The Levin Daily Chronicle. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 September 1927, Page 4

The Levin Daily Chronicle. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The monthly meeting of the Levin Chamber of Commerce will be held on Thursday evening, at 8 o'clock, in the Y.M.C.A. ropms.

The Bush housekeeper in the service of the Women's Division of the Farmers' Union has been in the Levin district for the past three weeks, and will be engaged in her duties of giving skilled help to country residents until October 3rd. After that she is due to return to her home in Wangamii unless there is a further request for her services in this district. Any country resident desiring her services should communicate with the branch secretary, Mrs M. Gorringe, Levin.

Mrs C. Chamberlain, aged 74, residing at Mount Albert, was admitted to the Auckland hospital on Sunday, with a broken thigh. She died this morning.—Press telegram.

There is a magpie who makes his home at. Belmont Golf Links, Wanganui, every nesting season and frequently attacks golfers driving from the fourteenth tee. This week he displayed new tactics in attacking a local business man, states the Petone Chronicle. Just as the player was driving off, the bird circled in the air high above his head and hurled down in a nose dive that would have done credit to the most expert "ace." Fortunately other golfers were able to attract the attention of their colleague before the bird succeeded in his intention. It is claimed that there are more "foozled" drives from this tee than from any other on the links as the player's attention has to be divided between the bird and the ball.

"Bosco" Pure Kapoc Bedding, made in our own factory. You cannot beat an all Kapoc Bed. It does not go lumpy. Try a Eosco and sleep in comfort. 3ft Single Bed, loose, 37/6, 49/6 and 59/6; 3ft Single Bed, buttoned and bordered, 42/6, 57/6, 72/6. Double Bed, loose 49/6, 63/-, 75/-; double bed buttoned and bordered, 56/6, 69/6, 84/-, 105/-. Only obtainable at the C. M. Koss Co., Ltd., the Store for Value.*

Eoyal Mint has been re-handicapped to 7st 41b in the New Zealand Gup.

A petition in bankruptcy has been filed by Mary Hemingsley Newman, trading as the Newman Transport Co., Levin.-

The annual meeting of the Weraroa Cricket Club will be held as advertised on Thursday night, when a full attendance of members is requested.

Judgment for the plaintiff for £64, with costs was given by Mr W. G. Riddel], S.M., in Wellington, to-day in the case of Winter, a linesman, against the British Imperial Oil Company, in respect of a collision between his motor car and one driven by an employee of the defendants. The Magistrate said that defendant's car had swerved and given plaintiff no opportunity to avoid a collision.—Press telegram.

Mr Rockefeller, America's greatest philanthropist, celebrated his 88th birthday by playing nine holes at golf and dining quietly with his family. "I am happy," he said, "to spend my 88th birthday in a condition - of perfect health, full of hope, cheer, and gratitude, and with goodwill to everybody." Despite his age, Mr Rockefeller retains his interest in business, and is as devoted as ever to the Rockefeller Foundation, with its world-wide work of benevolence. Two of his ambitions are to make nine holes in 44 at golf and to live to be 100.

Those who are fidgeting about the wetness of the ground causing a delayin seed-sowing may be pleased to take a suggestion from an experienced Dunedin citizen who claims to have mastered the difficulty. He places his seed in cups, sprinkles moist earth over them, and puts them by till the ground is in good heart. l By this means the germinating is started and the seeds come on quickly and in strength. When sowing seeds thus prepared it is important to avoid passing them through the fingers, less the sprouts are rubbed off. A good plan is #/ to dribble them into the' rows through' a pape"r screwed into funnel shape.

A Hindu temple on a hill overlooking Simla has just had installed as its guardian a man with no drop of Hindu blood in his veins. Charles de Russet, a man claiming pure French descent, was educated at Simla and became a convert to Hinduism in his boyhood after his father's death. Eusset was made a novice in the Jekko Temple above Simla under the name of Bawa Mat Rani. In due course he became a Hindu priest, retiring after 20 years to a little temple in the depths of the country. Now, over 70 years old, he has returned to the scene of his conversion, honoured by being made guardian of the temple.

