Shannon News FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1923.

Shannon News, 13 April 1923, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1923.

Ueai.li occurred yesterday niorning of the infant son, aged three months, of Mr and Mrs C. Lee, of Graham .'Street. The bereaved parents will have the deepest sympathy of a. large circle of friends in Shannon in their bereavement.

Mr Greedy has been appointed starter of -events at the Shannon Athletic and Cycling Club’s sports, not Mr Watson as reported in last, issue.

Before leaving for home Mr W. Quarrie, on behalf of those present, thanked Mr and Mrs Greedy for their hospitality.

The Mends of Mrs Murdoch, of Venn Street, will be sorry to hear she had to be removed to the Palmerston Hospital on Wednesday last, suffering from a severe attack of gastric influenza.

The dredge;, which has been laid up since the holidays, owing to a plate in the. bucket breaking, is now in working order again. The repair to lie bucket was made in Wellington and was returned to Shannon, on Monday last.

The annual meeting- of the Golf Club will be held this evening in the Cotm•il Chambers.

The TennC Club’s fortnightly -euchre and dances will be resumed on Tuesday evening next at the Parish Hall.

A. practice match will be held by the Shannon Football Club on Saturday afternoon at the Recreation ground. All intending players for the coining season are requested to attend.

Tenders are invited ior the supply, delivery and stacking of ten cords of iwo-foot, rata firewood for the Shannon School Committee.

In our report of the Borough Council meeting, the, addition of a figure made it appear that the outstanding i ates were £I3OO, instead of only £l3O. Some days ago, Mr J unties on, of die Levin Road, while trying to catch a horse met with a mishap.. At first it was thought, lie had sprained his tinkle, but. the foot not improving, Dr Macdonald was called in and on making an examination he found that one of the small homes was broken ami ordered Mr Jamieson’s rent earn.l to Hie Palmerston hospital.

Mr and Mrs Greedy, of Miranui, gave a party at their residence to a .number of their Shannon friends on W ednesday evening ami an enjoyable rime was spent by those present in music, song and dance. Musical items were rendered by the. following: Misses N'.eale, Ruckman, Quavrie. Greedy, Coakley and Merwood, and Messrs W. Q: aerie, H. Hook, Smith and Jennings.

At- the meeting in connection with

the Soldiers’ Memorial lasi night Mr Clayton suggested that if it, was decided to improve the Recreation Grounds he hoped portion of the .Reserve would bo set, aside l'or the bwieflt. of the women and children, which could be used as a playground where swings, etc., could be 'erected. At present there was no place in Shannon where mothers could lake their children for the afternoon. The meetinfg was quite' in accord that .something on those lines should be done.

The supplementary roll for the municipal elections closed last evening. There are 596 names on the muni roll and 26 on the supplementary.

'Mr Mimtiovd and Miss Blackbume, drill instructors of the Education Department, visited the local school on Wednesday.

The .'Shannon Go-opeuni Dairy to. is, paying out 1/7 per lb lor butleriat supplied during the month of March.

Sir Andrew Clement-', bead ol ih.e firm of Clements and yens, dairy produce merchants. oJ Tooley Street, London, was a visitor to Shannon yesterday, and inspected the Shannon Co operative Daily Company’s factorv.

The blue gums throughout this district are showing increasing signs of their probable extinction by black blight. The Forestry Department has so far ottered no suggestion by which they may be saved. One owner is trying the experiment of cutting the trees when first attacked. He thinks they will spring from the root. He will in the meantime have the use of Die timber.

A weather-beaten group of nine mountaineers, including four ladies, arrived towards midnight on Wednesday, and sought the comfort of a Wellington hotel, where they told a “Dominion” reporter that they had encountered Mount Hector in a very angry mood, and dared not fare forth from Alpha Hut for two days, during which two of the men sped to Grcytown for provisions, walking 23 hours on end. The party were all Grcytown people, comprising Misses C. Feast, R. Wendeii, D. Tully, W. Mather, and Messrs Frank Ryan, Wally Tully' Logan McLean, Jim Flynn, and Leo tidy, cousin of the international Rugby player.

During the holiday seasons. the boys, and even now the girls connected with the various organisations, whose occupations make exercise a necessity, conceive the idea of a mountain or forest tramp in search of adventure. On the next occasion when some of these collective adventurers feel that they arc foot-loose or fancy-free, they should explore the little-known beauties of the caves at Piripiri, in the valley of the Pohangina. A fine run in a motor about. CO miles on the round trip, with a stop off in the forest reserve for lunch and afternoon tea at the caves, makes an ideal trip for those of all ages and tastes.

Miss Louise Mack, the authoress, wlm lias been lecturing in New Zealand for the ..last couple of years under the education boards, has just achieved a remarkable feat. All her manuscript of a book she had just Jinished was destroyed by lire in Auckland over a year ago. How she has written the book all over again, and after a vcai s persistent, work she has completed hoi task, a book of over 100,000 words dealing with life in New Zealand and Europe entitled “Let the Rest of the World Go By.”

In welcoming visiting- riflemen at the meeting of the Otago Rifle Association on Pelichet Bay range, Colonel Smith referred to the urgent need of our voung men being well trained and narrated a Gallipoli incident. On the occasion referred to our troops we re being badly punished by a Turkish sniper whose whereabouts could not easily be discovered, but at last a young New Zealander made his way to the officer and said: “ I see him, sir.” and indicated his position. “ Good bov,” said the officer. “ Shoot the Lighter ! Shoot him in the eye.” ‘Ves, sic ” said the soldier, saluting smartly. “ Verv good, sir ! Which eye. sir ? That.' continued the speaker, was an indication of the type of marksman our rifle clubs were striving to produce.

A very old identity of the Marlborough Sounds district, Mr Peter Ewing, passed away at the Picton Hospital last .Friday, at the age of 83 years. The deceased was born at Ellensburg, Scotland, and caino out to New Zealand at tire age of twenty years witli his brother, the late Mr Robert. Ewing, of Island Bay. He was one of the original prospectors at Gabriel's Gully, Central Otago, and was engaged for a number of years in gold mining at Mouut Arthur, in the Nelson district. Thence he proceeded to the Sounds district, and. having resided successively at Jackson's Head and Tory Channel, he finally settled down at Wailcawa.

Whilst staving in tire Rivcrina in the early spring of 11)22 I had tiro good fort line to see a column of the procession caterpillar wending its way from a .group of Aleppo pines towards a suitable pubating ground (writes M. E. Bunvard in Fatureland). At first 1 thought it was a gigantic contipsde, but on closer examination found it to be a file of 17 caterpillars in procession, each touching head to tale with its neighbour. The caterpillars measured about Him each, and were light brown, covered with hairs. They kept the line perfectly until, passing along a ridge.

one from about the centre of the line fell over the edge. Immediately the caterpillar In front of the one wldch fell out signalled by movement .to the next one, and so on to the leader, who immediately stopped until the deserter had crawled back into position, when the procession continued, another sig- ' nal having apparently been passed up that the line was again complete. I saw this oeeurr twice, and in each ease the line halted until reformed, and then continued ■ on its way.