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Shannon News FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1923.

There was on . view at the Shannon Meat Go.’s. shop dm Biaiian.ce street yesterday a fine body of bullock beef which weighed UlSibs. This is. the second body killed of ia, line fattened at the firm’s farms at Kainamga, the first body turning the scale at ioß4lbs. Before Mr E. Spencer, J.P., yesterday, (a, man. named Walker, alias Coyne, alias J. Kane, was charged with being an idle and' sOn ih that he had no lawful mieans of support. He wa,s convicted and sentenced to one' month’s imprisonment. -

The euchre* and dance held in the Parish Hall on Tuesday evading in aid of funds far the Anglican Church, was largely attended and was a most successful function,/everybody enjoying themselves. The prizes in the euchre tournament were won by Mrs Cihuircher tand Mr W. B. King, the consolation prizes, going to Miss E. Davis and Mr Goodwin. During the evening a dance, competition was held, Miss E. Davis and Mr W. Terry securing the i awiards. On Thursday evening, 26th inst., a farewell social tp Rev. L. Mmifte will be held' in the Parish H(aH, commencing at 7.45 p.m. An exceptionally good concert programme has been arranged, Singers • coming from Levin ; and Foxtorn. The management would like as many of the. members and friends as possible to come, along and] held to make the social a huge success. \Admission, including concert and supper, adults If-, children 6d.

Attention is drawn to special services announced on’ behalf of Foreign Missions ip be held: in the Methodist Church ohi Sunday morning' at 11 o’clock, land Tuesday evening at 7.30. Both services will be conducted by the Rev. Mitchell, Feilding, ex-Chaplain of N.Z.E.F., who is, a splendid speaker and Iso a first class vocalist. The services are' sure to be very interesting. Special 1 solos will /be ssung ’at Tuesday might’s service. ‘‘Come and bring a friend*” is the invitation given to-the public.

The Morrinsville Borough Council has definitely decided to take steps to raise a loan of £45,000 for laying down the streets with bitumen-

Hawks’ feet, representing 8000 birds, wiene received 'by t-bei Auckland Acclimatisation Society during June, at a cost of £2OO. “I think some of these fellows must breed hawks,” said one member of the council at a meeting of the society.

A forgiving nature was shown by a man who was assaulted in the Sailors' Home tat Lyttelton, and who was wounded in the. neck by a blow with a knife. He offered to. pay the fine impo&edj on his assailant in the event o-f its not being forthcoming in the specified time.

Local friends will regret to hear of the death in Wellington of Mr Arthur Humphrey, a commercial traveller, well-known on this coast, where he represented leading Wellington firms for many years. Much sympathy will be felt for Mrs Humphry, who is a daughter of the late Mr Marca Fosella land Mrs FoselLa,, and is left with a young family of two sons and two daughters.

“If you have lost the love and respect of your mother,' you have lost everything that is worth twopence in this world.” These words were addressed by Mr A. M. Mowleni, S.M., to a boy, fourteen years of' age, who appeared before himi in the Juvenile Court at Niew Plymouth, charged with breaking, entering and theft from’ a dwelling. The mother applied to have the boy sent away, and he was accordingly committed to the Wianganui Receiving Home. A good story was told aifter the last meeting of the Taihape Borough Council of a Main Trunk sawmilling firm which was prosecuted some years ago for allowing sawdust to pollute a stream,. The firm engaged a wellknown barrister to defend the case, which it won, the legal expenses being £IOQ. The firm was prosecuted again shortly afterwards on a similar charge, but evidently decided that •it would he,less costly to-lose the case. It was, too, as the Magistrate imposed a fine of £2.

