THE Shannon News FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1921.

Shannon News, 18 November 1921, Page 2

THE Shannon News FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1921.

The foolway in iMimmer Terrace is fast nearing completion, and is expected to cost considerably less than the estimate. Mr Harry Butt i-rushed a finger badly while unloading barrels of lar at the railway staiion, and it. will he some time ho fore he is aide lo resume work. i There has not been an inebriate lodged in 1 tic Masterton police cells for over a month, a record that possibly could not be eclipsed by any other town of simitar size in the Dominion (states The Wairarapa Age). A twelve-year-old boy of adventurous turn of mind had his dream shut tered. at Dunedin on Tuesday morning by an incpn'siiive policeman who, “poking about” the tramp steamer Canadian Mariner for Hie purpose ' f making sure the oscape.d prisoners were not Jjoard, came across the youngster .snugly slowed away in one of the lifeboats. The would-be sailor (says the Start was hand si over L, his parents here, and the -hip sailed tor Australia shortly afterwards

w ' kC l Miss Katie McKegg, daughter ol Mv W. McKegg; was taken to' the hospital on Wednesday to undergo an operation lor appendicitis.

Mr .). Dalzell, who has been in the Palmerston North Hospital lor some time with pneumonic influenza, and who ‘was making good progress, has now contracted diphtheria, jiis many local friends will be glad to hear elan early improvement. ( Experiments of interest to poultry owners have been carried out by Mr! H. Scott,, of Dimmer Terrace. By feeding a! hen and 1 a duck on scraps of cooked fish with a little crushed Mr Scott, has increased the size of the eggs considerably. Hens’ eggs tfnder this feeding weigh 4£oz, and the ducks eggs 4soz, and are to be seen at; the Cash Trading Store. Th local postmaster, Mr W. Baxter, informs us that the PostmasterGeneral has announced that special arrangements have been made for acceptance of Christmas and New Year greeting cable messages via Pacilic, addressed to the United Kingdom and lodged not later than December 20 and 28, for delivery on Christmas morning, and New’ Year's live respectively. The charge is Gs 8d for 10 words, and. additional words 8d each. The text must be confined to greeting or purely social matters. Business matter will not be permitted.

Of 150 trees which were .-et out by. ;he Napier Borough Council at Meediiee, only 16 have survived, owing + o a lengthy dry spell billowing *he planting.

An Auckland telegram says: Frank Dawsey, discharged yesterday on a charge of smuggling jewellery, was fined £IOO or three months to-day on another charge of failing to declare £‘7o worth of gold wire brooches.

While working on his farm at Mangateparu, near Morrinsvilie, a returned soldier named Alexander Ross was attacked by a bull which had always been regarded as quiet and loci.lth' Boss was knocked down., and gored and. received severe injuries in the thigh.

Among the Wanganui and Taranaki local bodies there is a movement afoot to adopt a uniform set of by-laws. Negotiations to this end are just, about completed, and ,there should he before very long a uniform set by-laws adopted by local bodies

belweeu Rangitikch and New Plymouth. ,

“1 do not know whether it is generally known, but we have no fewer than five bodies controlling education in Masierton,” said Mr C. E. Darnell. “It seems to me ridiculous, and certainly is not business?’ He looked forward to the time when one administrative” body would, control education in the district.

Some of Hie light-fingered; gentry wore evidently operating at the races yesterday. A local resident had his pocket picked, and was relieved of liis purse containing £9. A Hastings, business man received a letter on Wednesday from an ojd apprentice of bis, who went farming, saying- that- alter twelve years’ hard work lie had lost his mongy, amounting to about £13,000, from the wtgcK oi which lie- just managed to scrap'e £SOO, with which remnant of his fortune he is about to start again at his old trade,

The Greymouth siar stales that the exodus of residents from the West Coast to Christchurch during- Carnival Week was such that business was at a standstill. ' The Star expressed the hope that a lot of money would he brought to Greymouth from the C..J.C. meeting to relieve the financial stringency.

In connection with the agitation on die part of county councils throughout the district and, for that matter, the whole of, the Dominion, for .a reduction in wages paid to their roadmen, it is interesting to note that one county council not far frojti Palmerston pays out over £3OOO per annum in salaries alone. In addition the same local, body provides motor-cars for some of its staff and payment of the officials’ travelling expenses. The salary list, a copy, of which was handed to a. Standard representative recently, is as follows: County clerk, treasurer and rate collector, £600; assistant county clerk and returning officer, £350; assistant clerk, £230; junior clerk, £108; typiste £65; county engineer, £6OO, plus travelling allowance £SO and free 'ear; road inspector, £4OO, plus £l7O travelling allowance; road foreman, £250 and free car; -assistant. engineer, £2OO and actual travelling expenses; engineer's assistant. £133 and actual expenses; ranger and dog tax collector, £2OO, "plus free mo-tor-cycle and out-of-pocket .expenses. “This,” remarked our informant, “is a staggering burden for the ratepayers to .carry. Small wonder that the county finds itself hard-pressed to find money for its roads. And the point about, the whole business is that tire roarlrnen—not the staff-over whose wages the Council in question is so seriously exercised, are paid 13s per day!”

iaicK JOn&JbtA fi "Women ao not like any distinction being made between them and men nowadays,” Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., smilingly remarked at Ashburton on Thursday last, “I will therefore fine this young lady the same as mere men charged with riding without lights.” The Court’s approval of this interpretation of women’s rights was, evidenced by the broad smile which went round. The mystery of the continued loss of large numbers of golf palls by members of the Carleton Place Golf Club, a,t Brockville, Ontario, was solved in unexpected fashion by an inquisitive caddie. The boy, while searching vainly for lost balls, saw a squirrel enter a hollow log, and, investigating further, discovered that the little animal had a store of no fewer than tubal Is secreted in the log. A search in other hollows in adjacent trees has reresulted In the recovery of an additional 50 balls.

The New Zealand Council of Chautauqua has now completed arrangements for the 1922 season, and an array of talent of the very highest standard fias been secured. The lecturers include Mr J. C. Herbsman, whose inspirational addresses of two years ago are still appreciatively remembered; Colonel John Leader, who has seen 23 years’ service in the British Army, ancl will deal with reconstruction problems through Anglo-Saxon eyes; Dr. F. Loveland, a man of commanding presence, who deals with “The Bolshevist Bubble”; and Harold R. Peat, one of Canada’s foremost lecturers, whose subject is “Problems of the Dominions.” As an author, Harold Peat attained wonderful success, ! over one million copies of his book, “Private Peat” being sold in America alone. The musical artists engaged include many well known performers from England, Australia and America.