Late Local News

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 December 1913, Page 3

Late Local News

Levin is to be favoured with the company of a notable young man who is leaving Auckland this week. "The only way his guardian can keep him at home at nights is by dressing him up in girls' clothes," stated Chief-De-tective McMahon of a small boy of seven years age from Ponsonby way, who admitted at the Juvenile Court that he had broken into a butcher's shop and spoiled a quantity of meat by leaving the door of the cool storage room open. It was stated that the lad who was partly of Island extraction, was being.looked after by a guardian while his parents were away in Samoa, but that his unruly ways made him uncontrollable, and the original method mentioned by the chief-detective was the only way in which his guardian could keep him at home to prevent his sleeping out. The little fellow was committed to the Weraroa Training Farm. Considerable damage was done to the telegraph lines between Levin and Ohau by this week's ga lean! the linesmen have been kept busy. Everything is in good order once more, and normal conditions prevail on the lines. On Wednesday last the Horowhenua Lodge, U.A.0.D., held the usual fortnightly meeting when several items of interest were before the brothers for discussion. The most important was the balance-sheet. The Lodge is to be congratulated on the fact that its funds have reached over £1000. One candidate was initiated. At the breaking up of the school for the Christmas holidays yesterday afternoon the prizes for proficiency and the prizes and medals won at the picnic were presented by the Mayoress (Mrs R. R. Gardener) who congratulated the winners. The headmaster (Mr Mclntyre) said that though previously lie, had doulrts about the success and wisdom of trying to organise a picnic he was now satisfied that the committee was on right lines, and instead of the usual cut-and-dried manner of breaking up for the holidays that event in future would be marked by a picnic or some such fixture. At the conclusion cheers were given for the Mayoress, Mr Gardener, Mi Mclntyre and the school committee.

The Levin school committee has a balance of a little over <£4 in hand after the recent picnic and this amount will be earned forward as the nucleus of a fund for a picnic or sports next year. The committee have resolved to give the scholars an annual outing. This is as it should be, and the public may be depended upon to back up the committee and secretary in every way. In the report of results of the school picnic , a mistake was made in the amount of the, prizes for the "Old Girls' Race." They were given as 5s and 2s fid, whereas they were 10s and ss. They were donated by; Mr Palmer, of Weraroa.