Shannon News FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1923.
Mr Bruce Gordon, of the local railway staff, who has been oh a' holiday to Sydney, relumed to Shannon on Tuesday^
A, party of ping pong players from Shannon gave a return evening to the Mangaoreites on Wednesday evening at Mangore when a, pleasant evening was spent playing ping pong, the home team proving the victors.
i The erection, of poles for the electric lighting of Shannon will be completed in the course of a day or two, when an immediate start will be made with the wiring.
The new telephone rates come into operation on the Ist October. Private residences charges are £6 for a dis-tance-up to two miles, and business premises.£B up to. 2 miles. A feature of the new charges is that ■all connections on perty linos are charged separately, no agent now being necessary. The euchre and dance at the Parish Hall on Tuesday evening 'Was well attended. In the euchre tourney Mrs Hudson won the ladies’ prize, and Mr Barney, the gents’. The consolation prizes were awarded to Mis s Cole and Mr W. Terry.
From Monday next, October Ist, the new postage rate for letters and letter cards comes into ' operation, which is as follows One penny for the first ounce or fraction thereof, and Id for each additional ounce; on, all correspondence for the United Kingdom, Canada and other parts of the British Empire, United States, Italy, and all other places to which 1-Jd rate at present applies,. Id for first ounce or fraction, and id each additional oz.; post cards Id. Packets, inland id for exact 2ozs up to 21b, and 2d for each additional pound beyond 21b up 'to 51b. The rate to Australia remains the same, viz., ljd. During the heavy thunderstorm which passed over Shannon on Monday aiternoon. havoc was played with the telephone service, no less than 20 phones being thrown out of action, the exchange also suffering by the fuses being burnt out. On Mr Law’s line at Buckley the lightning struck the transformer at the pole head, shattering the box;, destroying the transformer which together with the wood work was.found on the ground. In two or three cases the walls in the dwellings were singed by the lightning around the phone, which caused consternation among the occupants. The storm from all accounts, was local, neither Levin or Otaki being affected.
The death took place on Wednesday morning of Mr Michael O’Connell at his residence, Vance street, at. the comparatively early age of 39 years. The late Mr O’Connell, who had been in poor health for the past two years, had for the last few weeks been, confined to his bed and his end was not unexpected. Deceased resided for some years at Rangioi'a, North Canterbury, where hie was well known, having enlisted from there with the Uth Reinforcement, but had the misfortune to break his leg on the boat during (thfe trip from Lyttelton to Wellington and therefore did not get away. To the widow and two children we extend our deepest sympathy in their bereavement.
The totalisator figures for the second day at Otaki were £16,721, as against y m,o37 last September. The decrease for the meeting was £5372.
Mr A. Wilkinson, of Cambridge, has iust received from the Old Country a grandfather clock which belonged to his great grandfather. The clock keeps excellent time, and also shows the day of the. year and the phases 01 the moon.
“It is no use people becomwg alarmed at the. prediction j scientists have not reached the stage when they cSn say for certain when an earthquake will occur,” said Mr H. F. Skey, of the Christchurch Observatory. Mr. B. J. Jacobs (Palmerston) said at the soldiers’ re-union at Masterton that numbers of men on the land would never make good, and the sooner they got out, the better it would be for all concerned.
At the Women’s Conference at Auckland a remit was carried that the constitution of the Council be altered to enable it to support, but not initiate, the candidature of suitable women for Parliament. It was decided to make representations to the leaders of each. political party, urging them to put some women upon their lists, of candidates at the next general elections. One thousand harvesters from Great Britain landed at Quebec recently. They were an exceptionally fine body of men, the immigration authorities stating that they have never seen better types of men landed there. They included representatives of every desirable class of worker.
At a meeting of the directors of the Woodville Co-operative Dairy Company. Mr. A. Olsson (of Hawcra) a former secretary of the company, was appointed secretary and storekeeper out of 58 applications. Mr. Olsson left Woodville to go into business in Hawcra some two or three years ago.
Reports from all parts of the Waikato indicate that the lambing season has been very successful, and breeders are well pleased with the percentage of lambs secured. The winter, though severe, did not effect tlie ewes unduly and as they were in good condition few “misses” occurred. During the last few w’eeks the weather has greatly improved, and the lambs are doing well.
