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Shannon News, 4 September 1923, Page 4

Marton Dairy Co. has received information ’ from London that its shipment of coloured cheese, ex Port Melbourne, realised an average price of 110 s per cwt. If hens go off their food the probability is that they are getting too much. Generosity is an effective spoiler of appetite, and it may gafely be suspected if the hens leave their food laying about. As is usual in seasons when there is a severe snow (reports the Mataura Ensign), tho keas are coming down from the mountain tops in great numbers and working havoc among the already weakened flocks. The settlers are much concerned about the ravages of this bird which is appearing in numbers large enough to cause substantial losses.

The s.s. Devon, which sailed from Bluff the other night, took over 2,000 crates of cheese from the cool stores. It is reported that • some -of the factories shipping cheese by this steamer did not get clean bills of loading, as their cheese was mouldy on the outside. There are still about 1,000 crates in cool store awaiting shipment. While steaming in battle formation in the Gulf of Panama the United States ( battleship Asjzon struck a whale head on. So vicious was the encounter that the whale was cut practically in two on the prow of the warship. It was necessary to halt the ship's engines while a wrecking crew disengaged the carcase.

On one Oamaru orchard there are apple trees that have been in constant bearing for over half a century.

It was stated at the conference of local bodies’ at Masterton that the registration of motor in the United States yielded a revenue of £12,000,000 per annum. One of the shrub plots at the Wairarapa High School, Masterton, contains over 50 varieties of Koromiko — about half the varieties that are known. “It is an old school fallacy,’’ said Mr. T. Jordan at Masterton “that in certain months of the year no fires should be allowed in schools, no matter what the weather is like.*’ The Otaki State School was closed yesterday on account of the influenza and will remain so till September 3rd. This will mean that the usual term holidays, which were due on the 24th, will be dispensed with.

An American doctor hopes that scientific discovery will eventually enable us to do with only three hours’ sleep. The baby already accomplishes this in many homes. Some letters sent in 1916 to British soldiers who were prisoners in Turkey have just been returned to the senders with the intimation that they could not be delivered. The United States Exchequer saves thousands of pounds every year by washing dirty bank-notes and re-issuing them. The process is very simple. The notes arc washed with soap, scrubbed, rinsed in cold Avaher, and ironed. The actual washing is done by a mechanical contrivance consisting of sets of rollers. In the first place the dirty notes are placed in a series of copper rollers which revolve in a special kind of soap. The continual rolling backwards and forwards makes the paper clean. The notes are then put between -rollers running in clean "water. In the last process the damp notes arc placed in a set of heated rollers, which do the ironing and turn out the notes “starched and ironed.’’