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Shannon News, 9 October 1923, Page 2

A seedless barberry has been produced, and is a popular hedge plant in the Waikato. Fire blight does not affect it.

The growing popularity of lawn tennis was touched on at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association by Mr. Goss (says the Sun). He pointed to the way the game was progressing in other countries, and in international competitions nations which one ivould not expect to do well had been represented by players of first-class merit. Tennis was the game people had been looking for. It filled a tremendous gap in the world of sport. All people could not pluy football or cricket, but most of them could play tennis. One got as much or as little out of tennis as was wanted without inconveniencing anyone at all. recovered from her experience.

Speaking to a representative this morning on the progress of reticulation in this district Mr W. R. Jack, installation inspector for the Horowhenua Power Board, said the first “group” to be formed in Shannon., which will be th'e first part of the district to receive electricity, had now closed with 76 members. Referring to the advantages of the group system over private contract, he explained that *n tjhe Waikato the cost of installation had been reduced under this system by practically 50 per cent. Lighting points which before, its introduction averaged £3 were afterwards done at 30s, whilst the cost of installing power for milking plants dropped from about £6O to half that amount.