THE Shannon News FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1921.

Shannon News, 17 June 1921, Page 2

THE Shannon News FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1921.

Mr G. Pickard, of Shannon, left on Wednesday on a trip to Australia. There was a good muster of members of the Shannon Golf Club on the links on Wednesday., and some interesting games were indulged in. The fortnightly meeting of the Shannon Borough Council takes place this evening. Among other business, the temporary lighting scheme will be considered. In Denmark, it is reported, farmers are required to number and initial each egg sent to market. If one or two eggs are bad the farmer is lined; if three are bad he is boycotted. The Shannon Inspector of Factories (Constable McGregor) has received notification that the Wellington Prices Investigation Tribunal has been dis'banded, and that in future the profiteering section of the Board of Trade Act will be administered by the Board of Trade, the lccal officer in charge in the four chief centres of the Dominion.

The Shannon Football Club’s dance on Tuesday evening was a big success. There were fully 80 couples present, including visitors from Tokoimaru, Foxton and Levin, and the evening passed merryy to the music of Mrs Butler, assisted by Miss Macdonnell and Messrs. 11. Hook, B Spencer and McDonald. An excellent supper was provided, and added to the enjoyment of the occasion. A rather amusing incident happened during the progress of the ClifftonOkaiawa match at Okaiawa on Saturday (says the News), when a mob of sheep that, had been grazing on the grounds came tearing up the playing field, colliding with the players and almost jumping over the ball in their eagerness to reach the other end of the paddock. At the particular time Okaiawa were attacking, and it looked as though the sheep had come to their assistance.

Over 50 years ago there was a Penny Bank in Wellington, but it got into shallow water, and' that was the end of it. Taranaki has revived the idea. The New Plymouth Savings Bank, receiving deposits of Id and upwards, and allowing 4i per cent per annum on all accounts of £1 and upwards. The scheme has been so far approved by the Taranaki Education Board that permission has been allowed the bank trustees to circularise the schools on the advantage of this aid to thrift'.

“Another sunspot about 20,000 miles in diameter is now about central on the solar disc,*' says Mr Clement Wragge. “That it indicates the aftermath of the great solar outburst that took place there is no doubt, and it proves, moreover, that the gigantic sun storm that occurred last month has rapidly filled up and become negative.

It is stated that- irregularities have been discovered in the accounts of a Wairarapa local authority, and that proceedings are likely. At a Court function in 1810 Napoleon Bonaparte observed a woman wearing jewels of such’ magniricenee that he inquired how her husband made his money. “He is a tobacco merchant,” was the answer. Within a year Napoleon had made the sale and manufacture of tobacco an exclusive monopoly to the State, and it is so still in France.

The question of toll-gates in the Egmont County was advanced a step further on Tuesday, when the Egmont County Council passed a resolution favouring the erection of toll-gates and the sites for three toll-gates were selected. Cr. Ferguson said toll-gates were not favoured in some quarters, but he considered that the only way to give relief to their own ratepayers in connection with the heavy cost of maintaining the roads was to make outside traffic pay, particularly those merchants from Wellington, Auckland, Wanganui, etc., who damaged •their roads and paid nothing towards their upkeep. The only way to make them pay was through toll-gates. If they were to go on making roads to suit these people they would run their ratepayers into the bankruptcy court. He moved that the Council should erect toll-gates. The motion was carried, one councillor voting against it, and it was later decided that the sites of the three gates should be as follows: (1) Eltham Road, between the Te Kiri store and the. Patiki Road; (2) Main South Road to Hawera, between the PStiki Road and the racecourse gates; (3) Main South Road to New Plymouth, between Pungarehu and Punilio.