HOROWHENUA NOTES.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 1585, 10 June 1920, Page 3

HOROWHENUA NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) The Levin Borough Council decided at Monday night's meeting to set up a committee to report on the advisability of investing the town clerk with power to supervise the work of the Council, all departments being brought under his control. In other words the town clerk will act in the capacity of a general manager. The Mayor (Mr Matheson), who brought forward the matter, is confident that the innovation will be successful and quoted the New Plymouth case, where a similar experiment is said to be working very well. The committee set up is to make its report to the next meeting of the Council. Levin Is keen on sharing in the distribution of war trophies to be made throughout this district, and the Borough Council has decided to get in touch with the central committee in Palmerston North which is in charge of the distribution; Messrs Griffiths Bros., returned soldiers, have purchased Mr G. Stratton’s farm in Kimberley Road, near Levin. The Levin branch of the R.S.A. held its annual reunion last week, a successful time being spent. Mr F. Sfallard represented the Levin branch at the R.S.A. conference in Wellington last week. Building continues brisk in Lecin. At the present time a picture theatre, four shops and several dwellings are in course of completion. Mr T. Broome, a well-known citizen. and a member of the Borouvh Council, is seriously ill with pneumonic influenza. Several other cases are reported about town. Football is booming in Horowhenua this season. The first rep. match will be played against Kangitikei on Saturday at Marton. At the Levin sale yesterday bacon and porker pigs were in good demand, but weaners suffered a fall as compared with last sale. Cattle were slow, of sale.