1) High jinks on new year's eve in the early days.

It was a New Year's Eve in Levin in the early days when 100 peopele was a big crowd for the town. On the Post Office side of the street was Dick Butt's butchery business, a wheelwright's shop and W.M. Clark's drapery. There was an alleyway between the shops. All the young people were in the streets with the same high spirits as the night demands today.

2) Levin "Buys" train.

Levin made railways history in 1930 when the proprieters of the De Luxe Theatre (now the Regent) decided to "buy" a train to bring patrons from as far north as Palmerston North to see the talking "Broadway Melody." Levin got the picture when it was still screening in the main metropolitan theatres.

3) Groceries tendered for theatre in naming of town streets.

Patrons attending a matinee performance of "Girl Crazy", a musical comedy with Wheeler and Woolsey as the chief fun makers, paid for their entrance to the Regent Theatre in Levin by tendering a parcel of groceries.

4) First Mayor overlooked in naming of town streets.

Early indentities, counties in distant England, wartime leaders of Allied countries and forces, and a past mayor or two are recorded for the posterity in the borough of Levin. But residents today can search in vain, as the writer did, for the name of Gardener above any street in Levin.

1) Surf and life-saving club ensures safe record of beach resort near Levin.

The Levin Junior Chamber of Commerce adopted as its main project for 1949 the establishing of a surf patrol at Waiterere Beach. This popular beach, well known as perhaps one of the safest bathing resorts on this coast, had unfortunately experienced drowning fatalities over the years and it was considered that a surf life-saving club was essential to teach the approved methods of live-saving and resuscitation.

2) Early days rugby was a "come as you please" business.

Among this district's earliest rugby players was Mr. Jack Smith, of Cambridge Street, who is now in his eighties, and still a keen follower of the sport, though, understandably a somewhat critical one when he compares rugby as played in the earliest days and rugby today. He was one of the first to join the Levin Football Club and thinks he must be about the last of these earliest players of the sport in this district.