Time was when the good citizens of London lived over their shops, were born and died there, and left the business to their children. There are some of them left. One such lives in Bell Yard, Gracechurch Street, and his is the oldest grocer's shop in the city. He has sold candles and groceries there for over fifty years, as his father's uncle did and his uncle's uncle. That takes the business back to 1716, when old William Haseldine founded it.'From William it passed to Daniel, and from Daniel, still keeping in the family, to the Bedford who had married into it. To a Bedford it belongs still, and he has refused to sell it. Banks and big business houses round aoout it crowd the old grocer's little shop, but they cannot crowd out old Mr Bedford, who is now over seventy.

For everyday wear —for occasions that call for "something different" the smart woman will find everything she could desire at Clark's Ltd., present display of spring apparel. Repp coats, crocks, model and ready to wear millinery are showing in such a wide variety of styles and shades that you can at once choose- for every need. Don't delay in seeing this really stylish collection —the prices are moderate.*

"The Crockeries," which has been conducted by Mr J. Sievers, for the past two years, is closing on Saturday, October Ist, and to avoid returning the stock to the Otaki branch, it has been decided to make' a clean sweep regardless of cost, and for the next five days no reasonable offer will be refused. The stock is all of high quality and up-to-date and this is an opportunity that does not often present itself to enable the thrifty to replenish their crockery supplies.

"Men's clothing is the topic of the C. M. Eoss Co.'s announcement to-day with particular stress on the all-wool worsted suits at 84s. These have /given absolute satisfaction to every purchaser and the firm undertakes to make good if the suit does not. That's their guarantee.*

The modern motor cars are so equipped with electric gear fpr starting and lighting that the great majority of owners do not really know in what direction the current of electricity flows and if a slight defect occurs they are wholly dependent on the garagemen to put their cars to rights. To this end therefore we have secured men of high class ability and wide experience for our work shop managers. So car owners can have every confidence in entrusting their electrical repairs to us. Give us a trial. Genuine service is cur motto. —Ford Garage, Levin .and Otaki.

Big Sheeting Values.—s4-inch single bed white Twill Sheetings, pure cloth. Special Price 1/9 yard; better qualities, 1/11, 2/3, 2/6 to 3/6 yard. Double bed sheeting, 80in. wide, 2/9, 3/3, 3/6, 8/11, 4/3, 4/6 and 5/6 yard, at the C. M. Eoss Co., Ltd., the Store for Value.*

So writes Mr I. G. Short, of Te Kiri, Taranaki: "The farmers round here are "wondering how I rear good healthy "calves, so I want to show them it "is with your 'Tui' Calf meal: send a "good fresh sack." Supplies available at all stores, and Hodder and Tolley, Ltd., Palmerston North.*

Whitebait net as usod by the Hokio Whitebaiters Association is procurable at Is 9d yard at Clark's, Levin's Best Store.*

King Boris of Bulgaria, the bachelor king, has never married because he finds his time so fully taken up looking after his kingdom, that he thinks he would have no time to look after a wife. After all, this king has had a stormy life since he became king. Half of his moustache was taken off by a bullet when he was nearly assassinated in 1925, while last Christmas a Bolshevik plot was revealed only just in time. He is slim, loose-limbed, and good looking in a dark, romantic, melancholy way. ,

The following is taken from aa issue of 1877 of the Lyttelton Times: "They have another nuisance on the railroads in the North Island besides stray cattle. The Taranaki Budget says: An old Maori tried to race the train between Sentry Hill and Henwood Road, and was running on the line in front of the engine for a considerable distance. We hear it is a constant practice for Natives to do this, and notwithstanding the warning they have received they still persist in doing it. But for the extreme caution used by the engine-driver some accidents would have resulted. It is a pity the Natives cannot be dealt with by the law in the same manner as the Europeans." Seeing that it still takes about an hour to reach New Plymouth by train from Waitara, and vice-versa, conditions on the railways have not improved to the extent some people fondly imagine, as the distance is. only about ten miles, and a runner would still have a good chance of beating it.