and 'beauty passed smiling- nlawys smiling. "No thanks, not to-night," smiling ever so kindly: "another time, you know,' - more smiles—and youth and beauty passed on and out of sight— i still smiling. The murnmrer was also on the footpath—he is rather an old identity--in human annals— am! he is here in Levin. There ■-coined to float in the air in deinisemi muffled grunts something which sounded like, "What do the chumps ihink they are going to do? Fools! ain't they?'' It is. however, to be hoped that when the (Society gets into proper working order a good deal of work will be done with volutary labour pro]>erly directed. The secretary of a very successful .Beautifying Society in a northern town was asked about membership, and he remarked "for a beautifying society you cannot have a more useful membership than the half-a-crown men " with a spade." The Levin .Society-—while anxious to get all sorts and conditions of people as members can do with a good many half-a-crown men plus the spade.