Shannon News FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1923.

Shannon News, 21 September 1923, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1923.

Mr E. J. Spencer is entering a private hospital in Wellington, -nest week to undergo an operation to his eyes. Nurse Linklater, late of Westport, hag taken up her residence in Shannon and intends opening* a maternity home at ~an early date. Referring to his healing mission, Mr. j. m. Hickson stated at Auckland that the ’secular press of the world had been wonderful in its help and guiding throughout his work, and it has the great advantage of being able to reach the man in the street the man who does not go to churcli and who could hardly be reached through any other avenue but the press.

The garden party held in the grounds of Mrs Wiatterston, Stout street, on Wednesday afternoon for the purpose of furthering the candidature of “Billy Brown” in the School Queen Carnival was well attended and a pleasant .and gay afternoon was spent in games, competitions, etc. Afternoon tea was dispensed by Mrs Watterston and a band of little girls which wa® much appreciated.

Amongst the items to be given at the saicred concert to be .held next Thursday night in the Presbyterian Church by a combined Levin choir, are the following anthems: “What are These?” “The’ Radiant Morn,” “The Lost' Chord,” “Sun of my Soul,” “Hallelujah, Christ is Risen.” The “hallelujahs” of this anthem in the introduction are taken' from the Hallelujah Chorus. Shann-onites will remember particularly two of these anthems, “What are These ” and “Radiant Morn,” as a combined choir took prizes for these in competitions. The choir of about, 25 will be under the baton of Mr Howard Andrew.

On another page it i s announced that Mr E. A. Frost, of the Boot Depot, is offering great bargains in boots and shoes at his sale which starts on Saturday next. Prices have been reduced to ’ bedrock and a discount of 2s in the £ is being allowed.

The members of the. Public Works Cricket Club will hold their first practice match at the Recreation Grounds on Saturday afternoon.

To-morrow afternoon we learn an attack by the Whites will be made on the, natives of Shannon, when a battle .will take place in the .vicinity of Plimmer Terrace. A social and dance' was held at Arapeti on Wednesday evening. It proved an enjoyable turn out. The social portion was provided by a party from Shannon consisting of Mrs' Miss .Quarrie, and / Messrs Henry, Hook, and Quarrie. Mr Hinton’s concert party of vocal and elocutionary performers, supported by other Arapeti artists, will render a very bright, pleasing and intellectual programme on October 2nd at Shannon in, aid of the Fibre Queen. Mr Hinton will also deliver a short scientific lecture v on telepathy and light and sound:, transmission and vibration, the theories of which he will set out to prove by a vivid demonstration in hypnotism. The concert party is stated to be a good one and it is expected there will be a large attendance. A smart arrest was made by Constable McGregor on Tuesday last when a man named Quigley was arrested and charged with the alleged theft of a camera. On Monday evening the police received information that a camera had been, stolen fiom Mr H. A. Scott’s auction room between the 12th and 16th inst. They at once set. out to investigate and from enquiries made they horned that a man had been, seen with one in his possession and from, ihe description gtwen of the man, Constable McGregor went out to Arapeti, and armed with a search warrant he searched the hut, of a man named Quigley, where he found the missing camera. Quigley was '"arrested and brought into Shannon, where he appeared before Mr E. Spencer, J.P., and was ■ remanded until Monday next.

Mr. John Tattersall, of Napier, has been appointed associate of the Hon. Mr. Justice MacGregor. Mr. John Laurenson, Chief Inspector of the Post and Telegraph Department, has decided to shortly retire from the Public Service on superannuation, after 40 years service. It is expected that some of the main line wire for the Horowhenua Board’s system of distribution will arrive shortly ,

The total number of electrical connections now served .by the Central Power Board, which has nearly completed its reticulation, is as follows: Lighting, 1222; heating, 2; milking machines, 332; non-milking, 39; water heaters, 26. In addition to this 40 other motors have been arranged for, and should be completed this month. Asked as to whether he proposed to continue, the erection of poles by day labour or contract the Engineer of ■the Horowhenua Power Board, Mr T. Overton .explained that both had been tried and the contract system found to be not so satisfactory either in speed nor quality of the work done, as day labour, and whilst the present rate of progress was made he would recommesded-that the present system be continued.

