THE Shannon News FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1921.

Shannon News, 7 October 1921, Page 2

THE Shannon News FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1921.

Miss Thelma Shaw, of Levin, a fully ’qualified teacher of the piano, con- ; templates giving lessons in Shannon. ! She will he at the Parish Hall to meet I parents and intending pupils from 10 o’clock till 2 p.m. on Monday. Mr and Ajlrs Empson and the latter’s > mother, Mrs Parker, who ■ are well i known residents, have left to Make up j J residence in Foxton. Mrs Parker will ; be greatly missed, her readiness and j willingness 1o assist- in times of sick- ) ness being a characteristic that has j gained her the thanks of the whole J community. i \ i On Tuesday a flying boat, carrying l a crew of three, made the first flight ‘ from Auckland to Wellington. The j journey of 400 miles occupied 5 hoprs ! 6 rhinutes, and stops were made at, • Knwhia and Wanganui.

, The, death, occurred at the Palmerston Hospital/of Mr. Streeter, who has been for some time living in Shannon, and has for many years been employed on the railway. The interment took place at Palmerston.

' An average of 35 tons oi fibre is leavmg the Shannon railway station daily. The Department is apparently' meeting the demand for trucks and sheets at present with no difficulty. A very pleasant social was held in the Parish Hall on Tuesday evening, there being a large number present. Games, cards and musical items were the order of the evening. Miss Merwood was the recipient of a bandsome present in recognition of iier services as organist to the church.

Many local farmers are realising' the value of planting shelter trees. Mr 11. Byers is at present putting in a large quantity, and bundles of trees are arriving almost daily at the railway station.

The monthly meeting of the Horowhenua County Council takes place on Saturday.

Norman Rule Williams until recently secretary to the Nelson Education Board, was sentenced in the Supreme Court at Wellington 'to two months’ imprisonment on each of 20 charges, the sentences .to be cumulative, for embezzlement of.the Board's funds.

A member of the .Wanganui Police Force who distinguished himself.tin the capture of Donovan t and Allen (says i the Herald) was a proud ipan this morning. He came dowp to the station and joyfully announced to his brother officers that the latest addition to his family was twins—a boy and a girl. , ' ’

A consignment- of 7000 of a certain species of ladybird has been received in Taranaki from California by Dr. Tillyard, biologist to the Cawthron Institute, for liberation in aphis-infect-ed districts. Some have been set free in the neighbourhood of New' Plymouth. 1

The annual sale of pedigree bulls, the - property of the North Taranaki breeders, was held this week. On the first day, 88 lots brought just imder 5000 guineas, an average of £SO 5s per head.. The top price yearling bull was Viola's Golden Noble, which fetched 220 guineas. The total for tlie sale was 8226 guineas. A remarkable advance took place in the price of hides at the sale in Christchurch yesterday, when 3000 lots were, offered. The increase ranged from 75 per cent upward. The’ best, demand was for hides of 551 b weight aud upwards, and the average advance for these ran from 4& to 4d per pound. ,

Tlie New Zealand overseas shipping companies have decided to redube the freight on wool from New Zealand to London by three-eights of a penny per pound. The reduction will operate forthwith, making the freight for greasy wools l£d per lb, and for scoured and slipe wool ljd, plus the usual primage.

Is ‘‘turned down” a slang expression? A certain county clerk recently placed before the chairman of the local body a copy of a letter he had sent to a Government department, in which the expression “turned down” was used. The chairman looked over his spectacles at the clerk. ‘‘ls not: that a curious expression?” he asked,' with kind solemnity. ■ The clerk was ready. “It is in the Act,” he replied with a smile, producing a volume of Statutes. “You are quite right,” said the chairman, after reading the clause and finding “turned down” to he the identical expression used in the connection in which the clerk bad placed it. —Feilding Star. During tlic war period a prisoner in one of our gaols escaped and under an assumed name enlisted and fought' for a Ibng period at the front. He came back to New Zealand, got married, and set up a little. home for himself. Some .time' afterwards he was recognised and put in gaol again to carry out the remainder of his sentence. The matter ;so preyed on his mind that, after a brief period behind prison ’ bars, it was found necessary to commit him-to a mental hospital. His case is just one of the little tragedies of the war, and shows the com-

plex nature of the human mind —rebellion. patriotism.’ love, suffering, and then the breakdown; the broken home and ,a child without a father’s care.

fhe adjourned annual meeting of suppliers of the Tatita; Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd., at Morrinsville was a most stormy one and recriminations and personalities were freely indulged in. The personal and private affairs of individual shareholders were delved into and at, times the discussion became very acrimonious. On three occasions abusive language was used and the intervention of other suppliers prevented an exchange of blows in different parts of the hall. As the result ,of the meeting the chair-, man of directors, Mr F. Seifert, tendered his resignation to the board directors,

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Mrs W. * Easton has returned frail Wanganui, \vnere she has been visiting Mrs C. Humphri js.

