Shannon News TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1923

Shannon News, 10 July 1923, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1923

Tile fortnightly -lireeting of the Borough Council will be held in the Council Chambers tjhis evening.

The erection of permanent .residence 8 at Mangore is now well on' the way, six houses being completed, and the seventh is in course of erection. With the .addition of these houses Mangore now presents quite a township appearance.,

Mr G. Morgan, who lost .his. life in the Railway disaster on the Main Trunk, was well-known in Shannon, having been for some time in charge of Mr W. J. B. Jolly’s .saddlery business in 'Ballance street. He was a son of the Hon. George Morgan, of Gisborne.

Residents who ventured out on Saturday evening received a surprise when they found the street lamps were lighted. Street lighting has been badly needed in Shannon and the new Council aTe to be congratulated on arranging for the temporary lighting of the town until such time as we can get a proper lighting system from Mangahao. At the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce on Friday evening, Mr Murphy brought up the question of need tor silencers on .motor cycles, pointing out danger caused by the noise. It was decided the. Borough Council be asked to enforce the by-law that motor vehicles should carry silencers, also by-law a,s regards riding bicycles on footpaths be enforced, and that a bylaw be. made prohibiting pillion riding in the. Borough. Last Saturday was the, day set apart by the International Co-operative Alliance for celebration throughout tne world, but the. Shannon supporters of the co-operative movement decided to hold ther celebration on Wednesday next at the Parish Hall. The afternoon will ibe devoted to entertainment for the children and in the evening a social for,members and t/heir friends will be held.

A few days ago there passed through Shannon, something new for these parts in the car line, viz., a steam driven car. It was on its way from Wellington to New Plymouth. The car which wa s a. five-seater, to all outward appearance did not look any different to a petrol driven car. The engine is at the rear while the boiler is in the front, the running of the car being controlled from the wheel which is on the left side. There are no gears carburettor, clutch, etc. to- go wrong. A local resident, who journeyed .to- Tokoinaru; in the car, spoke, in high praise of the smooth manner in which it travelled.

The Manawalu County engineer reported at/ last County meeting on the Awahou Riding as follows Owing to continuous wet weather, Mr K. Easton had to abandon the work at the stop' bank near the Shannon Bridge for a, time. The work is now being proceeded with and he hopes to have the bank completed in two weeks’ timeAfter -strenuous effort on the part of the contractor, the Shannon road has been metalled over the bog and the road is now open for light traffic onlv.

jj in the year 1922 New Zealand excorted £13,728,040 worth of butter and cheese and £11,882,553 worth of wool. Mr Jaimes Moncrieff, well-known to the Masonic craft and secretary of a number of cheese and dairy factoriesfell dead fromi his bicycle while cycling bonne to lunch on Monday afternoon at Carterton. There was another flood at Mangahao on Monday night, two inches of rain falling during the night (states an exchange). The river was very high, but no damage, is. reported yet. As an indication of conditions, it is interesting to note that at Mangaore power-house site there has been, within the last 12 months, 70 inches of rain: at Arapeti, over the first range s>f hills, 90 inches, and at Managahao 108 inches. An important extension of the uses of electricity in this, district will probably arise from its particular applicability fo) poetry-farming. In one small town In California, five million chickens are reared annually by this m'eans. They 'are electrically incubated, electrically brooded, aind it is safe to say, electrically cooked at the end of their career. The big advantage of electricity for the incubator is the fact that the temperature is reliable—once it is put on it requires no further regulating, and further, the cost, based on American, figures is less than other fuel. The damage caused by rats and the danger that lies in their scope was demonstrated at the annual meeting of the Napier Fire Board (bays the Herald). Deputy Superintendent Riddell stated that a fruiterer and grocer, whose shop was situated in a very congested part of the Port, noticed that his fruit and stock were being infested with rats. The shop was searched and a skirting board behind some of the fixtures was removed. A nest waisi found made of hay sufficiently plentiful to fill a benzine box. and, m it were fruit and rubbish 'and 27 boxes of waix matches. The boxes had heen chewed and some were* eaten half away while loose matches were lyinsr in the nest. A rat Wad only to bite the head of-one. stated the denutysuperintendent, and 1 a blaze would, oc--nr which might result in a .seriom conflagration. It was remarked that, this onlv went to show h.ow danserous it. was to oxnoye matches which might. he attacked by vermin. It was t.h.e intention of thiei hoard to na.ss a hv.inw mink in e it. comnulsory for matches, when stored in bulk or exposed for pale, to he contained m tin case or such other materia! that was not accessible to rats. The Feilding “Star” says: Each day brings its surprise in disclosures oi breaches of trust committed by Civil servants and employees in private concerns. Never in the history of New Zealand has there been such a devastating wave of crimes, of all sorts, from petty pilferings and heavy defalcations to capital offences. The morale of the nation is. iat its slackest, or it should be remembered that lor every crime that is exposed and disclosed, there are a dozen that do not reach publicity—that are. quietly settled or hushed up. Butt there is one direction in which the State should move for the protection of pai longsuiffering public that indulges in speculations in shares, of public companies . Numberless companies have, been formed and floated in all parts of the Dominion, the members of the public put their £1 or £lO or £25 or £IOO into it—and then something goes wrong with the works. The. waslvup yields nothing to the pound. We are not referring to unfortunate companies that have ’a run. of hard-luck, hut to those which are apparently deliberately organised to exploit an unsuspicious investing public. Somebodyon the inside gains a rich return at the expense of the numerous investors. We think the Government should provide in the Goimpi&injißs Act that there shall be ai public inquest on all such' cases that are the least bit suspicious. _________