HOROWHENUA SHOW.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25, 30 January 1912, Page 7

HOROWHENUA SHOW.

To-morrow the annual show of the Hcrowhonua A._ and P. Association will hd held at Levin, and holiday ejccurtion f nree will t be _ ieaued from Wellington j and other stations. Large entries have boeji received. Over fifty hor6es are competing in, the jumping 9Y$. n fo an<^ or *he ladies' driving competitions, there are over thirty 1 entries.

"^Ve have footpaths en6ugh in Lower Hutt for a population of 20,000 people," said Councillor Hobbs, at the meeting of the Lower Hutfc Counril last evening, ] " and I would be opposed to spending I a large sum of money on them until we secure that number of residents. " A suggestion by another councillor that concrete flags should be pat down, similar to tliose in us 6in Wellington, gays l'ke to Ooimcillor Hobbs's remark*. , It waa mentioned that some of the f6otpaths Were in a vei'y bad stale, and certainly needed attention. There is a suni df £400 on the estimates for this work still unexpended, and the question ' arisen aa to how this? money can he, beat spent. It was stated that simply taffing and sanding v/as a waste; the engineer held that the cost of flags woulfl be almost prohibitive for tho borough; while- a proposal that asphalt should bo used appejired to meet with general 'approval. The engineer will fitibmit a detailed report at next meeting. In connection with the turning of the first sod of, the Gi»borne-Na.pier railway yesterday, Sir Joseph Ward was entertainer! at lunch by the executive of the Citizens' _ Cojnnnttee. among > those I present being' representatives of various lociil bodice throughout Hawkee Bay. Before the turning of the sod, the- Mayor \\l?. J.- Vigor- Bfown, M.P.) pi-ceented Hit' Joseph Ward, who wae accompanied j by La4y W&jd, with a eilver-mounted epade. In hio speech Sir Joseph Ward said that work in the construction of the j line would Ih> commenced in real earnest ' within the next ton days. j -A Woodvilla farmer it afc the present I time reported to be grazing three and a half'heifcj of cattle and four lambs per acre la one or hw paddocks, aud the local pitper states that they cannot keep the grass down. "L wish witneaeftft who come into this court to give evidence would speak the truth, said Mr. Florance, 8.M., tit Ktiikouru, prior to indicting & £§ fill*