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Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 April 1915, Page 3

I The amount of bad debts made by the Levin municipal gasworks is remarkably small. Tlie turnover is somej tiling like £2500 and out of this total the Town Clerk asked the Horouy:li Council last night to write off debU amounting to £17—a practice with bookkeepers to keep their books neat. The tidy housekeeper does something the same when she places a pfece of cretonne over a packing case. The packing case is still then l , and so are the debts, so that people who owe :he gas department Bum?; of lon.tr standing need not think the writing off on the Town Clerk's books is the end of th.'ir indebteduofis. Any spasms of joy based on such a supposition would be premature. The opening of a road through trom 'Jiro Tiro and Mairtia roads to I'uroutawhao was brought up again ;,u the Levin Borough Council last night by Councillor France who explained the advantages such a route to iVoxton would have over the present route. He 1 said that a road should bo laid off before any more of the adjoining land is cut nip mid divided. If they could not get a metalled road a stock road Mould do tit present and would rel lieve the stock traffic on the present road. He considered that the land for the load should be allocated at or ''. They wanted someone here who would act like a former Czar of Russia \i ln> laid off the railway route between Petrograd and .Moscow with a ruled lino on a map. and put through- a straight route fi-om Levin to Foxtmi. He moved that Mr Field. M.P.. be I asked to - obtain a plan from the Maud and Survey "Department *howii\.; al! reads in the Kawiu block between I'oroutawhao and Levin, also if possible get a survey made hy the fJovern men t to determine the route ot a short rone" of -easy grade to Fox ton. This was carried. We believe in doing fair. squ;i!i' things to all-- no better rule than this. We believe that "honesty is the be-t policy" because we have succeeded, and it is our only policy. Collinsou and Cunningham. Ltd.. Pnlmerston North. Rend our advertisement on the third page.—Adrc.