LOCAL & GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 February 1914, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL.

■ ■ « Cycling Notes will he found on page I to-day: also an article on the sale of cattle at the Homebush sales in Sydney. The cost of ox I ending' (he Queen street water mains to reach I (he two domains near Lake Horowheiiua would amount to i'2o. 'I'jiis estimate was put before Lcvn\ Borough Council last night. The two domain boards now are to he asked how much they are propared fo pay iowards (he proposed extension. The first meeting ol the Levin Park Domain Board was held last evening. The old board which hud been in existence 'for the past seven years expired on the l> th December last and the Town Cierk received notification from I In; (iovernment reappointing the Levin Borough Council as' the new board. A( (he Levin Park Domain Board's meeting iasf night Councillor France drew .attention to the nml of a chain swing beingerected in a corner of the domain for Ihe children, and lie tabled a motion that the swing be erected. Cr .Maiheson seconded the motion. The board thought it a good idea and the, motion was agreed to. j liuue wrong again: The watermeter _ installed 'near W'eraroa Boys' Training Farm again has been blown out. The cause is not ascertained. Councillor L'arker, at last night's meeting of Levin Borough Council, suggested thai the Council's consulting engineer be asked to advise on the matter. The Council resolved that this would be done forthwith. "jNot so many dogs as usual are registered in Levin; tliere are fewer being kept." This information was given to Levin Borough Council last night, in response u> an inquiry by Councillor Lancaster. The Town Clerk added that he believed there were not so many dogs kept in (he town now as was formerly I lie case, bui one suspicious councillor said he was afraid there were as many as ever, but fewer registered. Councillor Lancaster brought up the matter of a water cart 'for the Korough si reels , at last night's ineeling of ihe liorough Council. In dry wealher (he dust was verv bad Tor business people and he I bought the Council should make enquiries as lo iho cost of a second hand cart which other boroughs who have adopted more up-to-dale water carls may have not use 1 , " , . The _ oiher councillors thought Ihe idea was a very good one, and it was left to the Town Clerk (o make enquiries on Ihe matter. Swat that fly! The i yramid stick flycatchers with the hook for hanging up, are the best catchers of Iha I dreaded spreader ol' disease, the common house flv. Price 2 for -'id a< C. S. Keedwell's Pharmacy, Oxford-street. Poisonous fly papers also on hand, if you prefer thorn.- Advt.

