Shannon News FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1923.

Shannon News, 7 September 1923, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1923.

Ail interested in the candidal are ol the Farmers’ Queen are invited to .attend a meeting to be held at Mr C Hardie’s shop on Monday evening. A meeting ol supporters ol the Fibre Queen will be held at the Miranui' mill this evening. A car will leave Mr Hook’s shop at 7 p.m.

A general meeting of the Shannon Chamber of Commerce was held last evening when several important matters were dealt with, full particulars ol which will appear in our next issue.

The Mayor stated at the Council meeting that fast year it cost the 1 Borough £6:l Jin per mile to maintain the roads, there being twelve miles of roads in the Borough. At first he thought, this was excessive but on going into the question he was satisfied it was not so, when the, heavy traffic that passes over them was‘considered. On Cr. Murray moving at the Council meeting on Tuesday night that the engineer be instructed to have the border around the plot concreted, Cr. Carter remarked that this was about the fourth time this resolution had been passed and if the Council kept going they might "yet get the job done.

The qmesLion of enlarging the boundary ol the Recreation Reserve was brought up at Tuesday night’s Council meeting. Tty© Mayor said lie had been, in error in hearing the notice of motion by Cr. Garter, the mover not being present, and lie now declared it. lapsed; which was agreed to'. At Tuesday night’s meeting of the Council Cr. Carter drew attention to the dangerouis cutting on East road by Mrs Crowther’s residence, pointing' out it was impossible for two vehicles to pass and as there was a lot ui traffic .passing along this road lie suggested the road should be widened from the Borougfi boundary just below the cutting right down to the Albion Hotel, it was decided the Engineer be instructed to inspect the road and report to the Council. The annual meeting of the Royal Arch Chapter, U.A.0.D., .was held at „ Levin on Wednesday evening, Bro. Ball, R.A.P., presiding. The following officers were elected and duly installed : R.A.G. President, Bro. Ball (Foxton); R.A., Bro. R. Tippler (Shannon) ; R.V.A., Bro. Macintosh (Levin); treasurer, Bro. de Malmanche (Levin); R.A.T., Bro., Symonds (Otaki); R.A.B.’s, Bros. Wilson (Otaki) and Wilson (Levin); 8.A.Y.8., Bros. Pori (Foxton), and Growth,er (Shannon), R.A.1.G., Bro. Rippin (Levin). The •installation was carried out by Bro. Ball, R.A.P. It- was decided to hold circuit meetings at. Shannon, Foxton, Levin and Otaki. The next ritual meeting is to be held at Foxton on the first Wednesday in December, it, was 'also resolved to hold a ritual contest in Otaki early' in April of next year.

It was very evident, that spring had arrived at Howard Andrew, Lhl.'s, Drapery House, Shannon, on their “Opening Show” day yesterday. The show of millinery, sprays, jumpers, summer frocks, etc., was equal to anything ever shown in Shannon and many ladies availed, themselves of the opportunity offered for inspection. The spring shew is on for several days and ladies are invited to inspect jhis splendid display.

Arrangements are being made for !a party of local entertainers to visit Arapeti on Wednesday week with a view to treating the residents with an entertainment. A team of Shannon residents visited Mangjore on Wednesday nigln where a ping-pong tournament, was held. Mangore proved the winners. It is hoped to pay la return match at an early da,te. The visitors speak in high praise of the hospitality extended to them by the Mangoreites. The quantity of cream received at the'-Shannon Dairy Co.’s factory last month wtas much greater than lor the corresponding .month last year when the factory was receiving the cream from the Tolaomaru factory. This increase has been brought about by a larger number of cows being milked in the district.

