The Levin Daily Chronicle TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1939. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 April 1939, Page 4

The Levin Daily Chronicle TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1939. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Subscribers to the ,f ‘ Chronicle ” are reminded that subscriptions in advance are now due. A discount of 2s is made on a quarter’s subscription if paid in advance and all who wish to avail themselves of this concession should do so now. The quarterly removal or rubbish throughout the Borough will take place to-morrow, Wednesday, 12th April. All rubbish must be placed in proper receptacles and adjacent to the street frontage, as on no account will the Borough employees enter on to private property for the purposes of collection.

“I am inclined to add five shillings tc your fine for telling a tale like that, ’ ’ said Mr. S. L. Paterson, S.M., in the Hamilton Police Court in fining a man 10s for driving a car without a license. The defendant said he had a license, but it was out of date. He thought that once a driver got a license it lasted for the life of the car.

The widespread interest that is being taken in the question of establishing a State lottery is shown by the fact that no fewer than 46 affiliations have sponsored the following remit to the annual conference of the Labour Party, which opened in Wellington yesterday: “That the Government be asked to give serious consideration to the institution of a State lottery, or failing this that a plebiscite of the people be taken; the profits to be devoted to the hospitals, charities, social security, physical fitness campaign, or the defence of Hew Zealand.”

Were crinolines in vogue in 1840, and, if so, how big were they? This is one of a number of problems which the National Historical Committee, as the final historical authority on the Centennial, has had to answer from time to time. This particular one arose because an artist in a sketch showed early women settlers landing in crinolines, and the committee was asked to check up on the point. The committee's “finding" was that crinolines were in vogue 100 years ago, and were at that time of moderate size. The exaggerated crinoline came later, apparently. Other unusual inquiries have included: Were packing cases used by the pioneers who arrived in 1840? The committee authorities have decided that they were. An artist, who showed that he was also an historian, had included them in a sketch.

Euchre players are reminded of the card evening at the Fire Station this evening at 8 p.m.

An advertisement in this issue announces the residence in Levin ox Mr. Albert F. Lord, late of Wellington, who has bought a property in Kawiu Road. Mr. Lord is an expert in matters pertaining to nursery work and landscape gardening. Pruning, hedge trimming and all types of garden work will be efficiently executed, while plants and seeds will be stocked for sale.

“I have heard nothing about it,” said the Minister of Finance, the Hon. W. Nash, when asked if it were true that a rise in the rate of exchange was contemplated. Humours of an increase in the rate of exchange were prevalent in Auckland on Thursday prior to the closing of financial houses and the Stock Exchange for the Easter vacation. The rumour emanated from Christchurch, it being suggested that an increase in the rate was likely of from 5 per cent, to 15 per cent. It is not considered that a firming of Australian shares on the New Zealand market was due to the rumours.

“1 really think that conscription would be more readily accepted in Britain now than'ever before,” said MajorGeneral N. G. Cameron, Colonel of the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, in a j ‘ interview at Christchurch. General Cameron has come to New Zealand on a pleasure trip, after spending some time in Australia, where he visited four battalions allied to his regiment. ‘ ‘ Most military men in England are in favour ox conscription,” he said. “1 have always been in favour of it, because it would ensure our being ready. No soldier wants war, but he wants to be ready for it if it comes. ’ ’ General Cameron has been off the active list foxeight years. He was a staff officer during the Great War, and afterwards served in India. He was recently Chief Air Raid Warden for the town of Bedford.