The Levin Daily Chronicle SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1933. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 August 1933, Page 4

The Levin Daily Chronicle SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1933. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Owing to a sudden demand for tiaber the majority of the timber mills in the King Country, which for months .have been working half time, or have been closed down, arc now very busy. Many of the small mills between Te Kiiiti and Oha-kune are again working full time, and some are finding it difficult to fill their orders.

Plans for the establishment of a new water supply for Waikato areas that at present are either inadequately served, or have no source of bulk supply, are in the course of preparation by a private company. It is .proposed to draw supplies from the Waikato Eiver and to sell the supplies to such local bodies or other interests as desire to purchase 'water.

Motor vehicle -licenses in force in the Dominion at June 30th, 1933,, totalled' 146,994. Of these the North Island claimed 95,763 and the South Iseland 51,231. The types of vehicles licensed. ..were:: —'Cars, 99,579; light trucks, 15,569; .heavy trucks, 11,707; omnibuses,. 499; .taxis, 1396; rental ?ars, 106; service cars, 852; dealers’ chirs, :731p local, authority road vehicles, 1103; Government vehicles, 1.309; motor cycles, 14,036; and dealers’ motor cycles, 107. ■

A cure for drunkenness is on the market in Melbourne which is said to contain enough arsenic, to kill a man. A sample was before the Health Commission. The chairman, D’r. Robertson, said an analysis showed that the “cure” contained 0.36 per cent, of arsenic. It was said to be a sure cure for “hardened drinkers.” Quite possibly it would also make a good spray for fruit trees. The commission decided to prosecute the makers for not placing the ingredients of the powder on the package, and also for failing to mark “poison” on the pack-

‘‘ln spite of adverse propaganda frhere is *o proof that the very best cheese cannot be made from Jersey milk,” -said the president of the >Stratford Jersey Tattle Club at the annual meeting. ‘‘One aspect of high testing milk for cheese making,” continued Mr Kaye, ‘‘has as yet never been brought out. We in New Zealand are using the richest milk in the world for cheese making. .Surely here is matter for advertisement of the very best .nature, but instead of proclaiming the fact from the housetops as any other country would, we read speeches deploring the fact in practically every newspaper. Then the press is blamed for ‘running down’ our own produce. The press would, I am certain, be only too pleased to advertise the fact that our dairy produce is made from the richest milk in the world.”

TJie primary schools representative Eugby match this afternoon resulted in a win for the Wellington representatives who scored 6 points (two tries) to Horowhenua’s 3 (an unconverted try).

Complaints were voiced at a meeting of the Council of the Palmerston North Chamber of Commerce last evening at the epidemic- of street collections in the city. No action, was taken in the way of protest, however.

The Kev. P. 11. Wilkinson will be the preacher at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church to-morrow morning and evening. All members and adherents are urged to be present as a special congregational meeting is being held at the close of the morning service.

Both services in the Century Hall to-morrow will be conducted by the Kev. W. G. Slade, M.A., his subjects being “The Superiority of Christian Character” and “Love and Jealousy in God.” The morning service will conclude with the sacrament of Holy Communion.

“We have eighty jobs begging, and we have no troys to fill them,” said Mr N. G. Gribble, of the Auckland Boys’ Employment Committee, Mr Gribble said that the dairying season was starting, and a boy who knew one end of a cow from the other could earn 10s a week. In the past three months 220 boys had been placed on farms, and the general experience was that thev had done well.

The price war ended in Wanganui on 'Thursday. Dining past weeks flour •prices have been cut down steadily from 4s (id per 2511). bag to 3s 3d (reports the Chronicle). At that price, it is reported, grocers were carrying a loss, and would have found it impossible to carry on. Consequently several interviews occurred, with the result that the decision was reached to put the price back to 4s 3d per bag, this allowing a small margin of protit.

Mrs Annie Cecilia Pearce, while walking along Sit. Asaph Street, Christchurch, at 9.45 o ’clock yesterday morning with her 3-months-old baby girl in her arms, took a lit and rolled along the footpath. The baby rolled into the gutter and was drowned. Mrs Pearce was taken to the hospital and her condition is improving. A passing cyclist first noticed the woman on the footpath and went to her assistance. He next turned his attention to the infant but it was too late to save Its life. Pew others were about at the time.

The Levin Relief Workers’ Association are giving a grand plain and fancy dress “Hard-up Dance” with euchre tournament on Thursday, August 10th, in the Druids’ Hall. No effort has been spared to make this a success. Special music will be provided by Messrs Rikihana, T. Pratt and P. McKay. A free bus will run from Poxton. A waltzing competition and other novelties will be held. The Association having decided to co-operate with the Social Service Committee, will hand over the whole of the proceeds to that committee to augment their funds. Popular prices will be charged.

