Miss P Roe, senior clerk of the Levin Post Office Savings Bank branch makes adjustments to Postmaster L Park's neckwear watched by Mr B Lacey, savings bank clerk, ahead of branch centennial celebrations with staff wearing 19th century costumes for the day.
Miss P Roe, senior clerk of the Levin Post Office Savings Bank branch makes adjustments to Postmaster L Park's neckwear watched by Mr B Lacey, savings bank clerk, ahead of branch centennial celebrations with staff wearing 19th century costumes for the day.
Making local news 50 years ago this week in The Chronicle was the Horowhenua AP&I Show, touted as one of the best with the rodeo event a real crowd-pleaser.
Even a heavy rainfall that sent the crowds packing into the Industrial Hall and taking shelter wherever they could didn't discourageshow-goers.
Show president Mr B Stewart said the Saturday night show was "beyond expectations" and gate takings were up 32 per cent from last year.
The Levin branch of the Post Office Savings Bank celebrated 100 years with staff dressing up in period costume for the day.
Whoops the turtle made headlines after his second escape from his pen at 29 Princes St, Levin.
This time Whoops' bid for freedom ended after 10 days when children in a neighbouring section found him and returned him to his owner.
Pre-school children in Levin were missing out on pre-school education because the town's one kindergarten couldn't cope with numbers wanting to attend.
There were 300 children on the waiting list for the Levin Free Kindergarten.
A magistrate commended seven teenage boys and girls for stopping a motorist at Manakau and taking his ignition keys from him.
The driver from Palmerston North pleaded guilty to driving while under the influence of drink.
A letter to the editor from L Milne of Levin was critical of Manawatu Catchment Board lowering the Lake Horowhenua water level.
Roped and secured, the president of the Horowhenua AP&I Show Association was hi-jacked by a 'cowboy' during a hilarious interlude at the Saturday night show.
"In exchange for an insignificant sewage improvement, the board is well on the way to making a foul smelling swamp ... "
The state of the lake was poor and the result of lowering the water level resulted in a "luxurious growth of slime, weeds and bacteria, and the water had changed to a bright green colour with weed covering about 100 acres of water".
