The Levin Daily Chronicle TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1627. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 October 1927, Page 4

The Levin Daily Chronicle TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1627. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The monthly meeting of the Levin Plunkot Society was held iu the De Luxe lounge on Monday, when there were present: Mesdames 'Hobson (in the chair), Park, Percy, Shepherd, Hutchings, Bartholomew, Denton, Gibson, Smaill, and Miss Hitchcock.-Apol-ogies were received from Mesdames McQueen, Goldsmith, and Clark. Subscriptions received during the month were: Mrs Stallard, Mrs Cleverley and Mr Allmaud, 5s each; Mrs Horuig, Mr Mew 2s 6d, and Mrs Veny 2s. It was decided to hold a Shop Day on Saturday, October 15th. The Committee will be grateful for donations of cakes, vegetables, etc.

“An. immigrant was brought out to New Zealand for engineering work, and was staying in Auckland, where I mot him, with his wife and four or five children. When he arrived in the Dominion the place was filled. He was in tliis country for six weeks and would nut take any other work, and the Government had to-send him and his family back to England.” This experience was related to the Manawatu exetive of the Farmers’ Union by Mr Maul, in criticising the Government’s methods of carrying out its immigration policy. Mr Lethbridge also told an experience, stating that three years ago 42 domestics came out on one ship, and of this number only four or five had done a day’s domestic ivork in their lives. Mr Kent: “They should stop this, and let people’s own children do some of the ivork.” The Chairman (Mr Lynch): “This is the age of dress, and a girl likes to get out with something fancy on, and get into a soft job in an office, rather than go as a domestic.”

Madras Muslin Curtains bring the freshness of spring into every room in the house. We have just opened up a big range for casement and ordinary windows. They come in a host of pretty weaves from 1/9 yard at the C. M. Rosa Co., Ltd., Levin’s Fashion Centre.*

There are 120 members of the Levin branch of the Farmers’ Union and 30,000 members of the Union in the Dominion, stated the local secretary (Mr F. R. Wright) at the branch meeting on Saturday.

The bowling season will be opened in Levin to-morrow afternoon at 2 o’clock and the president and members of the Levin Bowling Club invite intending members and friends to be present at the official function.

A Maori youth named Percy Ilcra Wipaki, employed by P. F. Jennings, a farmer at Opotiki, was found last evening in a milking shed, hanging by the neck. There are no particulars as to the motive for the deed. —Press telegram.

This was told at a meeting in Levin attended by men only. A young bride treated herself to a new frock, and, calling her husband’s attention to it, said, “Isn’t it a perfect poem?” “Yes,” was his reply, “but it could stand another verse.”

Cr. Roe, chairman of the Gas Committee, stated at the Levin Borough Council meeting last evening that arrangements were being made for gas cooking demonstrations to be given in Levin on Thursday and Friday, October 20th and 21st, by Miss Christensen, cooking mistress for the Wellington Gas Co.

A Cambridge tc'legrnm says the fifth annual competitions festival commenced there yesterday most auspiciously. The entries total 510, easily a record for the Society. Competitors from all parts of the province were in attendance. The adjudicators are: Vocal and instrumental music, Mr Temple White (Wellington); elocution, Mrs Bartley Baxter (Auckland).

The New Zealand Dairy Produce Board forwards a carefully calculated table showing the approximate values of butter and cheese based on London prices. This gives the anticipated payout to suppliers of both milk and cream. Thus taking the average price of butter at present as 180 s, the payment to suppliers of cream would be Is GiJ d, and of whole milk Is o.SOd. Another table gives particulars of the reductions effected by the Board in freight and marine insurance. It is calculated that between November, 1924, and August, 1930, the total saving to the industry will be over £1,000,000.

The reserve set aside for the use of camping motorists at the end of Queen ■Street West has already been used. Or Goldsmith informed the Borough Council last evening that recently a motorist gate him a lift into town, and stated that he had been spending the night on the reserve. The accommodation, he added, was not quite up to that provided in some prpts of the Dominion for this purpose, but it was all right for a beginning. Cr. Goldsmith, who previously expressed a fear that there would be a mosquito nuisance so near the Lake, asked him if he had had any company, and the visitor replied, “Yes, plenty,” but also said that he had a closed ear and was able to pull down the blinds.

The Shannon Chora! Society will present “Merrie England” on Thursday, October 13th, and there is every indication that a worthy showing will be made. The soloists are Miss Naomi Whalley (soprano), Miss Nora Green (contralto), Mr Garde Grimshaw (tenor), Mr J, D. Brown (baritone) and Mr F. C. Lemmon (bass). A pleasing feature of past concerts has been the co-operation of Levin singers and public, and on this occasion buses will be run to Shannon for their convenience. Intending patrons from Levin are asked to get in touch with Mr Magee who has tickets at 2s Cd and Is fid. Seats will be reserved for Levin visitors if the number is known early enough. A social will subsequently be held in the Parish Hall for those present at the concert, the admission being Is.

