LEVIN NOTES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7078, 16 March 1910, Page 8

LEVIN NOTES

TKOM ODB SPECIAI OOBSMPOHDHCT. LBVET, March 15. The Public School pionlo takes place tomorrow on the border of the Horowhen.ua Lake. Levin and Paraparaumu tennis players met lor a game on Saturday, when Levin carried off the honours—Levin 93, Paraparaumu 39. Codlin moth ,and aphis have played great havoc -with the apple crop at Shannon this season. Orchards that last season were practically free ol these pesta ■were attacked so badly that the frnit has to he fed to pigs. Harvest thanksgiving services were held on Sunday in connection with the' Levin Methodist Church. There was a magnificent display of fruit. Brain, vegetables, and flowers. The Bev. T..T. Thomas, of Palmerston North, preached morning and evening. « The Eev. H. A. Kennedy, one of the two forerunners of the fourteen or fifteen missionaries, who are expected to arrive in the Dominion next September, is to preach at St. Maxy'B Church, Levin, on the evening of Wednesday, 23rd inst. The reverend gentleman will give an outline of the work committed to these missionaries, one of whom will hold a mission at Levin, the only mission on the list for this coast. ■.■■■■.. I On Saturday evening a meeting was held at the Century Kail for the purpose of opening an Orange lodge, to be known as Progress Lodge, No. 60. There mi a large number of brethren present from Wellington, Petono, Hutt, and Palmerston North. They were met at the railway station by Bros. N. H. Heath ana O. and E. Oarruthers. The lodge meeting waa presided over by 8.W.&.M. Bro. Anton. when Bro. G. Oarrutherß was installed W.M., Bro. E. Oarruthers secretary, and Bro. H. Heath treasurer. Fonr candidates were initiated, and others are coming forward. A splendid spread followed the installation, when the qsnal toasto were honoured and some songs rendered. The old Maori church at Moutoa, near Shannon, which has been closed for year* was reopened by the Eev. A. G. Williams, of Wanganui, superintendent of theluon Mission in the Wellington diocese. It is a good sized building, but for years it has been unused. When your correspondent visited it last the hymn sheets were lying all over the" seats, and a surplice, discoloured with aga, was hanging in the vestry; small birds flitted all over the building, and scores of nests could be seen under the roof. It was a huge bird cage, with bird-lime everywhere. The interio?of the church looked as if some danger had threatened, and both clergyman and congregation had fled, not staying to even lock the doors.