The public are reminded of the grand Maori concert to be held in the Maoriland Theatre on Thursday evening next, the proceeds from which will be in aid of the Soldiers’ Memorial . Fdnd. For some time past the membiers of the party have been preparing and from the reports we have received there is every indication the entertainment will be one that should not be missed by tbase who. appreciate a, good show. A feature of the evening will be a Poi dance which will be accompanied by the Maori band, which we are informed will be something out, of the ordinary. So determined its the management for the success of the concert that several natives a.re coming from a distance to assist- As the purpose for which the concert is'being held is such a. good one, it- is to be hoped they will be greeted with a, bumper bouse. A lady tourist, wishing to join a party of friends who left London recently for a, steamship tour round Norway and Sweden, hired 'an aeroplant for £l4O and flew 600 miles to Copenhagen. ! At Tralee (Irish Free State) on duly 16 the proprietor of a picture show was fined £3OOO, made up of the statutory penalty of £SO on each of 60 charges, for evasions of the public entertainment regulations. The offences were: Issuing tickets without having the price marked on them, foiling to deface stamps on tickets, and issuing tickets other than Government tickets. More than one or two' dairy farmers at a big meeting in Feildmg admitted they bad been caught napping by the season. The cows have been coming to- profit very rapidly, but there is a shortage of feed, the late spring having kept back the growth of grass. Farmers generally have not prepared for feed crops for thenherds in the autumn and early spring, consequently the stock are not doing so well. Who. will say the Scots have no humour, after these howlers from, the Oban High School Magazine? To one question, “What are warmthproducing foods?” the answer was given, “Cayenne pepper and Jamaica ginger.” After the question, “If the Premier died, who would officiate?” another materialist added, “The Undertaker.” Other bits of information given were that “men are, what women marry,” and that “herrings go about the sea in shawls.” At the Dannevirke Borough Council a letter was received from the Controller and Auditor-General, in reply to the council’s query as to who should fix the Mayor’s honorarium,, that, in the opinion of the Audit Office, the light, to fix the honorarium was solely the prerogative of the incoming council, and that a resolution of the out-going council in respect thereof would consequently be null and void, as being ultra vires.

For buying tickets in Tattersail’s sweeps, an illegal lottery prohibiten in New Zealand by the Gaining Act, a native named lupine, oi Qkaiawa, was brought before Mr J. G*. L. Hewitt, S.M., at Hawera, on Thursday and fined 5s and costs 12s. Constable P. Miullan said he arrested Ripine lor drunkenness and found hi bis possession three tickets on Tattersail’s and some money orders. The Magistrate: “l-low did you know they were tickets in Tattersall’s? Have you seen such tickets before?” Constable Median: “Yes, years ago, before they were prohibited.”. “Knock for knock” agreements are in force as between the Auckland City Council and certain firms in the city. A carrying firm’s application for such an agreement wa\s received at the last meeting. The Mayor explained that the council had some already in force. The' principle is that if any of the council’-s vehicles sustained damage in collisions with the vehicles of the firms concerned, that damage should be set against any damage the firm’s vehicles might, sustain under similar circumstances, and vice versa. Claims on each other are thus avoided, knock being taken for knock. A “blight” was discovered on 10.000 cloth poppies bought by the American Legion Auxiliary at Cedar Rapids, lowa The poppies were brought to sell on Poppy Day, but when they were examined it was discovered that they were “made in Germany.” It was decided that, the only way they could be purged was by making a public bonfire of them. An .indignation meeting of the Auxiliary followed the discovery, and there was unanimity amongst the members that flowers made in Germany could not be sold to honour soldiers who lell on Flanders fields.

That splendid progress is being made by the New Zealand Dairy Farmers’ Union was proved by a statement, given by .Mr John 1. Fox at the Cheltenham Dairy Co.’s meeting yesterday. Mr Fox was speaking and moving in the direction of adopting a better system of cow-testing, when another shareholder asked Idm was he representing the Dairy Farmer,s’ Union. Mr Fox resented the-question, replying that, he was speaking as a supplier and shareholder oi the Chel? temham Dairy Go. At the same time, he added, he was an officer oi the Daily Farmers’ Union, and was proud of the fact. Last, year he had spoken on behalf of that,'union, when there were about food members. This year, when he spoke again for the union, he represented 5000 members. (Applause).

It has been decided to substitute electricity; for gas lighting on the Auickland-Wellington Main Trunk ex- , press trains, and an order for the necessary material has been placed 1 with the British manufacturer for early delivery. "During my 40 years’ experience in New Zealand,” said a sheep man recently, ‘‘l have never seen sheep so high as at present” (says th.e Southland News). He went on to say that those who had paid big prices for ewes would have some difficulty in malting a profit out of them. There is nothing at present to indicate that the lamb market will open higher than last year.” A good pe rentage of lambs is reported in the district this season, and despite the unsatisfactory weather, the ordinary losses have not been above the average. As is frequently the case at this time of the year, there has. Lately been .a certain mortality amongst’' the largest lambs, as tire result of over-supply of • blood, but this is a trouble remedied .by tailing.

“I have-never known a winter that has taken such a heavy toll among the old people,” said Archdeacon Evans a.t the annual meeting of the Veterans’ Association on Wednesday, when referring to the fact that nine members had passed away during the previous twelve months. “I have never known such a severe winter,” commented an old soldier, over 80 years of age.

