The Levin Daily Chornicle SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, ,1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 August 1925, Page 2

The Levin Daily Chornicle SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, ,1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In view of the general importance cl cases concerning * overhanging trees, the settlement arrived at by mutual agreement in the recent Supreme Court action of Robbie v. Windeley, will be of interest. Lhe terms were ns follow; —Tbe defend* ant undertakes to permit plaintiff to lop the trees mentioned in the statement of claim to a height of 15 feet from the ground and also to cut off all branches overhanging plaintiff’s lands or boundary; such wood as shah fail on plaintiff’s land to be the property of the plaintiff; plaintiff to pay £25 in settlement of .defendant’s costa.

Two cows were carried in special quarters on the train in which the Prince of Wales travelled through South Africa. They supplied milk for the Royal Party.' The secretary of the New Plymouth Hospital and Charitable Aid Board wrote to the Waitara Borough Council demanding interest on the overdue payments Qf the borough’s contributions at various dates — a total of 42 days at 7 per cent., amounting to 4s. it was said that the demand was made at the instance of the Health and Audit Departments. Payment of the 4s was authorised by the Council. In to-day’s paper the Railway Department advertise holiday, excursion fares and train arrangements to Wellington for Trentham Races on 20th and 22nd August in connection with the American Fleet ’visit. Passengers by the 8.10 a.m. train each day Will be in time to join the 11.26 a.m. special race train from Lambton to Trentham. Race specials leaving Trentham up to 4.36 p.m. each evening will reach Lambton in time to enable passengers to join the 5.40 p.m. Thorndon-Palmerston North train. Applications for employment at the Auckland office of the Labour Department continue gradually to decline, the figures from last week being 190, as compared with 193 the previous week, and 200 for the week before that. Those classed as fit for heavy work numbered 150. Labour ers headed the list with 54 applications. Next in point of numbers were clerks 17, engineers, fitters and turn ers 15, cooks and hotel workers 12, motor drivers 9, and seamen and firemen 9. During the week 25 men, including nine farm hands and seven labourers, were placed in private employment. Work was found for ten labourers with the Public Works Department. In consequence of a notice issued by the Wanganui Harbour Board to the owners of the wrecked Cyrena, Messrs D. K. Blair {surveyor to Lloyd’s) and A. S. Long (representing the owners), waited om the chairman of. the Harbouj£ Boajrd. The notice served was practically a demand that the owners remove the vessel, which the board considered would, from her position, constitute a menace to navigation. The conference between the parties was more or less a failure, it being claimed. that as portions of the steamer do not endanger navigation the board has no power to compel the owners to remove the wreck. Nevertheless, it is intended to lay an anchor from the afterpart and so obviate possibility of this, section of the Cyrena wandering. Members of the Greymouth Dis trict High School Coxmnittee are understood to' have made a resolve that for the future they will not yield to the temptation to make -jocular remarks when the reporters are present. The headmaster was very upset because it was reported In the papers that the writing at his school was very poor, at any rate not so good as that of the Marist schools. He t«ld the board about it, and the members concerned hastened to disclaim any unkind intentions. They said "their remarks had been jocular and they had not thought for a moment that they would appear in print. Clearly this was another case of the reporters being expected to be angels and turning out to be just reporters —which was what their papers sent 1 them to the meeting to be.

“The evils of gambling are never properly explained to children,” said Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M., at Auckland. “A boy hears his father talk about the man who has been lucky enough to win a lottery and has gone for a trip round the world; he hears his mother refer to someone else, who has been equally fortunate in an art union, or, other like speculation, and he is naturally curious. He wants, to know how this little fortune can be obtained, and later on he finds his way to a gambling school and gets himself into trouble. The boy is not to blame. He had never been warned; he had never been told that gambling was a social evil. It was beginning at the - wrong end, and he should have been told at an eairlier stage. Whole nations had been demoralised by gambling, which induced habits of sloth and speculation instead of industry and thrift. They could never suppress gambling; the ycould only do what they could to abate the evil.” The two American sailors who visited Levin on Thursday were Petty Officer (2nd class) G. A. Carroll, official photographer of the American Fleet, and Private (Ist class) H. Lee, Ist U.S.M.C., who were on their way to Mt. Egmont, where they will take snaps of Taranaki’s snowy sentinel and various beauty spots, of the district. During their short stay here a Chronicle reporter obtained a few impressions of their visit to New Zealand. One of the visitors stated that after being bottled up in their warships through the long voyage over the Pacific, everyone of Uncle Sara’s sailors had set his mind on enjoying every- minute of his time ashore, both in Australia and in New Zealand. They had had a great time in Australia, and would do the same here if the welcome at Wellington on Tuesday last was any criterion. Asked what impressed them most on the motor trip up from Wellington, one of the visitors remarked, “Sheep, the mountains, and the goal posts dotted over the countryside. You sure do take your ball game seriously in this country, Boy. Why,” continued the visitor, “every little village we passed had its own up rights.”

A recent issue of the Returned Soldiers’ Review states:—One of the racist .beautiful certificates which has been issued to soldiers is that known as the “King’s Certificate on Discharge.” The document is a very fine one and each, copy bears a facsimile of his Majesty’s signature. Regulations governing the issue of this certificate stated that upon application popies were sent to those members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force who were discharged from the forces on account of disablement caused or aggravated by military service during the period in the theatre or theatres of war in which the applicant served. Under a later regulation the certificate may be awarded to a soldier whose disability was not established until after retirement or discharge, provided that such soldier has been awarded a disability pension in respect of a permanent.” disability of 20 per cent, or a temporary disability of 40 per cent, and that he is otherwise eligible for the issue of the certificate. It will be noted that this .valuable certificate is only issued on application and therefore soldiers who have not applied for them and who are entitled to receive them should make immediate application to the Offlcer-in-Charge, War Accounts and Records Office, Wellington. The date for receiving applications is closed, but it is understood that there are still some blank forms on hand and while these remain the documents will be issued to those entitled to receive them. Mr Freeman, of Messrs Barry and Freeman, Ltd., optical specialists, will pay his monthly visit to Levin on Tuesday next and may be consulted at Mr Keedwell’s Pharmacy. •