Shannon News FRIDAY, NOVEMBER, 9, 1923.

Shannon News, 9 November 1923, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, NOVEMBER, 9, 1923.

Guy Fawkes Day was celebrated by the email boys of Shannon 'onMonday evening in the usual way and many effigies were burnt in ail parts of the town'.

A meeting of the Shannon Amateur Atftiietic and. Cycling .Club will be held ali the Council Chambers on Monday: evening nex.i, to arrange a date for", holding their next sports meeting. < ThU evening a meeting of the committee of the Shannon Boxing Association) will be (held in the. Council Chambers to make final arrangementa for the Association's opening tournament to,be; held' on Saturday , November 34th.

The Shannon Amateur Athletic, and Cycling Club are holding a meeting on Monday evening to arrange • a date for their next sports gathering, which event residents are looking forward "to. As there are several matters of. vital importance to he dealt with; it is hoped "that all members will make a point of attending the meeting. At the Parish Hall on Tuesday evening the final euchre tournament arid dance for the 'season, in aid of the Anglican Church fund, was hield, when thero was a large attendance), and a most enjoyable evening resulted. Tlhe winners; of the euchre tournament was Mrs Ghurcher and Mr E. Butt, the consolation prizes going to Misß Aim and Mr Gardner. The prize for the highest number of points for the season was won by Mrs Churchier ini the ladies' section, while. Mr Hensman won the gent's prize. The sneak thief is. again. i» evidence in Shannon. A few nights ago, during her husband's, absence at the pantomime, a local housewife had occasion to go to the back door, where she observed a person helping himself to .the firewood stacked in the yard. Needless to say the intruder quickly took his departure. Two nigbfls laijer; another (resident's axe disappeared. Presumably that was taken to chop the stolen firewood with. It is to be hoped, that if this class of thief is caught a fitting example will be miade of him. Franz Joa&f Glacier, on the west tlopteß of the Southern Alps, which Ib said to terminate at. a lower altitude than any other glacier in the temperate regions, has advanced hei- { tween sevien and eight chains beyond the point where its terminal face was last year. It is one of the. fastest moving glaciers in the world. Compared! with Australia., people in New Zealand are lucky in being able to purchase Al sug|ar at 4d per lb. The general fetall price ruling in the .eastern; States of the Commonwealth is 5d per lb., and €d in South Australia and the west. In reply to a protest by the Federal president of the Housewives' Association, the Prime Minister; stated that the price of sugar agreed upon was-such as to enable grocers toy sell .at 4Jd per lb. in every State of the Commonwealth at a fair pap&t

f The coroner at Salford (England) t has asked persons in -trouble t© see i him before taking tiieir lives. Many have accepted his professed sympathy ' and he believes, he has : turned them i from thoughts of suicide. \ The main, transmission, line of the f Horowhenua Electric Power Board's reticulation scheme has now been completed between Shannon and Foxton and the work of erecting poles within the Foxton Borough is proceeding. "And how dq you, feteLdn entering your second century?? asked someone of a lady who had-just passed' her hundredth birthday, related Mr L. L. Grimwade to. the New Zealand Club. "Oh,'" she said, "a great deal better than ion entering my first." . '

'Large quantities of whitebait were to be seen in the Manawatu River! near the Maori pah 'on the way to the beach about five o'clock on Monday. The white bait were making up < stream, but kept Well in the centre of the river. Fishermen witnessing the spectacle declare that it was the largest quantity seen in the Manawatu for a number of years. Some good catches were recorded on Tuesday, two. men netting 70 odd pounds during! the day. Mr Wi A. Waters, 'engineer to the Manawatu-Oroua Power Board, told a Stjandiardi reporter Ithat, during the past, few weeks, the board have had sieveral prospective buyers of farms enquiring if certain properties would have electricity -available, and openly stating that they did not intend to buy a farm unless this was so. After on© person had been assured on this point and the fact! tttie present owner had already g6t his premises wired in : readiness, the ,farm changed hands mext day. . i The results of the bullock -weightguessing competition at the Palmerston show were as follow: A. Terry (Linton) 746&1b, correct weight; AIrvine (Taihape)., T. Brydorf (Whahgamompina), H. Dickel (Featiherston street), each 7461 b. W. F. Sadd (Rangiotoy,- Mrs F. O. W. Soott (Palmerston North); G. Elliott (Bulls), A. Sutherland (Palmerston North), E. Wood (Palmerston North), and A. Koberstein (Feilding), each estimated 7471 b. A London correspondent writes : There is no need to wait for the French to evacuate' the Ruhr for the Germans to flood the Continent with cheap woollen goods. They have done it 'already. One can go into any tailor's'' shop in Switzerland and find German goods marked "Scotchtweeds," "English worsteds." These words are actually let into the cloth as it is woven. The tailors know the stuffs are German, but they Can buy at such'a ridiculously low price and make so much profit by'selling as English goods at English prices, that they say nothing. It is the customer who pays. ', "This side up 1 with care," is good, plain Anglo-Saxon that means what it says, and is readily understood by every wharf lumper. But the times are changing and soon the worker will have to obtain a college .education land learri French if he is to do his job properly. Yesterday a large, heavy case was clfscharged from the Invercargill that was marked, "Haut" on onel side, and "has" on the opposite side. After a long consultation its- was decided that "bas" meant "base" and so the case was hauled up "bas" side ' down, which wias the correct method. When cargo comes from Cz.e'cho-Sloviakia or Siam there will be some knotty problems to solve. —Wanganui Chronicle. "

For the purpose of showing a litstle practical sympathy towards suf- . ferers from a fire in Cambridge a resident improvised a collecting box out of a.large lea-tin, which he sealed and labelled ."For those in need," affixing his name (as collector) and address below. He himself placed a £1 not© in the ,box, which he set up at the gutted house. On examining the box after midday he estimated that it contained about £3. Returning, at 2.15, however, he found that some mean and despicable person had "shown 'practical sympathy" by rifling, the tin, leaving, only the pennies which numbered nine, and two pieces. The police are interested in the matter. Direct wateir carriage between the South Island and Hamilton in the Waikato, via the Waikato River, is now a regular feature. The first direct cargo from Lyttelton and Nelson arrived in Hamilton on Thursday last, and'Consisted of grain, calf meal and fruit. It was brought from the south by the s.s. Progress, which entered the Waikato Heads on Sunday, and transhipped its cargo.to the. river fleet for distribution along the river. ' The back-loading consists of Huntley coal. , As it has now been shown to be possible to land fruit at Hamilton from Nelson within 48 hours, the possibility of opening up a steady business between Waikato and Nelson- is easily seen. A steady trade in benzine between Onehunga and the Waikato river .port has been in progress for some time, and last Saturday the s.s. Arapawa put in at the Heads with 2000 cases for Hamilton alone. This means a Viery "acceptable saving as against railway carriage. ■ '