The Levin Daily Chronicle THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1921.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 August 1921, Page 2

The Levin Daily Chronicle THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1921.

An application lor a suit of clothes “of a sporting style” came before the Morowlienua Patriotic Association from a Levin soldier now in Hawke’s May. The Association decided to inform ihe soldier that it could not grant a suit of clothes of any style at tlie time. A 1 compliment was paid the Pnekakariki delegates to the Horowhemiii i!(lonrjty Palriotio Association (Messrs. A. NicKay and .1. .Smith) hy Mr Goldsmith at Wednesday’s meeting for their regular attendance. Though they'had to travel further than other delegates, they rarely missed a meeting, and set a good example to other members.

The Mayor, Mr D. W. Matheson, is confined to his room by a severe cold. At to-morrow night’s meeting of the W.E.A. Economics class the tutor’s subject will be “Distribution.” The Palmerston milkmen have reduced the price of milk to 6d per quart and Is lOd per gallon. 1 The monthly dance of the local ! Druids’ Lodge will be held to-morrow evening. Mr V. Higgins, first assistant at the Levin District High School for the past three years, has received the offer of the first assistant-ship •of the • Petone School, and will probably accept it. Mr W. Kilsby, of Kopularoa, took his seat at the meeting of the Horowhenua County Patriotic Association yesterday for the first time, and fills the vacancy caused by the death of his father, the late Mr G. Kilsby. The ‘ chairman of the Association (Mr P. W. Goldsmith) welcomed Mr Kilsby to the Association, who suitably replied. During the days of the war,, when gifts of one kind or another Avere sent the local Patriotic Societies io swell the Avar funds, a patriot in the Te Horo district sent his mile to his society in the form of a circular saw. Unhappily there appeared to be no demand for circular sravs, and it has remained in the local hall until a few days ago ,when a buyer offered 10s for it. A sale was made, and the amount, was forwarded to the HoroAvhenua County Patriotic Association by Mr G. W. Kirk, of Te Horo. The Auckland War, Relief Association has forwarded the Horowhenua Association a “black - list” containing the names of 16 soldiers, who were reported as “unsatisfactory cases.” "These are the kind of cases we want to he careful with,” said Mr P. XV, Goldsmith, chairman of the County Patriotic Association on Wednesday when a fit man, residing in this district, made application through the local association to a northern body for a grant. It avos not. the practice to make grants to fit men, said the chairman, but there were a number who seemed to be always “trying it on.” Thera was a large attendance at last night’s meeting of the W.E.A. English Literature class. Mr W. Tye presided. The subject of Dr. Elizabeth Bryson’s lecture was “The Influence of Puritanism.” She gave an interesting outline of (ire history of the period, illustrating the circumstances in winch the Puritan spirit developed. Attempts were often made t* give an economic explanation of the events of history, she said, but it was curious that, in many of the great movements of English history, economic factors were not the dominant ones. The great struggles of the English people mostly originated over some matter of conscience rather than of material gain. It was so with the English revolution. The Puritans Avere willing to risk their material Avell-being, their personal safety and their very lives in order to secure constitutional liberty and the right of private judgment. The tutor quoted Macaulay’s opinion that, the latter half of the seventeenth century produced only two great, imaginative minds, and that one of these Avas responsible for “Paradise Lost,” and the other for “Pilgrim’s Progress.” She then gave a close study of the life of John Runyan, his spiritual struggles and his familiar works, and the evening concluded Avith a discussion of Milton’s shorter poems, “L’Allegro” and “Lycidas.” Next week the course begins a new phase in the study of a more modem period. The subject is “The Rise of the Novel,” Avith Lamb’s “Essays of Elia,” as the collateral reading.