LOCAL & GENERAL

Levin Daily Chronicle, 24 July 1917, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

The Tenth Ballot for active service reinforcements has been postponed for a month. Pressure of clerical work in tho Government Statistician's Department is given as the cause of postponement.

Two geese presented to the Levin Branch of the Red Cross Society, by Mrs. iR. A. McDonald were disposed of at the Red Cross Shop on Saturday night last. They realised the very substantial sum of £2 19s 6d.

■Owners of stray, cattle were in attendance at Levin S.M. Court, last Thursday, before Mr. Kenrick, S.M., on summonses from the borough ranger. 'Henry Atkins was and costs 7sj Claude F. Pearee 5s and costs on each of two charges; J olm F. Smith 5s and costs 7s on each of two charges ; James Mudgway 5s and costs 7s. The county- ranger took action against P. H. Heap for having allowed two cows to wander on Kimberley Road. Defendant was fined 5s and costs 10s. For having worked a horse suffering from; sore Ishoulders, Robert Close was fined £2 and costs 17s, and a conviction without fine was recorded against the driver of the horse, Thomas Sunley, an employee of Robert Close. On Kith July, before Mr. B. iR. Gardener, J P., two first offenders for drunkenness were fined. One escaped with a fine of ss, but the other—a Kuku man—was fined £'1, he having been in charge of a horse and trap at the time of being arrested.

Five debt cases were called on at Levin S.M. Court last Thursday, but only two came to hearing. Judgment wont for plaintiff, bv defendant's defaults. in the case of Harvey and Co. v. Tame X<?pia, claim £11 Os 4d. J. J>. F. White, received judgment £13 3s 8d against W. H. Kinvig, defendant failing to appear.

A testimonial to Irish farm laborers: "3 was recently speaking," said Mr Piothero, ''to a farmer about Irish labororers. He told me that they worked harder, prayed harder, and drank harder than any lot of men ln< ever came across."

Applicants at the marriage license bureau in Pittsburg, U.S.A., on April 12. were confronted by the following sign, printed in black on a yellow ibalqkgroundl: "A man who marries a girl to shirk his duty to his country is not going to think very much of shirking his duty to his wife. Girls, beware!"

"It is in a measure a great pity that the Japanese manufacturers did not realize their ■opportunities in this country," said a local business man to a Dominion reporter. ' "Their goods are still coming forward in large quantities, but there are certain lines that will never be repeated in Japan, because they have not 'made good.' And yet the Japanese Commissioners came to me and promised to make the real thing. 'Show us what you want and we'll make it!' they said. I not only showed them what was wanted, but gave them samples which tliev took away. Tliey imitate-d them perfectly in appearance. So perfectly, indeed, that the trademark of the English firm was faithfully reproduced, but the article itself was next t-o useless. Yet these people by turning out the real tiling could have practically secured the bulk of the Australasian trade, so urgent was the need of the goods." One hundred and ten pounds per acre is a high price for farming land (states tiie .Hawera Star), but at this figure 50 acres on the Lake Road, Hawera, part of the land subdivided some years ago by Mr W. E. Dive, has just changed hands. It should be stated that there is on the section a large house, and it is understood that the purchaser had special reasons for desiring to 'acquire it. .Stiill, the price must be a record and for agricultural land l approximately the same price is asked. Levin Brass Band, on Saturday last, farewellcd Privates -H. Palmer and F. Musgrove. On behalf of the band, Bandmaster G. Davison presented Private Palmer with a set of . hairbrushes and Private Musgrove with a razor. Suitable words of thanks were returned. Speeches were made by Bandmaster Davison and Bandsmen T. Cooper and .K. Burt. Owing to the call of the Empire, the membership of the band of late has declined considerably, there being no less than fourteen members on active service or in camp. Learners and other intending players are urgently needed. From the London Times of eight weeks ago:—Sir 'William Robertson delivered a grave warning to the nation in a speech to the representatives of trade unions concerned in the production of munitions. Germany, he said, had many more divisions in thcfield than last year and had increased the number of her soldiers by about a million. To meet this desperate effort of the enemy wo must have men. It was not for him, but for the Government, to say how the men were to be provided. Our immediate needs were for half a million men between now and July next. The failure to get these men would undoubtedly involve a prolongation of the war and consequent! prolongation of hardship and misery. Sir John Jellicoe, in supporting General Robertson's appeal for men, said the gravity of the submarine menace should not be minimized by anybody in this country.

Two most interesting exhibits has reached Mrs Salmons, of Levin, from her (nephew, Private Ross, of Wel-< lington, now at the front. One of these is a collection of over thirty of the badges of prominent Stotish, English, Indian and Canadian Regiments, and tho other is a gas-mask of the type used by the French troops.

A typical example of the news served up for readers of German newspapers appears in the Veer va,cs. So great, says the paper, is the potsiin and sugar famine in London that an enterprising ibarber offered as prv;iritim to every customer who r-ame

have his hair cut one potato, and to every man he shaved; a piece jf sugar. The barber's shop was besieged by such a huge crowd that the police had to interfere.

The dentil occurred at o'iau. last. Sunday, of Mr. Denis Glncken, father of Mr. George Glacken. of that-town-ship. The deceased gentleman, who was in his 09th year, was for many years a resident at Hautere Cross.

A bargain lease of 200 acres of hill

country is advertised to-day (wanted column) by Parker and Vincent, land agents. Levin.

Assistant editor: "Here's a farmer writes to us asking how- to treat si ok bees.'' Editor: "Tell him he'd better treat them with respect."—'Lennox Herald.

In the list of acknowledgments of stock presented to Horowhenua County Patriotic Association appeared the item Mr F. J. Ryder, two sheep. This should have read: F. J. (Ryder (Otaki) 1 sheep: Mr Bills (Ota.k-1) 1 sheep.

The Alied air raid on Freiburg carrine attacks on hospital ships, cansrine attadks oiid hospital sihps, caused According to a German report, 11 deaths, and 27 persons were injured. Damage was done to the University. Tt is characteristic of the mentality of thei Germans that they should describe this raid as an "iniquitous attack."