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Shannon News, 31 August 1923, Page 4

The outstanding feature of the weekend play was the match between the Otaki Club and a Lower Hutt team, from which the low handicap men were excluded. The contest was played on the Lower Hutt links, and resulted in a runaway victoiy for Lower Hutt by eight games to two. In a Court case at Auckland it was stated that a young mao of over 20 was able to write only his own name and to read but words of one syllable. He was earning £4 18s a week as a driver, and was the sole support of his mother.

At a recent meeting of the Cambridge Literary Club Mr. Frank Penn contributed a paper on “Rose-Growing as a Hobby/' The paper, which was a fine one, was fully appreciated, and Mr. Penn was accorded a hearty vote of thanks.

The gamble which exists in the present method of consigning produce to the English market (says the Taranaki Herald) was strikingly illustrated at the annual meeting of shareholders of the Tikorongi Dairy Co. on Friday. In quoting the prices secured for the various shipments of produce, the secretary stated that one vessel which was loaded for West Coast of England ports arrived Home whilst good prices were prevailing. Delay took place in the vessel's discharge, and it was three weeks before her produce was landed. In the meantime the bottom had fallen out of the market, only a shilling being advanced on the shipment of butter. On the other hand, another vessel spent several weeks longer than she should have cruising around New Zealand. Her cargo, which according to schedule would have been landed in the middle of the slump period, caught an improved market and realised nearly top prices.