The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 May 1915, Page 2

The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

* All oil painting presented by .Mr J. Parsons, of Levin, „is to be sold in aid of the Xew Zealand Hospital Ship nest Saturday night, in Oxford-street, at the customary spot. iiie picture is of the Lusitania. It is stated that Mr T. Bevan, of 'Manakau ,is contemplating the lease or sale of his property in that district, and intends to take up ins residence in the Gisborne district. >Fext Sunday not one but two masses will be celebrated In the Catholic Church, Levin. It was intended originally to celebrate only one mass, but the arrangement has been altered.

Tokomaru is to have an up-to-date post office forthwith. Tenders are called tor the work, by advertisement in to-day's Chronicle, by the Public Works Department. Plans may be inspected at Levin Post Office.

Hie position of Te Horo regarding A\ ellington's milk supply is an important one, and a large quantity of the city's supply is received from there. About a dozen milk carte are in the station yard every morning, waiting the down train, and several dozen cane of milk of all sizes from the five gallon can to the big 20 gallon can are loaded into the van*.

Surveyors already are at work on the .'Levin-Waiopehu Land Company's blook, near 'Manakau, preparatory for the onset of the axemen. In all there are about two thousand acres of bush to be felled, and as the subdivided areas will be small, no doubt the township of Manakau will receive a weloome addition to its spending power when the axes are in full swing. Popular opinion at Manakau votes that the concert and dance held at Manakau this week was liio most successful and enjoyable social gathering ever held in the townslup. Singers from Otaki and Paraparaumu joined the local residents in the event, and the dancing was kept up till long after the hour of midnight was old enough to belong to the dav before.

The manager of the SoutH Australian butter factory requested three suppliers living at a distance ot from 9 to 13 miles from tEe factory, to send daily three 10 gallon cans of milk. Two of the cans H ere to be covered with wet calico, the third being left uncovered. At the close of each evening's milking five gallons of milk were to Be put into each can, but one must have the cover s'afcfiratecl with water, placing the cans under similar conditions until morning, when the remaining five gallons were Co be added, and additional water pourremaining as before. In • onducting the test with the three cane, the milk in the can covered with wet calico had one to three points lees aci3, s>nd + he temperature, which was e aeh morning, was from one to foutr degrees lower in the covered can; i'i > grear^ difference in temperature prevailed . when the weather was warm and the sun hot. The results of these experiments have been so satisfactory that the wet envelope system is now generally adopted by the suppliers, and, as they themselves say, it prevents risk ol rejection, and saves many a can of milk in a season There's noEliing to equal "Nazol" for stopping coughs and colds, soothing sore throats and banishing influenza. Good for old and young.—i-Adyt.

The "Marlborough Express" says:— Hundreds of pounds' wjjrth of stock has been lost in the Marlborough district this season through bloating on lucerne and red clover. Mr Benjamin JBlick, Old Ren wick Road, forwards the following hints:—"See that a cow is secured or relaxed in the bowels before going into a lucerne paddock; never let a cow go on lucerne when hungry; 6ee that cows have plenty of water, preferably in the paddock, so that they will no drink a lot at one time after a good feed. JLt is a good plan to give a cow for a few days before putting it on lucerne, mangolds or other green feed, and plenty of salt and water, so as to scour her." Mr Blick adds:—"This is open to contradiction by anyone, who think it is noF correct. I would be glad to see it contradicted' by anyone who can prove the contrary." It may be mentioned that Mr O. W. Parker, as president of the Marlborough Chamber of Commerce, has written to the Agricultural Department of Argentina in the hope of obtaining some useful information on the subject of lucerne-grazing.