The Chronicle, PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1913. GLADSTONE ROAD.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 March 1913, Page 2

The Chronicle, PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1913. GLADSTONE ROAD.

Tin-it]-; arc pros iuul cons in the mollis for and against, the completion of Gladstone. r<wul. Alter considering both sides ot Hie argument. The Chronicle opines it would lie in the <lisi rict'h best inicrests to connect.- the two ends of the road and j thus facilitate the development of the I lands in those vicinities, besides atI fording au excellent drive lor locai residents and visitors. Incidentally the w.ants of the schoolchildren woidd be met: for if the road ran continuously, the present apparent r impossibility of inducing a coachman to ply for biro along the road would be overcome. Some objections to the proposed linking-up of the. two (sections are based upon the fact that certain property owners would be benefited financially thereby, but such a fact a.s that is a very insufficient, contention against carrying out and necessary work. A POULTRY RECORD. Rkflkctud lustre on Levin is being ie experienced from the performances [LI <>r Mr 11. 1 soger's white Leghorn liens and Mr T. U. Hall's Indian runner ducks in tlie New Zealand Utility Poultry Club's tests for 1913. 'Hicrc iare now 'but two dayK to elapse before the year's trial is completed, and at present Mr Leger's halldozen hens are bracketed with another pen for third place, while amongst tlie ducks Mr Hall's pen lies third, only three eggs behind the second pen and fourteen behind tlie loaders. Mr Hall's birds topped the wlvolo of the pens for this „ week, with a. total of 36 eggs in a I possible 42. The leading pen in the I a Ik >n test (Mr W. A. Nixon's) has !1599 to its orcxlit (with two days' more to lay in), and already has laid to within one egg of a world's best in record. This average will bo nearly 'g 270 eggs per bird for twelve months. I Mil SPEAKER WILLIS ON JOUR- | NALISTS. § Mr Speaker Willis, t-lic strong man if of New South "Wales who diropped | necessary acid on tlie baser metal ol i 1 tlie New South Wales Parliament last year, contributed an interesting ' 1 article on New Zealand journalists i 1 to the February number of Tlie Ausi ' tiialiau.Touriialist. Speaking of New i Zealand journalists personally, Mr Henry "Willis iromarks that "somo ho likotl and somo lie didn't. (In ; pal'outhesis, some of them were kind to Mr "Willis, and some weren't). | There should certainly he a brilliant i journalistic career in front of the , 'young man who presented his card | with the grace of a Parisian' in Auck- ! land. 'He put to me a few quesItions bearing upon the relations of the Parliament and the press in New South Wales, and made dots and crosses upon flying eheets of paper. With a gracious smile, he then introduced a friend with a camera ohscura shook my hand heartily, slid down the gangway, and disappeared ; , with the fleetness of Hermes.' Mr i Willis modestly adds that tho jour- |, nal sold like hot cakes. Some of i ' tho reporters, ho says, would adorn I Hansard in Now South Wales—which may mean that Mr Willis may -help them to do so. Mr Willis was very

favourably impressed with the standard of journalism in New Zealand. 'The journalists of the dominion," liu writes, appear to regard themselves as the servants of the people, and the welfare of the iState their special' mission. The susceptibilities of advertisers have no effect upon them. There being so many journalists of first grade within the dominion, tho mail of ability is not dependent upon the smiles and favours of the churchwarden of a parish pint)]}. . . . Tho courtesy and kindness of the? journalists of the dominion I shall long remember. Uopresentatives of fourteen newspapers interviewed me. and in many eases several times each. Editors and proprietors called upon ine.' He liked the South Island papers better than tlib.se of the Xortli. observing: 'In tin l South Island more of everything- that bespeaks development may be seen. Journalism is th ere seen in its becoming character.' "