Land Ballot

Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 June 1915, Page 3

Land Ballot

BARTHOLOMEW ESTATE. Tlio ballot for the sections of the Bartholomew estate at Weraroa, recently purchased by the Government for closer settlement, took place at the Levin Courthouse this morning and resulted as follows: — .No 1 section, 27 acres 1 rood. 3 perches.—Mrs C. Barclay (\\ oodville). Ten applicants. No. 2. section, 6 acres 1 rood, 1 perch —M. H. Hubnor (Makino). Five applicants. No. 3 section, 9 ucres, 1 rood t) perches—C. W. Lankshear, Levin. Four applicants. No. i section, 2U acres .3 roods 37 perches.—Not applied lor; still open tor application. ■No. 5 section, 12 acres 2 roods b peaches. — -Mrs Alary Edmonds (Rongokako). Three applicants. No 0 section, 12 acres 2 roods 12 perches.—H. Cole (Levin). One applicant.

■An energetic band of settlers and citizens of Levin district and town are working hard for the Wounded Soldiers' Fund by boosting the Manawatu Queen Carnival candidate, Miss 31cKegg. In fact many outsiders will get a pleasant surprise when they 6eo the result of this work, particularly so in regard to the big carnival to be held in the Levin domain next Wednesday. The residents of these parts can help •wlorkers in many ways and thereby boost the Manawatu candidate and assist her to top the poll. Applications for space in the grand procession should be made at once in order to curtail as much, as possible the heavy work involved. An analysis of the applications from women in England lor war work shows that out of a total of between 23,000 and 25,000 sent in, 'about 3000 women wish to be employed on armament work. One of the applicants, who is most eager to make shells, is a Scarborough laundress whose place was destroyed by the German cruisers in the East Coast raid. To the long list of curious things put up for auction on behalf of tho Belgian Relief Fund will' shortly be added a pig with a curious Tiistory (says the "New Zealand Herald"). Caught -when three weeks old in the ■bush near Gis'borne, it was tamed, and now it has just completed a journey on foot from Gisborne to Otahuliu, where it awaits a buyer. Its captors performed the journey on horseback, whilst the pig, accompanied by two dogs, was content to trot behind. I Although the journey was done by easy I stages, it is surely a record of its kind.