LEVIN NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 281, 20 August 1908, Page 2

LEVIN NEWS.

(FROM OCR , SPECIAi COBRESPONDSKT.) About 30 of' tlio local Druids journeyed . to .Foxton on Tuesday evening to be present at the opening of n lodge there. After tho carolling of the members, ,of which there were 39, and the election of 'tho' officers, tho visiting Druids were entertained at supper by tho new lodge, before they' drove back to Lovin. , , , "• " For the time being the' frost-has como to. "■ ail end, and welcome rains, have fallen throughout tho district, doitig good to tho farmer and householder, both of whom wera beginning to feel the need of a fresh watet • supply. The many trees that were planted in Cam-;:; bridge Street after the Boer War are now " being moved to Queen Street West,' thus ' greatly improving the appearance of the drivo / to the lake. . • At the last meeting of the Borough Connoil a resolution was passed supporting tho action-of the public meeting recently held in Levin, which moved iu reference to tho branch railway from Levin to Marton via Foxton. It is reported that ripe strawberries ara to be seen in a local garden. Mr. J.' G. Jlankiiis, who was most successful with his collie dog, I!oslvn Regal, last year on tho show bcnch ( was, agai* a ' winner of two firsts and a special prize at tha last Napier show.