LOCAL & GENERAL

Levin Daily Chronicle, 1 May 1917, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

The arrangements in connection with tlvo harvest fair to be held on Wednesday and Thursday in aid of the iLevin Presbyterian Church are well 'advanced and tho promoters are looking forward to a full measure of support from tho public and there is the .assurance that a visit will be well repaid by the special attractions provided. iXew kleas are being introduced in the way of music, competitions ancli side shows rf various kinds. Tho fair opens tomorrow afternoon in the Century Had at 2.30 p.m. and an advertisement /giving full particulars appears on page 4 of this issue.

A transport vessel with Victorian (Australian) troops on beard, was sunk in tho Eng"i::h Channel, on 25th April. !No lives were lost and there was only one casualty.

Attention is drawn to the sale in aid cf the Mclanc'ian Mission, being organize!' by the Girls' Fri ndly Society, to be held 011 May 23rd. The Society will be glad of assistance from its friends and proposes having a gift afternoon a n-4 evening at. St. Hilary's schoolroom on Wednesday, May 16th. The sale has become an animal effort to raise funds for the mission, especially in support of a bed in the mission hospital at Marabovo, Solomon Islands.

Tho British 'Prime Minister in his speech at London Guildhall last week i-aid :—•'! have 110 hesitation—after daily investigating the 'Government reports and looking. at the whole thinft in the worst as well as the best respects

j in saying tjiat if our program is car- • ried out—which means that everybody I iii the country does his or her duty— 1 the 'German submarine campaign is j beaten; but the public inust "tick to ! the rations; the farmers and laborers must cultivate land; the workmen in the shipyards and manufacturers mu6t do their best to increase the supply of ■ ships. If we carry out all those things ; faithfully we can defy the very worst."

It's a way from Levin to ~V\"c'

; lington, and you'd wear out many a i pair of boite before you found any ; there equal to those supplied by FRED ' PINK. Buy your boots at F. W. Pink's, Oxford street, Levin, and bring all your repairing jobs to him.—Advt.

A hard-mouthed horse, a contemplative youth and the same old! lamp-post were in juxtaposition in front of Levin poet office yesterday afternoon. T1 lad was studying his accounts, apparently, when the concrete lamp-pillar demanded his attention from a dislan :o of fifteen feet. The horse ans-vered th< rein very slowly, wifli the res lit thai the port wheel of the baker's cart ho was harnessed to struck the concrete base of the lamp. Hie cart was ov, ; r turned and) the driver thrown out. Bystanders prevented the hor.=e rcn boJting and the driver, who had <scoped with a few bruises, soon wat bcclf in his accustomed seat ready to deliver bread) to those fortuime individuals who still are not neces tated by distance of their residences froia llvj :nwn to carry home their bread themselTOS. Scene: A lonely part of the Scottish coast. German spy who has been signalling, and suddenly notices that he is being watched: "Nein! neinl 'Never shall you land on my beloved Shcotlandt!"—Punch. Levin School Committee held its first meeting last night, on the 2011 c. if 10:1 of the householders' meeting. Mr. XV. Thomson was elected chairman and Mr. J. ODonohue secretary. Mr. A. Sims, the late chairman, declined nomination for this year's chairmanship.

Tire Dunlop Rubber Company of Australasia is about to open a branch in Auckland.

•Orders to parade (for service with the New Zealand Expeditionary .Force) ai« contained in eiglij pages of an Extraordinary Giazetto issued by the l>efeneo Department last Thursday. The names of several S'h allnon-Tc ko mar u - Linton men are in the liste.

A monster mushroom found* on Mr •Chivers' farm, near Tuapeka, measured 37 inches in circumference and the stalk was about six inches in length ard quite a couple of inches through. It was in perfect condition.

Tho voting on tho Sunday picture : issue at Greymoutli was 1955 for continuance and 904 a.gainst Sunday pictures. The Sunday picture referendum at Ohakune resulted in favor of the comtinuance of Sunday pictures by 67 votes. A ballot of members of the Manawatu audi Waikato Flaxmill Employees' Union will be taken on the question of amalgamating with the Agricultural and Pastoral Union of Workers.- The conference of the latter body, now sitting at 'Wellington, will consider the proposal of linking up with Australian Workers' Unioa.

Hie Government tax on butter is to 'cease at the end' of June next. Some other extra tax then will be levied to raise funds for administration and war \ purposes.

Shannon Bowling Club played PalmerRton North last Saturday, for possession of the Dixon Cup. H. A. 'Nash skipped the defending rink and Hcach 'kipped the challengers. Palmerston won l>y 23 to 17,-and wil' now hold the bia; cup until next season, the 1917 f.-ason now being over.

