LOCAL & GENERAL

Levin Daily Chronicle, 2 August 1917, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

A paragraph about paper (from the Budget speech of Sir Joseph Ward, delivered last night in the House of Representatives :—"The inflated price of paper, stationery (and stores will necessitate a considerable increase i>; the vote required for the Printing and Stationery Department for the present year. In some cases prices have in-' creased by as much as 200 .per cent., and rarely can goods be purchased at less tbain an advance of 25 per cent, on previous values." The Post and Telegraph (Department continues to be a stfurce of profit, as well as a convenience. The revenue collected by it last year totalled £1,815,558. The Post Office Savings Bank deposits for the year amounted to £15,576,408; the withdrawals £'12,957,420. The balance standinfg to credit of depositors is £25,603,209, an increase of close upon three and a half million, sterling. A referendum on the matter of strong drink prohibition (with compensation) has been recommended to ; Parliament by the National [Efficiency Board of -N'e\r Zealand. Motor car imports yielded: to New Zealand revenue, last year, the sum of £148,345 in Customs duty (20 per cent). The Finance Minister considers that any increased Customs tax would cause loss of revenue through a diminution of imports; whidb the revenue of the dominion could ' 0 t afford at Dresent. The Budget proposes a tax on pla< of amusement. The money thus derived (estimated at £80,000) will be earmarked for increases in the several pension schemes operating in New Zealand this year "trail have to facs a progressive land and income ax, besides a progressive r — etaoio tax, besides a Special War Tax The 4 s » To commemorate the third „rtb erar , „ pablicm ™> / Wle Cltlzens ° f Levin is convened for next .Saturday everting, i n * he Century Hall, at 8 o'clock. Mr O Blenkhorn, Mayor of Levin, will preside, and will submit a resolution aiffirmmg the determination of th'is .part f aSSiBt in the struggle m defence of the ideals of freedom and justice, until a, victorious r e 1S T reached - lieutenant Vincent InT? mTf Pr ° US ®' Tuiti M <^onaJd • Blnfchorn will deliver speeches.

A resolution will be submitted re. wording the deermination to contiinue the present struggle in defence of the ideals of freedom and justice to a victorious issue. Speakers: Lieutenant MeSSFS JaS - ProusP ' Tuiti ftlcOonaldj 0. iJlenJjhorn,

A war loan of £24,000,000 is to be raised bj' Neav Zealand tliis year; one half in this dominion, and one hah in Great Britain. The War now costs tfew Zealand nearly £2,000,000 per month. The Budget estimates the monthly bill at £1,900,000. A plain and fancy dres ball is advertised by the Kia Ora Assembly. Ilie MetEodist Ladies Guild, Levin, is busily engaged preparing for a sale of work to be held at the end of September. With the help of the young people connected with the church, the guild expects ;to have a very creditable display of useful and attractive articles of . all descriptions to dispose of at the sale. Next Sunday, 'oth instant, the ser vices at the. Levin Catholie Ohuroh will be" held at '11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Mass will be said at Manakau at 9 in the morning. A memorial tablet to the late Trooper Burlinson is to be unveiled at St. Mary's (Anglican) Church, Levin, on Sunday . nest. Major Burlinson, a former churchwarden, will be present to take part in the gervice. The d'eath occurred at ' Palmerston North, yesterday, of Mrs Buiob, ALP., and mother of Mrs. J. Ham mond-(Murray, of Levin. Private R. H. Dalhousie, formerly of and Foxton, and for some time president of the Manawatu 'Flaxworkers' Union, has been specially mentioned in despatches ,for bravery.