The Levin Chronicle TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1921.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 February 1921, Page 2

The Levin Chronicle TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1921.

The district schools re-opened today after the Christinas and New: Year vacation.

A unique catch was made at Island Bay, Wellington, recently on a hapuku line. This was a huge sun-fish, about a ton in weight.

At the Feilddng S.M. Court, J. McLennan (Haloombe) for keeping hia bees in box hives, was fined £1 and < / costs. Eight other bec-keepors were fined 10 1 and costs for failing to regie' *«*

It is stated from Wellington that Colonel G. F. O. Campbell, Secretary to the Treasury, who has been offered the post of Public Trustee, cannot see his way to accept the position. The Prime Minister dla'tefc that the matter has nob yet come before Cabinet.

The Palmerston Borough Council unanimously decided last night in favour of Saturday half-holiday. A cricket match is being arranged to be played at Foxton on Wednesday afternoon between a Foxton eleven and 'a team representing the Levin* Cricket Club.

As the result of several years’ trading, a Hawke’s Bay resident has ietired from business with a fortune cl £78,000.' He is taking up his residence permanently in the Old Country.

When the open chop started at Kimholton sports the other day, the Feilding Star says, a lady in the afternoon tea stall was heard to remark: “Yes, my hufihand is in that chop, hut I can’t get him to cut a bit of wood) for me at home.”

One of Carterton’s Chinese mermay have been seen yesterday struggling under a seventy-five bag of sugar, which he safely deposited in the back seat of a motor car. At some of the European shops the working men find it hard to purchase even one pound of sugar.—Age.

A Levin resident wlio has just reurned trout a visit to Hawke’s Bay, taupe and Taranaki, states that, like tins district, the stock markets there ire considerably depressed. In conversation with graziers and breeders he was informed that lambs were the Inst class of stock to handle just now. The export companies were buying up freely, and it was expected that there would be Heavy shipments of this class of meat sent away from the Dominion uas season.

Mr Joel W. Eastman, the lecturer a; the / local Chautauqua sessions, last night made numerous references to New Zealand, and) its people. In f-U his travels he had never seen such a beautiful • country or a more prosperous people. But lie had been struck as well by the free and easy attitude of the people. There was no lack ct holidays or money, but it seemed) to take less excuse for the people to ocas; work than in any country he visited. “I meet a boy along the road,” said Mr Joel W .Eastman at Chautauqua, “and) 1 say, ‘Good-day, my boy.’ He answers politely, and I know, to’some extent, what sort of a home he came from. You tell a-tree by its fruit. X met .another lad and greet him. He looks up with a scowl ,aud says Huh, or something like that. I don’t blame the boy or his parents. They are. He is. And that’s all there is to it. The moral is: Don't go home and heat up the fruit, hut go and spray your family' treo.” Mr Barry Pain has written a clever parody on Mrs Asquith’s life story. “Marge Askiuforit” follows its origij ual very closely in* places. “In my own circle I have always been known as | Marge. Hu name is, I am informed,, derived) from the Latin margo, meaning the limit.’> And again, in the chapter about the family, “I had not. her beautiful, lustrous eyes, but net;her had she m.y wonderful cheek. S!k had not my intelligence. Nor had j she my priceless gift for uttering an j unimportant personal opinion as if it were the final verdict of posterity with , the black cap on.”

Great execution has been worked amongst the rabbits in the- Hairini district by the recently-appointed liabhit Board (says the “Waikato Tin.es”). Proceeding on systematic lines, the Board strikes a small rate over the whole area, and then engages .a staff of men, who’ make a clean sweep by fumigation. A pack of dogs is employed to drive bunny to cover, and then all the burrows are fumigated with bisulphato of carbon, which has proved an excellent..exterminator. While the summer lasts the work will be pursued rapidly on the swamp areas, and when the winter sets in the dry country will be given a further treatment.

The Masterton Labour Party resolved, not to admit the Press, but to supply a report .of the proceedings. Mr W. Candy expressed himself in favour of the meetings being reported, but such was not the policy of the. Labour Party. Another speaker said he thought it might mean gallery speeches from some of the members. Another reason, he added, was that the reporter might be converted to the tenets of Bolshevism (laughter). The Press was only too pleased to “have a slap” at the Labour Party, and) he saw no reason for admitting' its representatives. It would save the reporter—and incidentally the Party a good deal of trouble.

Tirvtan peaches are now offered in two grades at 8/ and 5/6 per ease, the new owner of the property having cided to clear the crop. There is a general scarcity of peaches this season, and intending! purchasers would do well to place’their orders with the sole agents, Messrs. I>. Smart and Co., at the earliest opportunity in order to prevent disappointment.