An amusing story is told in connection with the recent earthquake. A Woodville resident was telephoning to Dannevirke when the shake started, and he said: “Wait a minute; here’s an earthquake. ’ ’ When it was over the Dannevirke man stated that they had not had it, and they both agreed mat it was rather strange, but it was not long before he yelled: “Here it is!’ —and it was.
Addressed “Receiver of Reverence, New Plymouth,” a> letter which recently passed through the Post Office there must have caused the. postal officials some serious thought as to its intended destination. It was delivered, however, to the chief cl'erk ol the Lands and Survey Department) who proved the rightful recipient. Perhaps as tlhe result of the slump all the writer could pay the. department was reverence.—Herald. In Mount Eden Gaol there are thirty prisoners who* are taking special courses in engineering, accountancy, navigation, or other subjects.. The payment for such a special course ol instruction can be mad© by the prisoner out of the money he earns in gaol or he may arrange for nis friends to make payment for him. In ■addition to these special students, there are men who 'are studying) Esperanto. There is also a night school, in charge of a ranked officer. Prisoners can go through the ordinary studies up to the sixth standard requirements.
At the Lutheran Church, Halcombe, last week, the golden wedding of Mi and Mrs Kreegher was celebrated, the couple having been married in Germany on September 29, 1873. The service was conducted by the Rev. Te Punga, The happy couple are still hale and hearty. They have eight sons living in New Zealand and one in Germany, and one daughter, and also 26 grand-children. It is rarely that footballers over the age of 40 years are found in representative teams, but the Maori representative team which travelled i ;r °i n Taihape to Marton to play m the Maori Shield match included five players over the age of 40., and two of these each had a son playing in the same game. The .only two tries scored by the team were by two players over 40, one of whom turns the scale at 16st> 81b.
Two years ago'tlm Palmerston. Borough Council borrowed £186,400 at 1 per cent, with 1 per cent. sinking fund to erect an electric light and power plant. The loan was lor ten years and has been greatly criticised since its arrangement. The present Mayor, who has been on a visit to Sydney, has now arranged with the holders of the loan, the AM.P. Society to* convert the loan into a 6 per cent, issue for 2Q years.
A demonstration of a new type of machine for eradicating weeds and digging potatoes, etc., patented by Mr.J. lioberston, was given at WaJtati last week (says the Otago Daily Times), and proved highly successful. When operating in a paddock over-grown with twitch, sorrel, yarrow and other noxious weeds, the machine is set to dig a desired, depth by means of a leverage system. The coulters cut. the turf into strips in advance of the furrow -maker, and a.s the machine progresses the strip-cut furrow is projected by means of the mould board into the rolling screen, and tlien pulverised by the rotating tines of t(he disintegrators. The soil is finally sieved through the rolling screen to the ground, while the twitch and other weeds, separated from the soil, pass through the screen and are deposited therefrom, on the surface of the ground. When the machine is used for lilting root crops, such as potatoes , etc., the ploughshare is set sufficiently deep to lift the crop and deliver, it with its surrounding soil into the screen, where the potato or other root crops are separated from the soil and deposited on the surface of the ground in rows. The screen can be detached and the machine can be worked as an ordinary plough,
Mr J. W. Gibson, who left Levin in B February Jast on a world tour, has J just returned alter a very enjoyable t if rather . crowded trip abroad. He \ went first to the East, via.- Australia, the Philippines and Japan, thence across the Pacific to the United States and Canada, and finally to the British Isles, from where he visited Belgium, Switzerland and France, joining the homeward bound P. and O. boat Naldera at and returning via Suez and Australia*. He took the opportunity whilst in France of visiting parts of the battle aTeas and military cemeteries. In conversation with, a “Chronicle” representative, Mr' Gibson spoke highly of the care and attention devoted to the graves in these cemeteries, and of the unfailing courtesy and help given by those in charge- to relatives and visitors. Considerable reconstruction has been done in these areas in the rebuilding of villages and 1 farm-houses, one advantage resulting from a very unfortunate business being that these houses are being constructed on much more modern lines than those destroyed. Despite 'these attempts at reconstruction, however, the country, Mr Gibson says, still presents a very desolate appearance, with, .surprisingu ly little alteration to the trench areas, although in some cases, land has laboriously been levelled off and put under crop.
