LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 July 1916, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

A meeting of fanners will be held in the Town Hall, Levin, to-morrow morning (Friday) to discuss proposals for holding all Levin weekly sales on tho one day of the week.

The "long night" of the Anza« Assembly will be heldi in the Druids' Hall to-morrow night. The price of admission, is 2s and Is. J fie l'oat says that lucre was another conference yesterday between advocates in the diousc of early closing lor hotels and tlie opponents oi limitation. Nothing was effected, but. another meeting may possibly be held. Jc is stated now that some advocates of early closing would: accept ( J o'clock tis a compromise, but the opposition has lately sot its face against even this concession, apparently considering that it can retain existing conditions. A concert in aid of the Oban Red Cross Society will i»e held in the Ohau Institute on Friday, 11th August. A first-class program has been arranged, and n dance will be field: after the concert, with refreshments provided. Admission to the concert will be Is: children (3d ; to tlie dance Is <kl and Is. Ihe Alanawatu Daily limes remarks: Ihe banners' Union Conference is heartily m sympathy with land aggregation, and also desires that the holders ol national and endowment lands snould be given statutory power to acquire the freehold of the same. When it, is remembered that people in -New Zealand who pay the graduated kind tax are in possession of •C87,(>00,00() worth oi land, or considerably more than half of the totai holdings; it is easy to see where the alleged I'armer.y Union's sympathies lie. It iii astonishing that some oi the small I tanners should allow themselves to be led by the nose Ijy these sTiameless reactionaries. By the way, if it is a fair thing to make all State-h lands freehold, what is wrong with enacting that all leaseholders shall hav; the right of purchase? Surely i\hat is sauce for the goose should be sweetbreads and, stuffing for the

gander! On I 1 ridoy and Saturday next, at L'arhi lid's pictures, "the idol of the screen.'" .Maurice Lostello. will be the chief actor in llie great star feature film "What Evil Men Do." ibis is a 0 road way TTTuo-rihlion , picture: a study of smart sets on tile one hand, «iul the real great world on the other; of dupVcity and sitl : of an everlasting love. Tiie supporting program is full of laughs.

Hit 1 young puopiu connected wiiii Wie local corps ol the Salvation Army i endured u splendid program in Uie rviijg Jiioatre on luesuay night. The piogi'jun consisted ol lloral. Chinese lantern, and patriotic inarches, coml'iUl> action .songs, lecitations, dialogue, tableaux, etc. 1 110 corps band a (so rendered, several i»eolctious. "During the evening Stail'-captain Thurkottle, ol' l'alnierston .North, commissioned the boys lor tlie local Lifesaving .Scouts. Mr a. Talbot has been appointed scout leader, Mr H. Andrews, assistant scout leader, and -Mr I'. James scout chaplain. liom his son (J. Mcivain) now on active service in France, Mr D. McKain, of Levin, has received a letter dated iHh June, which concludes as under:—•'! must not- mention names: but perhaps you can guess. Mr V who was an auctioneerln Levin, and formerly of Levin poet-office, is here; lieutentinnt-in-chargc of tliie platoon lam in." Mr McKain's son mentions that he spent his twenty-first birthday in the trenches, under heavy fire. "Still it was a merry day," he concludes. "A year ago the assertion that wo were able to provide 50,000 men Tor the war was described as an exaggerated estimate of our capacity by many very loyal mid thoughtful citizens," says tlie Auckland Herald, "yet we have already passed or are passing over 60,000 men through the training camps, and if the war should not conclude until the end of 1917 shall by that "time hflve provide-d over 100. 000 in«>n."

Too old at i 0! This was the fate of an enthusiastic young fellow from a diistrlct near Eketahuna who went to Wellington lately and offered his services lor the front. fie passed the examination so far as medical fitness was concerned, but his seventy years of age caused his rejection.

The Mauawatu Times reports that a lady of somewhat portly dimensions went in with hubby's washing to a Palmers to n Chinese laundry, and after depositing the bundle she waited for receipt of the customary check-ticket, "All IP," said John, "you no want ticket : me, know you next time!" \esterday she called for the parcel, and was surprised to find that it was handed to her without question. hen she got home the mystery was explained, and her painedi surprise can be better Imagined than described —for on examination the paper enclosing the collars was found to ho inscribed with the truly identifying word, "Fat."

Skiliod ait'chauicb in America, accord to .Mr Luke Manor, « glasslnaking export, of Pittsburg, are earning between £2 ami £3 a day. He instanced the famous \\estinghouso Company, which employed 27.000 workmen, (30 per cent of whom were -are engaged in shell-making lor the Allies. He said that the Westiughouse Company had. so cystomatised its plant that one skilded mechanic could attend to ten automatic machines without neglecting any part of his work. That meant that he wan able to attend to the cutting of ten shell eases at tho one time, and his wages were, in consequence, considerably increased. In other countries the mil© was one man, one machine.