DISTRICT NEWS. MANAWATU.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 29, 4 February 1908, Page 2

DISTRICT NEWS. MANAWATU.

[Bt TEiEGßArn.— Special to The Posy.) - " LEVIN, 3rd February. • At the annual meeting of tho Horowhenua Lake Domain Board Mr. James Prouse was elected chairman for the ensuing tweh-e months.- Permits were granted to.eredt boatsheds.on the- shoies of tho lak« to persons who •'will hue to the public at a scale of fees to bedrafted by th* board. The chairman stated /that the Government was acquiring a further piece of nathe. bush on tho shores of tho lake, about twenty acres in extent, in addition to the ten acres recently acquired. !he Crown Law Officers hare advised the board that Europeans ar© prohibited from trout fishing in the lake— the Act distinctly stating that the natives have free and 1 unrestricted right to tho fishing. Mr. W. C. Xation, of Levin, has been sworn in as coroner for the Horowhenua County, in place of Mr. W. H. Simcox, of Otaki, who resigned his position. Mr. B. R. Gardener has intimated that ho will again be a candidate for i-he Mayoralty of Levin. ' ' PROPOSED MILK DEPOT' AT AVELLIiVGTON. A meeting between the directors of the Otaki-Manaknu and Levin Co-opera-tive Dairy Companies was held at Utaki yesterday, as the outcome of considerable correspondence and discussion in the pa&t, to consider the advisability of the two companies amalgamating for the purpose- of entering into some scheme for the sals of fresh milk in Wellington. Five Levin directors and six of the Otaki-Manakau directors were present, and Mr. J. Griffith was voted to the chair. Alter considerable discussion, the meeting unanimously resolved that it was advisable to make somo arrangement for tho sale of milk in Wellington, and a committee, comprising Messrs. Broadbelt and T. A. B. Hudson (Levin), and Griffith and Swabey (Otaki), was set up to make enquiries re a proposed milk depot at Wellington, and report to a future meeting of cliieclors.