Shannon News TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1923.

Shannon News, 26 June 1923, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1923.

The fortnightly meeting of the Borough Coyncil will 'be held in the Council Chambers this, evening.

It is reported there are now 100 men employed at the Miramii mill, a large number being engaged in cutting. Now that the old cutters are getting used to the method of side leaf cutting, they freely express themselves as being satisfied and some of them are .making good money under this method. LOCAL esS-tsdf oVflWn LlSHufith

A general meeting of the Shannon Ratepayers’ Association is advertised for next Friday evening, to be held in the Institute, commencing at 7.30 p.irn. The executive requests a full attendance of members,' ,as a report on the quarter’s work will be disculsised.. Miss Wright, the district nurse appointed by the Hospital Board for. duty at Arapeti, is at present nursing in a ; private hospital at Palmerston North. Arapeti is fortunate in being able to secure the services of such an efficient nurse, as Miss Wright holds all the nursing diplomiaig and hais a fine record of service.

The councillors who. .visited the Masterton Cement Pipe Works last Thursday report having experienced verycold weather whilst motoring through the Forty Mile Bush district. They stated th© country waisi looking exceptionally well considering the heavy rain ahd cold weather experienced lately. One of the members of the party states he carried his "swag” through the Bush district 45 years ago when it was all dense bush and taking the trip through by motor he was astounded at th© improvements. In spite of the miserable weather on Friday evening there was a large attendance at the,Labour Party’s euchre party and dance in the Druids’ Hall. A most enjoyable evening was spent by those present. Mr j. Crowther'made a capable M.C. The music was supplied by Mrs Bhitler. Extras were played by Miss Wehipeibaha and Messrs H. Hook and McDonald. In the euchre tournament Miss R Terry won the 701bs of sugar and Mr J. Gross the ham. Mrs G. Keenan and Mr McKeohnie secured the consolation prizes. During the evening Miss Winnie Pickles played a violin solo, accompanied by Mr Tidman on the piano, which was much appreciated. The Labour Party iintendl holding 'another function at an early date. An amusing instance of what was described by the chairmjan of the Patelal County Council at a meeting of the council as “a, neighbour’s squabble” was ventilated by the medium of a letter from' a settler urging that taction should be taken in connection with a stray cow which carried ,a bell, and which therefore was a nuisance to him. He ©aid thiait the bell kept his child awake at nights; The settler concerned humorously suggested that all cows (allowed to wander should carry a bell, and have laJ number like a motor car. He said he used ft bell because it was often dark wihen the boys got in the cows. The letters were ordered to' liei on the table, "There is more news of the happenings in the world in New Zealand papers than in any American paper that I was able to get hold of,” stated Mr E. B. Boland, who recently returned from a trip to the United Staites, .to a Gisborne, reporter. He stated further that he used to search the papers for mention of New Zealand, but on only one occasion did he note any mention of the Dominion. Thei ignon&nce concerning the Dominion was amazing, and recalled stories of similar ignorance displayed in Britain before the war. New Zealand is usually lumped with Australia, and among everyday folk the apprehension exists that it is peopled by salvages, with a sprinkling of white men. Mr Boland was taken for .an Englishman, and many people were amazed at the idea that he was a New Zealander.

®vTe _ Arohalaxmer recently received _ applications in reto an advertisement for shareSm M»y * h<i6e ' 11 is st K e » a ’ were Irom farmers wfe forced off their properties,— Star. Tn • these days, when nearly everyone we meet grumbles about the state of the weather, or the slackness oi business, it is quite cheering to meet one who takes a rosy view of things. We have in Cambridge at least one optimist. Yesterday, during one of the verv brief snatches between the wmshowers, when the sun broke forth, land one might, almost l>eperqnaded that it was a balmy spring day one of our best-known citizens sallied forth' along the mam streets wearing a' straw “boater hat. His supreme optimism acted like magic on those he met and passed andjhe-wa congratulated as he deserved. Can bridge Independent. The foolishness of attempting to drive over a level railway crossing when a train is. approaching was brought home to iai man in Hastings ■recently, and no ; doubt the lesson he then received will stand by him for the rest ~of his life. He was driving a motor car. and, disregarding the. signal of the crossing-keeper to pull up, he proceeded on his way. When on the railway line the car stopped, and lan accident seemed inevitable. Eealising the situation, and failing to get the car to move, he jumped out, and by an almost, superhuman effort pushed the car over the line just m time.

“We have heard a good deal about Auckand and Tairaiiaki. but I have heard nothing about Wellington,” remarked a delegate at the annual meeting of the National Dairy Association at Palmerston North on Wednesday. “They have good land in Auckland,” he added, “but they cannot make cheese—Wellington scooped the pool at Hamilton. They cannot make cheese in Taranaki—we scored up there, too. These districts, may have production and quantity, but the main thing is quality, and that is whait Wellington is doing.” A fire at the top of a telephone pole is surely an occurrence that it not recorded in the annals of many fire brigades, but the Auckland City Brigade can now claim, to halve attended such an outbreak. The call came shortly after five o’clock on Tuesday evening, to the eomer of Hobson street and Cook street, where it was found that the top of a telephone pole was smouldering. The outbreak was extinguished with a few buckets of water. As some workmen were engaged in repairing wire connections on the pole duiring the afternoon, it is probable it was ignited by a spark from a. blow-lamp. A remarkable document wais produced in evidence in a Chinese case heard in the Magistrate’s Court recently (states the Poverty Bay Herald). It possessed the combined character of lain enlarged laundry ticket and a draper’s window display ..ticket in red paint. It purported, to be an account from! a Chinese firm for an amount which they claimed was owing. When asked whether he would like to see it, Mr C. E,. Levey, S.M., hurriedly declined to have anything to do with-it until the Celestial producing it had written out ai translation of the mysterious symbols which strayed over itg surface.