> The Central Power Board at a recent meeting at Hamilton decided to charge £4 for water heaters, £6 tor j-kiioWatt, .and £8 for 1kilowatt. It was mentioned that 1kilowatt would heat 12 gallons of water to scalding point in eight hours. The advantage of water heaters on farms was that the power could be switched on at night in order to (have the water heated by milking time in the morning. The board decided to sell power for cooking and belaiting at lsd per, unit, with a minimum charge of 5s per month. . Another of the Cheerio socials was held on Wednesday afternoon and proved a pronounced success. These afternoon socials (have become very popular and notwithstanding the miserable day the promoters cleared £o 11s. Musical items were, contributed by Misses V. Aim,, A. Clayton, J. Bovis, E. Murray, D. Pickard and Mrs Bovis. Several competitions were held and keenly contested. The leaders in the paints ptrize lor competitions is Miss G. Merwoodi with 16 points and Mrs W. Easton 12 points. It is intended to hold a Wednesday afternoon concert iat an early date to enable mothers with their children to attend. In connection, with the outbreak of diphtheria ai .Miarton, a resident there wrote to the Wanganui Education Board recently protesting strongly against tile school being used “for cheap diances of a cosmopolitan nature, attended by men and Maoris who could not do without spitting about the premises.” He ; contended, that the school should be for the uise of the children. It was decided to forward a copy of the letter to. the Marton committee. The. Health Department has ‘ investigaited the outbreak—which in the case of one school child has had fatal results—and is satisfied with the sanitary arrangements at the school

i a ghostly experience betel; an employee of, one of Napier’s leading garages recently. He was on duty all night and on awaking during the early hours of the morning he was somewhat alarmed to> see the rays of an electric torch in the garage. The light went out as the man called out “Who’s there.” Am inspection failed to reveal anything amiss and the employee returned to bed. Again the light appeared, the beam showing right across the building. Another tour in the cold was resultless and the man turned in again, but the light kept on re-aip-pea.ring and disappearing. In • despertion and armed with a heavy bludgeon, the man decided to wait up in silence. Sure enough on came, the light again. Up the garage hie. rushed and found that the spot light on a brand new oar was burning, but it went out while he. was watching it after failing to find any intruder. On again, it ‘came, and the performance was kept up all night long. In the morning it was discovered that the connection was faulty and a slight vibration, of the building was sufficient to cause the current to make its own connection. The employee concerned, however, doesn’t believe the explanation.

One of the latest American methods of dealing with those who offend against the motor-car by-laws is to place the cars in a pound. A special ordinance has been issued creating such a pound by the city of Grand Rapids, in Michgan. For example, if ( a municipal official finds a vehicle il- ) legally parked in the street it can be j taken to the pound. In some cases of minor offences the officer merely I pastes a notice on the vehicle, telling ; the driver to turn up at the central offices and pay a fee. If he fails to comply with this order in 48 hours the ! ordinary police court proceedings are j taken against him. The object of the I new ordinance is to allow minor offences to be punished without all the unpleasant formula of police court proceedings. A proposal of a similar nature in New South Wales, especially in those places where the Motor Traffic Act is rigidly enforced, would have the approval of every motorist. One of the nightmares of a motorist’s life is the police court summons, Which seems without any escape to j await him sooner or later.

A Dunedin press message states that First Church has decided to forward a call to Rev. Dr. Ernest Merringson, of Brisbane..

• Although North Otago is almost a solid bed of limestone, farmers in thai district have found it necessary to use lime for the. top dressing of tneir pastures.

At a meeting of the Master ton branch of the. R.S.A., a number of anonymous letters in connection wttn the employment of the Poppy Day scheme were ordered to be burnt wanout being read to the meeting.' A man rode right on to the metals in front of the Rotorua express at a level crossing near Hunt-ly beiore he noticed the train. He threw himself off the horse and escaped injury, but the animal was caught by the train and instantly killed. A case is reported locally of a trapper in the Tauberenikau Valley (having secured 40 opossums as a result ox one night’s activities. Estimated at ?s ox 8s per skin, his return would be £l4 to £l6—a highly satisfactory result.

One of the largest hotels in the United States has concluded- contracts for the fitting up in several hundred rooms of plugs for the attachment of wireless receiving apparatus. Three receiving stations will toe equipped in one of the top floors of the building. Each room will have, a plug connected to one of the receiving sets.

As (the Cambridge rep. team got nearer to Thames on Saturday the weather got worse and when the team saw the flooded state of the ground near Thames they began joking about what the game, would be like. One member said to the captain, “If you win| the toss, play with the tide.”

