Shannon News TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1923.

Shannon News, 13 March 1923, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1923.

The local'police were busy all day Sunday searching for an escapee

from the Weraroa Training School. He was reported as having been seen at Buckley early on Sunday morning, but from there no trace of him could be found.

A man named Henry Eredk. Deddef Rex was arrested on Saturday evening and charged before Mr E. Spencer, J.P., on Monday moriiing, with being drunk and disorderly. He was fined £3, in default one month’s imprisonment. *

At tire Maoriland Theatre on March 23 there will be filmed Charlie Chaplin in “The Idle Class.” This picture has drawn crowded houses everywhere. It will be shown at Tokomaru the following evening.

Residents of Shannon will be pleased to learn that Messrs. H. A. Scott and Bert Cooksley are opening an auction mart on Thursday next. It is the firm’s intention to hold fortnightly sales, and if inducements offer to make them weekly. The first sale takes place on Thursday, when meat, fruit, produce, poultry, pigs, horses, harness, drays, furniture and sundries will be offered. Entries will be received till morning of sale. A complete list of offerings .will be found in our advertising columns. An important public meeting is to be held in the Maoriland Theatre this evening.

The Mayor is in receipt of a communication from file Minister of Finance that the first grant of £SOOO towards tiie water supply loan is available now, subject to certain preliminaries to comply with the Statute.

Word has been received that the Hon. W. Nosworthy, .-Minister of Agriculture, will visit Shannon on Thursday next, arriving hy the New Plymouth express from Wellington, when he will inspect'' the experimental work carried out by the Flaxmillers’ Association with the approval of the Department of Agriculture. A large number of invitations have been sent to others interested in the industry. It is expected that there will he a large attendance of flaxmili'er.s, hemp merchants and others who recognise the importance of the industry. ,

In reporting to the Horowhenua County Council .on Saturday that the Engineer had had to go away for a month on medical advice, the. Chairman (Cr. Monk) said Mr Anderson had been here two and afiiali years. He had no easy job at ordinary times, but lately it had been particularly arduous owing to the trouble over the bridges. He had asked the Engineer to take a holiday at Christmas, as he was not well, but he had replied that he could not go on account of the bridges. The result was that his health had now broken down. The Chairman mentioned that it was six and a-half years since the Engineer had had a spell, and no one could keep going that long without bad effects. The Chairman’s action in arranging for the Engineer’s leave was confirmed.

At the. commencement of Saturday’s meeting of the Horowhenua. County Council, Cr. Harkness said a familiar figure was missing from their deliberations as a result of the death of the late Mr Thomas, whom they were so accustomed to see at the press table. He felt that he had tost a. personal friend. Tactful and courteous in his manner, he was at the same time accurate and careful in carrying out his duties, and .the speaker felt that men in public life in this district owed a great deal to the conscientious reports Mr Thomas gave of their meetings. The Chariman (Cr. Monk) said he had intended to refer to their loss later in the meeting.. He had been many years in public life, 1 and with all respect to other gentlemen of the Press, he did not know of anyone who gave fairer reports of public meetings than the late Mr Thomas. As a result, he always enjoyed their confidence, because ' they knew they would get. accurate reports. On Cr. Harkness’s motion, seconded by the Chairman, a vote of sympathy with Mrs 'Thomas and family was carried in silence.