Letters from the Argentine torthe editor of the Auckland Weekly tell a story of.selling out at great sacrifice and willingness to take anything- to get out of the. country. One passage reads: “There,, is absolutely no protection for life or property in this coulntry. For instance, a murderer will be set at liberty after the officials have got all his money, and sold, his goods and hove pocketed the proceeds We will be glad to get out of the place even with light pocket books. The Government of the country is spreading propaganda to attack settlers from England. The propaganda in England should be stopped by tlie British Government. We want t°. g et to a country where there is British law. I sold out at immense sacrifice, and will be the first of a large party to arrive. The others are doing thei best to sell out, and are willing to make big sacrifices to get out and make new homes in a. country like New Zealand. Affairs (here are grossly mismanaged. For instance, my lawyer 'in Buenos Aires informs me that-there must be a couple of thousand titles which should have been signed by the former Minister of the department. The new Minister is now revising these documents. They were formerly kept hack for political purposes. I have suffered severely at the hands of the thieves, and my son was wounded. Land may be dearer in New Zealand, but you have a superior climate, facilities we do not have here, middlemen cannot so extensively rob the farmer, and you have not got bands of stock thieves allowed: to go scot free.”
, A case more amusing than most was heard 1 at the Gteymouth Magistrate’s Court last week. A Cobden resident let his furnished house to a neighbour for a few weeks, whilst, the owner went on a holiday visit to Nelson. No definite arrangement was made regarding rent, and on the owner’s return 'ho dciimed £1 weekly. This was Objected to by the tenant, who, in turn, presented the following “contra account”: Care of fowls, nine weeks, plants, etc., iOs, £4 10s; cats’ milij, one pint per day, £1 is; cat’s meat, 18s; fruit, biscuits and cake for opossum, £1; gas, 6s—total, £7 15s. The house-owner denied liability, and the. magistrate upheld this view, giving judgment for the plaintiff for his claim, <a,nd dismissed the counter-claim apart from the charge for gas. Whife Spain has been pouring out millions in Morocco for ten yeais past the' Spanish people seem to have reached an amazing pitch ol misery. A writer in the Fortnightly Review a year or two hack declared that in the Las Hurdes region. of the Estremadura . In “Sunny Spain,” there are human beings herding like savages in holes and oaves-half-starved, clotheu in rude skins, without doctors, churches or schools. Such statistics as they collect in Spain: show that there are 12 million people out of the d millions in the country can neither rear nor write, nor calculate the simplest figures. Nearly half the small towns and villages are without even roads. Half the area of the country is uncultivated. The army has been in reyoh ao-ainst the incompetent Geneiai fciaii for years, andjias juntas or cmnpii--tees which issue orders to which the Governments have either to agiee i resign, as six or seven have done m as many years. “Our country, declares Senor Jose Ortegany GaSsert “is a rotting carcase in the last stages of decomposition.” And the defect, ol this unsavory comparison from a 1 accounts, is that it understates the case.
In New Zealand very much more has been done for the good of the soldiers than has been done at home, stated General Wauchopc at ing of ex-soldiers in Dunedin.. Gcneial Wauckope went on to maim specml ixference to the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association which, lie sam aetinc as one body, had been able to do more to assist the soldiers than had been done in Great Britain, 1C o-imental organisations of ex-scimcc men were the rule. Those organisations ( did a great deal of good on behalf ot 1 ox-members of the regiments, but nat- ! urallv they could not do as much a., could one collective body like the Dominion organisation. TlVo movement to. take advantage , l the offer of a valuable telescope by D Yale University for astronomical, observation in New Zcaiand was adyanw led a little further by a depute.io.i a Wellington from the Astronom.c.J >. eiety of New Zealand to Sir Drmicis Bell, aeting-Prime Minister, vhich asked for assistance for the purpose o ' testing for a suitable location foi ht telescope. Dr. Adams suggested that £3OO would probably suffice to cons' out the nescssary. investigations, which would take about four months, on ' Francis Bell saul he did not thin -- there would be any difficulty with the Government and lie would put the matter before. Cabinet.
MAORiLAND PICTURES. “Over the Hill” will pay a return visit to Shannon to-night. A rattling photoplay of the West, “The Cowboy and the Lady” will liead the hill on Saturday. Mary Miles Minter, popular Paramount star, and Tonn Moore, a favourite screen player, are featured in this production. The story deals with a dilettante cowboy and a suffering wi-le. The two meet in romantic circumstances, and the action is swift, tense and highly entertainhig. The supporting cast is excellent.
On Monday the famous stage success, “Deserted at the Altar,” will be presented. This is a vivid pictu,risation of a famous stage play and the film, is said to surpass the original in power and 1 grip.
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