Local and General

Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 February 1916, Page 2

Local and General

Manila hemp has reached. £55 per ton in the London market, and New £47 lOss. A gift afternoon is to ue held tomorrow (Wednesday, 2nd February), in the Century Hull, M?vin, by tlio Levin Methodist Ladies' Guild. The Sydney wool sales opened extremely firm. There was active competition for all classes- r" rices are. still tending in sellers' lavour. Greasy crossbred touched 20d, merino 19$ <1, and scoured 28d. Palmei'ston North trotting enthusiasts arc well pleased with the total ot 114 nominations received tor the meeting to be held on Saturday, I9th February. A few cwt. of superhosphates will supply more phosphoric acid than the same number of tons of farmyard or stable manure. A toil 01 the stable manure would only contain as much potash os could be applied by using i cwt, Kaiiiit or 15 lbs. if sulphate of potash. A garden party, under auspices ol the Levin Methodist Jjadies' (Jlull, will be held on \\ ednesday afternoon, 16th February, at the house of Miss Bowen. Queen Street. An advertisement of the function is published on page 3. At the Levin S.M. Court on Saturday before Mr B. R. Gardener. J.P., Charles Larsen was lined 10s lor being drunk. Later in llie day bcfoie All H. J. Richards, J.P., Patrick I'inn was charged with using obscene .language on January 22m1, in Oxford-street. He was fined £2 and ordered to pay costs, lie was given seven days in which '•« pay the fine.

dome remark* uOoui the enctihiuoit o' the Opunakc Times, made an tliS.M. Court bv an Opunake solicitor, were reseuied in llie iollowiug terms bv the Times:—"Some people mind tliei.' <iwn business, anil others, it wuuhi seem, try to mind other people a as well as their own, arid. they invariably make a mess of both." It uas shown recently in ho.v snort a t/i lll c a tree can 'be convei'teO inio a newspaper. At 7.35 a.ni.-tliree trees were felled ill an adjacent forest, 'stripped and taken to a local paper factory. By U. 34 the first sheet ot paper issued lrom the machines. The printing works o p the nearest newspaper were lour kilometres distant. The paper was carried there in a motor car at l'tili speed, the presses were set to work and at 10 a.m. exactly the newspaper was ready printed. The whole process thus took onl.y two hours and twenty-five minutes. '" Jiilectricity is coming, gentlemen, and if s£e dion't want it ourselves, we must not stand in the way ui those who do—always talcing care,, oi course, to safeguard the interests of our ratepayers. We must not adopt a clog-in-tlie-lu anger attitude." Tliese remarks were made by the chairman (Mr M. 1' Ryan) at Tuesday's meeting of the Springs County Council in the course of a discussion concerning iSe issue of a permit to the Tai Tapu Dairy Com pany, giving the company the right, subject to certain conditions, to distribute electricity to residents of '.he county.—Ohristchurch News. A rather peculiar procedure in connexion with the collection of native rates is reported i'rom \\ a'itara. The clerk ol the Clifton County Council had exhausted al> the resources to obtain from the Public Trustee the Bum of £285 for native rates covering a period oi two years in respect to land from which it was known the natives were drawing rents. Owing to failure to get the money the matter was fianded over to the county solicitor, who received an unsatisfactory reply to his demand. He then notified the Public, Trustee that if the money was not forthcoming on a certain date a claim for recovery wouldi be made through the Magistrate's Court. This intimation had the desired effect, find the county treasury has now been augmented by the receipt of the amount *n question. The fact that local bodies have to adopt such measures to obtain their dues is causing considerable comment in the country. In connection with the excavations which are being carried out in diuiuage work at the east end ol Suinner. a:i ofd sea-bed or beach has bse.r. struck at. a depth ol 13ft (.says the Christchurch Press). — The distance from high-water nimrk is abj \t 15 chair-', audi this apparently aw >.© show 1 hat at one time the wh >lo of the Sumner Flat was under water. During the course of the excavations layers of driftwood, pipi beds, and large and small water-worn stones have been uncovered. A striking feature of the pipi shells is that they are much larger than the ordinary sheila found on the beach and in the estuary.

Miss Harvey has been appointed caretaker of the Levin public school. Accounts amounting to jLl< 4s were passed for payment by the bevin School Committee last night. The nyijor portion of this expense was incurred; in cleaning and disinfecting the school. AH classes of sciiool requisites are stocked by Mr F. \V. Jones, bookseller and stationer—slates, exercises, pads. Pencils, school bags, school books, etc. >See replace advertisement on page 2 of this issue. D Battery is to go into camp at Ohau this month, and the Defence Department is preparing the camp. Tenders are invited, by advertisement in today's Chronicle, for the supply of provisions, fuel, etc.; also lor the hire of draught horses. In tlie course oi a conversation with Mr John IvebbeJl, the JU. ilon. W. F. Massey expresesd his opinvjh that the people of Levin should secure the local racecourse as a public reserve for all time. Hie Premier intimated that he still was in favour of an exchange ol tlie old racecourse reserve (Queenstreet nest), to provide: means of securing the Weraroa racecourse from the present owners. The extensive kauri areas of the Northern AVairoa have 111 years past produced many millions of feet of timber, and are still .producing large quantities. This constant drain cannot be maintained lor ever"and the tact that the last log in the Msuigakahia is expected to be delivered into the main stream jn another year's time, is tangible evidence ot the complete destruction of the forests. Tlie area of Kiripoknni as a timber producing territory will follow suit, and then till logging activity will be centred in the Kaihu Valley, where some •50,000,000 feet ot mixed timber is available. Further, there is the Waipotia .State forest-, which is estimated , if contain 100.000.000 teet of kauri and the same quantity of other timb«r».

'Called Back" was the "star" film :tl. the Lyric Pictures last niglit, and, the diamatic points ot the stoiv were nought out fully by the actors cast for the diffol ont parts. The blind man, Vnuglian, pleading for uis life with flie words "I'm blind," and the pursuit of Macari and his death at the hands of PetrofF were powerful and moving scenes. -Another fine picture was n scenic—"The Lakes of .Scotland." Message for the boys, from "Orange Judd I'armer':—'l believe in giving the best 1 possess audi demanding tlie best in orders," It is short sentence, ,Jllt means a very great deal. .If you practise that every day. both in your play and in your work, there is no doubt as to your place inlite. You will be not fairly good farmer, but an excellent one. Try it. (If we are going to be good dairy farmers it is up to us to begin at once. if we get busy now we can make a better record than Dad. At a meeting of the "W eraroa Ladies' Guild on Friday evening last «, generous proposal from Mr Garland of the picture theatre was discussed end it \\ as unaSnnously agreed to a-coept +die • S!,,|VU \ The secretary was instructed to write Mr Farland to tuis effect, and to acknowledge his offer with many thanks; also to acknowledge a letter and a like generous donation from Mr Matheson, draper, Levin. As the. result of these donations and many others, the success of the bazaar on March 23rd and 24th is already assured.