THE Shannon News. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1921.

Shannon News, 16 December 1921, Page 2

THE Shannon News. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1921.

A Spoils Club is to be started shortly in Shannon. Local enthusiasts have secured ■ the services ot Mr 11. C. Young, of Christchurch, superintend the boxing school, and a meeting will be advertised later to go fully iuto the matter.

Mr W. Kirkland arrived per aeroplane from Foxton yesterday, last evening and this morning many local residents made flights. The. Shannon Druids will give the children a. treat "this year by way of a Christmas Tree, to be held on Friday next. A reminder to the brethren appears in this issue. Mr and Mrs T. Stone, and Mr Geo. Sldne, of tlie Auckland railway staff, who have'been on their annual holidays .have been spending part of the period with their brother, Mr 11. Stone, of Graham Street, Shannon. They returned by the Auckland express the other evening. For having gained the highest marks for bookkeeping at the Palmerston High School, Hoy Gustofson, a Shannon boy, was presented at the school recently with a handsome of

| English history. Roy is to be con* | gratulated on his achievement.

An Auckland telegram says that Patrick Neill, aged 7, fell down in his grandmother’s kitchen at Qnehunga with a slate and pencil in his hand. An explosion followed and was heard three doors away. The boy was severely injured in the hands. Three, fingers were practically blown off, and a fragment of pencil entered one eye, the sight of which may be lost. The only explanation is that possibly the boy had attached a percussion cap to the end of the' slate pencil.

At about 10 a.m. on a recent Sunday, the police received information that a gang of men after hanging about- a certain building in Hereford Street, Christchurch, had quietly vanished within its portals. Two constables were quickly on the scene, and proceeded to take up strategic positions. One remained outside, while his comrade stole quietly into the building, to find, not a "two-up” school in full swing, but some thirty-odd members of the Christchurch Liedertafel placidly sitting for a group photograph.

A copy of the *New Zealand Gazette was received by the County Council ■on Saturday defining the new electoral boundaries of the Otaki, Munawatu and other electorates. The chairman stated that the placing ol Levin in the Manawatu and the immediate district to the south being leftin Otaki had broken up the community of interest. However, the Representation Commission had an onerous duty to perform, and had no doubt done its best. Still, the Otaki electorate had taken in new territory in the Hutt Valley, which had no community of interest with the remainder of the electorate on this side of the range. Cr. Harkness said the Commission’s duty was to get the requisite number oi inhabitants in the. electorates, but a mistake had been made in the past by not always considering community' of Interest-, itshould have been obviated this time.

At- a sitting of the Arbitration Court on .Wednesday, in the matter of the Wellington District Cheese and Rutter Workers’ dispute, Mr W. A. Grenfell, for the employers, objected to the hearing of the application on the grounds that the necessary procedure had been departed from in view of the fact that the first intimation the employers had received of the dispute had been when they were handed the citation to appear before the Court. His Honour intimated that under the circumstances it- '.would create a bad' precedent, if an award were macle. The application was for a new award and not for a renewal of the old one. The Conciliation Council had not even considered the matter, and even if the Court had jurisdiction in the case if would have been referred back to the Council. The dispute should have been referred to the employers in accordance with the recognised precedure. The dispute was struck out, pending further negotiations in the matter.