Shannon News FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1923.

Shannon News, 19 January 1923, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1923.

Tiie next issue of 1 lie “News" will be published on Wednesday, January 24, owing io the holiday on Monday. The Shannon Co-operalive Dairy Co. intend paying out 1/6 per lb for butterfat for Ihe month of December.

The milk supply is keeping up well at file local factory, and there is every prospect of it being a record season. Ratepayers are reminded that Tuesday next, January 23, is the last day for paying rates. Alter that date 1U per cent wili he added.

It is reported to us on good authority that a small company is to he floated for the purpose of conducting a manufacturing business in Shannon.

During the past year over 50 new tanks have been purchased by Shannon residents. When one considers the average life of a lank is only about 8 to 10 years, it is easily seen

Mint the cost of these would go n long way towards paying the rates on a water supply.

At the Maoriland Theatre last Monday ‘evening me result oi the "Robinson Crusoe” picture competition lor boys and girls was made known. There has been ten .exhibitions oi‘ this serial, at each ol which every boy and girl attending received a block of a map ol' Crusoe’s island, and last week’s performance completed the map. Those that had the conipiete map had to send them into the management by last evening, when it was found 17 girls and 12 boys had been successful. The envelopes in each

class were then placed in a box and well shaken up, the Mayor (Mr Murdoch) drawing the winner therefrom, which resulted in Dulcie Small securing the gold wristlet watch for girls, while John Hibell was the lucky boy, and leceivcd the gold watch and chain.

As Mr K. Meagher, of Shannon, was returning from Arapeli on Tuesday lush he had an unenviable experience. He was driving a horse and cart, when ne came to a slip, and finding it was impossible to get the vehicle over tic took the horse out. to lead it across, but it refused to budge. He tried driving it, but it got too near the edge of the bank, and the soil slipping away under its feet, it rolled over the bank into the creek below. Alter an hour’s strenuous work, having to wade waist deep in the water, with the help of Mr Johnson, who came to his aid, lie was successlul in getting the horse once 1 more on to the road, and luckily it was not injured beyond a few scratches. Onl\ a short time ago a horse was killed at this same spot.

On Tuesday the usual sights were to he seen on the Foxton Hoad and main road to Palmerston, of vehicles having to make their way through a long stretch of water, owing to the flooded state of the road, caused by the heavy rain. One motorist going to Palmerston was stranded for about two hours, eventually being towed out.

Owing to the heavy downpour of rain on Tuesday, the low-lying portions of the borough soon became covered with water, the drains in mail} places overflowing. The water did not remain long, and had practically disappeared by evening.

A respected city man discovered some time ago that the small bets he made on big races, like many other city men, had become an extended and rather expensive habit (writes the London correspondent of the Dunedin Evening Star). He was having a small flutter every day, and he recognised frankly that it was from the financial point of view in the familiar phrase, “a mug’s game.” At the same time, he found when he stopped it altogether that he really missed the daily study 0* me racing columns and' the mild excitement of the small bets. So he was seized wilh the brilliant idea of acting as his own bookmaker. He procured a big moneybox inlo which lie faithfully paid all his bets, and out of which he regularly extracted precisely whatever his occasional winnings amounted to at the correct odds. At the end of fl2 months, tinder tiiia remarkable selfcontained sporting system, he discovered an astonishing result. After having ail the fun of backing his fancy just in the usual way, paying in his money and drawing out his winnings as though dealing with the ordinary •bookie,” he has about £7O in hand—or, rather, in the money box. There lias bem some activity among cheese buyers in Taranaki during the past week. One factory in the Stratford district is reported to have turned down the buyer’s offer, and given his firm a chance to. do business at TUI and lOd lor January and February production. One company closed at l Jd for delivery in February f.o.b. New Plymouth, and it is understood that the same firm closed with Hawera and Elthuni companies on practically the same basis.— Post.

“K” in his “Obiter Dicta” in 1 lie Christchurch Press writes sarcastically: Hoover, whose skill in supervising Europe's meals during the 'war has raised him to a place in Mr Harding’s Cabinet, has stated till at “the world generally has gained in social stability in 11)22.” In Ireland, lor instance, the shooting ol landlords has entirely ceased, and it is only rarely that the rebels refuse lo allow the inmates lo come out before the house is burned down or blown up. In Italy nothing more serious than a. revolution has disturbed the process of settling-down. And except that Turkey is threatening war and Prance is about to guarantee us a new war in JlliO by occupying the Rhineland, the magnificent labours ol the statesmen of the Entente have brought us stability and peace in Europe and the Near East. As lor America, if stability means a state in which everything is regular and dependable, then stability has been reached, for Prohibition, Bolshevik and Ku Klux Klan outrages .have lost their sporadic character end have become thoroughly systematised. One is glad to have Mr . Hoover direct attention to these pleasant fads.