Shannon News FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1923.

Shannon News, 13 July 1923, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1923.

We learn that in the course of a few days a small goods and pork butchery business will open in Shannon in keeping with the growth ot the town. Mr C. Veale has purchased a portion of the Spencer estate, in Stafford street and intends, erecting a 5-roomed bungalow at an early date. The many friends of Mr Jay, of Mangore, will be sorry to hear he is. an inmate of the Palmerston North Hospital, suffering from pneumonia. LOCALS As an indication that business in' Shannon is growing, in the course of the next few days five new businesses are opening here, which goes to show that outsiders have faith in the future of the town. A most successful Tennis- dance was held In the Parish Hall on Tuesday evening. These dances have been going right through the winter and have always been well patronised, the Tennis Club’s funds being considerably augmented as a result. With a view to raising' funds for the annual school picnic and improvements at the school, the. : Shannon School Committee at its meeting last

night decided to' hold a bazaar early in September.- A meeting of ail interested will be (field shortly to make the necessary arrangements. 'At the school committee meeting last evening a vote of sympathy was passed to Mrs T. B- J. MaisOn in the loss of her child j also to-' Mr R. Hayes in the death of his wife, who was a sister of Mrs Mason. Both. Mrs Mason and the late Mrs Hayes were for some time on the.local teaching staff. Mr J. H. Farglher has disposed of his business to Howard Andrew, Ltd., who were formerly in business in Manakau, and take possession on August 1. Mr J. H. Andrew, the principal of the newl firm, is well-known along the coast as a very energetic and wideawake citizen, whose coming should be an acquisition to public affairs in Shannon. Both he and his associate, Mr Howard Hunter, take a great interest in musical matters.

. It is with sincere regret we have to announce the death of Mrs Roland Hayes. The deceased lady has been ai highly respected resident of Shannon since (her arrival from Glasgow in 1913, when she took up duties as infant mistress at the local school, a position which she filled with great credit, gaining the love and appreciation of both parents and scholars alike. Mrs Hayes was a lady of deep culture and high principles, of ai retir-, ing and unassuming disposition, and | with an obvious love of all that is . right and just. She leaves behind to mourn their loss her husband and two sons, her mother (Mrs Steele) and sister, Mrs T. 8.-,T. Mason. Mrs Mason, but a few days ago lost her little son.

To the bereaved husband and to each member of the family the deepest sympathy of the community is extended. ' ’

The present is a busy time for dairy fanners in. and around Shannon. The Winter being a severe one feed. is. very scarce, and; already quite a number of farmers have a lot of cows, in which means that they are “kept busy carting out feed and the mud does not make the feeding a pleasant occupation.

At the meeting on Wednesday night between representatives of the sports bodies and Reserves Committee to deal with suggested improvements at the Recreation, Grounds, Mr Grimstone, representing the football club, said, his club were quite, prepared to forfeit one playing ground to enable the committee to provide a playground for- the children. The action of the club was •appreciated by the committee and Mr Morgan said" the. Football Club were, to be .complimented for their unselfish attitude in the matter. An Englishman named Campbell made a new world’s motoring speed record in Denmark, covering 187 miles an hour. * * Last month 40 marriages took place at Hamilton—a record for/’the town. In June of last year there were 16 marriages.

