Shannon News TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1923.

Shannon News, 21 August 1923, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1923.

The fortnightly meeting of the Boi ough Council will bo held this ever ing.

Mr Jas. Murray, secretary of the Shannon Dairy Co., left yesterday on a business trip to Auckland. Invitation holders .ire reminded that the Miranui Bali will be held in the Druids' Hall on Thursday evening next.

A petition is being forwarded to the Postmaster-General from the men Rt the top caiiiip, Mangahao, requesting a daily mail service.

A general meeting of the Shannon Bowling Club will be held iiji the Pavilion on Thursday evening at 7.80 p.m. to consider the question of laying down a croquet green on the site where the tenuis courts are at present.

On Sunday evening- in the Methodist, Church, the Rev. L. Minifle preached his farewell sermon. He look his text from St. Mark's Gospel. "They came to Him from every quarter'' Those who were fortunate enough to hear Mr Minifle speaking' from this text will long remember his earnest appeal for the Spirit of Christ to be felt more in the churches of to-dav He showed how the people c a .me to Christ from every quarter, geographically, socially and intellectually to hear Him- speak. The same could be done now if there was more of Christ's spirit shown in the churches. Miss Chalk, of Foxton, sang a solo! Owing to so much sickness in Shannon there was not such a. large congregation as might have been wished, but those who were disappointed will have an opportunity next Sunday morning of hearing Mr Minifle preach before he leaves tho district for good.

A sharp shock of earthquake was felt in Shannon at 1.30 a.m. yesterday and two further shocks at 6.55 a. in.

The winner of the first prize in the Wellington Carnival "Week art union was Mr 3. Roach, jun., of Shannon. It is a* coincidence that the first prize of the Auckland art union also came to Shannon.

AX the meeting of the Wanganui Hospital Board a return showing the cost per day of food allowed for tihe various departments .of tlxe institution was -submitted. The totals read as follow:—Medical staff 4s. %d; patients Is 4£d; nurses Is 2rJ-d; porters Is 4£d. The shipment of cattle to Australia is still going on, and there will be two more shipments at least. The Waihora left Wellington with 720 head, including some of the finest bullocks tha«t have ever left New Zealand' On Dhe next trip she will take some 700 more.

The Wanganui Farmers' Union have under consideration a proposal by a qualified veterinary surgeon, who is prepared to offer his services provided a. veterinary club of 200 members in the district is formed, the subscription to be £3 3s per member per annum for three years. The thanksgiving services at the Presbyterian Church on Sunday were well attended. Owing to the indisposition of the. Rev. Frank Macdonald of Foxton, both services were taken by Rev. A. F. Stew-art. At the morning service the soloist was Miss Aim who rendered "My Task" very ably; the solo at he evening service was taken bv Mrs Bovis. whose singing of "Lead, Kindly Light" was much appreciated.

The management of the Maoriland Theatre are offering one month's free pictures to the boy or girl who writes the best composition on Wednesday night's picture, "The Sea Lion." The programme is a 'grand tale of the sea and offers a splendid chance for the young folk to show their ability. The stories must be given in to the manager not h ,ter tnan Saturday next and the winning composition will be published in the "Shannon News" on the following Tuesday. Story writing is a payable and pleasant hobby and a competition such as this often brings to notice talent that would otherwise lie dormant.

It is interesting to note that the Ford -Motor Company recently completed Ws 7,777.777 motor car engines. At-the present time the company 19 erecting a huge new" factory at a cost or 10,000,000 dollars. Eleven thousand Ford cars can be parked on the floor of the machine shop and if each- carried five passengers the total would be 55,000 people, more than twice, tihe population of Wanganui. The glass above in this building will be enough to roof in a six acre farm. It is estimated: that 70,000 Ford cars will be sold ex the Canadian factory during 1923.

