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Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 May 1915, Page 3

Heathorlca Golf Chili hsi« closed its link* for the roiuaiiulcr ol this week. out of respect to the liiemorv of the late J. R. McDonald. A conference will bo nolrl at Levin on Friday. 21st instant, to discuss thu small birds nuisance and devise ways and means of coping with it as effectively as possible. The conference will assemble at the Council Chambers in the j .afternoon, at 2.30. p.m. The. total receipts for uie art union | in connection with the Belgium Relief ! Fund came to £54 Us, and the expen- i dituro for printing, prizes, and .sun- | dries amounted to £'!J Is od. leaving a ! net amount for the fund oi £-15 9s Tfcl. | The thanks of the committee aj'e due to j all those who helped to make flit' con- I cert and art union the success it was. | To aid the Queen Carnival Fund, an j auction sale of any produce or other goods that may come forward will be held in Levin square on .Saturday night at 8 o'clock. A sale will be held every Saturday night until the carnival is over. Mr Walter .Simpson will auction the goods. TJ U> c-ominittoo has securer: from Mrs Hannan. gratuitously the us.; of her shop near Levin Hotel as a storeroom : and also from Mrs Pa Ik, file use of her shop promises at Weraroa. Mrs Milne's old store at Weraroa also is available, and it is hoped that the settlor's responses in goods will occasion the need for using all three stores. Sergeant J. JS. Hilson (Canterbury Infantry Battalion. wounded) - was, until he joined the force, a well-known footballer, having been a prominent j member of the High School Old Boys' | senior pack and a Canterbury repre- | sentative. He was also a memher of i the Canterbury Rowing L'lub. .Sergt. Hilson. who is noted for his fine stature, only returned f<> ilu-isU-loirch a short time before the outbreak of war. i after a two years' absence in Levin and i other parts of the North, Island, where ! j he held the rank of lieutenant in a j territorial, corps. While playing foot- < ball h« received injuries which prevented him joining fhe iCxpoditionary Force for some time. \vhen he w;-s able to pass the doctor all the eomimV sions were filled, but. nothing daunted, j he joined as a private. His abilities i were quickly recognised, and (Turing '■ the stay nt the force in Xew Zealand was entrusted with fhe duty of licking i the "imattacheds" into shape. Sergt. ' Hilson is 28 years of ago.— Westporfc !