Shannon News FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1923.

Shannon News, 16 November 1923, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1923.

Tlie Shannon Borough Council invite tenders for the carting of waterworks materials. Tenders close next Tuesday. Mr McCormick, of the local post office s'ta,ff, ihas received-notice of transfer to Seddon in the South Island. He will be succeeded' at;Shannon by Mr t Cairns, of. Waiotu, West; Coast. , ■ ~

A feature of the tenders received by the Borough Council lor the construction of the concrete reservoir was that the successful tenderer was only wilihin a few pounds of the En-1 gineer',s estimate, although there was such a wide difference in the calcuv lations between the two tenders received.

In the advertising columns of this paper : :appears'a notice reminding <thedancing public a.nd others interested, of the Golf Club's Flannel Dance to be held in the Parish Hall on Tuesday ■next, 20th.. So/far as dances in this hall are concerned this one will be ; quite a new departure, as it will have all the good qualities of « a ball, witn the ease and freedom of a social, but with the decorations and shipper that are Usually,the hall-miarks of high cßass balls. * Altogether something quite new.

General regreti was expressed m Shannon yesterday morning when, it became known, "that Mr and Mrs W. N. Brawn's little daughter, Allison, had passed away in the early hours ■of the morning at the Palmerston' North Hospital. The child Was only ill a few days, being removed, to the Palmerston Hospital at niid-da.y on! Wednesday, whan she succumbed to meningitis. She was of <a bright and happy disposition and very popular with her school mates and the deepest sympathy will be extended to .the sow-owing family lip their bereavement.

! At the Police Court yesterday morning before Messrs R W. Taylor and W. H. Gunning, J.'sP., Robert, Fergusson Hay, alias William Hcaily,' was charged with being a rogue and a vagabond in that lie was. found by night without lawful excuse on the premises of the Albion Hotel. Accused pleaded not guilty atad elected) to be dealt with summarily. After hearing evidence h?' was convicted and sentenced to two months' imprisonment with hard labour. Joseph , Daniel .on a charge of drunkenness, was sentenced to 24 hours' imprison-1 mean and on a second charge of b'e-! ing an idle 'and disorderly person in that he habitually consorted with j persons of ill-repute, to which he pleaded guilty, he was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. The sen- | tences to he concurrent. '

,WHieii the lamplighter Mr Grumw&d, reported to-the Borough Goun-. cil on Tuesday night that'two more lamp* had been stolen, a councillor said that was nothing; Somie. person ihad cleaned up a fence from around one of his .sections. It was also reported that there had been ' quite a lot of petty .thieving lately; in one instance a builder had 1 lost about 1000 feet of timjber. In regard to. the agitattion by the Cfoiamhier of Gommeirce for increased accoDMfiibdatdiOtti at the parcels office at-the local (railway station, there was striking evidence jjesterday morning of that being higmy necessary, The room was so congested with parcels, etc., that there .was only room for on£ person <to enter at a, time, and the staff to reach the main office had to make a track through the goods. Any parcels required from the shelves* at the back 'Of the room could only be secured by those in charge having to climb overt tih© litter on the floor. This is not an unusuial occurrence and it is tihfair both to the public and the railway staff to allow such a state of affairs to continue., . Mr J. F. Shepherd, late manager of the Te Kauwihata Horticultural Star tion, Hawkes Bay, arrived, in Levin to-day to take over, temporarily, the management of the Central Development Fanrt, vice Mr W. J. McCullough, lately transferred to the Fields Division of the Department of Agriculture. ~,.'■ When the Palmerston North Hospi tal Board, at its meeting yesterday, was dealing with the application of a young Maori lady for a position: on the nursing» staff, the chairman (Sir James Wilson) strongly urged the encourgement of Maori nurses in order that they might gain experience with a view to extending the knowledge among their people. The speaker's remarks found strong favour and the appointment wias duly made. Comment is often made in papers about the man who is making £2O to £2sper acre yearly off his place, and many Poverty Bay. farmers regard this, as a Wonderful achievement (says the Poverty .Bay Herald). It may interest them! to know that there is a farmer in this district who has taken £I6OO off a place of 40 acres every year during tjhe past five; or six years. As 'far back! as* 10 years ago hje was taking £IOOQ' a year off his place; That shows what can 1 be done by careful and. scientific farming. The last few days of warmth and sunshine have had an excellent effect on the Auckland' strawberry beds, and day by day the supply of berries is increasing. The cold snap experienced a few weeks ago threatened to endanger the early crop, but the. plants have made excellent progress since, and supplies are about as good as usual at the beginning of the season. Birkenhead and Northcote have sent in the earliest supplies, but the fruit is now coming forward from Mount Raskin. The general opinion is that there' will be a good crop right through' the season. The cancellation of a well-known .sportsman's motor license was decided upon by the Auckland City Council (says the Herald). It was stated that the traffic inspector ha<d reported on the.conduct of Mr B. Deeley, who I held a certificate of competency, to 1 drive a private motor car, and as a resujfl ihe had tappfearjed before thie! finance and legal committee of the founcil to' show cause why (his certificate should not be Cancelled. Following on this appearance, the committee recommended that the certificate should be cancelled, and the council adopted this course.. In February, next Archbishop Redwood will celebrate his golden jubilee as a bishop, when there will be a .large gathering here of archbishops, bishops, and priests from all parts of the Dominion and as well as bishops and priests from America. His Grace, then one of the youngest bishops of. the dhurch, was appointed to the See of Wellington in 1874, and consecrated on March 17 of that year at St. Ann's. Spitalfields, London, by the late Cardinal Manning, Archbishop of Westminister. In 1887 he was, by Papal brief, created Archbishop. His Grace is the oldest bishop, by length of office, hi' the Hierarchy.

