LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 August 1913, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

An announcement already lias been made in The Chronicle that the Gtovernment has decided to curry out sand drift experiments further up the coast than Levin on Crown lands. This decision was adversely commented upon by the President of Levin Chamber of Commerce (Mr E. S. Lancaster), who said lie did not feel at all satisfied with the announcement; he thought the Government had not treated this district ri«'ht. Tlie Premier had expressed sympathy with Levin nnd by inference had let them understand that the sand drift trouble here would be taken in hand as soon as possible, but now the Government took the stand that Crown lands must ho experimented upon first. I\fr Lancaster contended that, virtually, the worst land in tho vicinity of Levin (some 700 acres) was Crown land: : ,t least if was land that belonged to nobody. If the Government would vest an area of some one hundred iH'Vos in tiie local bodies j< would be possible to have soincihing done locally to get this iu'ea fenced in, and planted. Eventually Mr Dompsey moved, and Mr Smart seconded a motion flint the receipt of the Prime Minister's letter he acknowledged, and that the opinion be expressed that Levin was not bein.ir I rented properly, secin.o- flu,! (1, ( , r0 was ~ Sf|lK ] ] drift area of TOO acres thai were practically Government land which was causing the mischief. Further, thai the Government be asked to make a irrant of land in form as asked for by Hie meetin<>v' Messrs E. flcrrick and \V\ Eccletou have been elected members of Levin Chamber of Commerce.

The Government is io lie asked to authorise the iii;ikin»of a trial survey of the proposed stock tiaek between Levin and Eketakuna, by way of the Gladstone road and Olmu river, via tlie Makaheke Vallny. A resolution to this effect was passed last nighi by Levin Chamber of Commerce. UcceniK a i.-ycUiey mm au\ciusuti iur a suiUiOie »ne iuj Hie ereeuuii vl 11 canning iaeiory anu a slun aiui kicle piework*. liie president 01 Levin Cliauiber ul Commerce promptly wrote, elaborating , ilie advantageous situation oj Levin and the railway facilities it aJiurded, as wc-11 as its continuity to i-'o.xtou Harbour. Air Lancaster's letter was favourably commented upon by the chamber at its meeting last night, and he was thanked for his initiation.

TJic: following will represent the Levin Ladies' Hockey Club against Shannon, on tiie recreation ground to-morrow: ilesdames Tuohy, Pink, Collier, Blows: blisses .Johnson, Riddilord, Doyle, Whitehouse, Ambler (i>), Nicholson. The Levin A team, to play Shannon to-morrow, at Levin, will consist of: Kasiiier, Wilson, Browster, Hall, AVinJiilii, Mclndoe, Anderson, Sciascia, lueld, Tnohy, IToro, Smart. Levin B team, to play Moutoa tomorrow, will consist of: Pin, Thompson. Hall, W. Barra'tt, McDonald. X. Barratt, Winter, Pjirsons, Munro, Lloyd, Chidley. KineruH'iicies, .]. Kcsson T. McDonald.