It is with sincere regret we have to announce the death of Mr .lames Dalziel, which .occurred at his residence, Julyan street, yesierday morning, after' a short illness. The late Mr Dalziel contracted the "flu" about a fortnight ago; and appeared to be recovering when complications set in to which he succumbed. ' The deceased who* was well known in the district, was a native of Palmerston N\, being a son of Mrs Dalziel, of College street. He toad been a resident of Shannon for some time being- employed as Borough foreman. He leaves a widow and three children to whom we extend our deepest sympathy in their loas. The interment takes place at Palmerston North on Wednesday.

If the curriculum, ql our schools is not already overloaded (says a contemporary) it might be worth while for tfhe Education Department to see that instruction is given in science of mortgages, what they are, and how they are managed. For instance, to show the ignorance on the subject the following episode may be cited. A property owner said, "I am going to vacate my home." "Why?" inquired a friend. "Because the mortgage is due, and I cannot meet it," was the reply. "Wlhy do you not raise ia. fresh mortgage to" pay off the old?" asked the friend. "Gosh, can one do that?" "That is the way it is always done," said the friend astonished at such, lack of knowledge. Something in the nature of a rara avis was discovered- at the annual i meeting of the Timaru Park Bowling i Club, in the form, of a secretary who was praised and thanked for having run the club for twelve months on a staimp account which only totalled 2s 6d. How this had been done was something of a mystery (remarks the Timaru! Herald) till Mr Miller, the seoretarv in question, explained that he wrote very few letters and never gave a receipt. Instead of giving receipts he posted members' names on the wall of the pavilion and marked them paid, as the subscriptions came to hand. This saved stamps and writing' paper, and he believed that members liked to see their names that way, better than on a piece of paper in their pockets. (Laughter). The opinion that prime beef prices

would shortly 'be in the neighbourhood of 35s per hundred pounds weight was expressed to a 'Standard' reporter by a Palmerston stock auctioneer, who gave as his reason the continued Australian buying. This, he pointed out, had. already raised prices from £1 to 27s 6d. Approximately 3000 head of stock, he continued, had so far been shipped from five Wellington province and with

two more boat loads to leave shortly there would be a scarcity of prime beef. The majority of the animals shipped ranged between 900 and 1100 lb. each, Hint the New Zealand freezing works • were not, too keen on handling. The stock had been all consigned: to Mr K. Mac Lean, of Gippsland, Victoria, on whose behalf the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., Jhad been acting, j Within seven days of it s arrival it j had to be slaughtered. He concluded i by stating that these shipments would j probably be the- forerunners of many < others since it was a very paying proposition for the producers. I

With the coming of the fresh in lihe Manawatu River, whitebait, in considerable quantities, have put in an appearance once more and some good catches have been recorded. A rather unique display of butler (says "The Post's" London correspondent, writing on 2iind June) is now to be seen in the miniature freezing chamber in the : window of the New , Zealand Office. One half of the chamber is taken up with pound packages and a couple of hundredweight boxes, but in the other half is a picture executed in butter on a. "canvas" of black velvet. On the one side of the foreground is a fern tree, on the other is a nikau palm, and these, frame a. pastoral scene with innumerable cows, a liver, and a mountain range. The exhibit has been done for the New Zealand Produce Association, whose name the picture bears. That there are some quick-witted persons about, who are unscrupulous I enough to obtain a little money by ' dishonest mieans when the opportuniy offers was shown one morning last week in the shop of a well-known tobacconist in Queen street (says the Auckland Stan-). A customer was leaving the: shop buttoning up his overcoat, which; had been undone in orde r that he might put his. hand in his pocket to get the purchase money. "Oh, did you drop those postal notes on the floor there?" called the shopman as the departing customer reached the door. "Why, yes. Thanks very much!" smiled the man, as he came back, stooped and picked up a bundle of postal notes lying! in front of the counter. "Much obliged," he said as he went ouit. A few minutes later the tobacconist raised his eyebrows viery .high when a regular patron entered the shop and enquired anxiously if anything had been seen of some postal notes which were missing from his pockets. He thought they might have dropped in the shop, since ihe had made a purchase there a short, time! before. Here's a new explanation: "Gaming and' gambling," said Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M., at Auckland recently, "are due to a perversion of the hunting instinct! still strong in most of us."

