The Chronicle LEVIN: WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 27. 1916. LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 September 1916, Page 2

The Chronicle LEVIN: WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 27. 1916. LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhentia Racing Club will hold its annual mooting to-morrow (Thursday) oil the Weraroa Uaeecourse. Levin . A program of eight events will bo run off. and in all of them there should he good contests. The eluh made excellent preparations for the meeting, and an enjoyable day's sport is asiired. Meers Langley Bros.,

of Foxton, will do tlie catering. and the Levin Brass Hand will play a selection of popular dances, fantasias, etc., dining the afternoon.

The ''keynote" speech at Democratic Convention held in the United. States last .Tune was delivered by ox-Gover-nor Glyn. Its climax was a passage praising Dr "Wilson for keeping out of the war. The President's policy, Mr Gl.vn declared, might not satisfy those who revelled in destruction and funixl pleasure in despair, hut it satisfied the mothers and daughters of the land, the fathens and sons who will fighfc and die for the flag ''when reason primes the rifle, when honours draws the sword, when justice breathes n blessing en the standard they uphold!" Out of the cheers that rolled and rolled there came a voice "iSav it again —say it again!"' Mr G.lyn said it again, and in response to another long emotional upheaval repeated it yet a. third time.

At a dairy company's meeting held recently not a thousand miles from the Stratford district, one of sbarelioidieiv> present had no time for expats. "1.-Hik here,'' he said, "th here experts have told us we tre goin<>; to make a fortune out of the way by u aking it into kerosene." >.ee<lloss to say everybody laughed except the. speaker, and it was Mine time before he was convince;) that tliey made casein. and not kerosene out of the whey (sayfi an exchange). At the same meeting another shareholder niovtnl that the' directors "eat the whey." After the laughter subsided, the mover stuck to his guns, but explained that lit? intended to say "heat the whey." He may have been a Cock-

According to a now arrival in this country, who was con rcrsing with a Iribune reporter at Napier the other day, England when the war concludes will be able to turn out machinery at less than half tho price that it was at previous to the war. Motor engines w;ll be sold at ridiculously low prices, Ih> *a:d. • England has been revolutionised. he said, and has learnt, athe Americans dd4 long ago, the vainof labor-saving machinery.

The sal© of war loan certificates now j totals £027,928. Wellington Leads tho list with £220,359. Gardeners around Levin are maintaining a demand for cabbage plants, cauliflower plants and tomato plants at'the Horowhenua Fruitgrowers' depot, and steady sales continue to bo made. Seed potatoes (Northern Star) aie selling at from £6 to £10 per ton. A representative of a New l'iyine.u , i newspaper was shown an excellent itat'en or a sovereign whieli had been pasced over the counter of a local tradesman and accepted as a genuine article. Ihe false coin is composed if some white metal, but bears every 1 detail of the sovereign, and tiil 'e'i over might very easily bo accepted as a genuine coin of the realm. •'ll *heep returns can be icl e.l on," said the chairman of dirrctoi*. at the annual genet ril meeting of the shareholders of the Farmers' Co-operative Association, "there is a shortage in the South Island cf GG4.000 and an increase in the North Island) of 370,000, leaving a> decrease from the domin.or of wear.ly 300.0C0 sheep. This, with the prospect of a good season, should | have the effect of keeping prices at a | hi.<jb level. We have practically nothing to fear from Australian exports of meat during the coming se , " , n. n> it wrl take that country some time to I replete her flocks and herd* after the severe effects the recent droughts liave had. This leaves us with only the South American producer as a competitor for frozen meat. SokVers at the front are amazed at the luxuriance of plant growth on the battlefields. A correspondent of the Yorkshire Evening 1' f*t states that tlvs is the direct result of the high-expl-sive .shells. In a few years' time the employment of explosives in garden and farm ivilll be as regular a feature in other count.lies as it is in America to-day. Not only does the fxplcsive force help in a mechanical way by smashing up the soil particles, and making root growth easy, but the complete pulverisation of the soil enables the plant to make the best use cf the foo;l elements. The outcome : s a bountiful crop, even on land that has hitherto b en regarded as barren. Those batt'-fiold weeds are beariing fi : lent testimony to the value of a mvthod that will enormously increase t ,- e food supply cf the world. A London Times message reports that the British Government is entrolling the price of all frozen meat, the bulk ■jf which is going to the front. A iiicJicum of Australian meat is available for the public. A dance will ibe held ill the Druids' Hall. Levin, to-morrow. The committee have the floor in good order and •j;o.,di music will i;e snpp'ied. Patrons miiy expect an enjoyable evening.