The wages received by coal miners t - have often been, discussed. A man in-

terested in Mount Linton mine told a Dunedin Times reporter that two men at that mine for 11 days in December learned £B2, taking £4l each for their 11 days’ work—an average of £3 14/6 a day. “We baddy need a few optimists lathis town,” remarked Mr W. A. Veitch, M.P., at a social gathering in Wanganui. “We \tve too many pessimists,” he added, “although what there is for them to be pessimistic about goodness only knows, for I can’t see anything.’’ At the Hawke’s Bay Ham Fair rn Thursday. Mr H. Callesen, of Long-

burn, realised particularly satisfactory prices for his sheep. For 12 Romney shearlings the suih of 17 guineas each

was obtained. These animals were sold

to Mr G. Runciman, of Tokomaru. Mr O. Monrad realised a like sum for each of- 20 shearlings, his animals being bred by Mr H. Akers, of Linton. Charged at the Wellington Magistrate’s Court with treating sheep

cruelly and with causing them unnecessary suffering, Ernest Whitehouse, a station owner of Ohariu Valley,

pleaded that he had placed forty-seven sheep in a yard without food or water, expecting a neighbour to call for them. Be had, however, failed to do so, and .he sheep remained in the yard-for 'two weeks. Defendant was convicted cn the first charge, and on the second was convicted and fined £3 with costs.

A year’s yield of 16,349.91 b of milk has just been mad© by, Mr G. N. Bell Is aged Shorthorn cow Dairymaid, under semi-official test, giving 722.)21b of butterfait for the twelve months ©nek ing last month. This constitutes a New- Zealand Shorthorn record which stood unbroken until early last. December, to be exceeded by Dairymaid, who is over twelve years of age, doing 221 b better. This phenomenal animal ran with the herd in Kairanga without extra feeding except dry bran at each night and morning milking.—Standard. Professor H. B. Kirk, speaking on the growth periods in New Zealand—fagus fusca and the kauri—at the Science Congress at Palmerston, dealt with the varying rate of growth at different jmriods, of age. He pointed out that the tetara, lor example, passed through a slow youth, extending for about 100 years. During this time

it .made roughly a diameter growth of about Si inches in each 25 years, and at 100 years it had) a diameter of about 14 inches. Then it enters upon it period of vigorous middle age, and until it was 225 years eld it made rapid growth. A very-remarkable ’iicrease was made at about 300 years; then the increase for 25 years, when the tree was growing most vigorously, was about equal to the whole growth of the first hundred years. After this maximum rate the growth gradually slowed off until in what might be called the period of senescence it became less than that of the youth period. The obvious hearing of this was that trees of 100 years or so of age, that is, with a diameter of 12 inches or so, were about to enter upon a rapid growth period that would make them among the most valuable that the earth supported.

Another step’ in cross-Channel private and commercial aviation will be taken soon, when a series of powerful searchlights will bo placed at various places to enable airplanes to fly on darkest nights from Paris to London without danger of being lost in the darkness. There will be nine lights _ between Paris and Calais, and six on the English side of the Channel to guide the airmen. These lights also will euablfe fliers to land in case of accident at charted points. The lights contemplated shall, it is proposed, be of 50,000 candle-power, a light powerful enough to pierce the darkest night to a height of a mile and a-half.

In our, advertising columns Colliuson and Cunninghame announce that their store will be closed all to-morrow for their annual staff picnic, re-opening Ihursday at 10 with thousands of fresh bargains for the last three days of their sale.

of the'late 'Soley,'"-The oldest resident of ; °t^ef(iiaw / ke I a Bay) who died at the aga of 94 years, baa been bequeathed - to charitable institutions, which will benefit to th© extent of between £6OOO and; £<KKX). ■ Mrs Soley’s executors l ou od about £IOOO in notes and cash in her dwelling. Men and women who listened the other night to an address by Sir Larry , Baldwin, M.R.0.5., L.D.S., surgeon dentist to the King, at the Central Y.M.C. A,, Aldersgate Street, Jeft-with th© reoolve to go home and* brush their gums. “You must brush your gums,” said Sir Harry. “Don’t .lie afraid of it. ■ Brush every square inch of them with a tooth-brush twice a day. Gum-brualiing is much more .important than tooth-brushing. On the other hand, the teeth should not be neglected. Gum-brushing causes friction, and friction plays a most important part in .the prevention of disease.”

A pleasant little function was held in the Borough 1 Chambers yesterday afternoon, when.tho-members of the borough staff eu ei'lained Miss Dorothy Goldsmith <m the eve of her retirement from the position of assistant County Clerk. , A dainty lea was provided which was partaken of by the memb.re of both staffs and their friends, and at th; conclusion Mr Tom Brown, Acting-Town Clerk, in a happy little speech, expressed the regret the borough staff felt in losing the companionship and hejp of Miss Goldsmith, who had always shown herself an efficient,* cheerful and willing helper. 4t the same time Mr Brown extended his hearty congratulations to Miss Goldsmith on her approaching marriage, and expressed the hope that she would enjoy happiness and prosperity in her new life. Miss Doris Dempsey then handed to the guest of th© afternoon a handsome fruit dish of artistic design as a memento of tho many happy hours spent together. Mr O. S. Keedwell, in the unavoidable absence of the Mayor, expressed the thanks of the Borough Council for assistance given willingly and often by Miss Goldsmith, and added his felicitations for a happy married life. Miss Goldsmith suitably replied, thanking the donors of the gift and the speakers for their kindly remarks.