1) Bitter blow when Levin site rejected.
invitation to Massey College ceremony received by council "with regret".

The bitterest disappointment Levin has had in its 50 years as a borough was when the Government selected Palmerston North and turned its back on Levin as the site for Massey Agricultural College. Now a show place and tourist attraction, Massey College was once the centre of controversy which raged throughout the length and breadth of New Zealand and stimulated a North Island vs South Island war of words.

2) Why are there so few really old houses?.

Some samples of heart matai taken from a house ercted over 60 years ago were produced in the Levin Courthouse in 1947 to illustrate a point made by a local builder that a house built of such timber would last a "life time". The court was impressed by the condition of the timber.

3) Laid aside the plough which turned the sod of his pioneer farmland and donned the wig and gown.

"... the turf gave way to the furrows at his feet. His hand guided the plough but he was not earthbound..." He was not exactly what one would call an Adonis. Aged about 18, tall, lanky, neither boy nor man, unmanageable straight, red hair, a red, sunburnt face with many freckles, and so self-conscious that his own boots appeared to be studied more than all else about him.

Inscription on cover facing photograph reads: “Mrs Jane Harrison Aged 91 yrs. Martinborough Wairapa (sic) Mother of Mrs John Cameron Levin x Shannon”

Mrs Jane Harrison aged 91 years, of Martinborough, Wairarapa. Mrs Harrison was the mother of Mrs John Cameron of Shannon and Levin. In this photograph Mrs Harrison sits in a wicker chair which has been placed on rugs outside a house, and in front of a large bush.

Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit “Horowhenua Historical Society Inc.”