Though no appointment lias yet been announced, there is a general consensus of opinion that the new Supreme Court judge will b» Mr W. C. MacGregor, the present SolicitorGeneral.—Waikato Times. It is unsatisfactory to find that last year 340 New Zealand-born youths between the ages of 15 and 25 were sent to prison, an increase, of 58 per cent. on the number in the previous year. No definite cause lias been given for hlB increase, but it is probably due to the laxer discipline in many families during the- war when fathers were absent.

A quaintly-worded, petition by 38 Maoris for the prohibition of the netling of stingrays and sharks has been read to Parliament. The petition states tihat these are delicacies with the Maori race and "have been so from the days of our ancestors even to the present." The! petition ends: "Enough! Good health to the Speaker, and hon. members under the blessing of the All Highest. Enough."

What is perhaps one of the smallest wireless receiving sets was shown vo a Wanganui "Chronicle" reporter. The set is contained in a case no large* than a pack of playing cards, and is the work of Messrs W. Hopper and H. McCready, both of whom are local wireless enthusiasts. The set, which is of the crystal type, lias been tested and gave wonderful results. At Tuesday's meeting of the; Management Committee or the Horowhenua Rugby Union, a letter was received from the Otaki Chamber of Commerce protesting against that Union's attitude in playing all rep. matches in.lJevin. The Secretary was instructed to write that this was a matter which lay between the Union and the different Clubs, and any question on the subject would be settled between thes© bodies.

A sweeping claim that cows in the Auckland Province were generally underfed for dairy purposes was 'made bv Mr R. M. Somerville, local director of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company. Ltd., when addressing the annual meeting of Otorohanga suppliers. Underfeeding l , said Mr Sommerville, was their biggest probelm. The possibilities of the New Zealand climate were well illustrated in Levin last, night. The early evening was clear and looked like settling down !for fine weather. At midnight a heavy thunderstorm broke over the I

town and continued for some Dime, being marked by one clap that was almost alarming in its intensity and proximity. A 6.55 a sharp shock of earthquake which lasted for about two seconds was thrown in for good measure and at 6.30 a heavy shower of hat] ushered in a bleak day. Anything from 200 to 400 tons of goods are being taken the Oth'a tunnel daily, stated a railway official to a representative of the Grey River Argus. The 'amount taken through depended, howe'ver, on the number of trips the locomotives were able to make each day.'' In the meantime, a fair quantity of coal and timber was going through, and on© consignment of tjimber for Temuka (South Canterbury) had been sent through. There was a fair quantity of goods to be seen in the local railway yards that had come over from Canterbury. Domestic troubles seasoned with a dash of love were primarily responsible for the sudden elopement' of a/

youth and a girl of 16 summers from the latter's home in Taurahgu on Tuesday evening (says the Waihi paper). Mounted on a motor cycle and line girl beside him in a side-car the young man left Tauranga at 7.30 p.m. for Waihi. Owing to the shocking state of the road the machinestuck fast between Tauranga and Kai/ikati, and the couple perforce soerit, tho long night on the road. They reached Waihi about 8 o'clock on Wednesday night in a wretched and tired condition. The inktrvonr. i t.ion of the police rijhe following morn- . ing had brought the romance to an ' abrupt ending, and the pair were safely put aboard "a service ear bound nv Tauranga.

Good progress is 'being made with idle erection of the Koputaroa Hall, which is being built by the voluntary labour of the residents of that (Usoricc. The walls are now up and a start will be made this week with puitting on the roof, (the wholla building being expected to be completed by the end of the week.

Speaking to a "News" representative this morning, a local dairyman expressed Mie opinion thai the present season was the worst- for feed that had been experienced in this district for some years. This lie attributed to the complete saturation of the ground during the autumn and spring, leaving it so cold that the usual growth was lacking. A Wanganui boy liad an experience the other day which is calculated to leave a lasting impression on his memory (says the "Herald"). Coming along the Avenue early, he noticed a lady's handbag and on picking it up discovered it contained a purse and £35 in notes. As the namte and address of the owner was also inside the boy lost no time in returning the bag. The lady carefully counted out the noteis on the table, presumably to see if they were all there, and then becoming; overwhelmed with (generosity, she handed out is to the boy.

