Shannon News TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1923.

Shannon News, 27 March 1923, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1923.

The next iseue of the "News" will be published on Thursday, Good Friday being a holiday.

Some excitement was caused in Ballance Street on Saturday afternoon by a horse attached to a gig with the wheel off, careering down the street. It was learnt that Mr Gagliarfli, overseer at Mangore, accompanied by his ilaughter, his brother, and his brother' ,s wife, who are visiting .Shannon, were proceeding to town when the axle of the gig broke close up to the wheel, and the Jattpr coming off, the occupants were thrown out on, to the road. The horse then bolted, and 'coming down the street, collided with, a tree in front of the police station, eventually pulling up on the) footpath in front of Mr Frost's shop, where Miss Frost pluckily seized the reins, preventing the horse going further. Mrs Gagliardi was much bruised about the legs, while Mr Gagliardi's brother received a nasty gravel rash on the hand. The horse was badly cut about the hind fetlock owing to the step, which was broken, striking it as it galloped along.

On Sunday morning, as- Mr .loe Ongley, the well known solicitor, of Palmerston, was motoring-near Shannon, he had the misfortune to break the main leaf of the front spring of his car. The broken parts interfered with the steering gear, and before the car could be pulled up it came in collision with a. telegraph post, carrying away a< portion of the side of the car. The occupants, escaped with a few scratches.

The danger of driving vehicles at night without lights cannot, be too severely condemned. • A Shannon resident motoring along tthe Makerua road on Saturday night narrowly escaped a. collision with a gig driven in the opposite direction without lights, and *had it not been for the promptness of the motorist ui applying his brakes, "a serious accident may have occurred.

At the executive meeting of the Ratepayers' Association held on Thursday evening, members were most emphatic that the Association as a body •should take no part whatsoever in nominating or supporting candidates at municipal elections, also that such matters relating thereto be not discussed at its meetings.

On Good Friday and Easter Monday the B.B' a.m. train to Wellington and the 8.6 p.m. train to Palmerston will not run. The 7.20 a.m. to Wellington will run as usual, also the 9.8 p.m. to Palmerston North.

Mr Hiorth, overseer at Arapeti, accompanied by his daughter and Mrs Lindop and children, are motoring through to Helensville, North AuckInnd, Tor the Easter hotlidays.

Attention is directed to the sale to be 'held in the Ceiskiry Mall to-mor-row afternoon by Messrs. Harcourt and Co., ui the property known as Lake Farm, and situated on the westtin extension of Queen Street. The farm is on the outskirts of the borough, in the county, and must have -rcu piuspcclivc value as being suitable for residential sites, quite apart 1r0..i.' n't suitability for farming. It consists of 84 acres with residence and outbuildings.

The fortnightly meeting of the Druids' Lodge will be held in t)he Parish Hall on Thursday evening at 8.15. All members are requested to attend to hear the delegates' report on the Druids' conference recently held at Pahnerston North.

■ Ni? other breed of stock responds so readily to good living condition., nor so seldom receives them as the pig. At the Central Development Farm the old pig-sties which had pens opening on both sides off a central passage, is being done- away with and a new single row sty built. The pens will face the north so as to ensure the maximum of sim.?hine, and will be half roofed, being otherwise completely open. In stormy weather wooden screens will be let down. Wooden gratings, which can be raised for cleaning purposes will keep the pigs from the concrete floor and its accompaniment of rheumatics and kindred ills. The point that is emphasised is the necessity for sanitary surroundings and plenty of sunlight in the pens. Referring to ,the long seeded pastures too irequently seen in dairying jucaliti.es, Mr McCulloch, manager, oi the Central Development Farm, told a "Chronicle" reporter that he believed in running, the .mower over dairy pasture two.or three times during the season at such a height as would ensure the seed heads being cut down. When the grass seeded, it had performed its natural function and lost much of its nutritive value, a loss that could be avoided by the means he suggested. Visitors to the Farm had often remarked on the greenness of the pastures there in comparison with those obtaining elsewhere, tfye difference being due solelyi to these occasional cuttings.

The question as to which breed holds the premier position among the dairy herds of the Dominion is one that has been keenly debated by the admiring partisans of individual breeds, but on which impartial authorities will not commit themselves too definitely, in conversation with a "Chronicle" represGnative, the Manager of the Central Development Farm, Mr W. J. McCullough, said that this question was frequently put to him. He would reply now as he always did—that there was ho "best" breed. So much depended on the conditions under which cows were run—both as to climate and qualily of laud—that the cow that was suitable for one locality might not give sucli good results in another. Where- cow.-? were done hard and had to- forage for their feed, no other breed could approach the Ayrshire. On very heavy rich land, the Friesian probably gave the best results, whilst the Jersey came between the two. Advice has been received by cablegram of the death from pneumonia on March J, of Mr Robert, Seifert, the youngest member of the Seifert family, so well known in this district. Mr Seifert, who was 33 years of age, left New Zealand some years ago for America, and at the time of his death was residing on the Pacific Coast of South America in the Republic of Colombia.

Stressing the need for attention to detail by dairymen, Mr A. Heighway stated at To Kuiti that a dairy farmer hud recently discovereTt that he was losing £4 4/ weekly, through his separator skimming too slow. He had been advised to speed up the machine, and quickly reduced the loss to a few shillings. . •

A general protest against the Government's intention To protect stoats, weasels and hawks, on account of the rabbit nuisance, i s being made by acclimatisation societies throughout New Zealand. Loiters of protest were received by lhe Auckland Acclimatisation Society last week l'l'ojn similar bodleS at I Mined in, Christehurch, Nelson, I'Vilding and Upoliki. The Direc-tor-General of Agriculture notified the Auckland Society that careful consideration was being given to the protests. **

A number ol prominent Cambridge citizens were quite perturbed on Monday (says the independent) to bear thai, iliere was to be a by-elec-tion for Waikatu. Anxious inquiries ir- to ihe reason, elicited' the reply that Mr F. Lye. the present member, ha/1 "lost his seat." Further inquiry showed that Mr Lye had met with .an accident, and had been thrown from his seat in a gig the day before. We bear that quite a number of people are looking for the man who was responsible for the story.