Shannon News TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1923.

Shannon News, 9 October 1923, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1923.

As ia result of the recent heavy rain up country a flood came down the Manawatu yesterday morning and the road Shannon side oi the bridge is now under water.

There is every likelihood of Rataiia, the Maori healer, visiting Shannon some time this month. The. town clerk, Mr J. T. Bovis, received a wire on Saturday asking him to forward a suitable date for hiring the hall. On Sunday the Maoriland String Band visited the Foxton. beach and rendered several musical items, which were highly appreciated by a fairly large attendance, of .the. public of Foxton.

In connection, with proposed Kopu-taroa-Buckiey road the secretary of the Chamber of Commerce has received word from Mr Bell, of Koputaroa, requesting that a meeting of the road committee he held at Shannon this evening. The meeting has been arranged, and representatives will be present from Koputaroa and Levin. Tenders are now being called by the Haro when Electric Power Board for the installation of lights for No. 1 group in Shannon. Yesterday morning’ the installation, officer, Mr Jack, commenced a canvass for No. 2 gjroup in Shannon. If, is anticipated 'a start will be miade with the line wiring in three weeks’ time.

At the Magistrate's Court at Palmerston: North, yesterday, Alfred Edward Sands .was convicted and ordered to pay* costs 7s on a charge of laying poison within the borough of Shannon in an area adjacent to a public place. The poison had' been laid for fowls, which trespassed on his property. Senior-Sergeant Fraser stated that defendant’s aversion to the fowls may have been justified but the method used was dangerous..

An nnfortuniate accident occurred as the members of the Maorilaiid String. Band were returning to Shannon from the Foxton beach on Sunday 'afternoon. When near the Marotiri post office a lad named Hamilton, who was riding © bicycle alongside the lorry, through some cause fell oh and the hack wheel of the lorry passed over his leg, breaking it. The Mayor (Mr Murdoch) who was with the party at once rang up Dr. Wylie, and at the same tjjmie telephoned to ;Palmerfton North for -the (ambulance. The doctor on arriving attended to the injured lad and ordered him to the hospital. On enquiry at the hospital yesterday we learned he was suffering severely from 'shock and that his leg was ‘seriously damaged. The annual general meeting of the Moutoa Tennis Club wias held last week, when Mr W.. Bowe presided. Commenting on the small attendance in his opening remarks, Mr Bowe said it would he a sad fact if the club failed for the wfant of enthusiasm among its members. The balancesheet, showing a credit of £9 9s 9d, Was then read and adopted. At the request of Mr Bowe, the chairman of the school committee in regard to renovating and improving the court. The chairman said that, owing to the extra expenditure to be met this year to put the court in good order.' the annual -rental charge was not sufficient. so the school committee proposed that the: Tennis Club meet, them halfway in the cost over and above a stipulated! sum. The proposal, was unanimously agreed to, and a subcommittee was appointed to meet the school committee to estimate the cost of Improvements. A proposal bv Mr S. Barber that, the Tennis Club donate two small trophies to the school children to .encourage their ©lay was carried. The election, of officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows: Patron, Mr W. Jewell; president., Mr W. H. Smith: vice-presidents, Mrs Aitken, Messrs W. Ross and W. Bowe committee, Mesdames Davev, Smith'. Aitken and Miss J. Bowe 1 ; Messrs S. Barber, V. Jewell, H. Jewell and F. B'owe. Mr Tf. Jewell was appointed secretary and Mr F. Bowq treasurer.

Notice is given or gospel meetings to be addressed by Mr A. F. .Witty at Mr Newport’s residence on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. Mr Witty is a missionary from Ceylon and 'a hearty .welcome to attend these, meetings is given .to all. “The best trophy I’ve got is my hally discharge,’’ said a member of the Wanganui R.S.A. at a committee meetiifg, when the president suggested that members should canvass for suitable trophies to exhibit at the forthcoming R.S.A. carnival.

“A town is el city if it has a cathedral and a bishop,” said one member of the Wanganui Ratepayers’ Association meeting recently, when Mr Beswich was referring to Nelson’s Cathedral. “If Wanganui could raise ia bishop we could call it >a city." When application was made at the Supreme Court at Hamilton for the discharge from bankruptcy of two storekeepers it was stated that they had only been able to pay 2d in the £. His Honour decided to suspend their discharge for a period of three years.

Some people in the Richmond (Christchurch) district have learnt that it is an unwise thing to place good carpets in new houses before they are actually occupied. During the last few months the police (have had three reports of carpets and kitchen utensils being stolen under these conditions.

