SHANNON.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 127, 29 April 1940, Page 8

SHANNON.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) SHANNON, April 26. Anzac Day is not losing anv of ils Dgnificance as' far as Shannon is concerned, there being again a large attendance both at the school and the parade, and later at the theatre gathering. After a short address to the school children by Mr A. R. Blackwood (a South African War veteran), a procession was formed, headed |iv tlio H Grow henna Pipo Band and in * eluding members of the the Mnyot and councillors, Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, Junior Red Cross members, and school pupils. The procession made an impressive scene, a halt being made at the Sunlit African War monument, where several wreaths were laid. At the Cenotaph the Girl Guides and Boy Scouts formed a guard of honour and a large number of beautiful wreaths were laid. Mr (». Keeler, of Levin, plaved the Last Post. A rtery.ee was then held in the theatre, and an msp.rms address was delivered by Lev. Mr StotfBlandv, who said that while vve were proud and grateful to remember the Anzac ol <4. years”ago, we now had to finish the work thov had commenced so well. It was only bv "cleaning up our own lives and get mg hack to the true principles of Christianity within ourselves and in our dealing** our neighbours that we could hope to aocomplLh the work the Anzacs started out so noblv to do. Mr A. Semple, or. behalf of the 'local R.S.A., thanked all who had assisted in the observance. <\t (he householders’ meeting the sccieHarv (Mr B. Hatclcy) presented a comprehensive report of the work of the Shannon Dental Clinic over the past year. It wan pointed nut that there is a debit of UO 2s 3d. which sum had to be drawn .froii the school account. Only one parent m thiec whose children had received treatme t at the clinic had paid towards the clinicmaintenance. The number of ''!' l ' l ™ " ° had received treatment was 308. and the charge worked out at 2s 6 2 d eacl . mint a of the Shannon School was zzJ ai 2s 6£d, representing £27 19s 3d. hut ac u--11 v the amount, collected was £9 15a 4d. The outlying schools had paid their quota, promptly. It had been learned that in the Lst the Health Department had made a reduction in its charges to meet certain h'm 'tances and the department wn, again approached with this object in vuevv -l-L venlv was to the effect that it vva, prepared'to send an officer lo Shannon to consult, with the committee and also made R Hear that it would more than welcome the idea of closing the elimc and tram to - ; t to another centre, owing to the wur ft to keep the clinic in Shannon. Ylrs II Easton has returned homo aflci Mis H. weeks with friends in lauspending a few weeks "’wimierr at the Anglican Church card naripre U GranC 1 and Mrs Brann tv P Ilarpur, slationmaster, who 1... ’r W (Sr d kr“,t°° V" A l ™ nclivit'ies in the church for the past and expressed a beautiful elect,do healer and toaster and a g as, -. • J Swindlchurst, Mrs H.. Roo d (Christchurch), MBs L. Sinclair and Clarice Sinclair _