A cable message to the Australian papers states that the Earl of Powis, who owns about 50,000 acres in the British Isles, told a gathering of his tenantry in Shropshire that he had given his estate there to his son, Viscount Clive, because of heavy taxation. He felt, he said, that he had to make a sacrifice to- retain the estate in the family. Gifts made three years before death are not charged estate duty in England. ‘On an estate of £300,000, for example, a duty of 22 per ciemt. would be payable alt the death of the owner.

A Fordell farmer had sold a fatted calf in a distant town, so one of the hands was deputed to lead him to the station, the only “packing” being an addressed label suspended -from ihis neck. Two hours later the fanner was startled to see his employee strolling casually back, the calf walking placidly behind him. “Here, man!” shouted the angry farmer. “What on earth are youi doing? That animal ought to have gone by train!” “’’Taint my fault,” -said the farmhand. “The brute’s been an’ et up ’where he was go in’!” A correspondent writes to the Wellington Post that “the cold snap and boisterous weather have evidently told on the rats which make the wharves their habitat with the result that many of them have made inland to pick up any spare crusts.” The writer goes on to state that he and others witnessed an unusual occurrence, namely, the killing of a cat by a large rat. The cat attacked the rat, but the rodent managed to secure a grip of the cat’s neck and hit so savagely that the cat died in a few moments.

Thus the Sydney correspondent of The Press:—-The metropolitan area ol this State continues to grow in population at the expense of the country. The one is figuratively choking wni people; the other is crying out for them, and finding it impossible to hold many of the youth meant for bucolic life, but lured away by the amenities and tinsel of the city. The population of the metropolitan area now totals a million. In the suburbs, alone are 845,930 people. The population of Great Sydney, which includes Parramatta, is 1.100.000. According to the evidence given by Mrs Rose Henaghan at the Feilding Court, twice in June Mr Joseph Darragh’s pigs broke through the fence and got on to her property and did damage to certain articles, namely, quilts and table-cloths, which- were being aired. Mrs Henaghan prosecuted Mr Darragh, claiming £5 3s damages. He paid £2 into court, and stated that Mrs I-lenaghan’s fences were the worst he had ever seen. Counsel lor tlie defendant submitted that his client was liable for trespass onlv and not for damage. The Magistrate, however, took a different view, and gave judgment for Mrs Hen«oihan for £Z in addition to the £2 paid into Court, plus- £1 16s costs. The following is an extract lrom a circular sent from! Germany to- a MOasterton firm. It. is a fine example of German “kultur”; “Farmers, do try capability germination ot youi seeds!!! Possessing my miachint for “Raqid” everman is able to establish the' capabiliii of germination seeds. Tilt to-dav were only bad arrangements to try the capability of germination of seeds, and to protect fartner who purchased seeds, of taking in For not onli the capnbilHi of ger"ruination, but also the progress of the growth, which is of great, sigmftkation are proved bi “Raqid.” The machine is an indispensable resourse for modern argikulture. Tt costes m complet production, wrappage and export duties inclosing, enghsh Pfund 0, 50. .. The Lieutenant-Govei nor ol victoria (Sir W. Irvine), speaking m Wesley Church, Melbourne, said the development of the young men was the most important thing in the community. There were three . maxims for them. “Learn to think alone was the first. Few people could do tilts. Kvery problem a man solved himself was worth to him a hundred that others had solved. The .second maxim'was “Don’t, he afraid.” Experience had taught him that djjTerenoes in men were far of ten or differences of courage than differences of br.ain. No man should say. “1 am not fittd for this particular task.” An ordinary man might nevier he a Shakespeare a Milton, or a. NapnTeon : hut he could take up any intellectual task -and carry it through if bo had emmme. The third niaxnn was “Learn In speak.” He did not mean political speeches, but he did not deprecate the ambit,ion of a young man to’lend ills fellows. A slovenly tongue was often the effect and cause ol a slovenly Wain. These maxims or mottos'cover most of the practice, efficiency, and well-being of life.

Most of -the xneax consumed hi Honolulu is imported from New Zealand >and most of the butter is also the produce of this Dominion. New Zealand appl&s ! are sold in the market at .15 cents, per lb. “I earn £4 10s per week,” said witness in the course of a maintenance case at Wellington. What do you do with that? was magistrate’s query. “I pay £2 to a loan company.” “Your wife and child come before any loan company,” was the magistrate’s comment, “and youi will have to support them."

