The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1914. LOCAL and GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 April 1914, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1914. LOCAL and GENERAL.

A second-crop apple weighing eighteen ounces was secured by Mr Whitakcr, of Weraroa road, from a tree at his homstead.

Councillor Mackenzie's idea of establishing a rubbish cart for the convenience of Levin is to be tried out by the municipality. It is proposed to charge sixpence a week for a weekly service. All householders who are prepared to pay for such service are requested to communicate with the Town Clerk.

The Chronicle hears that a landed transaction at Ohau involving close upon .£20,000 is being finally arranged to-day. The new purchaser is a Levin settler, who intends to put 800 acres of the- estate under the plough. The estate concerned totals 000 acres.

The state of the grass on Levin Recreation ground is complained of by hockey players. It is so coarse that sheep refuse to eat it, and a lawn mower thaTwas pushed over it for three hours one day this week has been taken to the blacksmith's for re-sharpening. Our informant asserts that the coarseness of the grass is caused by persistent neglect to cut it, and he asks the Levin Domain Board what it intends to do to improve things.

According' to a proclamation in the Government Gazette, cock pheasants, hares, Callforhian and Australian swamp quail may be killed in the Wellington Acclimatisation District (except in the areas mentioned below) from the Ist May to the- -Slst July of the present year. During the same period the following native game niay he killed (except in the areas mentioned below), namely, grey duck, black swan and teal. The number of such native game that may be killed by any one person in one day is restricted to 25 head in all. The number of cock pheasants that may be killed in any one day by any one person is restricted to twelve. Licenses to kill imported game, £1. Licenses (o sell hares from the Isf June, 1014, £2 each. The postmasters at Levin .Shannon and Manakau are appointed to issue the above licenses. The following are the areas wherein native and imported game shall not l>p killed. "KYipiti Island. TTorowhenua Lake Reserve, as defined in the Hornwhenua Lake Act. 1905: Totarn Lake and TCawhakakia Lake and an area of five chains surrounding the said lakes: also that area of 1.500 acres in Block TH., Moutere Survey District, and Block IX., Mount Robinson Survev District owned and occupied by Mr Cresswell. Also all lands notified or pet apart as sanctuaries or reserve? for the preservation of imported or native game.

Irish peach tipples a second crop jyrown on TTorowhenua Village Settlement by Mr McKain, are on view to-day in the shop of Mr T). Smart, Levin. The apples are well-formed, of <rood quality, and quite up to standard size. T T sw aIU a second-crop fruit is not p;ood hut the samples on view at Mr Smart's arc as p:ood as could ho wished for. Mr Me Rain's tree was sprayed with lime and sulphur ahout the 10th December last, and a few weelcs later lost all its leaves. The first crop of apples w;is picked in January and the tree hudded, put forth foliace and bore the second crop of fruit, which is just about ripe, of a g;ood size (some much In refer than tine average size of the Irish peach) and well flavoured. It is n unique occurrence, and the only explanation that Mr McKain can •rive is that fho lime and suphur ipplied in December hastened the ordinary process of nature with the tree. Mr V, H. Poole, cx-A1.P.,. has definitely announced that he- will be a candidate for Auckland Citv West. Supplies of liquid paraffin are still obtainable from (J. S. KeedwfiAYs Pharmacy, Oxford-street, and further supplies ar© due very shortly. ** Ad. Life is full of toil and trouble, If you make it so, And one's worries all semn double When you welcome woe. Don't be always meeting sorrow, Look the other way: Take Wood's Great Peppermint Cure to-morrow---You'll b<v bright and tfny. --Ad.