Shannon News FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1923.

Shannon News, 31 August 1923, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1923.

A meeting oi supporters of the Sports Queen for the coming Queen Carnival wilt he held in the Council Chambers on Monday evening. A football match has been arranged for Saturday next at the Recreation Grounds between teams from Shannon and Mangore to play for a dinner. in the evening a smoke concert will be held.

Another of those enjoyable socials conducted by the committee of the Church of England was held in the Parish Hall on Tuesday evening, when there was a large attendance. The Ladies’ prize in the euchre was won by Miss Jessie Gjoodwin after having to cut with Mrs Galloway, the men’s prize being won by Mr McGrath. The consolation prizes went to Mrs Davis and Mr H. Buckman. Edward Sullivan who was arrested on Monday last on a charge of being a rogue and a vagabond, appeared before Messrs Gunning and Spencer, J.’sP., on Tuesday morning. The police stated he. had been sleeping in the sbeds at the Miranui mill and refused to leave when requested to do so. He objected to work and was a nuisance. He had only recently come out of gaol after serving a sentence for a similar offence. The Bench convicted him and sentenced him to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour.

On Thursday evening at Moutoa, a farewell social was tendered Mr and Mrs Kelly, who have resided there for some tiinte and are leaving the district. There was a large attendance of iresidents and -a most enjoyable time was spent. During the evening Mr Jewell, on behalf of the setters, in a neat speech presented Mr Kelly with a well-filled purse, to Mrs Kelly a handbag, and to Baby Kelly a silver mug. Songp were rendered by Mr Aitken, Mrs Hall and Mrs Kelly. After the social a dance wias held.

Mr A. BilleSjjb, photographer, Levin, inserts a notice in this issue in regard to photographs for the Home Christmas mails.. In order that photographs may be finished in good time for the mails, early appointments are necessary.

At Moutoa on Friday afternoon the Bohool children gave a' farewell concert to Mrs Bagnall, one of their teachers, who is leaving for Newbury. She was also the recipient of a presentation from the scholars, receiving some useful crockery. A serious accident occurred in the tunnel above the Surge Chamber at Miangore on Wednesday morning when a worker named H. Dyke, supposed to hail from the Wanganui district, was engaged on concrete work in the. tunnel when he was •struck by an, electric locomotive. Dyke was evidently carried for some distance as he, was found lying beside the rails with his hips and legs badly (crushed. Dr. Macdonald attended the sufferer and "ordered his immediate removal by ambulance to Palmerston North hospital.

A meeting of the ladies’ committee in connection with the School Carnival in aid of funds for the school picnic and ground improvement, was held yesterday afternoon. A plan of campaign was drawn up and arrangements made for a systematic canvass of the town and district for produce and goods for the stalls. All who are willing to help in organising and assisting in the stalls are asked to communicate with Mrs J. T. Bovis. It was reported that five queens have been nominated for the. honour of Queen of the Carnival, and their respective committees are now busy preparing for the campaign. Arrangements for the carnival are now well forward and there is every indication of it being a great success. It is not often that Shannon’s Band (which consists of. a drum) has a chance, of turning out, but on Tuesday last it made its appearance on two occasions, one of which was to farewell Mr C. G. Robertson, of the local post office staff, who left Shannon on the midday express to join the H.M.S. Chatham at Auckland, as wireless operator on her cruise in the Pacific Islands. Although, Mr Robertson has not been stationed here long he has made many friends and is very popular, being a senior member of the Shannon Football Club. The other occasion was to say goodbye to Mr A. De Luen, whoj has disposed of his well-known tailoring business and is proceeding to Auckland to reside. A large number of friends assembled at the station on Tuesday evening, to see him off. Mr De Luen, since coming here to reside, has always taken a great interest in the welfare of the town and a prominent part in all matters pertaining to sport, being a member of the committee of the Shannon, Football Club.

By what the president (Mr E. Harrison) termed an ‘overwhelming majority,” the Pahiatua Bowling Club, at its annual meeting, agreed to bowl s being played between certain hours on Sundays.

Mr Norman Dey, of Tatuanui, has on his farm -a herd of about 30 Jersey cows, from Which the average amount of butter-fat actually delivered to the factory during last season was 3401b5. —The Aroha News. “On what authority do you quote ? : asked Mr Justice Salmond of counsel in the course of legal argument in the Supreme Court recently. “Your Honour’s own text-book,’’ was the somewhat unexpected reply. Though 5226 copies, of each issue of Hansard are published, there are only 103 people who think enough of the members’ eloquence to pay tor Hansard. Their total contribution to the cost is only £216, and the cost ol printing alone is, £8590. In the whole of the 50 years that die British firm, of Brunner, Monu and Co. has been in existence there has never been, a strike except one wnich lasted 'a quarter of an hour, and {then the men, who left their work hurried back. Oyer 1100 men of the 6000 in the service of the firm have been with the concern for 25 years,. Another heavy fall of snow occurred over the whole Taihape district, and sheep stations in the high country are covered to a depth of 12 inches. The snowfall was general and caused stoppage of all farm and bush work over a large area in the Main Trunk district. Dairymen whose cows were coining in received a set-back, and it is feared there will, be a serious loss of lambs and ewes in the district where the fall has occurred.

Even in the far-off days of 1893 some correspondence was carried on in the columns of the Hawera Star relative to the yields of dairy cows. It was interesting, while delvmg for other information, to read some of the correspondence and .to find an Elham writer boasting about having secured the large amount of £5 4s per cow from the Eltham Co-operative Dairy Company. The company, be added, had been enabled to pay out to suppliers 3d per -nllon for milk.

