LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 July 1916, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

f here is small chance of the running of Manawatu trains to Lambton station instead of to Ihorndon until alter the end ol the war. So many demands for money exist at present, that to raise the sum of £100.000 to L']6O,(XX) necessary to effect the'nlterations and additions to yards and apparatus is deemed inadvisable and impracticable. An answer to the foregoing effect was given on Thcrsday last by tlio Minister of Railways, to a deputation of local bodies' representatives that Avmitedi upon him. The member for Otaki (Mr W. 11. field) was present as representative of T,e-

I..'list night's dance of tli(> Anzac Assembly is described as "the be.st of tho season." Visitors hailed from Oliau. Foxton iind .Shunnon, while Levin whs largely repivsontod. Messrs AVil- ' *' 1 l,!s Wells were M's.C. The visitors were entertained at supper by t!ie Assembly committee. At Wellington yesterday the death «r Mr J. T-T. TCseott, M.P. for Pahmtna, took" place, after an operation for an internal complaint. 7>ecrtised was 41 years of ace. iho total 11 unibur ol moa in the DoJiiiiiion, who, (since tlie beginning o'f Ule »ar, have enlisted for the t'roiut, is 9<),3"2-l. Oi this number 03,373 pas-M-d the medical examination, and 59,183 were .sent into camp. The figures lor Wellington, province are 28,875. 1 ;i,l7S> and 12,346. For Auckland 23,191. and, 15,99(5. For Canterbury, 23,-150, 13,17!) and 12,510. For Of ago. 1-1,808. 10,(108 and 9(382 repsectively.

Sergt-Ma jor .Soli informs The Chronicle that eight men are required from Levu and district to go into military camp at Trentham, an Wednesday next, for the. Nineteenth Reinforcement*. Applicants should hand in their names at once to Mr. C. S Keedwoll or to the Sergeant-Major.

The shortage ol' poultry in Xew Zealand -occasioned, by the. kiiling-ofT .-H-cossTtfitfd by the ruiiioislv high filler of pohard and wheat last year -is having o marked effect on this year's egg market, West -potations rrem Wellington «late that eg:r.s bringing 2s pi-r dozen wholesnlp. and '•''at supplies are not equal to the demand.