The egg-season with the commercial poultry-farmers has now definitely opened with the pullets coming into profit. Mr G. Webb, of Bartholomew road, is now taking 20 dozen eggs per day from 500 pullets and expects to reach 30 odd dozens during the coming month. From the 1150 fowls and.2oo ducks in his pens, he expects a return of 75 dozen eggs per day, based on last year’s average, during the season.

The Dannevirke Borough Council last night decided to inform the Prime Minister that it whole-heartedy supports the finding of the coroner in connection with the recent death of Miss Ransom ia-t the Allard ice street railway crossing, emphasising that, despite numerous representations to Ministers of the Crown, the General Manager of Railways and the Prime Minister, they sincerely regretted that nothing was done to minimise the danger and requesting the Prime' Minister immediately to give instructions to have a flagman placed at the crossing to safeguard life.

Mr W. J. McCullough, -onager of the Central Development Farm, who has just returned from a trip to Australia, took the opportunity whilst in thatt country of looking 'Over the Government Experimental Farms in NewSouth Wales and Victoria, and declares that as far as stock goes. New Zealalnd can more than hold its own with the best that either Hawkesbury or Werribee earn show. In dairy cattle, he considers, New Zealand is easily ahead, probably on account of the more suitable climate. The Haiwkesbury pigs, although having an Australasian reputation, he characterised as lacking, in type, having long plain falces, devoid of “dish,” and lacking space around the heart. An attempt is now being made to raise the standard by importations of fresh blood. In regard to the institutions themselves, Mr McCullough describes Hawkesbury as being primarily an .educational institution, farming being only a secondary consideration. Werribee. the Victorian institution, on the other hand, is self-supporting. The farm contains 3000 acres, 1800 of which are kept under cultivation, mostly wheat growing. Nine hundred acres is put under crop each 1 year, the other half lying fallow and the return from this T* devoted to the upkeep of the institution. The cableman’s silly season has evidently set in early this year, The newspapers in New Zealand were today asked to- pay cable Tates for the following illuminating item from Copenhagen : A man summoned before the Police Court at Harderslev wrote excusing his absence because he was sitting on eggs. The police inspector investigated and discovered the man in bed upon a sitting of goose eggs. Two goslings were already hatched and were wahdering over the bedclothes. Subsequently his wife arrived and relieved the sitting husband, yho went to court. All the eggs were successfully hatched.

As showing the value of rain in the | sugar growing district of Queensland, a letter received by a Cambridge, resident states that £IOO an. acre is am ordinary price for the land and that on a certain day the worth of the i whole crop in the district was estimated 'at £1,000,000, but within two or three days about three inches of rain fell and this increased the value of the crop to £4,000,000. As illustrating the advantage of breeding chickens as early in the season as possible, Mr G. Webb explained to a “Chronicle” repesentative that not only does the chicken usually possess ,a better constitution, but will lay earlier For instance, birds hatched in July will lay at five months, in September at 7 months, whilst November chickens will not lay before nine months old..

The Hon. E. Newman, speaking as a woolgrower, informed the Legislative Coutncil that the costs had so risen that no one - could sell wool now at less than Is a pound and make a profit out of it. At this week’s meeting of the Wanganui Education Board, a protest was received from the Rongotea committee against the re-bpehing of-a German School at Rongotea. The Chief inspector stated that as there were only four pupils offering he had recommended that the school be not re-opened. Recently a Bluff fishing launch netted one and mhalf ton of trevalli in the harbour (says the Southland ‘Times”). The fish merchants, after much negotiating, succeeded in disposing of about scwt. only, and the balance will have to be dumped back into the sea or used as manure. . Sir Harry Lauder’s appearance«at .the Theatre Royal, Timaru, drew a house which broke all records for that town. It wais one of the largest audiences that have ever been accommodated in the building, and the takings —£sl2 —were a record for the present tour for a. one-night performance. Christchurch was not far behind with £SOO for one performance.

Father Gondringer, of St. 'Patrick’s College 'staff, just returned to Wellington from a tour abroad, has written to the general manager of the Tourist and Health Resorts Department (Mr B. M. Wilson), returning lantern slides which were, provided him for his trip some 18 months ago. Father Gondringer in his letter, states that ..he lectured with the slides m every country through which he travelled and in'four different languages. On one occasion they were shown in a public square in Europe to: a crowd of between 8000 to 10,000 people, and the slides proved very interesting to everyone who saw them.- Father Gondringer concludes: "If I have been able to render my adoptive countrv some service by helping to make her known I owe it, to- a great extent, to your kind help.”

President North, of the New Zealand Conference of Seventh Day Adventists, denies the statement in various papers th!at Daniel R. Cooper, the Newlands murderer, was a member of that body. He was .formerly a member, but his name wais removed from the roll five years ago for improper conduct.

An interesting extract from the “Constitutional History and Laws of New Zealand” was read by Councillor Moffatt, at the meeting of the Nelson Council (states the. Nelson “Evening Mail”). In the second session of the Legislative Council in 1841-42 it was laid down as follows: “The seventeenth ordinance imposed a tax of £2O a year on houses made of raupo, nikau, toi-toi, wiwi, kakaho, straw, or thatch, existing in towns, and provided that 'after a certain date no such houses should be erected therein. By proclamation of May 16, 1842, part, of Auckland was brought within the operation of the ordinance: on March 30, 1813. a similar proclamation was issued in respect of Wellington, _ and on January 28, 1850, it was proclaimed