The Levin Daily Chronicle MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 January 1929, Page 4

The Levin Daily Chronicle MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Whop Day in aid of the Levin District High School Picnic Fund will be held on Saturday next. Contributions invited of saleable goods and produce and these will be collected on Saturday morning if a telephone message is sent to the Chronicle Office or to IMr. J. W. Procter on Friday. The Now South Wales bowlers left Now Plymouth this morning for Hamilton, says a Press message. On Friday and Saturday they were defeated in matches against North Taranaki, the points being 110 to 140, and 102 to 124. The North Egmont Hostel was visited on Sunday.

The Chronicle will not be published to-morrow (Anniversary Day).

The 'Hall Cup cricket matches sot down for Saturday were postponed on account of the wet weather.

The Kawakawa Hospital reports today that the two jockeys, Carnmick and Spinks, who were injured at the Bay of Islands race meeting on Saturday, are making satisfactory progress.

An application was received by the Horowhenua County Council on Saturday, from Mrs E. England, of Wellington, for a grant to the Wellington Prisoners' Aid Society. The Council responded by making the usual grant of £2 2s.

A letter of thanks was received by the Horowhenua County Council on Saturday from the committee of the Levin Blanket Society, through the secretary (Mrs W. Smaill), for the Council’s donation of £lO to the Society.

The Inspetcor of Health' for the district (Mr ,1. W. Huggins of Palmerston North) reported to the Horowhenua County Council on Saturday as follows for November:—lnfectious disease cases investigated, 2; Sanitary inspections: Habitations, 14 visits; foodscllers’ premises, 2 visits; plumbing and drainage, 2 visits, 1 requisition served.

The Horowhenua. County Council was called upon by the Department of Labour, on Saturday, to fix Hie weekly half-holiday for shops in the county. On the Chairman’s motion, it was decided that, in accordance with the usual custom, no action be taken. This means that the Minister will appoint the day already observed —namely, Wednesday.

There are signs of the weather, becoming more settled and all should be well, for the picnic of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Sunday School, to be ‘held on Mr. J. Varnham’s property, Gladstone Road, to-morrow. Cars will leave the Chinch at 9 a.m. sharp, and the occasion should be a happy one both for young and old. A cordial invitation is extended to all scholars, parents and those, interested in the work among the children.

For the Levin Methodist Church and Sunday School picnic, to be held tomorrow, extensive, preparations have been made, and the occasion should be a very successful one. Cars will leave the Church at 9 a.m. and 1.30 p.m., and a welcome awaits visitors and residents who join with the congregation and Sunday School for this outing. A collection will be made to defray- all expenses. , Safe bathing facilities are and Me bush will be found to afford excellent shade. Lunch and tea will be provided for everyone attending. *

An auctioneers’ license in the county was granted on Saturday, by the Horowhenua County Council, to Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., in the name of Mr S. Sievers. Tlie period of the license is only until March 31st, after which the new Austionecrs’ Act comes into operation. The Chairman (Mr G. A. Monk) said that the Council would appreciate what the firm were doing in taking out this small portion of their yearly license, and the Council would be very pleased if, on the incoming of the Act, this and other firms secured licenses in the county, in which most of their business was done and not in the boroughs. The auctioneers to a very large extent used the roads of the county on their business; they had several cars mining about, and realised that the Council had given them decent roads to travel on.

Advice was received by the Ilorovvhenua County Council on Saturday, from the chairman of the Highways Board (Mr P. W. Furkert) that the Wellington Automobile Association had written ashing whether the Board would be prepared to paint white the smaller bridges on the Main Highway between Wellington and Palmerston North. The request appeared to be a reasonable one, and he thought that this Council should take it up with the local authorities The Board would regard any expenditure in this connection as a charge against the revenue fund and would provide two-thirds of the cost. On the motion of the County Chairman (Mr G. A. Monk) seconded by Or. Ryder, the letter was referred to the Works Committee The Chairman stated that it was not a very big matter, but was one on which they would have to take sonic action.

It 1 tho average man were east away on a Desert Island and compelled to load a Robinson Crusoe existence, his first thought (after the food and water problem was solved) would be: “How can I get something to smoke?'’ The craving for tobacco is insistent in tho case of 10 men out of every 12, and to satisfy the universal demand hundreds "of brands of the “weed” are on the market. They come from many lands, one of the latest countries to produce them (in a perfected form) being New, Zealand. Strange say the barren gum lands of the North which won’t grow ordinary crops grow splendid tobacco, a matter of the greatest importance to men On tho land up there, because tho average yield of leaf is worth £SO per acre, and the industry promises to become a source of National wealth. The local article is much appreciated by those who had to give up smoking foreign tobaccos because of the excess of nicotine which affected their health. Try “Riverhead Gold” (mild), Navy Cut (Bulldog medium, or Cut Plug No 10 Bullshead (full).—2B*

Sale Special.—36-inch Fuji Silk, natural colour, a good heavy-weight, usually 3/11 yard. Sale Price 2/6 yard, at the C.M. Ross Co., Ltd.'s Summer Sale.*

Unbleached Herringbone Sheetings, in single and double bed widths, good heavy quality, will wear well. -Single ■width, usually 1/9. Sale Price 1/5. Double bed size, usually 2/9. Sale Price 2/2. The C.M. Ross Co., Ltd., The Store for Value.