Shannon News TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1923.

Shannon News, 22 May 1923, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1923.

Mrs ,jone».s of Wanganui, who was a resident here for many years,-is a visilor to Shannon.

To-night the fortnightly euchre, and dance in connection with the Anglican Church will be held in the Parish Hall.

Mi?& Naomi Whatley, one of Palmerston North’s leading singers, will assist \\Tth the singing at the Anglican Church next Sunday evening.

An escapee from the Weraroa Boys’ Training Farm was captured at Shannon yesterday morning and handed over to the authorities.

The annual meeting of the Horotvhenuai County Patriotic Associaton will he held in .the Levin Borough Council Chamlbers, at 2.3(1 p.m. to-

morrow. We are asked to state that any person desirous ot forwarding clothing,

etc., to ilie sufferers by tlie recent Hoods in the South, can jo so free c-f charge through Messrs King Bros., agents for .1. .1. Cur tin and Co., Ltd., the well-knawn forwarding agents,

vho, with the shipping companies are handling donations free of charge. At Palmerston North yestarday, before Mr ,[. 1.. Stout, S.M., the following Shannon cases were heard:— Chais. Anderson, charged with being on licensed premises during the currency oi a prohibition order, was fined £2 a'nd costn; Fred Win. Johnston, charged with being in possession of an unregistered firearm, was fined £1 and costs 7s ; Gregory Gerald Kelly, for disposing of a firearm to Johnston without a permit, was also fined £1 with 7s costs. The Shannon co-operative Dairy Co. report pay'ing out 1 7 for hntterfat, supplied during Ihe month of April. The quantity of butler graded in the Wellington eool stores for this company for the year ending 31st March was 17,505 boxes, Ihe average grade being 93.,78,. being IJi e third highest average out of 62 factories consigning til rough Wellington. The output for the year is expected to reach over 700 tons, which .will constitute a record for tlie factory. It is not. often that a minister of religion don.s a football jersey, says Ilie “Waipa Post,” but in a Te Awamntu senior match last Saturday the Rev. G. T. Robson, vicar of St. John’s, played a sterling ganiie for the, Te Awauuitu club, whilst a . Methodist clergyman, Rev. Medley AYhite, . capably officiated as referee in the same match. Players and spectators alike appreciated the action of both gentlemen.

A 'special meeting of the Borough Council will be held this evening when the estimates will be brought down and general business held over from last week will be dealt with.

Mr H. W. Tidmun, late Dominion organiser of the workers’ co-operative movement, lion taken over the management of 1! 1 c Cash Trading Co. s business. Mr Tidnran took up his new duties yesterday.

To show what can be done in the dairying business by 'breeding on the i i ht lines one has only to 'inspect Mr 11. Tippler’s Te Maire Jersey herd ;■), Shannon. About lour years ago Mr Tippler laid the foundation of his pedigrees i y the purchase of the cow I'ope Diamond, bred by Mr 1. McKenzie, this cow ainder ordinary hertt conditions returning iOOlbs fat. He rlso purchased at the same time the K.C.B. bull Belmont Ascot. Since then he has gone on steadily building rp his herd and to-day he has one or the fine<t lot of pedigrees in the district, an imb Is showing strong constitutions, capacity and 'butterfat production. Ai present he has two cows Mud a heifer under semi-official test, viz., Twylish Rosebud, who last m'on’th gave 48lbs butterfat with a lotal of 425.331bs for 283 day - As this tow has nearly three months to go she should clear Ilie sOol'bs mark. The other cow- is Perfecta, daughter of the foundation cow. As a 2-year-old she gave 336.1)91 bs and as a 3-year-old up to the end of last month had tel’oned 467.03 with over two months to l go. Her breeding goes back to the Holden l.ad strain. The heifer under lest is Te Maire Maid. She ha’s a Imtter-fa't strain tiraeing back to the imported K.C.B. and Famous Buttermail. She shows every indication of •being in the first flight, Lp to last month 'she had done 314.641b5, with 1:50 days still to go. This heifer as a yearling secured first prize at Levin show out of eleven entries. All these rows have put up these records un'w herd (onditions, having received ■ ii artificial feed. In addition to the animals mentioned there are several r ther cow's and young stock, all of which show' plenty of quality 'and i oiistitntion. I't is Mr Tippler’s intention to visit Taranaki at the end cf the monlli in search of a new hull for the head of his herd.

At the Parish Hall on Friday evening a farewell social and dance was tendered Mr and Mrs Williams and family, of Kara road, by the settlers and 111011’ many Shannon friends. As showing the high esteem in ’which the family ave held in this district the hall was packed. A most- pleasant time was *pent by those preserit. During the evening 'songs and musical items were contributed by Misses Williams and Aim, Mesdames Bisliop and Bovis and Messrs Bovin, Bishop and Quarrie, ail of which were highly appreciated, at the conclusion of which a dainty •‘••upper 'was handed round. During the evening the Rev. Mr Abbott, on behalf of the settlers of Kara road, presented Mr and Mrs William* with a handsome dinner service and hi doing so referred to the high esteem in which the recipients are held in the district and the regret at their departure, at the same time wishing them happiness and prosperity in flieir new home. Mr Bishop, on 'behalf of the men of No. 2 dredge, also jmyle a presentation to Mr Williams or a case of pipes, and in doing so eulogised the goodwill that had always existed between Mr Williams and his mates. Miss K. Williams wak also tlie recipient of a chain and pendant from her pupils, which was presented on their behalf, by Mis* Peach. 3\lr..Williams suitably replied, thanking those present for their kind wishes.

