DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3418, 9 January 1912, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

LEVIN NOTES, • . ' [teß tress association.] *1 V- - - Jan. $. : 4 Bright Vahri -weather has succeeded three ' months 'of : continuous broken weatlier ' lctcallV; .and 1 farmers are ivelconiih^. 4 tlie rchiinge,' ‘as the fodder growths are backward., and tire hay hardest has been retarded. '2 The .swimming, baths, erected out of a Coronation; subsidy/ and municipal money, at a total cost of LSOO, |j|aie practically complete. An official opening is being arranged. . . A The,Carnegie Library at Levin is now : open, aiid dp,meeting with public patronage,' 1 * both s from local townspeople and the farmers of the district. j OLD 1 iDMtTTY’S' DEATH. y NE\W PLYMOUTH, Jan. 8. Mr Henry Hooker, aged 7S, who arrived in New Plymouth, ini' 18G1. died yesterday. . , 4 ' r " SHORT WEIGHT ‘BREAD, y 1 vr WEtfA/INGTON: Jam 8. ...Three taken? were .fined', 40s. each today for selling short weight bread. The, excuse was that iif>t eiipugh;!Bia.rginp"afS| allowed for evaporation# tlQlne defend-% ant said it was not fair that one loaf should lie selected, and that the -wholebatch, iveigljedj .Would, iv?t be foupd to j be short weight. Horace Joyes was sente need to one months’, • pupnspimiQi|t,. the sentences to be concurrent • on, tiro charts of slv-gi-ogf tsiJlihg.' -- Accused had been previously sco)iyict6d.j- Thomas Elliott was fined £1 5 for ,a .similar offence. or 21 days’ imprisoninenUm -- "WATER- BORE AT HAXMIR.* n 1 pool selected by tlie Rev. Mr. Mason. 'J'lie contractor had got a. 10-gallon ,pei minute How with a' l ! sft J rise at'9oft, but ‘"acting undeyr instructions from somebody, ; hacl .goiie tlmmgh water to complete /the* Oontract'Hif 100ft-borhy ISO that lie had lost the benefit of a. well at 90ft. The minister said lie would o-et a report from an engineer. He hoped to be.,able' to visit Honmer about Wednesday ..A r vA " | , 111 ,•/ V