SHANNON.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1639, 4 January 1913, Page 2

SHANNON.

Mr. A. Seif ert has purchasod the land and plant of the , Shannon Sawnvilliug Company. The sawmilling plant may ho operated on a royalty' basis by eonio of •tho local.people. ; ~ •, ■ , : Mr. 13. 15.I 5 . Levion of Oroua Bndgo, has ■purchased between five and six hundred acres of flax-land, including the Kingston Block, from tho Makerua Estate Company, and is likely to erect a two-stripper ;■ mill at tho Craw Croelc "_ _ , ■;.. , i Most of the flaxmills m this district ■ resumed'iminediatelr. after ,tho' holidays. TheMiranui mill observed only the/statutory holidays, and taii between Boxing , Day and New Year's] Day. _'."■: .'■ Owing to tiro . low ' prices offering ly ' merchants, there is not. as much grass- '■' seeding work as usual at. this time of " year. Tho price of tho favourite variety " in this district, 1 talL fescue, is about half ' fhht of last year's.,';';•'';.,,: ■ y__ A well-known local resident, Mr. W. \. Murdoch, 19' leaving shortly to;reside in ' ■Wellington. ,"•".■•■ ■'.■",'.""'■', '!;•„, '•"■■'< ■ Prior to hor departure from 1 . Shannon I Miss Ethel Sniith, who is'to t« married : shortly to Mr. L. O'Connor, ol'-the staff. ■ of Messrs. Brandon and Hislop, solicitors, ■ Wellington, received nuniorous, tokens of J the esteem in which-she has.jbecn -held;! , locally. On behalf of tho scholars of the Presbyterian Church, Mr. W. Clayton, tho. ?, superintendent,, presented her -,with o ' handsome silver jam-dish, and the Kev. Mr. J:- A. M'KeMio also; made hor a prc- ■_ .'sentation. ■'' '■ ,-,.■■