The Chronicle LEVIN: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1916 LOCAL & GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 October 1916, Page 2

The Chronicle LEVIN: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1916 LOCAL & GENERAL.

-X-The Liiuonicle will not be published on Monday next (Labour Day), it being a statutory holiday. Advertisements usually published on Mondays will need to be in njur hands by Saturday mid-day to ensure insertion in Saturday's Chronicle.

Mr W. Murdoch has completed a census of Shannon district, taken with a view to effecting registration of a borough. There arc over one thousand names (1000, to be exact) and the list has been sent to "Wellington lor information of the Internal Affairs Department.

The following workers were present at the lied Crosti Guild on Friday afternoon last:—Mesdaines Davison, 1'". W. Pink. J. l'rouse, 1. Hook, Vickcrs, Cork, Walklev, Phillips, Moln-, tyre, l'orteous, Bellingham, Keedwell. G. P. Brown, Kirkcaldie, Richter, .Misses Butler and Weston. Mrs. Piaster saw to the tea. Mrs. Stansell and Mrs. Gardener were in charge of the Red shop on Saturday last. The amount taken was £11 6s <xl. The committee wishes to thank the following for donations:—Mesdames Sorenson, R. Mark, R. McDonald, Porteous, Cook, Chaplin, Hitchings, W. Ryder, S. Hall, Shute, J. Da vies, Shirley, Gardener, Procter, Hook, Whitaker, Blenkhorn, W. G. Bishop (Ohau), Gray. Park, Pink. Langley, A. K. (barber. R. J. Rolston, Kirkcaldie. Catlev, Brown. Richter, Butt, Freeh ling, Page, Andrews. We are asked to etate. that the Red Cross collectors who will be soliciting donations in Levin during the next- few days have been authorised to collect by the president of the Patriotic Society.

"If anyone wants au experience of 'confusion worse confounded' let him become secretary of the Levin school committee," remarked the Rev. \\. H. E. Abbey at the committee's meeting last evening. Ho went on to say that some letters came addressed to him, some to the chairman and som? to the headteacher with the result that seme of the letters were not answered and things got into a tangle.

Of a total of 2836 men required to make up the 22nd Reinforcements only 1007 recruits were sworn in on Saturday.

War loan certificates issued through the post offices have now reached the total of £1,019,000.

"Next Saturday will he ''Plum Pudding Day" at the Levin Red Cros shop, the executive having decided to give the whole of the proceeds of the shop on that day to the fund for sending plum puddings to the New Zealand soldiers at the front.

Mr A. Sims (chairman) presided at the school committee meeting held at at the schoolroom last night, and the

members present were: Messrs W. Thomson, D. S. Mackenzie, W. Hull, F. O. Smith, Rev. W. H. E. Abbey, and J. Mclntyre (headmaster).

A Palmerston soldier, writing to the editor of the Times says that Salisbury Camp is 30 miles by 30 miles and coiltains more than the populatnn of NewZealand. Duri'tig the voyage of the I4ths to England there were fivo deaths among tho New Zealanders. There arc 72,000 Australians at Salisbury Plains. Drafts of 600 New Zealand troops leave for France every nine days. They are picked men and tho befit go with the first drafts. Salisbury is 80 odd miles from London and leave is granted to 5 per cent from Friday night to Sunday night. The 13th Reinforcements arrived at camp before the 12tli who went to Egypt first. The next draft to France will leave no 12th or 13th New Zealanders in training at Salisbury. The 13th Mounteds—about 80 men—will be sent to Egypt. The first draft of the 14th will leave about September 9th for the front. New Zealanders in training at Home greatly appreciate the wet canteens, where a glass of ale or stout may be had for 3d. No spirits are sold. The Hawera Star, reports:— Mr H. E. Candy, of Mama.ia, has secured Home results from a Binall holding of 12J acres, which will take at lot of beating, and which demonstrates once more the possibilities of the best of Taranaki land. xlalf an acre of liiis section is cut out for house, garden and orchard, thus leaving Hi acres tor dairying purposes. In this ho has nine ordinary Jersey cows, and they returned last year £2-1(3 for milk, and butter, and he had in addition £4 10s for pigs. The cows were fed on nothing but what was grown on the place, and the total cropping amounted to half an acre and two acres of h'av.

The headmaster's report submitted to the school committee at its meeting last night stated ha he number of children on the roll is 59(3, an increase of ten on that of the preceding month, the average attendance being 520—a percentage of 87. The usual percentage is 92 to 93, so that the present attendance is not yet up to normal.

At a meeting of the Waipa County Council, Councillor Alexander said ho had seen some of the lists of shirking families, and he was almost ashamed to be a farmer. Some of the bestknown and wealthiest families in tho Waikato were hanging back, placing Waikato amongst tile greatest shirking districts in the Dominion,