LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 2 May 1916, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

Accounts passed for payment by the Levin Borough Council last even ng totalled £286 16s. The fruit industry continues to make great pr ogres at Copier. Many of the apple-growers are averaging 12 and some 16 bushels to the tree. Two local "sports" were caught '-y the police on Monday morning poaching on Lake Horowhenua, a game sanc.uary. They were relieved of their bag and in due time will appair at the S.M. Court to answer .he charge. The picture given by Miss Vera Bassett, for the Red Cross Funds and disposed of by art union resulted 41 the fund benefiting to the extent of £1 10s. The Levin Borough C'-ouncil lies had trussed this year 1450 yards of metal at a total cost of £337 7s 7d—an average of 4s 7Jd per yard. The council also obtained 50 yar.ls of iscixvi.ings from the crushing of the meta.l. Under the new levies made by lie Wellington Hospital and Charitable) Aid Board, the rtorowhenua Cou.ity 1 Council, Levin Borough Council and Otaki Town Board will contribute this year a sum of £3533. Mr IT. S. Simoox ihtid tour cows killed by the New Plymouth express a few miles south of Manakau a t'ew day ago. They got on to the line through a defective fence. The cows were valued at £10. The week-end shop run by the members of the 'Levin Ladies' Patriotic Society continues to do good business. On April loth they took £2 19s 6di, and on April "29th £2 l'Bs, this last amount including'£l from the sale of a puppy given by Master Warren Joyce. On Saturday a man named R. Thur- | li.w had three fingere severely injtirj ed in the planer at Harvey and-Co.'s works. The bone of one finger was I broken, and it will be some weeks before the man will be able to '0sutne work. Levin's contribution to the 16tli reinforcements left for camp by yesterday morning's train. There was a fair number of people on the platform to see them off, and, as the train drew away from the station, gave them hearty cheers. An accident occurred yesterday in , Oxford-fit., by which Mr P. Owens, of Weraroa, was injured somewhat seriously. He " was in a. vehicle driven by Mr Rolf, also of Weraroa, when | t'he horse stumbled. and both men were thrown out on to the roadwiy. Mr Pelf escaped, but it was seen Mr Owen was injuredi. He was taken to Dr Bryson's sutrgery by Mr T>. Matheson, in his motor car, ■where it was found that he had one leg dislocated and was much bruised. Tlie water race in Bath street east is steadily increasing in width owing to the batik being constantly broken in by cattle. Councillor Harvey drew the council's attention to this matter, jat its meeting last evening, and it was left in the hands of the road overseer to apply remedial measures. Councillor Herrick last night spoke of the state of {Tie footpath from Durham street to the* PreSTjytcrian church and gaven notice of motion that it he tarred and sanded. Under present conditions it never seemed to set, «.nd there always was loose gravel on it. There was no footpath in the boro lijh that caused so much loss in sfToe rather during the year. The matter i\-i« referred to the streets committee <or report. There is a plaoe in a corner of the Levin domain that is a trap for f be unwary. The water race is blocked up by weeds, and the water has overflowed.. This lias caused a nice green growth tempting to walk on, but any person who "tries it is soon over the boot tops in water. Councillor Herrick struck trouble in this way on a recent visit, and enquired at Jast night's meeting if the council could not compel the owners of the private properties adjoining to clean out the race. It was pointed out that the matter came under the jnrisdiotion of the County Council and was resolved "to make repreeentations to that hody.

In the duck-egg-laying test for 1016. 1917, now in progress at Papantii, near Ohristchurch, the pen of Indian rufiner ducks from the poultry farm of Mr. H. iiower, Levin, have dropped into first place as a result of the two weeks' test completed last Thursday. The pen failed to lay during the first week, but in the next seven days they laid twenty eggß out of a possib'e forty-two, which placed them at he head of the fortnight's aggregate. Following is a statement by a replesi'U.atdve of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company. The other ol the case is given in The Chroniok's leading article today :—"About three hundred' tone of sugar are now being taken by people in New Zealand every week •!' excess of their demands a year ego. '1 do not know what they are doing with the i.ugar,' declared Mr W. ' Philson, manager at Auckland of tho Colonial Sugar Refining Company, :>:i Satiuday, 'but it is certainly not l■ r fault it sugar is scarce, for our outp it has been abnormal. We are producing ample supply for the normal requi moments of the Dominion. As a matter of fact, our deliveries for the six niont's en'.ing March 31st last oxce ided the output for the corresponding perio 1 last year by nearly 3000 ton, while for the three weeks ended April 21st cur deliverufi exceeded by 300 tons per week the deliveries for the corresponding three weeks last year. That is to say, that in the first three week? of the present month the people took 1000 tons move of sugar than tliey did in the three weeks of April last year. It seema pretty certain, therefore, that a goo l many people must he storing sugar up.' "