The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. FRIDAY, MARCH 7. 1913. PRIME OX BEEF.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 March 1913, Page 2

The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. FRIDAY, MARCH 7. 1913. PRIME OX BEEF.

BtLi.oeic beef and cow beef are boi'obtainable in Palinerstoit North. Tie question is who sells the "cag mag?" A discussion on the (piestion arose a! the meeting of the borough council on Tuesday night, when a repori was .submitted concerning the. animals killed at Palmerston abattoi -- during February. The figures were instructive for the public and embarrassing for the butchers. The.v mv worthy of reproduction here: Bullocks 20. Cows 13 71. heifers 10. wethers 4(5, ewes 1.150. lambs U3-1. enlvci> 22. pigs 2. Condemned: "i bullock. 5) cows. - Borough councillors regarded the statement as enigmatical, and (in tho words of W. S. Gilbert) "they argued it out .«« sich." Councillor McCarthy demanded that the council have the news published who killed the bullocks. As a matter of fact. oel. of the 26 bullocks one "butcher ha.' 20 of them, and all the other butchers only td\- among them. Tt was only fair that tho public should kno .•• which butcher was selling bullock beef and which were, selling old cows The (.abattoirs report should give the names. Councillor Clausen : W ■ tried flint, nm! they would not do it. Councillor Beale: I think it would he unfair. "Why sliould the butchers' business he revealed like tlin*; & Councillor MeCarty : Tt's a fair thin : to let people know who sells bullock beof and who sells cows. The Mayor: Til look over our agreement, -[n' l . sec if we. have power to ask the abattoirs to give the, information yo i auk. Bring it up again at the ne~l meeting. Anonymous correspondence

Mu James G. Graham writes on "Anonymity" in trenchant terms. His letter appears in a recent issuv l of The Foxton Herald. "T hnvn long helieved," he says. "that tlv most regrettable feature of newspaper controversy is the barbed u-en-pon of the anonymous contributor. Such a pensnn rarely Inns the coiing/ 1 of his convictions, and is often r contentious hiimbug: whilst apart from its rare expediency, anonymity is one of the greatest hindrances to ! controversial education. For it is | the refuge of babbling fools iand the protecFion of those who too ofto'i have shunned the boat and the biK den of the day. whilst they shoot their poisoned darts at some fearless warrior who is perhaps defending n noble cause with the shining sword of truth." WEST COAST GOLFIELDS JCTBTLEE. The Jubilee of the Westland Goldfields is approaching. Tt falls t<, be hold at Hokitika, on .January 7th Bth, .and 9th. 1814. with days following at Ross and Humara. In connection with the Jubilee, the delebration comniittoc is anxious in compile a list of pioneers who we're on the West Coast any time in the sixties, and it is desirous of having publicity given to this fact in the Horowhenun Chronicle. Also »t asks nil those concerned to comm'tnicate their names and addresses to the secretary of the Jubilee comr.'.ttoe at Hokitika. s:o that the com-' mittee may at once, get into ton ill with the people, and advise tlnm of (he arrangements honii made i'(,> the ceMimtion of the iubiVo. and Hie fnnifties fo reach Hokitika and participate in the several functions to b? organised.