THE Shannon News WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1922.

Shannon News, 25 January 1922, Page 2

THE Shannon News WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1922.

A report of the Shannon Borough Council meeting last night will appear in next issue of the News. Miss Agnes Aim will resume the teaching of the pianoforte on Monday, February 6. \ Mr and Mrs William Gill, who were married in Napier last Wednesday, are at present visiting Shannon. A large number of local residents visited Foxton during the week, the races and the beach being the attractions. Mrs E. Butt, who underwent an operation recently, is making steady progress towards recovery, but is far from being well yet. The Shannon School picnic is to take place about February 26. A plc-~ turs programme has been arranged for Februaiy 13 to raise funds for the purpose.

Mr J. Dalziell, who is now out cl the hospital and staying with Mends in Palmerston North, is improving slowly, hut it will he some time he- * lore he is able to start work again.

The Southland Daily News says it is practically certain that .'Sir Joseph Ward will re-enter Parliament, pronahly at the next elections.

The latest census of the Maori population show*, an lnciease oi mm as compaieu witn the retains rui TJI6. The first census, taken m itm, gave a Maori population oi This year's shows that there are 52,751 Maoris in the Dominion.

The Riverbank Factory (Woodviiiej is now making cheese. The nutter 101 the Woodviiie lactones, per Ainen'lc, realised 181/, the Ruapehu shipment 172/. The Atlienic ieit WemiiguM un tiie 22nd September, and the lutapeno eleven days later.

-Speaking at the meat pool meeting at Napier, a deiegate Reports the Telegraph) said lie owed £'JS,UUU. The chairman inlormed him he must am bring his private concerns into the matter, and the answer came quickly, ■‘They’re not private; they'd soon ue public.”

‘‘Did it take nine days to overhaul this car?” asked counsel m an action at the Napier Magistrate's ouun. On oemg assured that the work uccupieu

nme a ays. counsel saui ne mougm ac could overnaul ms car nhnseii m auu time. “A lot or people think mat. sir, ’ replied the witness. "Taut how we get our business, when peu pie start, overhauling their own cars. '

Mr Stuart Miller got lather badly burnt on Saturday last. 'Hie motor lorry he was driving stopped through the benzine pipe getting blocked. In attending to this Mr Filler got benzine on his arm and shin. He then lit a cigarette. The benzine took lire and the flames ran up his arm. He rolled in the long grass on the roadside and eventually smothered the flames, but not before his hand and arm were badly burnt.

A case came before the Nelson Magistrate’s Court in which (says the Mail) a rug disappeared from a motor car outside a dancing room, and it transpired in evidence that cars were used for sitting-out. Counsel on behalf of an accused person commenced his appeal for his client by stating: ‘‘As your Worship knows, cars are used for sitting-oui.” The “They did not, do that in my time.” Counsel hastened to explain that, of course, he had not meant that his Worship had personal knowledge oi the custom. The brief dialogue caused great amusement.

A Levin resident, wliu spent the Christinas and New Year holidays in Dunedin, states that things are very had in the south. Unemployment is rite, and men who have heen in steady positions for the last 10 or 15 years are finding themselves out of work. Relief work has heen started, but the available funds are being quickly absorbed by the large numbers of men offering. The conditions appear to be much more acute in the South than in the North Island. Land values and rents were nowhere near as high as up here. The Levinite said he has a nephew near Balclutha, who was renting a 38-acre farm with an eight-roomed house, and was paying 15/ per week for the lot. Considering the condition of things, the nephew thought he was paying enough, too.

The Dunedin correspondent of the Christchurch Press telegraphs: The so-called stomach influenza now troubling a few persons in Duneum is noi a new complaint. Some um.e ago the district health uificer (Dr. Loyd) investigated a number of eases at si. Clair, but could not find any common cause in the food supply, mereiore the thought was suggested that n might he fly-borne inlection or some form of gastric influenza, in most 01 the cases seen, the trouble only lasted a lew hours, hut there were others in which diarrhoea appeared, continuing for several days. Whatever the disease may he ,it is in a very miid lorni as now observed. The Wanganui Herald reports a similar epidemic in that town.

A good deal of interest in the experiments. with electrified seed wheat has heen manifested in the Ashburton County this season (says the Guardian). A firm of Christchurch millers supplied equal quantities of electrified anti ordinary Tuscan seed to be grown side by side for comparative purposes. One favourable report, Horn Mr D. J. Mclntyre, Digby's Bridge, has been received concerning the test, hut other farmers are not favourably impressed. At the Ashburton Experimental Area there are lour plots, two grown from electrified Tuscan, and iwo from ttie same variety ol wheat simply treated with formalin in the ordinary manner. The verdict is ; plainly lor the ordinary seed. The j electrified plots are both later and thinner. On this first- test it may he supposed that the electric process of treating seed wheat is not going to increase or accelerate germination, or { give bette£_results in the final return.

* i lie M ana warn Utility poultry Sortie,) nuuimeu a reporter tilut the jiiiu' OI eggo lit It. xiiaatbua iu Ji/ per uu/cii, thiu me outlook lor me egg iuui'ivtH paii.cmatty nilgai. 1 licit. >OO ...->) iiC » v> oil ill .u » /.rtuaiiu, uiiU MC ucm.Sia itpuc. IOIMMSW ZiOaiUllU COii" laxtio "jO iiuiJioo oj. pvisuiis clluiieu tO P> urlice men pi om-iomu ill the DOiiniiiOii. a special meeting oi the Shannon Lioiottgh Council was held last evening 10 uecide me day on which the half holiday would be observed during tne rutimig year. Wednesday was selected as m lormer years. me necessity m a uniiorm weight shuulanl tor eggs was empnasiofcU at a meeting oi mo Aew ueaiuiiu Utility (•ouiiiy chub ui mui&triiurcn last week, when it was meiiuoneu mat tne uest birds competing m me club’s compeiii ions were laying eggs oi winch only 30 per cent were lit to export. n was also remarked lhal, aimer me piesent system oi weiglitiOmng, a.uitct in uiie place nngiu- lay a record nunmer oi eggs, but bis number migm weight a lot less than a smaller number oi good-sized eggs nv another bird, and yet no note be made oi' the iact.