Borne depression in the, irork industry was referred to at the Levin branch meeting of the Farmers* Union on Saturday, when Mr A. J. Gimblctt said he believed that the price to the producers was going down to 5d per lb. In other years they had been able to obtain almost anything they liked to ask. Last year from 5d to okl was paid by New Zealand companies, and there was an enormous loss on the export, which only returned 3d or 4d a lb., this being further subject to a reclamation, which, in the case of Levin, was shouldered by the Dairy Company. Nobody was prepared to export pork this year, but New Zealand could not absorb all the pigs that it produced, and a committee was now engaged in trying to evolve a scheme of satisfactory export. Mr Gimblett strongly supported the Hon. E. Newman’s advocacy of free trade in maize to assist pig-raisers.

All New Zealanders have a right to be proud of the achievement of Lieut. Webster in putting up such a marvellous record of speed, skill and evidence of British personnel and manufactured material. If you need any further illustration of what British workmen can accomplish bring your car repairs to us. Our workshop is organised on all British lines, in other words, British fair play rules, at the Ford Garage. Levin.*

Shadow Tissues. —Some have fallen under the modernistic spell and we find most unusual patterns in decidedly unique blendings. Tfieu there are miniature designs as dainty as can be, and particularly alluring. Whilst, of course, we find heavy decorative shadow tissues characteristically English with great masses of flowers interspersed with broken shadow lines. Prices range from 3/6 to 7/6 at the C. M. Ross Co., Ltd., Levin Fashion Centre.*

“I had some of your calfmeal last “year and it is real good: I gave some “to neighbours—their calves also were “very good,’’ says Mr W. K. Morton, of Silverhopo. Supplies available at all stores and Hodder and Tolley, Ltd., Palmerston North.*

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

As a result of two months’ operations in the bush near Marsden Road, Greymouth, an opossum trapper se.cured skins to the value of £2OB.

“If it had not been for the British Fleet, I wouldn ?.t*have been lecturing here to-night. You can bet on that, said Mr. Waring, the Reform candidate for Raglan, in one of his addresses.

The Wanganui Education Board has received a notification from the Department of Education that all probationers, both first and second year, qualified for admission, will be admitted to Training College next yeai.

“The body is a great commonwealth of cells. Thor are highly differentiated, and there is no question of equality amongst them,” said Dr. Bcvan Brown, who spoke at the Auckland University College on “Wonders of the Blood.”

To perpetuate the memory of, two brothers killed in the war, Mr. R. A. Laidlaw, general manager of an Auckland trading company, has made a gift to his staff of £5,000 “A” preference •hares in the company to establish what is to be known as the, Laidlaw Brothers Memorial Trust.

“One thing the Government will have to seriously consider,” remarked Mr. J. K. Horn'blow at the Maternity Home ceremony at Palmerston North on Monday, “ia the sending out of experts amongst the young people snd teach them how to live. If that were done—and a similar system is working in the United States—there is no rea«on why ignorance shoqld not be banished.”

The N.Z. Dairy Produce Board advises that the butter market in London is temporarily quiet, but the forward position is sound. New Zealand salted is quoted from 178 s up to 184 s, and unsalted 184 s to 190 s. New Zealand cheese, white and coloured, is quoted at 104 s to 106 s, an advance of 3s on last week. The cheese market is very firm and the outlook till the end of the year is exceptionally good.

“If you have to growl do it at the time you are electing your Hospital Board and put in members who will be economical.” This advice was given by Hon. J. A. Young, Minister of Health at the Maternity Home cerenlony on Monday. The Minister added thatHhti Health Department was watching- carefully and during the last year had joe a able to persuade Hospital Boards \to put off an expenditure of £250,000, fooling that it was not warranted at the present time.

Referring in the house of Representatives to allegations of overcrowding at the Otaki Sanatorium, the Minister of Health (Hon, J. A, Young) stated that during the year the Government had expended a considerable sum in extending and enlarging the institution, and for the time being that had met requirements. The latest information ho had was that there was a small waiting list of patients. If it were found that more adequate accommodation were required, the Department would consider it, and he would favourably look upon proposals in that direction.

Californian thistle, it appears, has its uses. According to two of the speakers at the meeting of the Manawatu executive of the Farmers* Union, in Levin, it is regarded as a stand-by by certain Hawkes Bay squatters, who have described it as a godsend for cattle in a dry summer. • One station ownel* sowed it on his property in the days before it was classed as a noxious weed. The chairman (Mr O. P. Lynch) said he had not known what Californian thistle was until some years ago, when he saw it blooming in a farm near Levin and wondered what the farmer had been sowing with his rape. In course of time it appeared in patches on his own property, but he eradicated it by grubbing it out with a pointed stick. It was when this weed got into the wild country that it spread. Mr Lethbridge described the mass of this weed that sprang up on the Somme battlefield, 'and stated that the ground had since been intensely cultivated and crops had been grown which were as good as anyone could wish for.