Mr W. Miller, of the,Railway staff) lias recovered frbm his recent illness, and has beep granted Us annual leave. He Intends taking a tour cf the North Island.

Mr Watterson is at present on a visit to the Wairuapa.

Mr Wheeldon has returned to Shannon after a considerable stay in the South Island.

Linton farmers are sending about 200 gallons of (.ream daily by rai! to Levin factory.

The Bowling •. iub have fixed their opening day :or October :«9, and intend holding a dance in the evening of that day.

Twenty-eight new telephones are being installed in Shannon.

A social is to be held in Rie Moutoa Schoolhouse this evening.

A considerable drop has occurred; in. the price of fat pigs! Companies who were advertising the "price at 9d per lb a short time ago are now only paying 6£d. The Farmers’ Meat Packing Co. ai’e trucking bn Friday, and are still holding the. price at 7d.

Arrangements have been made with Mr Billens, of Levin, for the taking of photos of the characters and dancers taking part in “The Eastern Charm, and Mrs .Spence has kindly consented to paint the scenery. The making of the costumes is a very big item, there being nearly 100 altogether, but the ladies have once again come forward, many of the mothers of the tiny dancers being willing to assist. .The children, under Mrs Parkhouse, are malting ( splendid progress, and everything points to a 'tip-tbp performance in about three or four weeks’ time. ,

A final reminder is given of the sale of work being held by the Girl Scouts in the Parish Hall this afternoon and evening. Afternoon tea may be had, and also good bargains. y Cabinet has decided that the law must take its eburse in the case of Haltaraia Te Kahu, founds guilty of murder. Kahu will be hanged in the Auckland Gaol at 8 o’clock on Monday morning next.

There is a possibility that instead Of making a second canal at Panama (which already is too small for the trade), the Nicaraguan route may be " followed. The total length from Greytown, in the Atlantic, to San Aian del Sur, in the Pacific, via Lake Nicaragua, would be 183 miles, as'compared with the 49- mile? of. the Panama Canal, but nearly 50 miles would be in the free, deep waters of the lake- i

The movements of a certain farmer on th£..>Te Miro soldiers’ settlement have 'aroused suspicion in • that locality during the last few weeks and (he loss of cattle from the herds of one farmer has caused such grave concern that the police, acting on information they have received; have been busily investigating the reports 'for some days. The; culminating point was reached when a warrant was issued for the arrest of the suspected settler. It is alleged that >,the person responsible -for these little escapades has been systematically converting a considerable member of his neighbour’s cattle to . his own use; and is disposing of tliem to a well known firm of land agents and dealers in the Taranaki district,—Cambridge * Independent. \

“We are not blaming Mr Parr or Mr Russell for the Social Hygiene Bill',” stated’the president (Mrs P. Crabb) at the W.C.T.U. convention at Lower I-lutt, “They are all doing what they think is the best thing.

Just when we have educated one Minister on the subject, he goes out, and his place is taken by a hew Minister who knows nothing about it. (Laughter.) Then, after we have turned a few of his bills out, his portfolio is changed, and so we go on educating the members of Parliament.”

It is the opinion of students of the geology of New Zealand that part of Palmerston North and Te Ma,tai was the 1 site of a great lake hundreds of years ago. Colour is lent to this theory by tne discovery of a solid totara log, 70ft. below the surface of ihe earth, on Mr T. W. Stace’s’farm at Te Matai. While sinking an artesian well on the property, Messrs

Brown and Rasmussen met this obi struction and bored through it, secur--1 ing a splendid flow of water through ( a three-inch bore of 95 gallons per | minute, with a rise of 35 feet above ; the surface, at a depth of 207 feet. I How the totara tree came to be at that

depth can oniy be surmised, hut if the location was once a lake, as is thought, the problem can be more readily’ solved, as it is possible with the drying up of the water and the growth of vegetation over the hollow basin the latter was, in the course of time, filled to the height of 70 feet.— Standard.