The Chronicle LEVIN. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1917

Levin Daily Chronicle, 6 November 1917, Page 2

The Chronicle LEVIN. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1917

Speaking to the -audience of schoolchildren ,and parentis assembled at Farland's theatre last night, Mr W. T.hom_ eon, chairman of the Levin school Com_ m':ttee, paid a. fitting tribute fyo the teachers and old iboys of the school who bad fallien in action. Two .splendid young masters, Corporal Mills and Lieut., Pass, Rad given their lives early in the war and the Jatesft lists bore tlio mimes of .Corporal Astridfee and PriVato ■Rose, sons of respected' residents of Levin. Mr Thomson said the school had been hard hit and lie expressed the ffympathy of the school authorities with the families of these gallant boys. At his suggestion the audience rose and stood in reverent silence for a few moments as a mark of respect to their memory. i' arland's. Theatre was packed last evening on the occasion of the second benefit giVen by tli propitiator for the school picnic funds. A splendfd .selection of films was shown and met with the entire approval of the audience. During' the evening Mr W. Thomson', chairman of the School committoe, thanked' those presemb for their patronage and announced that the two enter•ijainments which Mr Fariand had generously given ihad resulted in, the £30 required being raised so that the chiL dren were assured of their outing. He warmly thanked the proprietor for enabling the. committee to reach tlieiobjeetive. He rereiTcd to ithe gofld medals given by Mr andi Mrs Farla nil to the school. and remarked that an impression seemed to have got a,bout thatno one else was allowed to give crooli. i'es. He could assure the atidicicc that this was quite 'Incorrect. The committee' was perfectly willing to rereive medals and lirophies from anyone interested in the school (Laughter). The chairman .also thanked the children for the large number of • 'tickets sold, for ,':he benefits and tih'e Levin "Chronicle - " for assistance gfven.

At last night's meeting of #10 boro<igii Council Or. Ait-ken required what acb.cn had been taken in regard to tho overhanging trees on tho education reserve in Queen street. The Mayor replied 1 that Mr Thomson (chairman of the School Committee) had been very active in the matter, and an arrangement had been come to whereby tho Council would do the work and chairgo the Education Board.

Amongst tho names iri the first draft of married men, published to-day, is that of Mr A. H. Sims, tho well-known local ironmonger. Mr Sims's surprise can be imagined when it is mentionoi that he is well over military ago and has two children. It is to be hoped the blunders that marked tho calling up of tho First Division aro not going to be repeated in tho Second Division.

An Inglcwood farmer, who recent, read a paragraph in the "News" stating that goats would not eat blackberry while grass was available, states that his experience did not bear that out. He purchased a farm 011 which blackberry was prolific, and secured some goats. They tackled the blackberry while the grass grew so luxuriant that he had to put sheep on to keep it down. At certain times the gcats do not appear to take so kindly to the blackberry, but in winter time they strip it clean.

Tho "Wairarapa Ago" libels the hotclkeepers in an editorial which contains these sentences: In theory the hotels of New Zealand will closc at six o'clock in the evening as from December .Ist next. In practice, they will probably close at eight o'clock. Provision has been made that hotclkeepers may supply liquor with meals served between the hours of six and eight o'clock in the evening. There is likely, therefore, to be a great rush for meals, no mutter how scanty they are. The .six o'clock closing law will be almost as farcical as the anti-shouting regulations. The latter have never been respected, and there is not the slightest possibility of their ever being respected. If the liquor laws are to be Vniforced, the police force will require to be trebled in strength, and the "man in blue" will have to sit constantly on the doorstep of the hotel.

a prisoner at liuhleben, in Germany, has received a communication from the

When native licensing prosecutions were before the Te Awamutu Magistrate's Court, Mr E. Kawson, S.M., commented on the fact that so many natives led lives of idleness. It would almost be a good thing, he suggested, to take away their lands, so as to make them seek some more profitable occupation for their time than to idle about hotel corners. Senior Sergeant Cassells added that the law applying to the supply of liquor to natives was so full of weaknesses as to make it impossible for the police to stamp out the Liquor was finding its way in large quantities into the kaingas. People do not realise the extent of this traffic, nor did they understand how difficult it is for the police to locatc offenders. It needed a much more stringent law. The Magistrate concurred in this opinion. Fines did not seem to have the least effect, he said, and there is hardly a sitting of the court in the Waikato and King Country that docs not deal with prosecution after prosecution. He had steadily increased the fines, but this proved 110 deterrent, and he agreed that the law called for amendment.