The "Wanganui Borongli Council has accepted the tender of Graham and Foil, of Christ church, for the erection <jf the Sarjeant Art Gallery, the price being £1-3,800. Designs were selected in open competition, there being 33 competitors, including Australians, Mr Edmund Anscombe, of Dunedin, being successful.—Press Association.

A man charged with having infringed the lighting order, said, at Glasgow, in February, that when baby boys were being born domestic arrangements were usually upset. That was why the lights were forgotten. He thought

what was going 011 inside the house was much more for the good of the country than any harm caused by the lights showing outside. Laughter). A modified fine of £1 was imposed.

In tho course of his sermon at the Otaloi' Methodist Cliulreli, 'Mir J. T. Nott, M.A., in referring to conditions in Europe, said there was needi for reform in New Zealand. He referred to an order recently issued to the New Zealand soldiers, to the effect that they would not 'be allowed to travel firstclass on trains — that was reserved for the officers; second class was good enough for the rank and file.- "Such a stinking piece of snobblishness," said Mr Kott, "made one disgusted." And yet that was in democratic (?) New Zealand. Mr Nott added that thov wouM not find such a state of thing® in truly democratio France, or even in Russia.—Ofcaki Miail. During the hearing of a case of theft at the Magistrate's Court at Palmerston North, when two youths were charged, Mr W. G. K. 'Kenrick, S.M., said the lack of control of some boys and youths was such that he did not know; what things were coming to. (Some dirastio remedy was necessary, either by special lectures at sclvols o.r by some other means. ijfs did not think that in every case of theft there was criminal intent. His acts were done thoughtlessly in many instances, but the seriousness of doing so should be impressed on youthful mind.—Standard,

Otaki Maori Racing Club, on Satur--day, decided to hold the June meeting as ' previously arranged!. Members also paid a visit to the course, and decided to remove the double jump 011 the steeplechase course to a point nearer to the big stand a decided improvement, and one that will meet with the approval of both horse-own-ers and the general public. Levin sportsmen wero early astir last night, in readiness for the Ist of May, "which is the opening date for the shooting season. /No big bags have been reported, so far. Levin police drtrict has hem extended. Until lately it stopped at Oliau, but it now takes in all the country between Oliau and a print two miles b-low Manakiu. Until lately, this area was included in the Otaki police district.

A ballot for men to form the 31st New Zealand) Reinforcements for the front is beinc drawn at Wellington to-day. The total number required to bring the voluntary enlistments to the required strength is 8530, being the biggest ballot total up to date.

Oh an solcWer boys are to be farewell - ed at Ohau Institute next Friday, wlie 1 a social and dance is to take place. Admission for civilians will be 2s and Is. Details are advertised.

Fully 125 householders of Levin mustered at tho public school Inst nisht, for the annual election of a school committee. Mr P. W. 'Goldsmith was voted to the char, in accordance with 'ong-esl'a'ills'hecl custom. The chairnan of the sclvool coin mitt op (Mr A. Sims) submitted a lengthy report on the year's doings; Mr Molntyre the headmaster, also submitted a report. Presure on cur space prevents publication of the reports to-day, but they will pppenr in Thursday's .Chronicle. The nominations for school committeemen totalled and as there were only nine vacancies an election had to be held. The voting was ns follows W. Thomson 94, T. Broome 87, N. C. Holdla.way 83, \V. G. Vickers 81", EL Gapper 75, H. ;H. Cork 73, A. Sims 68. F. O. Smith 64, J. O'Donohue 59 (all elected); J. W. Bertram 08, W. H. E. Al>bey 55, 0. E. Keys 38, J. Healov 32, R. McAllister 05.

Failure to lift Military Registration Certificates will bring trouble oil some Levin residents shortly. Over fifty of these certificates are lying unplaimed in Levin Post Office! to-day. It is well to reniember that any person of military ape who is unable to produce h > certificate at the demand of a ooiice constable is liable to instant arr33t.

At a meeting of the .Manawatu Tea- - cliers' Institute held on Saturday the following resolutions were "That a letter he forwarded by the Manatwatu Teachers' Institute to 'Hoii. ■T. A. 'Hanan,. Ministerlsducat'on, congratulating him on -the -firm «?tand ho has taken in refusing concessions •' to denominational schools." "That ' ' this meeifcing of teachers is entirely opposed to tho claims ma 'T» bv the New. Zealand Roman Catholic' Federation and other churches that desire to establish hurch schools/' 1