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Shannon News, 21 March 1922, Page 3

Some teh years ago a skuiik farm was started in Northumberland, by private enterprise, and it is now sup- ; plying the American market with furs. The farm has recently been sold an American company, so impressed were their experts with ihc very fine quality of the English furs.

The Government' has consented to the Otakii Borough Council borrowing £SOOO for waterworks purposes.

A new port is being opened up in Hawke’s Bay about 60 miles north of Napier. It is Known -as Waikokopu, afid it is hoped that it will prove a suitable outlet for produce from the district known as Southern Wairoa, which is essentially engaged in sheep-farming.

For having “rung in” at the Hawke’s Bay Show, a well known and successful lady rider of hunters was disqualified for life by the Hawke’s Bay A. and P Association. A letter recording this sentence was read to the Feilding Show Committee at its last meeting. It was explained that the lady had ridden o winner in a hunters’ competition et the Maxton show last year, and later had competed in a class for novices at the Hastings show. Before the competition started the lady’s attention was drawn by a steward to the conditions, but she assured , him she was eligible as a novice. Members of the Feilding Committee thought the sentence far too severe. One speaker said this practice and similar ones had been going on for years, and tne Associations would show a bad grace if they singled out a lady for punishment by Way of making a start >o it. The committees decided to ask for lurtheV Information before dealing with the matter. During the war a large quantity Oj opium was sent u/ Victoria College, Wellington, for scientific purposes, and the bulk of it has; remained ihere until recently. When, however, i raid was made on certain houses in Haining and Taranaki Streets on February 24, some opium was seized, which was subsequently found o have been stolen from the college. In consequence, a youth named Charles Aloysius Wilkinson, was charged in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court with stealing opium to the value d £SO, while Harold Fairchild Pabar was charged with receiving the opium khowing it to have been stolen. Both pleaded guilty and were committed r o the Supreme Court for sentence. Interesting comments oil the standard of school work in Canada are contained in a recent, letter from one of the New Zealand teachers who have been sent across to Canada for a period. “The standard of work in English and arithmetic,” she says, “is much lower than ours, but in other respects it ii higher. ftfusic is a thing to marvel at. I would never have believed such results possible.” The writer adds* that the Canadian children are nice, but are “being ruined .for want of corporal punishment!”

An inspector for the Health Department discovered at Petone this week a father, a mother, and six children inhabiting one room, “with use of kitchen.” “The children’s ages ranged downwards from eight and a-half years. The living room was twelve feet by twelve, and the inspector declares that it. contained three double beds.