LOCAL & GENERAL

Levin Daily Chronicle, 17 May 1917, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

Arrangements in connection with the dance to be held in the Town Hall next Tuesday uiider tlie auspices of the Gallipoli (late Ansae) Assembly are well in liand. Excellent music has been provided and the committee have started to put the floor in order, so that patrons will have the opportunity of having a good night's entertainment. The guests of the evening ■will be Messrs Han nan, Winchester and ,'Rogers, who are shortly going into camp.

In the latest list of wounded men at the front appears the name of Captain J. JL. O. iMerton, of Levin.

The lands between Shannon ana Tokomaru were covered with floodwater yesterday over an area of several mile 6. The recent heavy rains in Hawko's Bay have caused-the inundation. A meeting of the Y.M.O.A. will be held at the rooms, Queen-street, on Tuesday next. A petition that hotels be closed at 6 p.m. daily is being circulated for signature in Levin to-day. Muliunoa 'failed to ©lect a iscliool committee last month. A special meeting of householders is convened for Monday week, 28th May, to elect a copimittee. Details are advertised ,by Wellington Education Board today. Private Hughes, who death from wounds was recorded in The Chronicle last: Tuesday, was the son of 'Mr and Mrs T. Hughes of Weraroa. He was hardly' eighteen when he left New Zealand (with the 9th Reinforcements) and ho was .but nineteen years and two months of age nt the time of his death. Hia elder brother 'N'orman is still at front in. France. The fourteen-year-old son of MiArthur Broome, brother of !Mr T. Broome, of Weraroa, died at [Levin yesterday, from .an internal trouble. Mr Broome who lias been only a -few weeks in New Zealand will have the | sympathy of the townsfolk in his I affliction.

Special attractions' aire I>ein,g provide! For the next patriotic "send-off" which will be held in the Century Hall at an early date, which shortly will be announced. -One of the big items of the evening will be a fine dramatic sketch, "Arms and a Man," the characters of which will be filled by some

- owetfii] performers. In this production Mr Bentlev Russell, well-knowD throughout New Zealand for his dramatic work, will make his first app'rarince before a Levin audience. Mrs 0. S. Kceclwell will make a welcome ■p-appea,ranee on the local stage, also Mr Ken Ait-ken,' who needs no. introduction, and 'Mr W. Crawford, of Wellington, w}ill 'complete |fche -bast. During the evening Mr Bentley !Rus-■-e!', will iako be associated with iMiss Ruby Scott, of "Wellington, in ia comedy sketch "Supper in the Temple." In addition to the above fine attractions individual items will be contributed by the performers mentioned above, and also Miss Clark, of Wellington.