The Weraroa Experimental I'arm lias sent four Holsteins t( tin' reilding s ] unv tliis yaer. At (he Anglican Chxuvh sale o1 \\-€>i-|<l hold in connection with the Hoiwhciiua A. and 1\ Show tin net profits amounted to .£lO lf> s . A Mitch hi 11, ( . stIV(l( savef time, Councillor [{. l> rousi . t ol ( »he Levin HniougD Council las n, «' ,lf - Hi' said that now then was fine weather it would be wol t«> hav 101) or 200 yards of mot a crushed in anticipation of winter*: wet weather. Councnior Lam-as' tor (chairman of the sin>vi* com mit tee) said the suggestion was ; good one, but it would be we] t" defer the matter until the esti males for the now financial yea were brought down. There wa a fair amount of crushed meta available for present use, and stac ked in Tiro Tiro ioad. Time was when the residents u Weraroa had dreams of it being- ; magnificent city, with Levin as ; men? suburb, to' find which om would have to search a map will •i magnifying glass. The drean may xvi come true, but how fa iiom realisation was shown bv tin <l nest ion of a stranger who 'step ped oil" one 0 f the trains yester •lay afternoon. He stood'in tin street for a while, gazing aroum in a bewildered sort of way, am l }""}}y :,sketl of a passerby :~ Where is the town about here.' As an evidence of the rust ii the crops in some parts of the diss Irict a correspondent informs u that a white dog pursued a gnrabbit through a standing ero] oat crop. Jjoth came out th. other side perfectly red. Tin white dog gave up the pusuit a he had never seen a red rabbi before, and was iearful of en gaging in a struggle with a tkin{ so decidedly carmine. The owne: of the dog too, did not kJnowlii property when ho saw it in it new coat. "North. Utago Times. A statement of receipts am expenditure for the year undei • Ist December, PM-'i, was submit ted to the Levin Park Doiuaii -Board last evening. In addi lion to the balance brought for ward from last year (£l7 7s), tin following monies were received : Post Office Savings Hank inter est 12s lid; paddocking sheep i"! 10s; Lawn Tennis Club .£ is: Jlorowhenua Pugby Unim i-3; a total of £27 10s lid. Th. expenditure totalled £9 2s Gd leaving a credit balance of £! Ss sd. The present shearing season i a record one in point of lateness At Mr J. P. McDonald's Heather lea run there are some five or si: thousand sheep still unshorn though a full board is daily a work with the machines, and tin cry of wooi-away is raised even Iwo minutes. The Chronicle'": naturalist is amongst the expert: now on the board, and ho pro inises us some interesting detail; for publication in a future issiu about sheep ticks, "oof-birds," and other curiosities ol the sheep, shed and the shears. The water supply coiiiinittc< reported on the cost of the supply of water to the settlers on the Fail-field _ and Poslyn estate: whose petition for water was re ceivedat the last meeting of tin Council. A report on the discussion appears in another column. The committee put tin cos! down at £750 for one mile oi •i-inch pipes and one mile of 4-inch pipe. The estimated cost included the laying of the pipes and labour. The committee was in favour of the petition providing the interests of the town were adequately safeguarded. To carry out the scheme it would be necessary to raise a loan. A meeting of tke Maori Missions Trust Hoard of the Church of England is to be held in Auckland next week. Tke Pev. H. T. Stealey (accompanied by Mrs Slcaley) is to leave Levin to-day, for Auckland, Mr Stealey being a member of the board. Mr and Mrs Stealey will be the guests of Mr H. -luckes, of Manurewa, who is Mrs Stealey's brother. The Pev. G. Woodward, vicar of Poxion, has kindly consented to take any urgent clerical duties during Mr Stealey's absence. Mr Woodward will preach at St. Mary's, Levin, next Sunday morning, and at Okau in the afternoon. Commenting upon a recent "local" in "The Chronicle"' concerning misnomers, the clerk to the Levin Domain Hoard was pleasantly facetious last night. He told the board that some Solon in the local newspaper had been commenting that there was a board known as the Levin Park Domain Hoard that had a domain withoul trees in it, whereas another domain board had a park including trees and yet that board was known merely as the Levin Domain Hoard. The Chronicle writer seemed to take this as a matter calling for representations to be made to the Government. Mr Goldsmith went on to make the humorous announcement that on looking up Webster's dictionary he found a park defined as "a place in a town enclosed and kept l'or< ornament or recreation:" (here was no men (ion of trees! Therefore the members of Levin Park Domain Hoard need not be made uneasv bv the contentions ~r T1,,. n...M.,.\.i\. ~-,.w„,.'

On Wednesday (to-morrow) evening', commencing at about cj.oO o'clock, the Levin I'ire Brigade will hold a. competition on the recreation reserve. Three events will be decider coupling, three-men coiipliijr*. and the-manual. -J-t is a direct financial iossf to ilairy farmers if they fail 10 Have their cows milked regularly, says the Utago Daily Times. Tnis is why dauy farming becomes, as itis termed, "a slave's life," and even ihe joy of the district"picnic is lessened because there must be a clattering of pails at sunrise, and mo escape, from the work at nig-ht when all are fatigued after • lie day's outing. There is no relaxation. In addition to the loss of a decreased lnifk cheque when cows are not regularly milked there is a danger of other expenses. At Owaka last Friday a Catlins dairy farmer was charged with cruelly ill-treating a herd of dairy cattle by neglecting to milk the same between December 14 and IG, therby causing unnecessary suffering. Defendant pleaded guilty, and it was explained that the failure to milk-, the cows was unintentional. He was fined £3, in default seven days' hard labour. I '