LOCAL AND GETRAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 September 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GETRAL

.Next Kriday at X p.m. the members oi llic Hoi owlicnua Fruitgrowers' Asts>:ci;i I ion wi ll hold t lieir regular monthly meeting in Mr P. Smart'- rooms, i lie (pavilion i.il reducing .some oi liu.' pernia iicJit roadmen fi Ij'oin iirs in l)b per day was iluseiissecl at Hie kairaiiya County Council yesterday, (.oiiucilior .Small opposed llic kiiggestam on ilk- ground* Dial men were ing scarce and that IDs a day wii.s lit-lie i'li u man. He pivpus.-d that all permanent. roadmen receive IDs per day, bin liii- motion wiin lost .Wanauaiu Tinier. Tiie T.'Hinianiniii Borough Council, in pursuance oi ilo campaign to persuade tlie Government lo suTspeud Hie prevision* o| ihe act making lotteries illegal, wrote recciiily lo the Levin Borough Council asking iu assistance in tlie matter. 'I in; Mayor isaki ho t!t111 il was enl : iviy n matter thai .should he let! to she Government, file letter merely was received by the Council 011 Monday evening,

At its meeting on Monday night the Lovin School Committee pa.ssed for payment accounts totalling £15 10s, The llev. J, Patterson, of Wellington, who preached in Levin Presbyterian Church (as supply) last Sunday, .e----turned to "Wellington yesterday. The death occurred at Wefaroa, yesterday, of .Mrs C. Keif, wife of .Mr C. ii elf, an old settler in these parts'. Deceased had been an invalid for a long while, and death canio as a happy release. Yesterday afternoon at I'almcitston North railway station a casual goodsheds hand, named "Walter Galliciian. uicL 'with a fatal accident through being run over by sonic railway trucks, tie was removed Ho tlie hospital where he died a.fc 0.45 p.m. Deceased was a middle-aged man and leaves a wife and two children. He was well known in 'Levin, where he resided until a lew years ago. Some time ■ago, by iininy, a liberal .supply of grease on tlie bearing* ot the pelton wheel ami driving chain of the Levin lirebell, these in charge managed to train the ringing apparatus up to such a pilch that it would start off without assistance when the water was turned on, and nearly everyone was easy in it is mind that the bell -would act promptly in the interest oi the lire insurance companies when the call came. However, there remained a fenv unbelievers, and these aliowing u few clays ior the grease 10 lose .some of is bit rcaliug ell'eci, tried the noil hist week. I hough the water wa« turned on there was no brazen response and the unbelievers remarked gleefully: "'We told you so! We know that wheel was too small.'' As i! to uear this out and .add lo the confusion of the Borough Council, a letter was received at the Council's meeting on .Monday night iroin A. and T. Hurt, saying that the present wheel was tar too wuall and that an id-inch wheel was necessary, and that, they (Hurt's) could supply one ior Cl'O, Those councillors who recovered their breath first remarked that ; liey considered that Hurt r did not know much about it. Councillor !'ranee r-aid lliaf a w heel could be made locally. ll he had the time he could make one himself. Various suggestions were made, but the Council look the line of .Micawber. an I aN< agreed that it would bo well 1c use grease freely. The .Mayor thought lhaf the public should be impressed with the need of giving the chain a pull as well as In ruing on tlie water.' Why cannot the Council attach a crank to ihe lower tie iron and connect if up by a rod to flic (sprocket wheels The hell could be started then in the same in an - l hat a itinlor car is started. Everyone knows how to start a motor ear.