The Canadian Government is beginning to realise the importance of fox farming. A branch of the Ministry of Agriculture has been formed to register and grade, all silver foxes in Canada. Some, workmen doing repairs in a, Washington cold storage ' plant came across a box of apples that had lain in an outrOf-the-way corner for five years and found the fruit in excellent condition. Small suburban farms are said to be popular ait present in the Auckland district, and' many people are taking up holdings of this nature. There is also said to be a demand for small dairy farms, in improved condition, generally known as “one man” farms, capable of running from 30 to 30 cows. “The Church of England is proverbially slow; to bestir itself, especially in New Zealand. I admit that on the rare ocasions. it does bestir itself, it gets things done. It is high time it awoke out of sleep in this matter of education,’ declared Dr. Sprott, Bishop of Wellington, in the course of his presidential address to the Synod at. Wellington. At Kaupokonuii recently Mr Watson made ai strong appeal to Jersey men to endeavour to breed animals with a larger body. This, he said, would be valuable in the future, and was one of the features noticeable in the Jersey Islands nowadays. Another two hundred pounds on the animal in frame would; be very useful. Type as well as dairy qualities were insisted on by Mr Watson. In fact, he said, ‘you have not the right Jersey unless -you have a dairy cow.” At a meeting of the Manawatu Rugby Union last night, the Te Kawau Sub-Union forwarded the correspondence with the Horowhenuai Union stating that next season the Te Kawau players must play with their own Union. (Horowhenua) and not Manawatu,.. Messrs Fagan and A. Anderson,. president and secretary of the Te Kawau Union were present in connection with the complaint. It was decided that the letters be referred to the New Zealand Union, with a recommendation that the Boundaries Gommission’is report be adopted at once. There was a pathetic little gathering at the foot of the Queen Victoria Statue in Albert Park, Auckland, on Wednesday last. It has been the. custom for many years for the survivors of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment to meet there every year on the anniversary of the regiment’s arrival in New Zealand in 1863, but this year, owing to the fact that so few are left, it was decided to discontinue the re-union. Nevertheless Private Thomas Enniss, a veteran of 81, and Mrs. Barstow, widow of a late member of the regiment, attended at the usual spot at the usual hour. @

With her hold full .of fat bullocks for the Addington market the steam, er John arrived at Lyttelton last Friday evening after a fifty hours’ run from Wanganui and a tempestuous passage. The steamer left Wanganui on Wednesday evening, and next day sheltered at Ohura Bay, near Terawhiti. The weather came on bad after the steamer resumed her voyage and was rough all the rest of the way, snow falling in the latter stages. The stock arrived in good condition, one animal only being lost, and theChristchurch butchers were prepared to offer £l2 a head for it: The stock was to be sold next day at Addington. Prime beef from the Wanganui district is in good demand in the south and despite a freight of about £1 a head, the difference between local and

southern' prices leaves a good margin for the producer. Captain Campbell, who is in Wellington just now, tells a story of an old veteran who had been admitted in the Royal Scottish Fusiliers. He had only one eye, and on day lie turned up with' the artificial one missing. T.ater on the man, whose name was O'Hara, was quietly given a guinea and told to- go to Edinburgh and get a new one. On the way he fell into the hands of friends, and before long the guinea had gone west except for a solitary sixpence. o,’Hara was very fond of his commanding officer, and felt he could not return without the new eye. He bought a bottle of lemonade, broke it, took the glass marble out-, touched it up with red and black paint, and slipped it into the socket. “And,” related. Captain Campbell, “he paraded with that eye.”

A cake 25 years old has just been cut at the silver wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Robert Funger, of Orange, New Jersey. It was one- of two cakes, exactly alike, that were on the table, at the marriage fest provided by the bride’s father, Mr Laurence C.

| Fell, former Mayor of Orange, who- at ! the time told the guests laughingly that it would be set aside for the silver anniversary of the happy event. As Mrs Funge'r cut through the deep icing of the 25-year-old cake, which had been sealed in an airtight box, the ( knife encountered an obstacle which, to the surprise of everybody, was found to be an envelope containing £SOO in bank notes—£2o for each of the. , 25 yearn.

Wellington is shortly to have, at Thomdon, a four-storeyed bulk wheat store. As wheat can be stored to an unusual height, and is one of the heaviest stocks, housed, the. building will be constructed on exceptionally strong lines, reinforced concrete being used throughout. The. store is for Messrs Pioot pros,. A type, of theft which is uncommon, but not altogether unknown- in Christchurch, is that of snatching parcels from vans and lorries during the absence of the driver. The. police are investigating a particularly audacious theft from a delivery cart. -Two fairly bulky parcels, containing about £9O worth of cloth, were, taken while the driver made a'call.

During the hearing of a case at the. Wanganui Court in which drink was the subject at issue,. counsel produced certain testimonials in favour of his client to show that he was a sober man. Mr Barton, S.M., remarked that it would be a very easy thing for a man to get some of his male friends, to give him testimonials. “Our sex,” .added Mr Barton, “may have their faults, but there- is one. bright spot in their character that they are sometimes wonderfully kind to each other whfen it comes to the. matter of testimonials.”

