LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 March 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

; # ***The Chronicle will not bo published on Good Friday aud Easter Motid.u\ 3rd and sth April.

An announcement from Levin retail•ers appears to-day; it concerns -'lie dates of tho Easter holidays.

The directors of Abraham and Williams Ltd., have donated £100 to the Belgian Relief Fund. — .VLanawatn Daily Times.

The amount of cash spent on pur chases of paper in New Zealand is as

founding. The Registrar-General report on the month of October last shows that in that mouth close upon 240,000cwt was imported, the value •'wholesale) being £178.365.

To Awamutu Building Society held a ballot last week for an appropriation of £300. The "lucky number" >vns unlucky, as tho shareholder it represented was unfinancial on the books Tho moral is obvious.

At hist night's meeting ol the Levin branch of the Acclimatisation Society, I)r Davies stated that the fish in the .shv-ams in district were showing a great improvement in quality and quantity, and in a few veal's he considered that the streams would be as good for fishing as they were in former years.

The annual harvest fair under the auspices of the Levin Presbyter Fair will be held on the 21st and 22:, I April in the Century Halt. There "ill be an interesting cantata. "Soot aud the Fairies," sung by a lar;*;;' body of children. Offerings of pro-:-dtice and fruit will be used to deorv rate the hall, and there will be all the usual attractions.

Ihe reason tor Now Zealand's scarcity of bran and pollard, during .January and February, is clearly shown by the Abstract of Statistics for March 1915, to hand at The Chronicle office this week. The statistics make clea the fact that during January : lid February last bran and pollard exported from Now Zealand to Austra'ia totalled over £3000 ifi value. In the corresponding period of 1914 the pollard and bran exported represented onl, £449 in value.

A useful hint for amateur fruitgrowers is given by the writer of orchard notes in the Christehurch Star He writes: —Do not he in a hurry to gather late varieties ot apples an 1 pears. A few fruits are falling, but Ibis may be the result of the codlin month, or the long spell of dry w«i tlier in the spring and early suinune • but do not harvest all the fruits bo cause a few are falling. Tf they n>v gathered too soon they are bound it shrivel. Quite a number of late var eties are not ready to harvest tin il most of the leaves are down. The most effective test as to whether the fruits are ready to pick is to car-, fully raise them to a borizantal position without pulling theni. Tf tliev are ready they part quite easily from the tree, if they do not. leave th ' ■ for a time, then try again.

Mrs G. Stratton. of Koputaroa, has kindly donated a pet wether lamb for the benefit of the Belgian Relief Fund. The lamb will be sold at Ihakara on Wednesday afternoon next. Mr T. G. Vincent will submit it to auction at about 3.30 o'clock. During the. proceedings of the sale of gifts Mr Vincent will also auction the unsold portion ol goods. In the afternoon the «ale will be officially opened by M i B. R. Gardener. Mayor of lyevin. at 2.30 o'clock. The following are the working committee Te- room. Mesdames Rutherford. Broadbelt. Oorringe. Dickie, Misses McDonald md Broadbelt.; fancy work. Mrs Sliute. Misses Rolston and McDonald; home industries. Mesdames "Duckworth and Palmes. Misses Broadbelt. and Home, produce :--Messrs R. Home, M. H. E. Gorringc, A. Robinson: meat, Mr R. Robinson ; live stock, Messrs J. Richards and P. Morchan : poultry. Mr J. Rutherford; competitions, Messrs Gorringo. Brojidbelt, Curtis: sweet stall. Misses 70. Broadbelt. anfl D. Shu to: chairman. Mr S. A. Broadbelt ; sociotarv, Mr P. Curtis.