The severe frosts of the. last two days have been responsible for the bursting of water pipes all over the town (says a Reefton contemporary), with the result that the plumbers have been in great request. The fact that a duck was found frozen to a sheet of iron takes a lot of believing, but this was the case on Saturday morning, and hot water had to be resorted to to release the bird. The Christchurch City Council has decided to 1 charge half-a-crown registration fee for bicycles, the fee to- include a numbered red reflector, a quantity having been landed from England at a. cost of flvepence halfpenny each. During a discussion, it was stated that registration might be ineffective in checking thefts, but the reflectors were necessary for traffic safety. A new by-law is necessary to give effect to this decision. It is stated that the Golden Bay Cement company will resume operations almost immediately, and that a wholesale house has been (appointed agents in Wellington for the distribution of cement. It is probable that there will be further developments in the cement industry. The high price has forced users to look around for fresh deposits, and it is expected that another company will be formed to work a deposit in the South Island.

It is said that there are 100,000,000 more people in Europe, than the soil can support and, unless a new fertiliser is discovered, millions will die of starvation. Professor Barton Scam-, rnell, president of the Radium Institute at Dover, says he has a wonderful hew fertiliser which may save parts of Europe from cannibalism. It consists of lava from Mount Vesuvius treated with the radio-active solution of radio-phosphate of potash. It can be used with extraordinary effect. Crops are doubled and trebled in quantity, and the quality is greatly increased.

Several instances are reported to have occurred in Auckland recently of a person representing himself as an inspector for Radio, Limited, and demanding that receiving sets shall be thrown open for his inspection (says the Herald). After examining the set, it is alleged, he collects an “inspection fee” of one shilling, and states that he will call again in a month for another inspection. The representations are not true, as the regulations do not authorise, anyone to collect fees of any kind, the only payment authorised being • the fee charged by the wireless branch of the Telegraph Department on the issue of a license to instal sets.

Mr Massey and the Bible: “I believe in the Bible from cover to cover,” declared Mr -Massey to a church deputation, at Wellington-some days ago, and he added: “I allow no one to interpret it for me, because I am able to interpret it myself.” Dr. Gibb: “You might be better for a little instruction.” Mr Massey: “I should like to have a Bible Class myself as teacher and Dr. Gibb as pupil.” Dr. Gibb: “And before the week was out Dr. Gibb would be teacher and Mr Massey the pupil.” Mr Massey: “I believe I understand the Bible just as well as Dr. Gibb, and perhaps a little better.” Dr. Gibb: “Mr Massey is not. a Scotsman, but some Irishmen seem to have a - good conceit of themselves.” Mr Massey: “I am an improved Scotsman." «.

IA correspondent writes to the TaranakujHerald : The katipo is more numerous this winter on the Taranaki coast, than in any previous year since 1909. These insects are l'ound under drift-wood and wrack cast ashore near the mouth of the Waiwakai'ho River. I found two on the Opunake shore, and two at the mouth of the Kapuni River. I also found one—a large robust suecimen—a week ago at the mouth of the Henui River. Hitherto I have not found the eggs, cocoons, or spiders in that neighbourhood. As the katipo is strictly nocturnal in habits, it minimises the possibility of bathers beingbitten by these dangerously venomous insects during the bathing season, i There is no' mistaking the katipo : from any of the 346 described New . Zealand native spiders. The bright red abdominal band is a clearly distinguishing mark, or specific character of the katipo. There is also a black form, but it is not at present known whether its bite is poisonous. The katipo is a confirmed cannibal. When kept alive in glass jars, to enable the observer to study its habits, 4t is a j common occurrence for the female, j which is much larger than are male, to attack and devour him in a few minuter

Newi Zealand’s population on March 31st last was 1,325,301 (including Maoris). Of the whites there were 648,545 males and 623,196 females. During the first half of the year there were approximately 333 bankruptcies. registered in the Dominion, as compared with 333 in the corresponding half of last year, and 128 in the first half of 1921. .

Its own reflection seen in the platen glass window of the Thames Valley power Board’s premises in Morrinsville so excited a calf that it charged into the window, smashing the glass. A Sunday school has been established in Wellington under the auspices of the Anglican Mission for the. children of Chinese residents, and is said* to be meeting with much encouragement.

