Shannon News TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1922.

Shannon News, 21 November 1922, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1922.

The local Druids’ Lodge will hold its half-yearly meeting in the Druids’ Hall on Thursday evening next.

On Wednesday next a team from the Longburn Tennis Club are paying a return visit to the local club.

A meeting of the Shannon Football Club will be held in the Council Chambers on Friday evening next to consider the amalgamation proposals. The necessity' of a public ball at Koputaroa has long been recognised, and a committee has been actively engaged in collecting and raising funds for some time. Inquiries are now ing made for a suitable site, and to further nssisi the funds it is proposed to hold a monster sports meeting about the middle of December, when there Will be several novel attractions to interest visitors.

The Wellington egg market is steady ly maintaining the wholesale price, which is still at 1/3 per dozen.

The many friends of Mr and Mrs T. Easton will regret to hear of the death of their infant son, which took place on Sunday.

The pig industry evidently means something to Koputaroa. Last week’s consignment of porkers to the bacon companies totalled 45.

Mr Linklater, Reform candidate for the Manawatu electorate, will address the electors of Shannon at- the Maoriland Theatre on Thursday evening next.

As showing the growing popularity of home separation among dairymen, no less than 11 are now using this method in the lhakara district as against only three last season.

Owing presumably to the unsettled weather of the past fortnight, the milk returns at some of the district creameries have suffered considerably, the intake at one being 100 gallons a day less than it was two weeks ago

The Koputaroa team which won the big tug-of-war event at the recent carnival at. Levin celebrated the occasion by giving a free social and dance to the Koputaroa residents, which proved one of the most enjoyable of the year. The Koputaroa School Committee intends to erect in the near future a set of swings for the children out of the funds won in the Levin soldiers’ carnival. Other improvements at the school are also in view.

The proprietors ol- the Maoriland Theatre have been successful in procuring the film “Broken Blossoms,” which has just finished a most successful season in Auckland. It will be screened in Shannon on Friday evening next, and at T'okomaru on Saturday. Seats can now be booked at Aldersey’s. ,

“I have never seen this district looking better,” said an lhakara farmer to our 1 representative yesterday. “Feed is plentiful and crops are coming on well, and generally the farmers have little to complain of as regards farming conditions.” The fine appearance of the country . fully bears out this statement.

The Koputaroa Schoo 1 Committee held its usual fortnightly dance in the school on Friday evening, when there was the usual large attendance. ,The music, which was specially good, was supplied by Miss White (piano) and Mr Devolosky (violin), extras being played by Misses Spicer, Ward and Sciascia.

The dredge at Makerua is now working day and night shifts, and is making great headway, having now completed fully ten chains. At night time the dredge presents a great spectacle with all its lights going, and to persons passing along the road, if they did not know, it would seem as if a warship had landed in our midst, with its searchlights in full play.

A female witness in a court case at Auckland upset the cross-examining counsel, who was attempting to show that she was a strong, healthy woman' and was therefore was able to work and maintain her little girl. "Yes,” said the woman: “.I look well enough; but you should see my inside! ” In consequence of complaints as to the damage caused, or likely to be caused by the elusive opossum, the Department of Internal Affairs has decided not to sanction the capture or liberation of these animals in any district; at all events not at the present time. The business of printers, publishers and newspaper proprietors hitherto carried on by the firm of Kerslake and Billens has been registered as a private company and will henceforth be conducted, under the style of “Kerslake and Billens, Ltd.” The management of the branches in Levin, Shannon arid Otaki will remain as heretofore and the registered office of the company will be located at the Chronicle office, Oxford Street, Levin,

Some doubt was cast by a speaker recently when talking to a wireless expert as to the ticking of a watch at Bordeaux being heard in Wellington. The expert, however, explained (relates an exchange) that wireless telephony has advanced to such a stage that the ticking of a watch was not only distinctly heard fifty miles away in Australia, but by amplifying the sound the ticking sounded like the blows of a hammer upon an iron surface.

Keeping London clean is a very costly business. Every year If million tons of refuse are gathered np from London's 117 square miles of streets find houses. Or, to put it in another way, 5000 tons per day. The vehicles used in this very necessary service are 1204 single-horse vans, 38 pair-horse vans, 01 motor lorries, and 47 trailers, or 1320 in all. The average cost of disposal, exclusive of the cost of collecting, is 8s per ton. Thus, it costs London £600,000 per annum, or, to put it another way, £2OOO per day to dispose of its dust.

Sentence of three years ’ imprisonment for stealing kisses from Miss Daisy Stagwald, a charming young San Quentin girl, has been passed on Charlds Guyton at Los Angeles. The prisoner held up the girl, it is said, at the point of the revolver, took fivepence from her bag, and after kissing her returned the money with the remark —‘'It was worth it.” He was shown to he an incorrigible character.

A water diviner was recently employed by the South Otago Hospital Board to endeavour to find water on the board’s recently purchased site at Toslivale, Balclutha, says an exchange. Though he failed to find water on the hill on which the hospital is to be located, the diviner states that he found seven seams of gold, though at a considerable depth. It is not suggested, however, that the site should be turned into a gold-mining claim.

An Auckland Press Association telegram states that in the Police Court a young widow (E. M. Walton) was lined £SO for making a false declaration in respect of a piano imported from England. She declared that the case contained only household goods not exceeding £IOO in value, which had been in use .12 months. The Collector of Customs said the piano was new, was packed in London, and was valued at £lO4.

Salvage operations are still being conducted in connection with the Wiltshire, which was wrecked at the Groat Barrier, and those engaged are meeting with a fair success. ’Two diners are employed, and new diving apparatus which is fitted with telephones and electric light, was sent to the Barrier. No. 5 hold has been worked, but a ? s the hull is considerably broken in this vicinity the cargo is somewhat damaged. A better class of cargo, consisting of oils and paints, is being recovered from No. 6 hold, which is standing on an even keel. The cargo is put into coal baskets, which are lowered from scows to the divers,., and it is then hauled to the surface and subsequently taken' to Tryphcna, where it is stored until such a time as it can be shipped to Auckland.

Probably the average New Zealander has only a vague notion of the amount of material which was blown up in the Tarawera eruption. Dr. Cotton, in a chapter on “Volcanoes and Igneous Action,” in his new book, states: “The Tarawera eruption blew out a rift or line of elongated pits, forming a nearly continuous trench about nine miles long, with a mean width of about two hundred and twenty yards and a depth varying from three hundred feet to fourteen hundred feet. The rift passes across the top of Mount Tarawera, Avhich is a mesa of volcanic rocks, and continues in a south-wester-ly direction for some distance, becoming wider and shallower, and forming the basin of the present Lake Rotomahana, which is much larger than the lake of the same name existing before the eruption.”