THE Chronicle LEVIN. THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1917. LOCAL & GENERAL

Levin Daily Chronicle, 31 May 1917, Page 2

THE Chronicle LEVIN. THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1917. LOCAL & GENERAL

— < —• ; .<■ =•■■■• The following hours of attendance will be observed at the Levin post and telegraph office on. Monday next;— Post office open from 9 to 10 a.m. for the transaction of all business except money order and savings bank. All mails for despatch will be closed at 8 a.m. There will be no delivery by letter carriers. The telegraph office will be open from 9 to 10 a.m. on'iy. The telephone exchange will also be open from 8 to 10 a.m. only. . Oliakune Borough Council declined a request from the chief postmaster that letter carriers be allowed to cycle on the borough footpaths. Three contract bushfellers at Opotiki in six weeks completed a contract which yielded them £330. The Waimarino Call reports that a considerable number of cattle lhavo disappeared from neighboring farims during the last few weeks. Police investigations are being made. A United States' Army recipe for waterproof cement :—One . part of cement, two parts of Band, and threefourths of a pound of powdered alum to each cubic foot of, sand; Mix dry, and add water in which three fourths of a pound of soap has been dissolved to each gallon. This, mixture i» nearly as strong as ordinary cement, it is very much cheaper, and is ;<npervious to water.— From '.'The Milk [Reporter." A Te Aroha settler is reported to have disposed of his vjiole dairy herd of . thirty oowei at £16 per head—to a dairyman beyond Matamiata.—Te Aroha News. a ' - The first double-decked ship built in England was The Great iHarry> constructed in '1509, ait a cost of £14,000. At present day purchasing powers of money this sum would work out at about £130,000. The ship was 100 ns just double the usual size of the. merchant ships of those days. A rifle bullet may be fired through a pane of glass, making a hole the size of the bullet, without cracking the glass. If the glass be suspended by a thread the effect will be the same, and' the thread will not etven vibrate. The ißorough Council staff ■ are now digging the potatoes sown on the Reserve in IDeceimiber. The crop has turned out well an<i it is the Intention of the council to offer them to the publio at wholesale market prioe.—Petone Ohronicl*.

The medal won at the -Panama ExhibitionL'by l .. the 'Lepih. - CbHojperative Dairy Company Limited -has 'been -re? ceived by the company together with the certificate. The imedal is large and handsome and the certificate is a. fine specimen of the engraver's art. It is "pleasant to know that the excellence of our local butter is appreciated by our American cousins, and that the splendid reputation that it has achieved a"t Home and locally confirmed by them at their magnifi? cent exhibitions. William? Munro, of Levin, who left f in one of the New Zealand Contingents, was wounded in both legs while ' on active service in France, and sent 1 over to England. Pieces had ibeen . -extracted from one'leg, but at time of writing the doctors had not operated) on the other. He says that' he was glad to Ibe wounded, to get out of the trenches a while for a rest. •; For some days past "White Island has ibeen most active. On Tuesday - several residents of Whakatane were , awakened by a glare of light in their windows .they iihad: a- view of ■ a magnificent display on the island] • -which was evidently in very active eruption. Vivid flashes of blue flame tftrcld be seen; issuing from the crater ~of the volcano, and the " illumination was sufficient to light up the whole of . the. sea between te :island and .' tVe mainland. - ; Mrs F. O. Smith, of Levin, has received word! from the (Minister of Defence (Sir James Allen),/ tiliaJt hfett son, Trooper Leslie Smith, if) in hospital in England, suffering from an s , injury to his hand. ; In one of the recent military service ballots 1 a reservist, who some' : months previously had crossed over to. .; the Great Unknown, was drawn for ; service. In the cemetery where hii 'body was interred a suitably inscrib-; ed tombstone had been erected' to his : memory.' - Some wag passing the spot after' the ballot "announcement, 'seized, the'opportunity to add to the inecription the' follo'wing words: "Aijise, your country's calling you." "Anybody can plough" was the' rather unusual admision of a youmg) • farmer before the Military - (Service Board at Palmerston North. '' Thiej Board looked incredulous, not, as it explained collectively, that it did hot believe the statement, but it had been told so often by farmers seeking exemption that ploughing was something ill the nature of a fine art requiring long experience and impossible of accomplishment by a novice. "I quite agree with you," said Mr Perry, him, self an expert in agricultural farming "but you are the first to admit it before this board." The.young man who made the admission qualified it by saying that anybody- could plough, but the trouble was they would not learn. It", is stated authoritatively, $iat... 29 tons of nails oif all sizes were used-in the construction of hutments and other buildings at Featlienston Caamp. It will give one an idea of the size ...of the camp, which is one of the largest in' the world. ; Returned soldiers state that , the Germans hove a new death-dealing device in the shape of a. small ibomb about the size of an egg which on ' striking an object explodes and .bursts into flame, consuming anything that ! comes in contact. The soldiers say this is a more devilish conception .than even tlie liquid fire. The Levin Co-operative Diairy Com--1 pany Limited has again scored at Dunedin Show. A second and third prize .for butter lias been secured. Lake brand scoring 95 points dn each ■ class. The -was . exceptionally high in the butter classes, 96 points being scored by the winning ' factory—Taiejri and Peninsula, 'Dun- ' edin. The Clironitelo extends oon--1 gratulations to manager and staff on this success. Word also has been received from the Dairy Produce Grader that the higest average grading points have .been secured by the Com . pany for butter, passed through tlv- • Wellington grading store during the past year. The number of points gained by Lake brand butter for the year averaging 94.14. The voice that breathed o'er Eden (Auckland) must have smelt somewhat of malt and hops if the Eden Gazette is a fair criterion of local i opinion.' It its latest issue the Gazette remarks that the brewers and publicans, the most persecuted class on earth, are in the same box. They are. ihatedi and persecuted iby' !the brainless faddist beoause their indus--1 try .is wanted and appreciated by the public. The extremists do not want remedies for abuses; they ignore them "all. Theirs is a. text of the destruction of liberty and right, industry and ' energy, beginning in an 'insane fad and ending God nor man knows where. We should like to meet the best advocate of their cause in the biggest hall in Auckland, each party sharing ■expenses, and show by dejbate, ffche temperance fanatic in jhis true light. This may help to pave the way to some local understanding of the harm that accrues from the unrestrained prosecution of unworthy principles in • unprecedented times." A carnival and sports meeting in aid of the Wounded Soldiers Fund ! is toi be held at Foxton next Monday. A patriotic concert in 'the eveSning also is arranged.