Apple-juice, as a. medium, for preventing the. obscuring of motor car wind-screens by rain, was mentioned the other day in the Supreme Court, Auckland, during the hearing of claims for damages for injuries sustained in a motor accident. One of .the defendants was referring to the visibility through his wind-screen on a' certain wet day, and he offered to 'ell Mr Justice Herdman the secret process he adopted to kep the glass free from rain drops. The method, was quite an easy one—just the application, of apple-juice. The death of the late Mr Matthias Jensen, of Mauriceville, at. Dargaville last Sunday, has an especially pathetic side. The bull which gored him was a young one and quite tame; Mr Jensen had frequently stroked. it. When he did so on this occasion it tossed its head 'playfully, and the sharp point of the horn caught Mr Jensen beneath the chin and pierced the jugular yein. There was nothing vicious about the animal, which went on quietly grazing. Mr Jensen’s wound was bound up as well as possible for the 30-mile drive to the doctor. He conversed on the way, but the loss of blood was fatal, and he died before reaching the doctor

Last month a meeting of ratepayers was held at Koputaroa to consider the advisability of approaching .the County Council regarding the formation of the road to connect Buckley, road with Koputaroa. Mr S. A- Broadbelt occupied the chair, and in giving a brief outline of the Main Highways Bill, said that there was a possibility of this road eventually becoming the main north and south road. A committee was formed to go into the .matter further, and act in conjunction with the Shannon Chamber, of Commerce. This evening a furher meeting is being held to- form a deputation to wait on the. County Council in support, of the road. 1 The Wanganui Borough Council sits in state with a magnificent horseshoe table, padded chairs and electric heaters for its comfort.. The Gonville Town Board believe that comfortable furniture is the mother of indolence, and that comfort and warmth only promote longwindedness. It therefore has no padded * seats nor appliances for preventing cold feet, and conducts its public affairs with overcoats on and muffled to the eyes. The Castlecliff Town Board has no luxuries beyond an open fireplace with a, fire in it that would make toast in a twink. Its equipment, like its eloquence, is solid, plain and efficient.—Wanganui “Chronicle.”

The south-bound Main Trunk express on Tuesday morning was delayed for over an hour at Waiouru. An unusual stoppage at this flag station just before 6 a.m. was followed by a cry through the train for a doctor, and simultaneously a surfaceman was hurriedly despatched southward on a jig-ger-incidents which somewhat alarm nervous passengers. Later is transpired that the services of the doctor were required for a lady passenger who had taken suddenly ill, and that the real cause of the delay was a sleeping porter at the next tablet.station. Over an hour elapsed before th a jigger covered the section and gave the express its “all clear” tablet. The express was over an hour late at Marton.

Suppliers to the Levin Co-operative Dairy Company will be interested to know that their bonus payments will be made to-morrow, and that they will amount to a substantial addition to tQic 'monthly butter-fat payments. The Directors find that they are able to pay an additional penny per lb on all butter-fat supplied from December 1, 1981. to May 31, 192.2, making the total for that season just over 1/6 per !b. Then for the past season, June 1 to May 31, 1923, an extra Id will be paid on all butterfat supplied, bringing the monthly average up to l/6f for the year. The Company is thus in a very fortunate position, thanks largely to the careful policy pursued by the Di-

rectors in the realisation upon the output in the past two seasons. A large circle of friends in Wellington and Levin will hear with great regret of the death ■of Mrs Jessie .Powles, wife of Colonel Guy Powles, of Wellington, who' passed away early on Thursday morning. Mrs Powles had not been in. good health for some little time, and an operation was found necessary. However, her health did not improve,, and ,her many friends will feel great sympathy with her husband;, daughter, /and two sons, whose loss is. so great. Mrs Powles had a striking personality, with great kindliness and sweetness of dispogi-' tion. Her part, in. public and in private life, was admirable, the world being the pboreir for the loss of such a. woman. Mrs Powles was the daughter of the latte Mir G. Richardson, and belonged to one of the pioneer families of Wellington. She was a teacher in the Levin school prior to her marriage and was also one of St. Mary’s Church Workers.