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Horowhenua Chronicle, 2 December 1916, Page 2

Bjwling and CL'ixjuot go on every ovui.'ng at Levin green, and many enjoyable contests take place. A good sot-to for the Bo wen Stars was seen on JKriday. the holders (Suhan and I'yke) maintaining tlie.lr right by a one-point margin, against Thomson and Kirk. The various medal competitions are progressing steadily and the (second rounds will be started next month.

The Methodist Sunday school anni- > v&.sary to-morrow promises to be a ' happy success. The children have been preparing special hymns and 1 the singing of the young people is al--1 ways appreciated. Services will be held at 11 and l 7, the preachers being the Rev. J. E. Chapman, of Wellington. Mr Chapman is a student of childi psychology and he no doubt will impart useful .nstruction and knowledge to the old ana young. The entertainment and distribution of prizes will be held on Tuesday in the Century Hall. Iht? ordinary monthly meeting of the Horowhenua County Council will be held in the Council Chambers at < 9.30 a.m. on Saturday next, December 9th. A special meeting will be held at 11 and 7, the preacher being settle the county balance-sheet. The following & an extract from an official communication"lt has transpired that the Wbit Saving Association in connection with one l&rgo firm in London embraces the entire staff, the girl, and the charwomen %vlio clean the premises at night." It is announced that, early in August, Mr Alexander Eraser, mining engineer, third surviving eon of the late Mr John Fraser, solicitor, of FurnivaLs Inn and Roehampton, was murdered by band:ts at Pozos, Mexico. Persons who desire to purchase the crop of grass growing in the public cemetery, 'Levin, are reminded that tenders close with the town clerk on -vtenday, at 5 p.m. The crop is veryi clean, heavy and of the best kinds of grasses. The long-awaOted films of the battls of the Somme will arrive in .Levin next Wednesday morning and will be shown | here the same evening by the .management of Farknd's pictures. All that ingenuity has evolved in modern warFare was used in this battle with terrible effect and v is shown with great vividness in this picture. Machineguns, mine throwers, aerial torpedoes, field artillery'. 'gas apparatus, trench mortars, .field mortars and "tanks" iare shown .in their destructive work on the German trenches and their defenders. It has been decided to keep the price of admisson down to one shilling despite the extra cost of the picture in order that everyone may have a chance of seeing this film wWch depicts the battlefield whereon the New Zealand soldiers won deathless fame., It cannot be mentioned too often that the royalty on these films go to the Red Cross.