Speaking to a “News” representative to-day Mr W. R. Jack, the Horowhenua Power Board’s Installation officer said that the response to his canvass for consumers in the Shannon Borough was particularly satisfactory, not a single refusal having been received up to date. The first group of 50 had now been arranged, and although he could not say exactly what the price per point for lighting would come, to until tenders were received for this first group, he expected it to be in the neighbourhood of 35s per point.

As an experiment the Eltham County Council this year decided to give a discount of five per cent, on all current rates Paid before August 81st last. The system has worked admirably,, and the county clerk stated at Saturday’s meeting that up to date £5499 3s 6d had been collected, as compared with under £IOOO at this time of last year. The rates collected up to date this year amounted to one-third of the whole of the year’s rate*.

A Town Board near Wanganui, with a view to easing the pinch of unemployment, allocated a sum cl money to provide for the employment of urgent cases. Imagine the surprise of the responsible officer when one of those helped by this really cliar- , itable fund applied for pay “walking time,” his job being about a mile distant from bis residential location. The officer curtly intimated that if “walking time” was all the applicant required he could at any time “Walk off” the job.

' A cable message states that it is feared that the Bonin Islands have disappeared following the Japanese earthquake* as communication has not been established with the people there. Formerly these islands belonged to Britain, and, writing of them, a correspondent of a Sydney paper says: Scattered up and down the world are enough places once claimed or occupied by Great Britain to make two or three decently sized empires. Strangest and perhaps most completely forgotten of these are the Bonin Islands in the North Pacific, 700 miles south-south-east of Japan. How many people in Australia or in Great Britain know that for 50 years these remote isles were British, territory occuped by a European colony? Remote as they were they were a subject of interest in. turn to Spaniards, Dutch, Japanese, Russians, and Amiericans, as well as English. In ,1875 Great Britain complacently yielded (them ‘to the Japanese. Then* white inhabitants became naturalised Ja.panese , subjects, and have sinae been swamped By an influx of Japanese settlers. What was for half a century a British outpost in, the seas of Japan has become the spearhead of Japan in the Pacific. The magnificent harbour of Port Lloydi has been strongly fortified.

At the Magistrate’s Court, Levin, yesterday, a lengthy list, of cases of proceedings against Shannon residents fur allowing stock to wander on the streets, were struck out owing to the illness of the ranger making n, impossible to proceed. The arrivals in Auckland last month included 19 Chinese and 13 Hindus, compared with 24 Chinese and one Hindu in August, 1922. The departures included 13 Chinese and one Hindu r compared with 10 Chinese and one Hindu in. the previous August. The new- Koputaroa Hall which is being built by voluntary labour, is expected to be finished within a fortnight, and will be officially opened early in October by Mr J. Linklater, M.P., when a concert and dance will be held. A fancy dress ball is also spoken of to follow at an early date. An interesting sidelight upon the probable invasion by German goods upon the New Zealand market has l(een brought to Wanganui Chronicle’s notice in the form of a catalogue issued by a well-known London exporting house. The lines illustrated and quoted comprise leather goods, fitted cases, pocket cutlery, cut crystal goods, brushware, mirrors, and other fancy goods. The country of origin is plainly indicated in each instance, twenty-seven pages being devoted to German goods, nine to British, three to Czecho-Slovakian, two to Austrian and one to French.

a recent visitor to uutorua was me sunject of a swniuie wmcn Uias ween xjiucuseu. on mure man one m tins cuunv.y recently. vVluus u, jivao-i.u.a. no toceiveu word iroui im relatives mat me jcio lor win on, no nau tceiiiegra.pbeu wiiien m AUCKiamu iioU oeen wmed to mm at .AuCKianu. As he had not telegraphed for any money he was puzziea, but thougn the Lost thing to du "us mu apply tu u.id i J Ost Office ait AUCKiaillU, WaieUCc he was informed that £ls iiau been lenegru.pheu ior him, nut iiacl already been paid over. Some scoundrel Jhau evidently telegraphed to his relatives m his name asking tor the money, and had appropriated it upon its arrival.