There is at least one merchant in Auckland who in regard to German trade belongs, to the “never again” brigade. Asked last; week for his opinion upon the Bill before Parliament dealing with the imposition of special duties upon goods from Germany and Austria, he said 1 he had not the slightest interest in the legislation, and had not even read the precis o' the Bill. “As long) as I am controlling this house,” he said, “we shall never buy anything that comes from Germany. I receive quite a lot of correspondence from Germany, but I never answer it. You see, lam not interested in the slightest degree.” In Seymour Avenue, Nelson, stands the oldest oak tree in the town. It was. grown from an acorn that was brought from England by Mr. Henry Seymour in the Martha Bidgeway, in 1842. It was planted on the banks of the brook not. far from his home, Presbury Cottage. After a time a flood washed it away. So greatly was this young oak tree valued that report iias it all the inhabitants of Nelson turned ont| to search, and eventually bore it black triumphantly. To ensure its safety it was replanted in tbe middle of the Sunnyside field, then owned by his B on—-in—law, Alfred Fell. There it has stood for 80 years, though villas surround it now Instead of fields.

Tli© Wellington correspondent of the : Auckland Star says, it is. understood that a substantial reduction in railway freights on. dairy produce will come into force when the new season opens.

At an inquest held at Bluff con-' ceming the death of a hoy named ' Alfred Joseph Hellier, a&ed six years and five months, the evidence showed that deceased was struck on the felt temple 'by a stone accidentally thrown toy a brother, aged 12, while playing. Infection set in and the deceased dieu three days later from septicaemia. A verdict was returned accordingly. Amusing stories of notes received by school teachers, explaining the absence of pupils, are frequently told. Here (says the Gisborne Times) is the text of a note that came to the Gisborne main school last week: “Please excuse John for being away half a day; his mother is in hospital with a little baby. I will see it doesn’t happen again.” The Rev. W. A. Sinclair, who passed through Palmerston North on a recent morning, received, states the local Standard, a wireless message from the Rev. J t F. Goldie in the Solomon Islands, which is the first received from this station. The plant, which was installed by the Methodist. Church Foreign Missions Society is, we understand, the first to be installed in any mission station in the Pacific.

“A celebrated K.C. gave instructions to his wife to always drive on her left side, and if her car was going to be run into, to keep on her proper side and pull <up,” said Mr Hunt, S.M., during the hearing of a motor collision case in Masterton recently. “Very sound advice,” commented appearing counsel, Mr H. E. Hart.

“Though we are one of the smallest boroughs in New Zealand,” declared Mr H. F. Mather, Mayor of Eastbourne (Wellington), “we have an exceedingly big responsibility.” He stated that last year some 900,000 people had (been carried across the harbour in the municipal ferry service, while in the future he believed the total would approximate 1,000,000 persons.

According to a statement made to a reporter by a Reefton, mining man, the present winter has been one of the severest experienced in .the Reelton district during) the past forty years. About a fortnight ago, with a small party of workmen, he was. engaged blasting ice—-some of it over one foot in thickness —in the Snowy river in order to allow a flow oi water into the intake that supplies a battery, “A thing that struck me as very strange during my visit to New Zealand was the habit of serving; dry mustard on the tables of many restaurants, and even in some of the smaller hotels. Any mustard eater will tell you what a horrible practise this is from their point of view for there is. not the slightest flavour n mustard until the ‘essential oil’ has been liberaited by the action of cold water.” This statement was made to a New Zealand Times reporter by Mr Allan Colman, a director of Messrs J. and J. Golrnan, Ltd., of London and Norwich, known world-wide as the manufacturers of mustard. ’ Has the. Meat Producers’ Board been premature in urging people to “Eat More Beef”? The Farmers’ Cooperative -Auctioneering Company, Hamilton, reports that “beef supplies are fast diminishing, and some difficulty may be experienced shortly in filling requirements. Naturally, prices are advancing rapidly.” The same conditions prevail in the mutton market; good wethers, are particularly scarce. The company also reports: “We are now approaching that stage, however, which the wholesale slaughter of calves forecasted, and it seems likely that a frantic demand for male cattle will shortly he witnessed without being satisfied. A pen of good steers is becoming rather a rare sight in Waikato yards, and it looks as if a lot of back-country that has been brought info pasture at a heavy cost must fall into a sorry state of decay, as indeed is happening at the present time.” ’

An instance of the extraordinary care taken, to preserve the standards of measurement was mentioned by Professor H. W. Segar during a lecture at the Auckland Institute. At Washington, he said, the standard of the yard used in measurement consists of an. amalgam bar noted for its particular imperviousness to gradations in temperature. Nevertheless, it is carefully deposited in a giass case in a room in which the temperature of the atmosphere is kept uniform. And as. if this were not enough to ensure immunity from fluctuation in the standard length, the authorities have given orders that no one must approach the case for fear that the warmth of their bodies might expand its length, but that all interested must only sight if, by means of a telescope stationed at a. distance. Such precautions told of a striking contrast to primitive times, when the standard of meaurement was taken as the girth of the tribal chief.

Sir James Wilson writes to the Feilding Star: Might I ask you to let your readers who may be anxious to get the little steel grey or black ladybird which we hope will save our gum trees, that at the. moment they can procure them from the giant blue gum just fallen in the Manse paddock at Bulls. These gums were planted about 40 years ago by the late Rev. Mr Doull and throve' well. When they began to show signs of the scale I put a few ladv birds on them, and to-(lav as they were lying on the ground 1 found several on the first piece of bark I detached. Judging by this there must be great numbers on the trees, and 1-hcv should be gathered. The ladybird seemed much more active than I anticipated for the season has scarcely advanced far enough for them to move freely. Unless these insects are taken, away or able to fly to other food, they will be starved in about a fortnight, I am glad to note many of the gunis which boon so blackened of late ere showing signs of life now end fresh leaves are shooting out.