A well known Wairarapa farmer with two stations sent one clip Home ’last season to the London wool sales), and the other clip he sold in the New Zealand market. On comparing results he found that he had realised over threepence per lb more by selling in the Dominion. It is not often that a fatality ensues from the bite of a katipo spider, but one recently occurred in Wanganui, a boy being the victim,. He was playihf in drifting sand, about a couple of miles inland, and wag bitten on the sole of his foot. Poisoning ensued and, despite medical treatment, he died a few days later. “I can remember the time when the Dunedin-Invercargill mail was carried on horseback, ’ ! said Mr. F. Shepherd at Invercargill. “Mr. Flint, the contractor; rode one horse and packed the mail on another. Sometimes he would get an adventurous passenger 'who for £1 was permitted, to ride on Flint’s horse whilst the mail contractor himself walked.” , Now the football season is over a good substitute can" be found in the ivew Plymouth streets by those who erideiavour to ‘cany into jeffec-t Ihe new by-law to keep to tihe left of the pavement. The game. is. best played by two.,' or at most three players, who advance side by side and lose a point every time they have to leave the left side. Rumour has it that the inspector is going to arrange competitions for Friday afternoons and evenings. The Hawkes Bay Tribune says that there is nothing either original or inspiring in the scheme of the new penny stamp, which is quite commonplace and entirely Tacking in dignity. The design consists of an outline, of New Zealand, in white on a reddish ground, an idea which seems to have been copied from the Irish Free State stamps, which are anything at all, but a credit to the artistic and imaginative faculties of the Irish race.

The fallibility of man, even when his own property is at stake, is strikingly illustrated in the annual report of the Taranaki Employers’ Association. Incidentally it is apparent that a night-watchman’s work is by no means a sinecure. A summary of the nightly duties performed by this official in New Plymouth showed that, 52 doors had been left open, 50 lights had not been turned off, 10 keys had been left in-'doors,' nine show-cases and windows had been left.open, six doors had not been properly locked, and in four instances goods had been left outside shops. This useful individual had also found three persons unlawfully on premises, and had extinguished one fire.

Otn a retoeut occasion the ManawaiturOroua Power Board employees left six 11,000 volt insulators at the foot of a pole, and when they returned with a ladder to put them up discovered 'that they hlad been taken away. A few days later a child approached one of the men and asked “if they had any more of those brown cups as mother wanted some more because they made such nice flower pots!” Considering that the so-called “flower pots’’ cost the Power Board 6s 7d each, the board officials are naturally seeking the return' of the insulators.

Speaking alt a public meeting at Wellington. Dr. Herbert showed a chart showing the decline Of tuberculosis from: 1875 to the present time, while over the same period cancer had gradually increased, more rapidly in the last 10 or 15 years. There were some facts which should be. generally known, he said. Cancer did not begin with pain. To think thait it did was a widespread fallacy. It was a sfhall and localised disease and could be dealt with, but if not attended to it spread along the lymphatic glands. Then the trouble Was serious and one which they could not yet cure. It was no© only a disease of old age, for it not infrequently attacked! youth.

A warm compliment is paid by Truth (London) to the Dominion. The journal remarks: “New Zealand has her troubles, but she (has an honest Treasury, trading classes who are trustworthy, farmers who increase production, and workmen who are* atwork. Her people can 'point; to industrial peace, iffiproving trade and prices,, and a general measure of wellbeing, in which all classes share \vi at any rate,.,an approach of equi'

For many years the overseas trade has .given a substantial surplus of exports, except in the year of March, 1921, when imports exceeded exports by over £19,000,000. In the following year there was an excess of exports o\ l er imports of £7,672,000 and in 192223 the export surplus was £8,681,000. In March, 1922, New Zealand for the first time for many years, failed! to balance her Budget, but the lapse was brief.”-

“Advice liaa bon received from the Dominion Trust Company of New Zealand that late Miss Bertha Maud Barrett bequeathed to the board the sum of £SOO for the purpose of procuring radium/' stated the report of the Finance Committee of the North Canterbury Hospital Board. The following amusing passage is from a Hawke's Bay Standard V essay (says the Napier Herald): “Down in the poles the boats are no longer icebound, down in the remotest depth of the sea the fish already feel the warmth of the water, down in the forest the streams are bubbling, and down in the fowlhouses the hens are laying." On his visit to Foxton on Wednesday, the Hon. J. 6. Coates was impressed with tihe capacity of the sandhills from the forestry point of view, and ventured the opinion that the huge plantations of pines were an indication that properly managed, the sand dunes would he the most profitable land about here.

