The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN: FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1913. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 August 1913, Page 2

The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN: FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1913. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Two plough men lately oil. t'nnii Scotland passed tliJ< >ii 14! : Levin yesterday, eni'oule Jor tin South Island. ])urin,n' then brief stay at the station thc\ eompiained I«111<• ri\ about having been sent to look lor won: in all nil I i kely dist net lor a;» ncultural labourers. ! hey sal., tliev were sent to I aihape b\ (he Labour Pepartnieni, am! that when I lies' ,U'ol there the;, lound there was no mure worl fur ploughmen thai for dolls eye makers. A n art icle on the ve\ed (| ues lion ol' hand-milking vcrsu-machine-miiki ni: wnileii lo: the Waejranui Herald by .Mi T. Walker, of Levin appear on our I'oiirth pau'e to-day. Ml' •! . ji c All Ila 11, o I j\ opU ta ■ rua, has installed a second null'. Iny inach i lie on Ins ta rm. il l in lends this year l <"» milk uve: 'JOO cows, and with this number he will probably lie t lie bi<>~ rvest dairyman in the district. Mr .L K. .McDonald, of lleatherlea. who has been ill in Wellington-, is now much improved in health, and is spcedil\- recovering'. lie is siayuui at Oriental Lay, and is the "■r.est ol' .Mrs Lowry. ('umplainis have been made by the Wamranui Kducation Hoard that in the South Makirikiri, West Kniiyitikoi and Wan-o-all ui Last schools Bible-leach-ill <4* has been "'iven oi late n; scliool hours. As this is against the law, the clergymen »anliy of the practice and the teacher? permitliiii'' it have been informed that if the practice i.:- not discontinued drastic proposals will be made at the not meetin,y of the Lducation Hoard. Feildiu.u: Star.

Mr W. 11. .Field wriles tin Otaki Mail that he lias been informed one party at l'ikeioran-o-i has secured as many as forty

opossums in one night by incaib, of trapping. Mr Field is compelled to employ a caretaker id liis reserves, for not only do the natives and other trap opossums but also I lie tit is the remnants of the tui which survived last year's slaughter have been practically exterminated during the last few weeks. line native \\as seen recently wOh ;i string of about twenty of t hem. 'I lie Mail conliuues : "The same reprehensible practices are resorted to with, regard to the native bush. Certain soulless .irresponsible individuals appear to look on certain reserves in the vicinity of \\ aik'anae as supplied by Providence to furnish tliein with posts, rails, firing, dr. Wo me inlormed that one resident hacked down several beautiful tree ferns, in order to form a covering for a muddy pathway. Such vandalism is inconceivable, but nevertheless exists. it is indeed a great shame that when men like Mr .Field and others go to the trouble and expense to set up reserves as they have at \\ aik'anae, people should be allowed to perpetrate such gross misdeeds as we have enumerated, and it seems high time thai rigorous steps wre taken to make an example of the offenders. p look to the public to assist Mr Field in this matter as they should, as the preservation of our native bush, birds, etc., is a national work deserving of the heartiest co-operation of everv lover of New Zealand."