While the Paris public slii; burs Herman musician.; and iheat.crlisls, England is showing an ev>. ..’-increasing inclination to put aside the bitterness engendered by me war, so far as the aesthetic 's concern«3>i, at least, and accept lor art’s sake A striking example of this \v-\s seen r»’

cently when Tiena Gerhardt, German soprano, reappeared in London for a concert. The great Jueni'-' Hall was hhed with musical enihushuh-v ‘.rid +o this hig audience she sang Schumann, and sang it in German. The audience recalled her time and time again.

One of l lie results of the great growth of the automobile industry lias been the increased demands*Tor leather. Referring to tills fact, Export lias tiie following: "Split their hides as thin as possible, there would not be cattle enough in the world to supply the leather to upholster and cover the fops of. more than twelve million nulomobiles in the world, unless the people Avero willing to do with less shoes and oilier commodities for which natural leather is required. To mieet the extra demand the manufacture of artificial leather has increased. In spite of the produolion of artificial leather the demand for the genuine article is si ill strong, and consequently reduction has not taken place in price.

As an illustration that heifers frequently give better results in the third year, during the dhcussion at a Dinners’ class at Stratford. Mr J. W. Deem cited the case of a Jersey lieifer that only gave 1401 b. the first year, but in the three subsequent years it reached 4001 b.

Five candidates for the WMcd sI ministry in New Zealand weve received for theological training at the lastconference, and flvie of the oil indents were retained for uottier year There are, therefore, ten now in 'he institution as against six 'a-t year

Very good reports have been received as to the success met with by running goats on blackberry-ink sted country (says the Wairoa “Star.”) It is stated by those with experience on the subject that the running of a fair number of goats does not decrease the sheep-carrying capacity, and the local branch of the Farmers’ Union has therefore secured about 400 goats from the East Cape for distribution among members of the union.

Milk supplies at the Kaluii factor-- are increasing, and the winter price lor milk for May. June. July, and A:: ust is 3s 2 4-ad, computed to be 100 pe; r -nt over the summer price of last sear a. Isaac Lamb, who lias died in 1 urnliam Infirmary at the ago of 306 ;• tributes his longevity ‘Mo God above and tire chewing of tobacco.” The rooverse evidently, of the common e-s • of' “digging one’s grave with one’s teeth.”

That the law makes mistakes runetimes was demonstrated at the Palmerston North Magistrate’s Court yesterday, when application wa s made inflicted oil a person who bad lo t his car in the slreet with insuflh ient lights. Senior Sergeant Fraser ex; lamed that two constables had seen the offending car at different times on the same night and the owner had been fined on each of the two informations.

“This morning I had Anchor Brand butter from Auckland, tor breakfast, and at 3/- per lb the people greatly prefer it to the local article.” This is an extract from a letter written by Mr J. W. Gibson, of Levin, from Japan, and is interesting as showing the wide distribution of New Zealand dairy produce. For some time the East ha.s been looked upon as a possible field for the expansion of our trade in primary products, and it is evident that a start has been made in this direction. Mr Gibson adds that ht missed the prime mutton of New Zealand from the bill-of-farG.

A total eclipse ol' the sun will occur on September loth of this year (states the Otago Daily Times). The path ol totality being iis course in the ocean south of 'Kamchatka, crosses the Pacific Ocean, and after landing north of the Californian Peninsula, passes over Mexico and ends in the Carribean Sea. The maximum duration, of the total phase will be about three and a-hulf minutes, a shorter period than that of

last year’s eclipse, of which the maximum was six minutes and about five minutes at Wallal. From the thirteen districts of the Palmerston North Hospital Boa'd’s area, 1.704 patients were adnutted during the year. The following return presented at the Board’s meeting on Thursday shows the number which came from each district: —Horowlienua County, 86; Palmerston North Borough, 736; Ivairanga County 3<l; Kiwitea County, 36; Oroua County, 99; Manawatu County and Rongotoa, 82; Poliangina County. 13; Feilduig Corough, 143; Levin Borough, 63; O nki Borough, 7; Foxton Borough. 9/; Shannon Borough, S 3; other dn-tr i ts, 66; total, 1,704.

The question of egg supplies which agitated the English public rccerflv over the proposal to brand all such eggs has resulted in stati tics of varied character as to the'source of eggs sold in the British market. Tf is asserted that teliable Chinese eggs wore imported snee IDT?, one Ann alone claiming to import 115 million Chinese eggs per annum. London has imported more than 100 tons of Trebizund eggs in a single year in spite of the fact that the fowls of Trehizond gorgie themselves in the 'spring on the anchovies which are scattered over the fields n.s manure, which is quite obvious to the palate. The import of eggs in 1913 was over 21 million great hundreds, valued at £9,590,000 and for 1922 nearly K million great hundreds, valued at £11,301,000.