The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. TUESDAY, MAY 11.1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 May 1915, Page 2

The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. TUESDAY, MAY 11.1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

A still t was made "this morning to .is nantle . and remove tile old fire bell i ou or. The annual meeting ol tile Moro .•heiiiia Rugby I'nion was held in tlie Miami Hotel oil Friday evening. A i eoort of the proceedings will appear i ) the course ol' a i'ew days. '"rile, annua! meeting ol the Levin i handier ol' Commerce will be held this t Telling (Tuesday) in tlie Borough Council Chambers. All members and i (lending members arc requested to attend the meeting.

| There aiv important matters for dis- . i ai tlic forthcoming monthly I <>l i'lH- Horow'nenua Krui throwers' Association. which will be held in 1. Lr I). Smart's rooms next Friday | i veiling, 1 Ith inst.. Nt eight o'clock. The apple-naming conipetition is to ho settled. and several papers of much interest to "fruitgrowers will he read. Here as i Isewhere the horse is heing lushed out of the hauling business by ;Je motor lorry, which fact, by the '"fly. does not lighten the worries of those who have charge oi the roads. The dressed fibre from the AVaika wa flaxmil!. belonging to Ttoss and Co., rope manufacturer*, of l<oxton. is now taken to Foxton by motor lorry, j r l lie hockey -eason will be officially j opened on Wednesday (to-morrow") with ; a live-aside tournament. Levin has j entered the following Ihreo teams:— A team Howe. Hounsell, Metelier. T. j -"McDonald and Murray. B. team—- ; Wbifeliouse. Tiiohv, Walton. Smart i aird Pringle. 0. loam. — Mackenzie. Afatheson. Parsons. H. .McDonald and Thompson. Medals -will lie presented j to the winning teams. | Private (J. H, Wclby. of Weraroa, ; who joined the Alain New Zealand ExI petitionary Force, and proceeded with !i' to Egypt. returned to Levin on j Saturday, having bce.n invalided from i owing to a severe attack of pneumonia. Tn conversation with a : representative of the Chronicle 'Mr AY el by expressed, liifs disappointment jat having to reiii-rn home. Ho found Itgypt an extremely interesting place j and brought hack cpiite an interest- | ill": collection of Egyptian coins and : several coins belonging to the days of fho TLanans. and one of a probably ear- : lier a'io. The modern i|\iarler of Cairo ! ' f ''' £ill l enough hut the old native cjuar- | tor leaves a vivid memory of smells, j Discipline was very strict and the, J training hard. The men were given ; light loads to carry at Jirst. and these , wen l increased steadily until on their ; way I mm the railway to the Canal (five ; miles) each man had to carry 501 hs. I Another exhibit shown ny Mr Welby ! was his identification disc. The penI alf.v for being without the disc was j three days' confinement to barracks.