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Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 March 1915, Page 2

Yesterday afternoon at the saleyards Messrs Abraham and Williams sold a tox turner on behalf of Master Leslie Salmons, who gave the proceeds to the Belgian Fund. The terrier realised £1 os. a Some time during last night tlie front door of Mr G. Milnes's grocery store was forced open, but so far as it known nothing was taken. Even a few shillings in silver that was tying haiidy was left untouched. A mi.shap to the engine driving the Uorough Council's stone-crusher at the (JiK<€ii-street gravel pit occurred yesterday, causing a suspension of work. It is expected that repairs will be effected to-day and work resumed on Monday. Latest entries for .Noiv Zealand Loan and Mercantile 'Agency Co.'.s clearing .sale at Te Horo comprise eighteen 2 to 3-year-old heifers, r.w.u.. and one draught horse.. To augment the Belgian lieliel Fiiml a garden party will be held on Levin Bowling Green next Wednesday. The nen Iv-formed Ladies' Croquet ..Club is organising and carrying out the affair, and a general committee has been -sot »up. It i.s coinjM'ised of Mesdames Hoe. Pyke, Lodge, Mclntyre, jJnm n ml Hall. Tenders aie closing to-(lay with the Horowhenuii County Council for tho supply of metal in various parts oi the County. Tlie works will be put n hand at onee, and is likely to give :i nodded stimulus to the labour market in the.se parts. The lady doctor of the Education Department, l>r Elizabeth Giinn. visited Levin public school this week nd examined some fifty children. >lie lound caries of the teeth much in evidence, but generally the children were found to be a fairly healthy lot. About half the fifty KL'm special cases, picked out by tlie headmaster as renin" ug special examination. The parents of all these received special instruction from Dr. "Gunii. some by letter and some personally.

A wonderful example of the accuracy of survey work i.s reported in tlie case of the recent survey of a railway route from Te lloti round the Mountain to Moturoa. Working from tho Te Koti end. the levels were, (A course, taken all along the route, and when Moturoa was reached the discrepancy between tlie survey level and tlie railway at the point of .junction was found to be only three quarters of an inch. Manawatu Tunes.

In conversation witli a Chronicle reporter yV.sterday local storekeepers stated tliat advice liad just been "e----coived that tho price for all kinds of American fencing wire had been artvanced from £2 10s to £3 per ton. and further that the big steel trus+s in America had cancelled all price lists. As far as British manufacturers are concerned it is expected that the position will ho extremely difficult for them, on account of so much of the •shipping being takei, -*ver by the imperial Government for the transport of troops, provisions -and war material Freight -tecaniers from America are very hard to get and merchants .state that they do not know in some cases the whereabouts of cargoes that have been shipped at all. Galvanisvd irnii of all descriptions show a sharp ris".

Owing to grass overgrowing -the entrance paths to the Levin public school, except where bikes have w< in a track, the traffic has become ce.iiLr.ilised in a narrow strip. To make the pupils torni a wider passage way v. as a problem for a while, but an assistant master who himself is a bike viler and who perhaps uas compelled by the barriers of the local council to ri<lo over the rough metal south of Woraroa. instead of on t'io footpath solved the trouble He had boulders placed in parallel lines, a yard apart, and low the encroaching grass on the gravel path is getting as scarce, as firemen were reported to be at a recent fire n Oxford-street north.