“There is always a temptation to .a parish priest to forget the absolute need for study, ana sometimes to undervalue the importance of the regular . hours spent in reading, anu in the preparation of the food lor his flock,” said Bishop Averili, in a sermon at Sit. Mark’s, Auckland, on Saturday evening. “If the man who neglects his visiting is failing in his duty a.s a faithful pastor, so. surely, is the man who' expects his flock to leed on husks and moral platitudes. It is 'also sometimes necessary to remind a congregation that the parish priest cannot be expected to he ait everybody’s beck and call during the whole day, and that his study hours are quite as important as his visiting hours.”

Englishmen hav|e not long been allowed. to indulge the pleasing reflection that at last they have got an English Prim-e Minister. Dr. J. M. Bulloch finds that “the great-grand-father of Mr Baldwin and Mr Kipling was a Scot bom and bred, and a Scot with the fine name of Macdonald.” This Macdonald ancestor, it seems, had arranged to accompany a party of friends to Canada, but got no further than Ireland. He settled at a village near Enniskillen, where his son James was born in 1761. I Jamies, "'the premier’s grandfather, came under the influence of Wesley, Uhey corresponded, and he joined-the i Wesleyan ministry in 1874. Eleven years later he had .a. “call” to Eng- ■ land, with which the family has been I wholly identified ever since, t It was stated in a lecture at the J Auckland Advertising Club that New Zealand, with its population of a little ov,er a million, had 300 picture theatres, which was probably a higher percentage than had many of the large countries. For instance, Denmark, with a population of three milj lions, had only 290 picture theatres. It was doubtful if there was as much 1 competition in any other business. During the year ended March 31, one New Zealand firm controlled 30 picture theatres, and had expended some £30,000 in advertising, this averaging per cent-, of the gross admission receipts of those theatres. “Winter eggs in New Zealand will be cheaper than in any other part o) the’ world,” said Mr J. B. Merreti (Christchurch) to an Otago Daily Times reporter. “When the export trade is developed it will mean there will be double the layers .whose winter supply will be accessible only to New Zealanders. Of course it will harden the summer price, and that is what is needed to encourage the industry.” In time we will have ships loading eggs from the Dunedin wharf in such quantities that a ship’s cargo will consist entirely of eggs. Six Jorry loads are the beginning, just as the first 400 sheep was the initiation, of our frozen meat • tade. Given a good market in London four years will bring about exactly what I state.”

A remarkable accident, involving great damage and consequent loss o: money, but, curiously enough, no sacrifice of human life, is reported in a recent issue of the Hobart Mercury Repairs were being effected in front of a three-storey brick building in one of the main streets, and in order to take the weight from the wooden beams which ordinarily supported the upper floors, the contractors had inserted a steel girder which rested on a buttress at each end. Tram and other traffic must have shaken one end of the girder off the buttress for at about 3.30 p.m. (it was Saturday, and nearly every' - was at the football matches) the whole front of dho building came down into the street with a thunderous crash, scattering brick far and wide and raising a huge cloud of dust. Piles, of masonry prevented traffic from using the street which, in any ease, was blocked by a cordon of policemen which kept onlookers at a respectable distance. It was not until the follow- 1 ing day that the building was bolstered up sufficiently to be considered safe. The damage Avas estimated at some thousands. The owner of the block Mr. .J. H. Storr, had only recently come from New Zealand, and had purchased the property for some £15,000.