The Chronicle LEVIN. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1917. THE LEVIN CHRONICLE

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 September 1917, Page 2

The Chronicle LEVIN. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1917. THE LEVIN CHRONICLE

At tho end of this month The Horowhenun Publishing Company, (Ltd., wiCl relinquish control of The (Levin I Chronicle. Tho company ha,* disposed of mil its publishing rights to Messrs. Billens and Ivoislakc, two experienced .journalists, who will flfsume full control of tho business on the Ist October next. As a preliminary to so doing, they wiill undertake tho editorial 'and mechanical supervision of The Cli ronicle for the wrek commencing next Monday, in order to family rri'io themselves with tho routine of llio work and incidentally to give CTironiale waders an earnest :>f the that will be made in The Chronic!?. The present issue of The Chronicle, therefore, is tho last ■to he published under the present editorial control, and in announcing the fact we ta'ke the opportunity of thanking our many Levin friends for the consistent support and encourage*ment given us during our seven years of office as editor and manager. The, paper never has been all that could be wished for. No paper ever was; but some .noproach nearer to that standard than others do. In our case, we always have done our best with the means at our disposal, and where we have fallen short tho blame attaches in part to the lack of straw for the making o>f bricks journalistic. Maybe we should have thrown more bricks, in our public capacity, had the means (financial) for making them been more plentiful; the journal that lives from hand to mouth has to bo more guarded than the well-endowed journal in its advocacy of true public rights. Still, the fact remains that we "have" thrown ia. brick or two in our journalistic career in [Levin; land it remains to be said that whenever that has been done it has been done solely in the public interest, and with-

out malice. like the .public man written of by Maarten Maartens in "God's -Fotoil" (who ma do thle wlotrld his football;!) whenever we have 'kicked our community we liave "kicked it towards the goal." a—mw— "We want to make this cursed wnrs so expensive that an futuTie vril t he glad to' live in ponce and harmony.'' said a speaker at the Second [Division [league meeting last night. Would certainly be the cheaper way out! — Manawatu Times.