Mrs Rosita Forbes, tihe intrepid woman, explorer, tells this story against herself: When lecturing in the north on her visit to Kui'ara, a slide was shown out of order, and without noticing anything amiss,, she announced: "This was tihe kind of dress 1 wore in the desert) for six months." There was a howl of laughter. She turned afterwards to the screen to find that the operator was showing a picture of a little naked black boy. Now she always looks at the screen before making comrnenlls. Advice from, Sydney has been received in New Plymouth, says tlie Taraiiaki Daily News that there is likely to 3)c a considerable delay in

the arrival of hardwoods from. Australia. The! advice indicates tlhat heavy rains have made the - roads practically impassable. About 50 per cent, of the mills Shave either stopped cutting or are cutting only a small part of their capacity. On top of this a heavy wave of influenza is

sweeping over 'New South Wales. The mills are; full up with orders and under the circumstances indicated there

is likely t|j be considerable inconvenience to 'those requiring this class of timber in New Zealand. At this week's meeting of the Wellington Education Board, a letter was received from the Auckland Board asking for co-operation in pressing the Government to raise 'toe sum of £1,000,000 for the purpose of building schools and teachers' residences throughout New Zealand. After consideration of the' proposal, the Board expressed the: opinion that, whilst in sympathy with the aims of '([he Auckland Board, the- time was not, considering the state of the; Dominion's finances, a suitable, one forgoing in for a scheme involving such heavy expenditure. A" group of 256 cocksfoot growers and dairy farmers of Banks Peninsula have forward a petition to Parliament asking for a protective duty on importations of cocksfoot. They state that as the present price of cocksfoot Is Ijelow the cost of production there is a danger of the industry being lost to the Dominion unless the growers ar e j protected, against importations from foreign countries. As the Government has already given protection to the wheat, timber and other industries, they ask for a duty of 3d per pound to be imposed, to be -. operative when the wholesale price is 8d per pound, the pfice to he diminished automatically as it rises to lid per pound, at: which price the duty will disppear.

There is no doubt of the existence of a certain basis of scientific knowi ledge for the present vogue of the I assumption of the importance of [ r.ind'.s iuiiuence over body, and of the : .-.nportance of the unconscious element, in mind, says Professor Version Kellogg, writing in the North American Review of the unconscious element in miud. i.'ut, of course, this vogue is chiefly the result of e\i rnv.'.gar.t claims unjustified by th-: factyet known. These c<ui:r.<= rr e pressed by persons who -i • not even acquainted with th< -•<■' •:•:!': ■ facts that give any basis a! ■''a them. Too-often they are <i ,,; "••..-. ■ attempts to exploit the !>r>p>;!ir i.i teres*:. In other eases Mey ate r,.-t dishonest in intention; oiay dishonest through careless disregard of the obligation resting on anyone who offers to point the way to health of having scientific fact as a basis for this advice. When I asked M. Coue for some proofs of his claims to be able to do what he thinks —pro-

bably quite honestly—lie and any of us can do by his methods, lie drew from an inner coat pocket a sma.ll packet of letters, evidently much used, and ' handed me one or two to read. Each writer said that she had tried M. Coue's method and had got well. It was a naive reply on M. Coue's part. The letters might mean everything or nothing with regard to M. Coue's methods. M. Coue considers them to mean everything. I cannot. -. . Few of them (faith healers) claim, I believe, to substitute mind and faith cure for surgical treatment in cashes of broken legs and and fractured skulls, and for the aid of physicians and public health workers in cases of hookworm, trichina or bacterial inf.'cton. Their strength lies, a.nd must lie, in making distinction between ills that plainly come from physical lesions and parasitic infection and those which are more or less hysterical in ch.arac.ter, using the word hysterical in the broad sense