The Chronicle LEVIN. WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1916. LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 May 1916, Page 2

The Chronicle LEVIN. WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1916. LOCAL & GENERAL

Laundry work is to be taught in Levin district high school., Tenders for erection and fitting up a laundry room are invited by the Wellington Education Board. Plans and specifications may be seen at the Chronicle office. A full meeting of the Levin school committee was hekl in the schoolroom last crening when routine business was transacted. Some trouble lately has been experienced with the caretaking of tho school, and it was decided that tenders he called for the work of looking after the school and r,he ground*. Special orders to be made by the Horowßenua County Go unci l a.t its meeting on 10th June next are advertised to-day on page 3. Details of special rating areas in Tararua road and Kawiu road districts respectively are fully set out in the advertisement.

In another column appears tho program of the concert to be given in the Tomi 'Hall, to-night, under the auspices of the Oaitholios of Levin.

Under date of 20th February, Lieu iColonol Freyberg, formerly of Levin, has ssnt an interesting letter to Mr iJ. S. Mackenzio of this town. At the time of writing our former towusman whb filling the poet of military governor at Teuedos, and he stated in his lobter that the was "still very much alive and am getting my men ready for another try, which 1 hope is a lititle more successful than the fast one. I -am now a colonel and a.lll in charge of an infantry battalion ; t is groat fun being commander as you do little things on your own. We had a great many casualties on that peninsula and bll to no purpose. I hope we net a chance at the Germ urns tiffs time: it would be fun. I will be more than wiifing to go under in this war if I can scupper a couple of the Boschcs. One looks on death as not es bad a sort of thing as it was suppo.sedi to he, and as" one has so many friend® who are gone. >it is not lookcci on as a particularly unpleisanti solution of one's many difficulties. Personally I want to come through this campaign to see the Germane suffer like no nation ever Buffered since this worJd began."

The Presbyterians are favoured with a, beautiful day foi the opening of their harvest festival iD the Century Hail, and the hall itseli is beautifully decorated for the occasion. T'he:o are those who will neglect an opportunity to lay in a store 01 the produce harvested, but Will they not regret it "Make hay while the sun shines" is a good old piece of of advice. The sun shines to-day and the opportunity is at the Presbyterian harvest fair this afternoon andi evening.

ill a claim for exemption by a hairdresser at the Military Iribunal at Devizes, the military representative said men could shave themselves and and their (wives couldt cut their hair. Barbers were not a national necessity.

Dr. Elizabeth Gunn, who has een granted the temporary riftik of captain while employed as permanent medical officer on a Nlew Zealand transport, is tli® first woinan to leave the dominion on such duty. She was previously attached to the Trentham Hospital staff.

The Opunake Mail has received a j cupy of the Balkan News, published in (Salonika. It is a i'our-page paper, covering a demy she«t and is printed in English and run in the interests of the Aliies. It looks as if it was printed in a hurry, or aa if the press was on a shaky foundation. Amongst the advertisements the French mineral waters (by special appointment to the King) occupies halt a page. Restaurant keepers notify that meals are served, in the "English style." One grocery store notifies "cheapest in the town; if any of our gs.-r» arc sold cheaper elsewhere, we will always refund the difference." That is good enough. Another is indicative of Canadian "push." "To arrive next week—Canadian hams, honed, che?se, etc." The paper is published for the modest sum of Id., and is worth' it for authentic newe.

An interesting postcard has been received by the Rev. H. T. Stea'ey from Lieutenant Stealey. who is a prisoner of war in Germany. Judging by the photograph the prisoners' quarters appear comfortable enough, though plain, and there is evidence of a good supply of reading matter.-

After a preliminary reference to the attempt lust session to silence the critioibin from the Government side, Mr T. Field, speaking in ai'rliamenit last night, condemned sonw of the arrangements at Gallipoli, declaring that aad had letters alleging that hundreds of our siok soldiers couM lw>e been savod had they gott even condensed milk. They were fed on bully beef "and biscuits'He would not speak of the sour bread on the transports which the men threw overboard to the strains of tho "Dead March,"' nor of the bad moat; buit hei did waait to say a word or two about the food given to sick men on the returning irtannports. These vesoeln were passenger steamers. The mem got third-class food not good 011.0uglf for sick men. On© had only to look at them on the wharf, seeing their pale faces, to realize this. The steam ship companies were getting handsomely pa,id to give food to them. The Minister of flefense: The Government provides the food. MiField: Then it ought to be better.

xUi cxouaaigo records that iu a Mooter urn school a written vote ot the uiildren had been taken as to whether certificates skouiJ. toe substituted ior prusis, und the money given to ae patiiocic funds. Jhe result was %ry much in favour of patriotic action,ouly one little girl recording her vote for prizes. The teacher, seeking for the reason ot tile little girl's attitude, received the astonishing reply; "Please teacher I couldn't spell 'certificate', '

Mr W. McKegg, who met with a very nasty accident through hie arm coming in contact with a pumping machine at Shannon l last week has made good improvement, and the stitches have been removed. The out was a deep one and Mr McKegg was fortunate in not having his arm almost severed!. —Otaki Mail.

The following is called from the Dominion :—Six postcards lie on the editor s table—postcards irom a soldier to loved ones anxiously awaiting them. But they bear no addresses. They are enclosed in an envelope which lies become damaged in transit, and which apparently was not addnessed— ait ainr>- rate, no name or address appears on it. By further misadventure they passed into the hands of a local business firm, Messrs Gollin andi Co., in. company with a big sheaf of other correspondence, and the firm in question has thoughtfully sent them on to us in the hope that in some way we may be able to bring them under the notice of those for whom they are intended. They are all in the same handwriting; some are signed' "Daddy," eoime "Arthur," and they anTaddressed respectively to "Len," "Archie." "Ann," "Nell," "Edna," and "Dorrie" andi to all appearances are the letters of a father to his children. Th?y were posted at Albany. Perhaps some of our contemporaries will publish these facts in the hope that "Daddy's" post-

cards ,dispatehedi while en route to the front, may reach those waiting For them.

There is an idea that a Leap Year day baby is entitled to a bi'rilidy celebration only every four years but this is happily erroneous. The contingency was provided for by special statute of the reign of Henry ITI., which ordains that 'th'nt (Jay and the day next going before shall be counted for one day. A Leap Year day baby's birthdby, in the absence o? February 29, should therefore, be celebrated on Feibruary 28. And his legal majority would thus be attained; in the normal manner. Salary-earners paid monthly or quarterly lose the payment for ona day's work. Shareholders ,too, lose a day's interest on their money; and railway companies are mulcted] in a tree day's travel for their quarterly or yearly season ticket-holders.

War, like love, levels ail ranks, and a fine story to this efieot is told by Dom Antony Barnett concerning Lord Ninian Crich ton-Stuart 'before he was killed in France. About hulf-past six in the morning, while ho, was stands

ing outside the Roman Catholic Church a French soldier came up to him and asked: "Bo you want to go to Uommunion ithis morning, sir?" Then as the Colonel did not reply, he continued: "I am just going to say Mass; if you wouldi care to servo me 1 should be greatly tVbl ged." Then as the priest says, there followed a scene which 'gives one to think—an English colonel and the scion of a noble house serving a French private." This happenjd on the day before the death of the late member for Cardiff.