LOCAL & GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 December 1916, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL.

A largo number of members of tlio iioi ewhemia A. and P. Association attended the meeting in the Foresters' lin 11 on Saturday, called for. the purpose of considering the advisableness of postponing the show. Mr N. lvirkcaldie tendered las resignation of the position of president ol the association because of the need of devoting all his attention tc his own business. '1 lie rcsiguat on was accepted and Mr \Y. li, Tompsitt was elected to fill the vacancy. A vote of thank* was accoide dto Mr Kirkcahlie for his many services to the Association. The proposal to postpone the show received little countenance and Mr J. McLeavey's motion that the show be held as usual was carried without any difficulty. It also was aziied to give the proceeds to the pati i::t ic funds, in this instance to the c unity fund. Mr X. Kirkealdie aniv tine, d his intention to give ±?100 to assist the show.

At the Christ-church ,S.M. Court on Friday li chert Seinple was sentenced to 1- months' imprisonment on each ol tnree charges or sedition. The sentences are to run concurrently.

Tenders for the lease ol the municipal reserves close at- the borough office* this evening at 5 o'clock.

The sections include splendid residential sites in the outer streets as we.) as first-class business sites in the m:■ n street, and is ail excellent chance f«?r any person desiring to obtain a section for a private residence or for est.lo- - a business in the best part of the irain stivet of Levi::.

A widow who owns a ia'rm adjacent to Riverside, and who is having a new residence built thereon, was to be seen, together with her daughter, at an early hour on a recent morning assisting to unload bricks from a railway truck 011 to a traction engine (writes the Mataura Ensign correspondent). They were- both putting in really good work and performing their task as well as men could do.

The fact that the Hon. J. T. Paul sought enlistment and presented himself for medical examination about a week ago will be learned with, great interest by many people at the present time, states the Otago Daily Times. He visited the Kensington Drill Hall one afternoon and. as it happened, he was not known by the officials with whom lie had to deal. As a medical officer was present Mr Paul wat; examined on the spot, in accordance with the usual practice, and was rejected as not reaching the required standard for physical fitness. In commendation of the spirit shown by Mr Paul it may be mentioned that as a married man he is in the second division of the reserve.

A constable bound on a summoning expedition at Christchurch liad a rather unenviable experience. One of his blue papers was a summons Against a young man for failit"" to attend drill When he enquired at the address give 1 lie discovered that the young man was killed in action 12 months ago.

Tlie extension of Kawiu road, a contract for the Horowhenua County Council undertaken by G. K. Douglas, Ltd.. is approaching completion., and the new part of the road should be ready lor traffic early in the new yiar. The broken weather experienced in October and November hindered the work considerably. The extension of Tararua road also is progressing satisfactorily.

The local agents for the N.Z. Farmers' Co-operative Distributing Company. Limited, have received a cable stating that the London wool sales have opened at an advance of 10 per cent.

J Tlio treasurer of trie Levin and District Patriotic Society leports receipo or recent contributions as under: For Soldiers' and Sailors Tobacco Fund: Mrs Wm. JSgginton, senr., 'Heatherlea, £1; for lied Cross work: iMts S.

Bo'ston os, Mr C. Freehtling ss. Mrs "Wright,. Gladstone road, sale green peas os. Hie total sum contributed •during tile season by the Levin Bridgo Club for Red -Cress Funds was £13 14s. Luther Burbank's dictum as to the quantity of land, really necessary for the average man i.s : "A thousand acres for an lnd an, a hundred acres ior a farmer, ten acres for ail orchard--'t*t, one acre for a good niark.t gardener, half an acre for a flower, or seed n.an, and for an experimenter like myself a graveyard plot will do." "Anybody who says ho wants to go back to the front to bo shelled is a liar," said Major Clifton, at the soldiers' reunion in on Thursday evening. The Major pointed out that while there were great- hardships on the Gallipoli peninsula, in the way of loud and water, that enterprise was a picnic compared with France. They knew the names of the guns on the Peninsula, but in France there were so many gums- that their names could -c.uv.cly be remembered. The shelling was awful.