LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 December 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

4 The Chronicle will not he ■ published 011 Ch rs tin as Day nor 911 Monday next (Boxing l)ayj. Innkeepers have the light to detain the luggage of their-guests until their hills have been paid; boardinghouse keepers .may not do this. From London,. the death is reported of tSir Joshua Williams, a New Zea kind Supreme Court Judge. Ho ivas one of the oldest judges ill Australasia. having;" ueen judge for forty years. Several soldiers iroiii Levin and district are home from the camp i'or ClnisUnas Day, but they afe duo to report for resumption of duty oy 'Christmas night. 'ihe directors and staff of the 'New Zealand Fanners' Co-operative Dis-. tiibuting Company, Ltd., have sent The Chronicle a caru conveying the suison's greetings. A pleasing pastoral scene surmounts, uie message. We re-echo the good wishes conve/ :d lj us. I'or the hall-year ended Septeinbei 30, the Port of Lonuon authority bundled 1,172,(.KiCT Tons ot imports, compared with i,lii,U»b tons for tlu corresponding period 01 1911. l'n. increase largely consisted of wool, meat, and other Australian and Ne\. Zealand products.

— limler and chqe.se factories in .New Zealand will be interested to learn that -Mr iv J. Allow, wlio lor somo years past lias been representing .Messrs Weddel and Co., liars now joined the English linn of S. H. Nevanas and Co., as fnanager for Aew Zealand. The new linn will have its headquarters in Wellington 111 the Commercial Bank Chambers, Lambton Quay.— Xew Zealand Dairyman. _ The Stratford J'otst savs:—The diivcLor.s of the Stratford Dairy Company find that the returns i'or their September butter, consigned through -Messrs .Mills and Sparrow, were so good that they me enabled to pay another -kl per lb, making, with the shilling per lb already paid, the great price of Kid which i.s claimed to be a record for export butter for the 'Dominion for September. The Imperial (loverinnent Supply Branch oil the 4t!T inst., reached six million pounds sterling in payment for meat. The precise amount is CH.033.971. This is for 2<i8,160 quarters of beef. 2,109,-179 carcases of mutton mid 2.102.(i(i;; carcases e'' lamb. Of that quantity of meat, the following has arrived ai: its destination: 219,808 quarters of beef. 1 ,5G8.2T)1 carcases of million, and 2.337,975 carcases of lamb. A great deal of Amusement has been caused in Rluff during the past few days as the result of a recent borough council decision. Three councillors voted in support of a •-,?sident who had applied Tor certain privileges and the resident was kind enough to forward the trio a bottle of cream each in consideration of their support. It, is reported" that oiie of the councillors refused the consideration. When the story became. Iflrown the lot of the other two became a somewhat unhappy one. A iucal resident, who does not wku iiiis najne to be made public at present has made a nipsi generous gift to the Utaki Patriotic Soci.eby., viz., four halt-acre freehold sections ol land— three situated in the Otaki township and one at Levin. The whole of the proceeds will go to the Olaki Patriotic Society's funds. The local society has applied to tiPfe Minister for a permit, and fl' this is secured, in all probability (steps will Jje taken :m----mediately to rali'lc the properties, tickets for which should sell readily. The donor deserves great credit for his magnificent gift.—Otaki Mail. The Re. v. H. T. Stealey, of St. ;Maiy's Levin, is in receipt of a letter from the Bishop of "\\ ellington, suggesting that before the a a.m. service on Christmas Day is begun the people (be asked to say the prayer suggested by the New Zealand Minister ol De fence :—''Heavenly Father bless our «?ldiere and sailors iliis Christinas Day and hearten then) lor that good fight which alone can bring true peace". Tlu Bishop's letter refers also to a suggeor ui by the Archbishop of Canterbury that on Ist January there should In eerviccs of intercession similar to those held on the first Sunday in the year ; and further that, where possible, services of confession and penitence for our many national sins should be held on 31st December; and on Ist January, services of preparation for communion on the Day of Intercession. The letter concludes: "T earnestly hope flint as for as local circumstances permit von will ask your people to act upon the archbishop's suggestion."

Tiie. treasurer di the Levin atid District Patriotic Society desires to acknowledge the receipt of £-1 5s for the Wounded Soldiers' Fund, . through, the kind Offices of the Koputaroa natives at the social held in .the Takihiku meeting house on Friday evening last. liie following amusing story ana • its seyuel "is tola by ciie Ji'ithain. Ar- f gus.—A short'time ugo ihere was a scarcity of au the Mungatoki (laiiy factory and some new and y inexperienced hands were put on. By way of a joke amongst the factory hands, feminine names were given to the new hands such as "Matilda, ' ".Bridget," etc. We nad t a local some time ago mentioning that the girls at the Manga,toki factory were giving every satisfaction. .The local •went the rounds of the newspapers and the New Plymouth News even went the length of publishing a lending article entitled "J'repatring i'or the inevitable." It was an excellent la.rticle, based up oil the einpioymeiit of female labour at the .Mangatolci fttiPitorv. hu'ti unfortunately ior the argument advanced therein (here are 110 girls employed at the faHory in question and there never have ' been.