The arrangements for the Cinderella dance to be hold in the Kimberley Hall on Tuesday evening next are well in hand and the fact that the organisation is in the hands of Kimberley •residents is sufficient to assure patrons that their enjoyment will be well provided for. Excellent music has been arranged for, while the supper and floor will be up to the usual high standard set at previous dances. A special event, in keeping with the title of the function, is the Cinderella dance. In this novelty the ladies will put -one shoe each into the collection, one of which will be marked as the lucky slipper. The gentleman receiving this will receive a prize and be crowned prince, whilst its owner will be the princess. Prizes will also be awarded in a number of other novelty dances.

Following his definite policy of periodically introducing approved new blood into his White Leghorn strain, Mr B. Raskin, of the Queen Poultry Farm, has just received 100 selected eggs from one of the leading NewSouth Wales breeders, Mr F. T. Wimble, of Wimbleford Poultry Farm, Regent’s Park, Sydney. These eggs are from stock averaging 311 eggs per annum in competitions. The Wimbleford Leghorns are regular winners at the Hawkesbury Competitions, and since 1022 they have been consistent hi their achievements. In the 103‘2-33 competitions they won first prize in light breeds and two other first awards. Despite the long journey and many handlings, 00 per cent, of the consignment unpacked in good order. They will be incubated at ouse.

Household groceries at their “Pay Cash and Pay Less” Prices are featured in Yates’ Pash Stores advertisement to-dav.*

The sale of footwear at A. Dempsey’s, Ltd., closes next week and those who have not taken advantage of the rare bargains offered should do so without delay,* ■Sanitarium wholemeal bread, made from Xew Zealand wheat wholemeal, supplied by Sanitarium Health Pood Co., is obtainable from Kean and Robinson’s store or van and also Yates’ Cash Stems, Ltd.* More bargains in men’s and boys’ wear arc featured in Messrs Humphreys and Andrew’s advertisement in this issue. All their stock has been heavily .reduced in price and the sale' affords an excellent opportunity of stocking up at appreciable savings/"-

Trampers who were on the summit of Mt. Waiopehu during the week-end report that they distinctly beard the sound of the exhaust explosions made by a speed-boat undergoing trial on Lake Horowhenua. The reports were also heard at Ohau.

An entertainment is to be given on Monday evening in the Century Hall by the combined Sunday Schools of Levin, the proceeds going towards the expenses of the Teachers’ Convention to be held in Levin at Easter, 193 d. The programme is advertised on page 8.

Although the birth-rate in the Do•minion had been falling in recent •years, said the Hon. J. A. Young, Minister of Health, at the annual meeting of the Plunket Society at Waipukurau, it was largely compensated for by the substantial reduction in the infantile death-rate. In the past year the death rate in the first year of life had been 32.15 per 1000 births, whereas a quarter of a century ago it was 88 per 1000. The births last year totalled 24,824-, a decrease of 1798 compared with the previous ye,ar.

A meeting on Wednesday night at Dunedin, which was addressed by the Mayor (the Kev. E. T. Cox), Mr. P. Jones, M.P. - for Dunedin South, and others, unanimously passed a resolution of x n '°f cs t against “the Government’s ill-advised policy of forcing married men into camps, where their earnings are insufficient to maintain the bare existence of their families, and against the exiling of married men from their wives and believing that this policy endangers the moral, mental, and physical well-being of rising generations.”

“The culture of the Maoris is a thing to marvel at,” said Miss Elsie Andrews during an address to the Taranaki branch of the Trained Nurses’ Association on the cultural value of leisure properly used. “The beauty of th’eir carving, the wonderful fashioning of their tools and weapons, their plaiting and weaving and general manual dexterity, their poetic speech, their music, their physique, the miracle of their perfect teeth, their courage and endurance, their high tribal morality, their kindly communal life, their hospitality, their courtesy, their friendliness to strangers, their openhanded generosity, their happiness, their grace and poise and dignity of bearing—all these precious possessions wore theirs before they ever saw a white man. If to-day you think the Maori lias lost a little of the culture that was his a hundred years ago, where must the blame be laid’ Where but at our own door.’ The Maori knew leisure. He had no fear of it. The elemental instincts of activity and creation were his, and his mind and soul developed along cultural lines in the happiest and most natural manner. ’ ’