LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 March 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A concert in aid of the Belgian -Relief I'lrnd will be given by public, school children of Levin on Friday next. Details are set out in an advertisement on page 3. A resident of Levin who has spent the last few weeks hop-picking in the .Velson districts, reports that the hop crop this season is extremely light and not nearly so good as that of last year. According to a local resilient who has just returned from a trip to Wellington, the building trade in that town is exceedingly hri.sk at presenF. In conversation with tradesmen he learned that there is no occasion for a carpenter in Wellington to be idle at present. An interesting table has ueen compiled uy Mr It. 1). Wallace, secretary of the liorouiieiiua A. and I\ Associatijn, showing die. improved position of the Association in regard to the support accorded to it by the farmers and settlers of the county. Although 'lie period dealt with in the comparison is only to the 13th March, the total contributions already received is much greater than those given to the Association in any previous twelve monthly period. The table of comparisons will be completed on 30th June next, when lull details will be made public. At present, after having paid off the whole of the overdraft at the bank. the Society has a credit of £101. The settlers of Ihakara and Koputaroa arc bent on- giving substantial assistance to the fund for- the relief of distressed Belgians, and to that end they have organised a sale.of work, the whole of the proceeds of which will lie devoted to the Belgian Relief Fund. The sale will be held on the afternoon and evening of 31st March, and there will be no charge for admission in the, afternoon. Preparations are well in hand for the Methodist Garden Party to-morrow afternoon. Fine weather has been ordered for the occasion, and everything promises to be a huge success. The baud from the Boys' Training Farm will discourse sweet music. Thu grounds will be thrown open at two o'clock and the official opening will take place at three. Conveyances will run from the Century Hall and will carry as many people as possible to the grounds. Various gifts made to the Levin Ladies' Committee of the Belgian He lief Fund Executive were sold by public auction in front of Levin Post Office ov Saturday evening. Mr Walter Simpson (on behalf of Abraham and Williams Limited) auctioned the gifts. Thanks are returned to the donors (through our columns) owing to inadvertent omission of the courtesy at Saturday's auction. The list of gifts is as under:—Mrs Pyko goose. Mrs J. Ryder red cabbage. Mir A. F. Wilson potatoes, Mr T. Harris ease of apples. Mr C. Parsons potatoes. Mr Walkley flag. A lamb was also donated. On some future occasion there will be disposed of a gramaphone and 20 records—the gift of Mr H. Walkley. Those who were unable to gain admission to the crowded building at the last school concert just prior to the school holidays, will have an opportunity on Friday evening of witnessing at the King's Theatre the presentation of precisely the same programme. The entertainment was admittedly one of the best, if not *he best, of its kind given tor many years in Levin, and this, coupled with the lact that the proceeds are to be devoted to the Belgian Relief "Fund deserves another full hou.se. The Chronicle is unable to accommodate all its advertisements on page H. New advertisements appear there for one issue, 'and then must take their turn to appear on page 4. to make room for the casual advertisements that come in from day to day. As page 4 contains the stock sale advertisements, as well as news items, it is read by all farmers and settlers, so an • advertisement on it is as effective as those on any other page. The rule is unavoidable, in any event, and the explanation is given to provent misap- [ prehension.