Shannon News FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1923.

Shannon News, 18 May 1923, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1923.

A farewell social will be tendered Mr and Mrs Williams, ol Kara Road, this evening, in the Parish Hall. A pretty bungalow cottage has been erected in Vance street for Mrs Withers and the shrubbery around forms an effective shelter from all prevailing winds. Very little damage lias been done along the banks at Makerua by ■•■ the recent, flood and the Engineer of the Drainage Board is highly pleased as the banks have been put to a good test. The lender of a> local firm of builders has been accepted by the Public Works Department for the erection of twelve removable telephone huts to be used in connection with the transmission line.

Mi's Hosking, who was rcently appointed to the staff of the local school, is an inmate of the Palmerston North hospital, where she underwent an operation. On enquiry we learn she is Satisfactory progress towards recovery. A man named Herbert George Major appeared before the Shannon Justices on Wednesday on charges of drunkenness and being an idle and disorderly person. On the first charge he was fined £l, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment, and on the second charge he was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment.

A meeting of - delegates from the football, cricket, and athletic clubs, and Ratepayers’ Association of Shan- 1 non was held last evening to consider what work is required to be done to improve the Recreation Grounds, also means for raising funds to do the work. After some discussion the meeting decided that the following commit--lae meet the Reserves Committee Messrs Grimstone and De Luen (football), Downs and ,Burns (Ratepayers’ Association), Bovis and McDonald (sports), Randall and Grainger (cricket), with instructions to inform the Reserves Committee that the sports, bodies are prepared to assist to raise money to improve the grounds providing that the Sports Clubs have the right to suggest how money shall be spent. It was also decided that before, the committee meet the Reserves Committee the question of forming a Domain Board will be considered. The first recommendation io the Reserves Committee will be that the grounds he tile drained at once.

That the law makes mistakes sometimes was demonstrated at the Palmerston North Magistrate’s Court yesterday, when application wag made by the police to have remitted a fine inflicted on a person who had left his car in the street with insufficient lights. senior Sergeant Fraser explained that two constables had seen the offending car at different times on the same night and the owner had been fined on each of tile two informations.

The erection by the Public Works Department of hardwood transmission poles for that section of the 110,000 volt line between Bunnythorpe and Ashhurst is being carried out by cooperative day labour, and is expected to be finished in a few days.

A series of Gazette notices appointing the statutory closing day in accordance with the results of polls in various districts serves as a remindei of huw tar the country is from, uniformity in choice of the weekly halfholiday. Of eleven districts, the notices show four have chosen Wednesday, three Thursday, and four Saturday.

Lord Burnham, said recently: “Advertising is the key industry of the universe. It opens every door. It leads through the 'street to the marketplace to the home. It is the fine literature of trade, and the illumination ol business.”

it is understood that, where the electric trairsmission line will cross the Ruahine ranges, steel towers will be used in place of hardwood poles. One of tlie advantages of the towers is that they can be more easily transported than poles across' the ranges.

Recently, the residents of a Certain locality at Utiku were greatly concerned for two or three days at the actions of an individual who was wandering through the paddocks and moving his arms in a. most peculiar way. The strain of keeping a wary eye on what appeared to be a peculiar individual became too great by the third day, on the afternoon of which the male occupant of one of the houses arrived home to find hits wife sitting on the back doorstep armed with the wood axe and keeping a scared eye on tine strange acting person; so he rang np for the police. The latter arrived per motor car, anj it was only when the individual, who had been the cause or all the excitemien was pointed out, fliat it was discovered that he wap no one more harmless than the waterdiviner engaged by the T'aihape Dairy Company to locate water on the proposed site of the new dairy factory. When informed of the occurrence, he enjoyed the joke as much a$ any of Hie others concerned.

An Auckland citizen who was passin" down one of the m'ain streets <f the city had a narrow escape from being stunned by a plump pheasant which came hurtling down from a clear sky. He pucked up the bird, which was quite dead, and was pondering over the strange phenomenon when a somewhat agitated man ronlied from a building near-by and claimed the pheasant, explaining that it formed a valuable exhibit in a discussion which even then was taking ota,ce among members of the Acclimatisation Socife'ty. It transpired that, the secretary had hung the bird's carcase by the legs from the catch of the open window, and while taking it down to exhibit it to members, it had slipped from his grasp, and fallen into the street below.

' Mr A. T. Ross, manager of Wyndham Dairy Factory, lias secured provisional patent protection for an improved cheese crate, which he has put to the test, tlile result being thoroughly •satisfactory (says the Wyndham “Herald.”) Two cheese were put into the crate, the one having the benefit of Mr Ross’s idieai applied to it, and the other just the ordinary treatment. After six months the crate was opened, and the difference was a revelation. A moist subject likle cheese is naturally subject to degeneration. That is an obvious fact to anyone who views these examples, as we have done. The end of onte shows decomposition to a depth of nearly two inch, es, while the other is perfectly sound —a triumph for Mr Ross’s idea. Tt. will be readily seen that the effect of this system on the whole of the Dominion’s export of cheese would mean an animal benefit amounting to thousands of pounds sterling.

The question of egg supplies which agitated the English public recently over tlie proposal to brand all such eggs lias resulted in statistics of varied character as to thie source of eggs sold in the British market. It is asserted that reliable Chinese eggs were imported snee 19-12, on-e 1 firm, alone 'claiming to import 115 million Chinese eggs per annum. T.ondon has imported more than 100 tons of Trebizond eggs in a single year in spite of the fact that the fowls of Trebizond gorge themselves in the spring on ihe anchovies which are scattered over the fields as manure, which is quite obvious to the palate. The import of eggs in 1013 was over 21 million great hundreds, valued at £9,500,000 and for 1022 nearly 11 million great hundreds, valued at £11,301,000.

Here i s an interesting paragraph, because ‘each successive word starts with a letter from the alphabet, commencing at A and ending at Z, leaving out only X: “After brief chilly days earth feels gladdening heat. Its joyous kindling leads me now over pure quiet, restful swards towards undulating valleys with youthful zeal.”