LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 March 1914, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

Our Shannon correspondent writes that the entries for the 1 leslnterian Horticultural show close In-day' (Thursday). The SGcreiary will be in flic Druids Hall {ill 0 p.m. 1 o lake ent.ws. The Wellingon 3ii]|- Y , lU | O , S ' Association has raised tTie price of milk for (hp period from Ap ,>r l bf to August Ist to 5d per n u-t The Y.M.C.A. cricket team journeyed to Foxton y*sterd.u T afternoon and met the F'jdui Wednesday team. A most enjoyable gamp resulted: Fox ton winning by 32 runs. Scores will appear later. "What have suowilakes "to do with churches and bazaars, ami how ran folk get snow m April. The Levin Presbyterian Church is going to answer these <|uesfions at their Snowflake Fair on April Ist and 2nd- and no April Fool about it either. The promoters guarantee, however, to keep the atmosphere seasonably warm, and assure prospective patrons that whatever <dement of snow there be at the fair will not be inconsistent with midsummer heat. The cheese being manufactured at the Weraroa State Farm dairy is meeting a steady demand. Ihe bulk of if is going io Wellington, while some is being sent to Auck■l. Tt is also being plaeed in Feirilinu'. and arrangements are being made by which it may Ije purchased locally. The Welsh cheese is delicious, and it always stimulates a desire on the part of the purchaser for more. .Mr ft. H. Hiley, Ccneral imager of Hail ways, replying to (lie complaints of the Levin Chamber of Commerce anent the accommodation at the parcels ollice at the local railway station, says that the arangemcnts of the public counter is s'niilar to that at most country stations, the ent ralice ■ being through the lobby, and sufficient room available for three persons at the counter. Fvcu if additional space was provided the public could not all receive attention at once with the staff available. He regrets that in view nf the many more urgent and imworks at present in hand or awaiting funds he c;muoi sec his way to complv with (he request of. the Chamber to alter the present state of affairs. ii war 0,1 .the flies and use lie 1 rotcetor sticky fly-cnlchcr, which you can hang up oui of tin l way. I'resh stocks of these arc obtainable from H. S. TCoedwell's Pharmacy Price cneh or / for one shilling.*- Advi.

Considerable local interest at'relics to the next sitting of the rale s Court at Whangarei, when iim Auditor General will proceed against a member and a ex-member oi the Whangarei f 1(1,1,1 ly Council for ihe rccoverv. in ench instan.-c, of fl'Jls.sil. This is a sequel to the banquet--111, g of Lord Islington and the Hon I . .Mackenzie, on the occasion of their respective visits to Whang- < 'n this occasion (he l n ,. ;( | body expended over i'TflO in excels of amount availal)le for unauthorised expenditure an action which led to (be Auditor-General insis(inrv |] 10 iimmin f- j,, ox _ (, e- v of that authorised should be lelunded. The matter was shelved Irom tunc 1 to time* bv the councilors. but eventually, and in consequence of a 'threat of legal proceed intrs, seven councillors foinpho.l will, the request, and paid then- respective shares of the '''lie remaining two ""'"'hers however invited Wal pro, 'T •»»<! m,uest has ( '(im j)I •(.,] p change.

I lie Italian ryegrass and oats sown for summer food early last December at llio State Farm more 'lint fulfilled expectations. Ten acres were sown and atthe end of tlie month |. r , cows the dairy lierd were turned on to it. The cows also had a \ 0 (j acrp pa( l ( i o( .j. of old grass open to them but for ten weeks'tliey practically lived mi the ten acres of ryegrass and oats, and in .Tannary when the milk yield usually falls the State harm s dairy herd showed a marked increase.