LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 May 1916, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

The adjourned animal meptfng ot the Lerin Horticultural finciefy which was to have been held in the borough chambers laet evening was further adjourned to this day week, June 6tli. Owing to the inclemency of the weather th'e attendance last night was small and was considered best to have a fuller meeting before deciding on a policy for the future. Some Miaorm, who live at Taumutu, near Lake Mlesmere, waited on the Hon. G. W. Russell, Minister of Internal Affairs, recently and told him that theire are large quantities of very fine eels in the lake, and that if « fish depot were established in Chrietcfhurch they would send eels for public consumption. They stated that before the war roroke out eels from the lake were tinned! in OhristchurcTi and Beat to Germany.—ChristchuToh Star.

One member (the president) attended the annual general meeting of the Levin Hockey Clu'b, convened for last evening. In these circumstances, ho was unable to ",buU|y oif." In \.ho last list ot New Zealand casualties appears the name of iLanceCorporal William Sandman, of Christchurcn. For a wnile he was on the t-taff oi the Levin bran eh of tho Bank of Australasia. At Mess us Abraham aind WiJliams's sale on Friday last throe fat cows with calves at foot, Gold on behalf of .Mr j. Dunn, of Koputaroa, realized tho good price of £16 6s each, while two tat 10-.months steers belonging to the same vendor were soldi for £6 each. Mr H. Clark, or Eskdale, Napier, has provided a car for the exclusive use of wounded soliiere at Rotorua who need exercise andi who are not ablo to walk. The Hon. G. W. Russell, Minister of Internal Affairs, stated in Chri.sk-hureh recently, that the example shouW be followed by somebody in Canterbury who might offer a serviceable car for the use of soldiers at ilanmer. The Health Department would bo willing to return, the car when there was no more necessity for using it. Olio of the most remarkn2;J» things ii. the replacing of men's taibour by women f>, which is going on in Britain t>day, is the great popularity which mechanical work seems to be winning lor itself among women. It (seems only yesterday since practical mechanics even of the simplest kind were still supposed to bo beyond the grasp of the femab intellect, and now to-day we have the "chantteuse" who can rej air a car as well as any man, the woi::;in driver of tlie heavy transport lorries and the skilled, munit'on malier. From Ireland conies the account of a y ,ung girl only just twenty years old who doing the work of a skilled electrical engiuee". She k Miss May Traili. the daughter ot Mr William A. Traill, C.E., a well-icnown engineer, w ho was the constructor of one of the first electric tramways, the Giant's Causeway and Portrust ekciric tramway, which was opened in 1883.

Mr T. Dawson lias a notice in our advertising columns thanking the poopVl ot the district for their support in the past, and as Its that they extend it now to his successor, -Mr J. S. Johnstone.