Probably tho last perfect specimen of a sod house in South Canterbury is to be seen on the road to Takataramea (says an exchange). The four walls are in an excellent state of preservation —practically as good' as the day they were built —and have the neatness and substantial appearance of reinforced concrete.

Keen interest is being taken by dairy suppliers' in the coming poll on the compulsory provisions of the Dairy Export Control Act, and there are 55,000 suppliers on the roll, and 35,000 ballot papers have been issued. It is loped to complete this work by Wednesday next, and the poll closes at noon nn the 17th inst. At the Utorohanga S. M. Court J. Crosby, a farmer, was charged with cruelty to a cow by driving it a distance of some eight miles while it was in labour, and also with putting his dogs upon, it. He was fined £lO and costs, the S.M. stating that if defendant had not been a married man he would feel disposed to impose a term of imprisonment. ‘ ‘ The main reason why many parents have so little control over their, children to-day is because they do not enter into the children's games as they ought. The'parent should be just an elder child, and by joining in, teach the younger ones how to play the game straight, and there will never be loss of control." —W. A. Saunders, at Invercargill. The fishing season opened qn Monday, and on tho whole good sport resulted.

During recent years the Wellington ■ Society has paid particular attention to the stocking of the upper waters of th« Otakj river, and some excellent catches of both brown and rair.bf vv irout ha-e been reported. Along both the Otuki and Waikanae streams good sport may be expected, while the same applies to the Ohau river. The election of Mr. E. H. Potter as Mayor of Mount Eden places the familiar name in a somewhat unique position. Colonel H, R. Potter, C.M.G., is the officer commanding the Northern Military district, Mr: V. H. Potter, M.P., has now been returned twice as member for Roskill electorate, of which the Mount Eden borough is tho principal part, while Mr. R. H. A. Potter, chairman . of the Mount Eden School Committee, has occupied that position for 10 years. The four brothers all reside in the Mount Eden borough. At Palmerston on Wednesday,, the Minister' for Railways land his party were conducted over the route of the proposed railway deviation. The party was first, conveyed to Longburn, where the proposed line would leave the present course, and cut across country to Boundary-road, thence in a parallel line with that road, joining the permanent way again in the vicinity of Kelvin Grove. On beirjg asked if he would .make a statement .ion his observations, Mr Coates said he could say nothing just now. He explained that he was going through the whole of the Dominion preparing a programme of works and placing the various matters in their order of urgency. “I have formed my own opinion,” said Mr Coates, “but I cannot say anything now.” A startling adventure lately befell Mrs. Smail and Miss Broadbent, her sister, formerly of Carterton, who now reside at Kaitangath, in the South Island.

They were on their way to the golf linkß, when they saw a cow with a very young calf coming towards them. They did not like the look of the cow. but decided to continue on their way, and had passed the animal when it suddenly turned and charged them. Reaching Miss Broadbent first it knocked her down and attempted to gore her, but, with remarkable presence of mind Miss Broadbent seized the cow’s horns. Meanwhile Mrs. Smail promptly went to the rescue, and attacked the cow with a golf club, finally beating it off. Miss . Broadbent was much bruised, and suffered considerably from shock. She was taken to her

home, and it was some time before she A wonderful lamp has been made for the Egyptian Government at the Smethwick (England) works of Messrs Chance. A fe.w weeks ago the light was working at Smethwick as it. will work when erected at Port Said. It will be one of the biggest lights in the world, for the beam has an intensity equal' to 1,250,000 candles. Thousands of prisms are used for bending the divergent rays of lights into the beam (and every one has been set with focal accuracy, so : that not ai scrap of light I is wasted. The whole Tight, weighing 1 nearly four tons, floats in a bath containing 450 lb of mercury. This reduces frictional resistance so much that the light can he set moving by the push of -a. finger. It is revolved by clockwork, operated by a small falling weight. This splendid light will have a luminous range of nearly 100 miles in clear weather in the Mediterranean. A wonderful thing at the Smethwick works is the lighthouse in the works vard, which for nine months has been operated by an automatic light valve. Every evening at dusk it lights up, and so sensitive to the heat of daylight are the ether-filled bulbs that when fog comes the light begins to work, t-^ e & as being used to make it revolve.