LEVIN. TUESDAY DECEMBER L. 1917.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 4 December 1917, Page 2

LEVIN. TUESDAY DECEMBER L. 1917.

T.lie Slum lion Co-operative Dairy Co.. Ltd., was charged at the Levin Court 011 Thursday with having sold a.s 111) of butter .a quantity wh. ;: ch really only weighed louzs Bc!rs. lovidenco a- U) the i-Hireha.se l ol tlw.* butter was yi veil by tlic Government in-.'-i;cet(ir. J'lic tlelcncc was that tho iudiiidjial poiiiuls cil btitter weiv not i\ cii;hed. but that the whole box \\ as o4 the riiiht weiglit. sonic poimds evidently bcinj; over w-eight. A line of 40s and costs was imposed by the .Magistrate.

„ J" resjiun e to the apjwal from the \\ cilin.t'jf.ai eoie'.iiitteo wiio are arrangiiiij, the 'Hij.je Day" sale of flowers in. AVellington next I'"riday, the local jiatriotie co!inni,;tcc have made aiT.an<j;-o-meuts to have a receiving depot at the Levin Itcd Cross iSbop next Thursday when Air March h'osella has willingly cviiscntwl i.o take charge, tolls Mini II or large ol flowers will be much appreciated and will be despatched on 'I hursday owning to Wellington. The •■ale ill Wellington is in the hiinds ot a committee ')T kciiilji r.s ol' the .llo.se and I Carnation Club, who .are this year I'ei'e- | going .jheir annual show and devoting i thcni.s"]vcis to a-sisting in establishing [ -1 I'utsd for the assistance «[• S' ( w Zea- J J hud, nurses who may, through sicknes.s i or otli-er cause-, be i n need ol assisj tanct'. The valuable and sell-Si < riI licing services rendered by our Nurses throughout the period of the war is ; rtcognised by everyone, and 110 more > fitting memorial to their gran.:!; work 1 can be established than the formation j oiAi fund of til is uutur<\ to provide for j them in their time of need if it should arise

A reminder is given to tax payers thsit Thursday, the Gth fast, is the last day for payment of land 6ax for uio current financial year without incurving the penalty of 10 per cent Captain F. S. Vaniliam (son of Mr J. Varnham, Levin) is reported to have been wounded. Mr William Penny, one of the first settlers in the Sandon district, and well known all over New Zealand, died on Saturday morning-, aged 82. He resided at Sandon for about half a coutlay. Lieut. A. do B. Brandon, M.C., IX.SO. (son of Lieut.-Colonel A. dc B. Brandon, of Wellington), who sustained a serious fracture to one of his legs while living in Sussex, England, has recovered from his injury, and returned to his squadron Mr .J. G. Milnes, of 'Levin, who met with a severe meter accident through colliding lv'.tli the train while on final leave months ago, has now been tli charged Irom ea:;j/> as unfit for military *ervico, and has returned to Levin. A bushfeller named Kobert Henry Graham, and single, a native of V ietoria, died on Saturday as the result of an accident in the bush noar Taumni'unui. A falling tree .struck {i| e limb of another trcjj, which broke oil, striking Graham, who was forty feet awav.

Six o'clock closing seems to Lave been ushered in with an outburst of somiety. At AN cllington only one "drunk/' a first oU'ender, was apprehended; at Feildiiig, though tlie town was crowded for tlie races, the cells were empty. In Palinerston also the police were einpty-lianded. .Eight boys from tlie Masterton Distiict liigli School have been engaged at work at the shearing sheds of the district during the last few weeks. They have had a very pleasant time, and besides earning good money, have added to their store of practical knowledge. One station-holder took the boys pig-hunting when the weather was not favourable for shearing. .Mrs Harry Walker, of Levin, received a cable Irnm her son 011 Saturday morning stating that his brother, Private Arthur Walker, had left Kll- - and for New Zealand. Private Walker went away with the Main Body and was invalided to England (liter seeing a great deal of fighting. 'His brother joined a later reinforcement. The will of John Norton, of Sydney, newspaper proprietor, who died on April si. 1!U<;, was lodged last week at tlie probate office, Melbourne, for sealing purposes. Probate has been granted in tlie New South Wales estate for £73.000, and the Victorian estate is stated as real estate valued at £13,.155, and personal property valued at £11,039, which, by the will, is left to his daughter and niece. The death oecured 011 Thursday of Mrs Newport, wife of Mr Henry Newport, of Kawiu road, The deceased /ady wai; 70 years of age. and had been a resident of Levin for many years during which time she became highly esteemed and respected. Mr Newport and family have received many expressions of sympathy in their bereavement. The funeral took place 011 Saturday. The Borough Council spent some time last evening discussing methods of advertising Levin and making its advantages as a business audi residential centre better known. ■Coiinciillors were -agreed that in its .scenic beaii).-ic- :; and commercial possibilities the town and district -had assets worth boosting and it was decided to set up a committee consisting of Crs Maf.hti on, Aitken, Bull and the Mayor to go into the question and report to the Coini<>:l. A proposal by a Wellington daily to give a column and a half of space for reseriptive matter aboup Leviu at a cost of £6 10s was rejected, it being considered this wa ; - not the class of advertising that was most effective. Vigorous protest was made by tlie Dominion Executive of the Farmers' Union at its last meeting against the disbandnient of the Hequisitions Committee and the handing "over to the agent of the Imperial Government the sole control of the machinery of tlie requisitioning of produce. "The Imperial Supplies Department (the resolution stated) has not the confidence of the producers, and as at present constituted is not satisfactory. It is imperative that a requisitions committee of experts 111 whom the farmers have confidence be appointed to review the actions of the Imperial Supplies Department in all matters affecting our produce until it is 011 shipboard." The New Plymouth Borough Council has in hand a simple scavenging scheme with the object of making the town the cleanest and healthiest borough in the Dominion. New Plymouth has a weekly dust cart system, but the council cannot. undertake the removal of bulky rubbish by that means. Under the new .scheme every householder will be circularised and asked to collect and place, rubbish of every description 011 the street frontage for free removal on a certain date. The scheme is an adaptation of the American annual "clean-' up-t lie-town" day as instituted in Philadelphia in the spring of 1913. In the American towns the whole of the work is carried out in one day, (lie cities being divided into blocks, which are \vorked s by the householders themselves ;:.:der the supervision of district committees set up, and keen c.onipeti- [ lion rc-lilts,. Owing to labour ditticul- ' ties and the shortage of suitable con- | vevanccthe New Plymouth Borough Council proposes to divide tlie town into live or six blocks and to spread the :: k over a full week. On Friday las! a lest ill one su'eot met with very sa i Is fa i-! my results, seven loads of odds and •.mis being taken from sixty odd j Ih.ii v- fnniltf. ■ A further one-street test j is to be made, and if the council is salislled with the re. ponse, the work j will Ik- c rried out in its entirety. The estimated -'ost for the whole town is :u; j ; i ingly low, b< tv, . n £20 and £30. Tit i; d"cid d to c :ue the scheme an ell'i :'t ' 'ill !r> nu de to interest the Boy Sc :-'s. wlio c uld give valuable as- . sistani • in c< llecting t!i:«, etc., from vacant ■ 'i d renin-, rubbish from properties of .disentee owmrs. See Ken Aitken'.* a.!.:. 011 pege -1. | It i,'. .a pleasure to make a selection j from the ( , M. T?'-',-; Co.'s range of , washing frocks for girls. New design : to hand ii:"bl-'e a very .servip: able range of Gingham an;! Crepe dresses j wii'icn we price iVom 2; 'lid. See to- ; day's replace advertisement. ;