Shannon News TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1922.

Shannon News, 18 July 1922, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1922.

The Shannon Dairy Company paid out 1/7 per Jb butterl'at for the June supply. A most enjoyable dance and social was held, last evening in the Druids’ Hall in aid of tfie Poutu meetinghou# at Shannon. Mr D. Nicholls supplied the music. The second meeting of the Workers’ Education class was held at Miranui on Monday evening, when there was a good attendance. Mr B. Seifert occupied >the chair. The subject of the lecture was “Our Inner Conflict.” An interesting discussion followed. It was decided that the subject next week will be “The Evolution of Man.”

Cyclists take notice! The police have been instructed by the borough authorities to talte action against cyclists riding on the footpaths, also those riding at night without lights. Dairying will soon be in lull swing again. Several farmers round here have quite a lot of cows in. No trouble i;s reported with them, and they are coming in well.

Shannon is still moving on as regards new buildings. Mr Franks, of Ballance Street, has commenced to demolish the building he has been using for a garage, and intends erecting a new structure..

The Maoriland Theatre have been fortunate in securing the popular him “Over the Hill” to exhibit to their patrons at Shannon. They have secured it for Tuesday evening nex7, the 25th.

Attention is dawn to an advertisement by the Shannon Borough Council calling tenders for the erection of two cottages under their dousing scheme. Tenders close with the Town Clerk bn Thursday, July 27.

Great preparations are being made for the Community Sing, on Friday evening nfext ill aid of the Russian Famine Fund. The “sing” is organised by the Shannon Labour Party, and being for a worthy cause, and headed by Mr Bishop as song leader, a large attendance is anticipated.

Mr Bob Collins, of the Main South Road, is forming a new entrance into ]ji>s 4'armj qnd home across the swamp. It is a big undertaking for a private individual, as he has got to form two big cuttings and do a lot of filling in. He is to be complimented for his progressive and self-reliant .spirit. On Sunday the annual thanksgiving services were held in the Presbyterian Church, when, there was a good attendance. Mr Stewart occupied the pulpit. The amount collected was in the vicinity of £BO. Mrs Bovis rendered a solo very .nicely at the morning service, while Misses Aim and Jones gave, a duet at the evening service.

“The day of the pheasant is past,” said Mr H. Ostler at a meeting of the Council of' the Auckland Acclimatisation Society. It was extremely disappointing, he said, that, despite the large amount of money spent by the Society on rearing pheasants, these birds were fast becoming scarcer. For the future, unless some small bird could be obtained, sportsmen would have to rely upon Californian quaiL. The Society, he thought, should secure about 50 Virginian quail, which had been successfully acclimatised, and breed from them on the game farm.

Are people in general still afraid of walking under ladders? If statistics gathered in London are to be trusted, the answer is in the affirmative. Out of 100 persons passing a ladder reaching well out across the pavement in the Strand, so that it was necessary to step off the kerb to'> avoid walking under, only 11 of them defied the superstition. Of these valiant souls one -was a woman—the rest belonged to the less adventurous -sex! Out of 50 passers-by in a highly-respeetabie street in St. John’s Wood, 47 avoided the mystic peril, but the daring three were in. this case all women.

Pete O’Hara, the Shackamaxon golf pro., who won the New Jersey open championship last spring, was asked the other day how it has happened that Joel Kirkwood, the Australian golf trick shot artist, won no championship during his tour of the United States and Great Britain last year, when ’he has such a wizard-like control over the ball. “Because,” said O’Hara, “he knows so many ways of playing a shot that when he comes up to a ball he can’t decide which one to employ. The uncertainty bothers him. Now, when I and other nonwizard plaers come up to a ball, we usually see only one way to play the. shot, and we concentrate on that. If we fail, it is from lack of skill, notfrom mental disturbance.”

Very hazy ideas of the geography of the North Island appear to be held iii some parts of the Dominion. A leading weekly paper has just published some topical views of the Mangahao works with the information that they are “near Levin:” Not only is the information misleading in that, it conveys a wrong idea of the location of the big undertaking, but the real headquarters of the scheme, Shannon, is left, out of the picture. Shannon is not near or thereabouts, but is on the spot, and is rightly regarded as the ihydro-electric metropolis of this coast, by all well-inform-ed papers. The illustrated paper responsible for the views referred to should brush up its geography in event of future requirements.