Andrew Carnegie was once -asked which he considered to be the .most important factor in industry—labour, capital, or brains. The canny Scot replied with a merry twinkle in his eye: “Which is • the most important leg of a thiee-legged_.stool ” “We know these .roads at present are only fit for waggons and not motor cars,” said Gr. McLean at Saturday’s meeting of the Waimarino County Council. “My road,” said Cr. Jensen, “is not fit for a waggon. It is only fit for 'birds/’ In reference to a quotation for •trees for. planting supplied to the Horowhenua County Council at its ’ast

meeting, Cr. Harkness said that there were several places along County roads, such as. a siding at Ihakara which might advantageously be planted, and he'.thought the County should go into the matte?. Cr. Monk agreed with this saying that where trees did not overtop the road such planting would be a good thing. in addition to being the soul of wit, brevity'has other good qualities. A deputationist who waited upon the Wanganui County Council framed a request in ten words, and then departed. The chairman subsequently explained that he. saw the deputationist prior to the meeting, and warned him that if he spoke for 15 minutes he would probably get nothing. It was an announcement that future deputationists of loquacious bent should bear in mind.

Last Tuesday w.as the eleventh anniversary of the .swearing in of the Reform. Administration, which took office on July 10, 1912( Of the original members of Mr Massey’s Cabinet, there now remain, the Prime Minister himself, Sir Francis Bell, Sir Heaton Rhodes, Sir M. Pomare. ■ All these, with the exception of Sir Heaton Rhodes, who resigned his seat to do war work, afterwards rejoining the Cabinet, have had ' continuous service.

New Zealanders wrote fewer letters last year than in the year 1921, the average output being 1 93£ per head of population, as aginst 99£ in the year before. The total numbered 123 mildions, as against 132 millions in 1921. We sent out considerably more parcels, however, tfie year’s number being approximately 55j millions, as against 50 millions in the year before. Letters, postcards, and parcels added together numbered. 182 millions, 1 as against- 185 millions in the year 1921. A striking statement of the monetary results accruing from, afforestation was made by Mr James Deans, who addressed the executive of the North Canterbury district of the N.Z. Farmers’" Union. Mr Deans said no farmer grudged paying £2O a year to assure an assurance of £IOOO at death or after 50 years.. Farmers did not seem to realise that for -an,expenditure of £2O on trees they could probably assure a similar amount, and this without the necessity of paying the £2O every year. . . profits were referred to -in the Supreme Court at Auckland in a case, heard by Mr Justice Herdman who described himself as a naturalised British subject, and who, despite the fact that he had been in New Zealand for 16 years, needed the services of an interpreter, stated that he could have made over £SOO per acre profit on certain gum land at Waipapa. He could have got a little over 54 tons of gum to the acre, and the value wouldi be about £4O or £SO per ton. He estimated that it would cost him about £ISOO an acre to get the gum. , ? - The fact that on the bar—or. where the bar used to be —at the entrance of the Wanganui river now carries over 24 feet of water on the top of spring tides- shows the wonderful improvement in depth that has been se-cured'as-the direct result of the Harbour Board’s port, improvement scheme. Mr John Morrison, one of the members of the Board, can recall the . time, when he as a boy. over fifty years ago, rode across the entrance on a, horse without the animal having to swim. At that time there was a stock route across the river near the Imlay freezing works, the depth at low water being a couple of feet.— Wanganui Chronicle. . ' The isolation of many of the people of the country districts of Australia* is , shown by a letter which has just come to hand from one of the New Zealand bowlers who is over there just now. On one *of their journeys they travelled 100 miles by motor-cars, in wfiat proved to* be a cold snap, and when 5 they got to their, destination, quite j numbed with the cold, they had immediately to start and play. Most ox them, were shivering half the time. At Glen Innes they also found the weather very cold. The teams have got completely knocked out at times, and needed rest instead of play. Instead of the tour being a nice enjoyable holiday, most of them, are weary, and m-an'v of them, have been down uno. ! out." The teams were glad to get to ! Brisbane, and when the last letters i were written not many of them 1 , except 'the always courageous few, were ahxious to go on much further. Most of the party had been impressed as thev got further north with what they saw of the cotton plantations where v ’. the plants were thriving well. The trip however, from Newcastle up the northern rivers could not be classed a success, chiefly because of the cold weather prevailing. “Our own little , Dominion takes a lot of beating, is the opinion expressed by many of the howlers.

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Shannon News, 20 July 1923, Page 2

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Shannon News FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1923. Shannon News, 20 July 1923, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1923. Shannon News, 20 July 1923, Page 2

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