The Levin Chronicle. TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1918.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 11 June 1918, Page 2

The Levin Chronicle. TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1918.

The x Government lias purchased 200 .acres of land at Carnarvonpart of the estate of tlie late Mr i 11. B. McKenzie — for subdivision for returned soldiers. A complimentary banquet is to be tendered to Mr P. J. Ilennessy, at Foxton to-night in recognition of liis efforts to, bring about the acquisition of the Foxton wharf. A meeting of 200 residents of Foxton decided on Friday to form a co-operative company 'to establish a general store similar to that at Shannon. Shares are to be £5,' no applicant to hold more than one. Mr P. A. D. Miclcle, headmaster of the Manakau school, who has been laid aside with illness for some time, is still far from well, and is \mable to attend to his duties, though he is reported to be slowly improving. At Otaki last week a charge was brought by the police against W. F. Edwards, licensee of the Telegraph Hotel, of supplying beer to a native for consiimption off the premises. The hearing occupied the greater part of the day. Evidence for the prosecoition was to the effect that a native named Hakaraia entered the hotel shortly after 9 a.m. with an empty bottle, anri was leaving with one full of beer when lie was accosted by two jjfn in clothes constables from "Wellington who had had the hotel and the Maori under observation. The defence was that Hakaraia had not bought the beer at the hotel and that if he got it there lie must have stolen it. The S.M., after reviewing the evidence, fined dei fendalit £10 and costs. In a se- . cond action, that of allowing his j 14-year-old son in the bar for the j j purpose of carrying liquor Uj the j guests, Edwards was fined 10s I and costs 10s.

To-morrow afternoon tlie ladies interested in the raising of . funds for the "Charmy" work j among' the men at the front are holding l another afternoon tea ill \ St Mary's Hall. AIJ are cordial- ; jy invited. There ",will be music I and competitions. Messrs Sawlell and Franklin, motorandgenorhl engineers, have taken a permanent space on page .1 and to-day announce the class of business their works are* capable of. A well-known v.<u<ki native, Hohipuha (father of Mrs Jlenia 11. te Ao) died a few days ago. He was recognised as one of the oldest natives of Otaki, being generally credited with 92 years- a fine straightforward old man, held in esteem by Maori and pakelia alike, i * Between 15 and 20 fruit-grovv ers attended the demonstration ox pruning by Mr (jr. H. Cunningham, Government- Orchard Instructor, at Mr jSeiil's peach farm, at Weraroa on Saturday. Mr Cunningham clearly explained the principles underlying peach pruning for profit, and left the spectators equally impressed by his skill with the secateurs and the advantages of the lateral system which lie advocated. At last night's meeting .of the Lake Domain Hoard a somewhat peremptory letter was read from the Department of Lands and Survey demanding to know "under what authority" one of the members (Mr P. E. Parker) was occupying a seat on the Board as there was no record in the office of the Department of his appointment. The secretary (Mr Gardener) read his reply to the letter pointing out thut |he .appointment had been agreed to and gazetted as far back as June, 1917. This produced a further reply stating that, owing to an toversight the-appointment, was not entered in the Domains Register of the Department, liven Departments err sometimes!

The Wanganui Ceuniy Council wrote to last, meeting of tlie Horowhenua County Council asking for support to tlie following: That with a view to obtaining a more suitable date for county elections and securing uniformity in time for the election of all local bodies, this Council approach the Government requesting an alteration in the date fixed for holding County elections to that of Municipal elections; also that no ratepayer be eligible to vote at a County election unless lie has first paid his rates. The chairman (Or Monk) pointed out that the present election was held in tlie middle of the fiiiancial year and this gave neither the new chairman nor the new council a chance. Or \Monk agreed also with the proposal to disfranchise defaulting ratepayers. It was unanimously decided to support the proposal.

Among' the principal prizewinners at the aimual presentation iof prizes in connection with the Wellington ltifle Clubs was Rifleman J. Smart, son of ilr D. Smart, of Levin. Rfm. Smart, who is a member of the Suburbs Club, won the Club Championship', and was second in the Newton Cup anil Hiclison aggregate. By the-last mail the Church of England Military Affairs _ Committee,' of Wellington, received a letter from Prebendary Carlile, D.D., founder of the Church Army, in which he states that during the recent German offensive over fifty Church Army huts were destroyed. There is no doubt that some of those erected by New Zealand funds were amongst the ones that suffered. Money is Urgently needed to replace them. These huts cost on an average £500 each so that here is a. loss of £25,000 to make good. One can -judge by this amount of the magnitude of the work done by the Church Army or "Cliarmy" as it is popularly called. Levin's "Charmy" J) ay- is Saturday, June 22nd.,