Brown (narrating his experiences while almost drowning): “It was a terrible sensation! After I went down a third time my past life flashed before mb in a series of y pictures?” Jones (edging forward with sudden interest): “You didn’t happen to notice a picture of me lending you a fiver in the autumn of 1913 did you ?” At the meeting of Jersey breeders for the purpose of forming 'a Jersey Breeders’ Club, held in Levin yesterday, a secretary was being sought. One man proposed, wished to- decline on the grounds that he considered that the secretary of such an organ-' isation .should have a thorough knowledge of the breed. A farmer present raised a, laugh when he. broke in “None of uis have that; what he needs is a thorough knowledge of men,” and the laughter did not abate when another added "and a thick hide to collect the subs,.”

In conversation with a Chronicle reporter last, night, Mr Stan. Austin, Foxton delegate to the Horowhenua Rugby Union, said great anxiety was felt by the family, as to the safety of his mother and sister, who arrived in Japan on holiday on the 25th of last) month. They were to spend some time in Japan. Owing to the dislocation of the cablei service with Japan, it may be some 'days before definite .news reaches New Zealand. It, is ' \ sincerely to be hoped that they have escaped frioin the dreadful jdisiasrter - which has. overtaken that country.

“If public -opinion can be made to realise that politics are now a barren field and direct its future attention to necessity of encouraging science more than politics it will do untold good,” declared Mr J W Poynton, S.M., at a luncheon of the Auckland Rotary Club. The remark preceded a glowing picture of the enormous potentialities of modern science. “The outlook.in politics is glooms, said Mr Poynton. “It is like a treasure house now nearly empty besieged by its former dependants. The future progress and uplift of our race will be by science, not politics in a State to the neglect of the other method of progress..

The number of ordinary passengers carried on the New Zealand railways during the past year was 14,256,610, a decrease of 5830 whlen compared with last year. A total of 512,943 passengers were carried at holiday excursion fares, 99,416 children 'and teachers, and 73,355 adults at the school, factories, and friendly societies rates. Season tickets issued during the year numbered 485,681, an increase of 12,816. Workers’ twelve-trip tickets issued numbered 127,012, an increase of 5891, and weekly workmen’s tickets issued on suburban lines numbered 281 220, an increase of 6535. The goods and live stock tonnage was 6,618,588 tens, an increase of 297,237 tons over the preceding year. The whaler Hananui 11. has returned from the whaling station at Whangamumml after a very successful season. The catch numbered 28 whales, mostly of large size, with an average of about five tons of. oil per whale. The season opens in May with the whales travelling north to within about. 15 degrees south for breeding in the warm waters. The mothers and the voung whales -called calves) start back for the Antarctic, about, the end of September and Captain Cook, of the Hanianui, again hunts them as they reach the vicinity of Cape Brett, 'One would think that in time the whale will be exterminated, hut this will not happen, because th.e oceans are so huge, -and as their numbers become lessened in particular grounds it will not pay the whalers to bother with them.

“Ours is an age in which the level of education and of interest is rising. It is an age of democracy, and if there are fewer peaks and pinnacles,the general level is higher. It has brought* with' it new considerations which we are forced to have before our minds. The problem is changing, Our spiritual forefathers were concerned most with the individual. We, too., are concerned with the individual, but we are also deeply concerned with environ, ment, just; as (:lie environment is nothing apart, from the individual. You cannot dissociate them. The churches are forced to turn their attention away from the doctrinal abstraction t*o the concrete realities of social life and its surroundings in which those for whom they keep watch and Ward have been brought up and influenced. The result is a change in the apparent attitude of to-day.”—Lord Haldane.

A strange accident, resulting in the death of three soldiers, named Cox, Dillon and Rae, marred the Centurion’s sports at- Malta last month. Some dozen men; dressed up as savages, were giving a display in which a white man was to be captured and rescued in the nick of time before the cannibals roasted him. The white man was captured and a fire lighted according to iJie programme, but one -of the ’ savages, dressed m oakum and tow, caught fire himself, and the others, disregarding the dangerous nature of their get-up, rpshed to his assistance, and at once caught tiro too. For a moment the spectators did not. realise the actual state of affairs, thinking it was all part oi a savage war dance, and had it not been.- for the promptitude and presence of mind of a certain marine all the savages mi.ghl have been burned to death. Assistance was promptly forthcoming, and the men’s clothing extinguished, bu'l not before three men had been so terribly burned that they died in hospital. The chief petty officer in charge of Ibis particular display has lost, his reason.