An innovation at the Auckland Rail-way-Station, which will enable baggage to be handled in a much more efficient manner (says the New Zealand Herald), is an'-electrically-driven' platform truck. The truck has a carrying capacity of one ton. It is 9ft 7in long and 3ft 4in..wide. The driver's seat is so arranged that it will rise and automatically apply the brakes should the/driver get up or fall off. The truck, which is. of one-horse

power, is capable of running at about eight. Mile's an hour. One great advantage is the ease with which it negotiates corners. Both sets of wheels are connected with the steering wheel, a.hd the vehicle can turn in a radius of 7ft. The 21 two-volt batteries will drive it continuously for Ave hours, so that it is expected it will have to be recharged every night. A dynamo for -this purpose has been installed at the station. , The recharging occupies about four hours( and, oh

completion, the power automatically cuts itself .off. A demonstration was given recently by the Trufood Co. of Australia, Ltd., at .47 King St., on the reconstitution of butter into cream and milk by the use of an American emulsifier. Skim milk, in powder form, was made into a liquid by the addition of water. The mixture was then heated to a temperature of from 140 to 150 degrees. ; Fresh unsalted pasteurised butter was then added. The machine was set in motion, and the mixture passed through J the emulsifier and poured out over a] small cooler, which brought the tern- I

perature down to 40 degrees. In mak-

ing milk a greater quantity of liquid and powdered milk was required. It was stated that the cream had a greater keeping quality than the genuine article, as both the butter and dried milk tiffed had previously been pasteurised, and during the process it was again pasteurised. A large city firm 1 of pastry"cooks possesses a machine and uses onlv this kind of cream. The invention is also being used on several ocean liners.—-Melbourne '' Age.''

In--presenting his' report, at Satur- ] day's meeting of the Harowhjenua County Council the County Ranger stated' that 4he greater number of the I cases brought during the month were j for stock running on the road on ' Sunday, it being obvious that owners ' 'were taking advantage of Hhe f act that the ranger wa s not likely to be .about on that day. He was, however, paying .attention to this now and would see that the law was. complied with. • t An example of profitable farming came before the Waipawa Hospital Board, Hawkes Bay, recently in connection with thq proposal that the local board take - over the administration of the .Pukeroa- Sanatorium. A copy of the sanatorium balance sheet was received by the board and special attention was drawn to the fact that the farm account showed a profit of £IO4B after paying over £I2OO in wages. The farm is only 300 acres in extent, and the opinion was expressed that such a. profit as that shown was exceedingly satisfactory. Whjen an artesian bore was being sunk on a. farm, at Rangiotu, the contractors came across a rata log sixty feet below the .surface. At a further depth of twenty feet a black pine tree v was' encountered; Below one hundred feet the hore ran into black sand. A fanner; who resides in the locality expressed the opinion to a "Standard" representative that the land between Palmerston North and Rangiotu was once a Vast lake and in the, process of time was covered tip with silt to a huge deptth.> , "Evieir since I have been .in New Zealand," said Sir Thomas Allen at Eketahuna, "I have been riding in coaches on the railways and in cars of American mlake, and yet your Pirime Minister has gone Home to ask for some protection. It seems strange to me that you purdhasie three times as much, tfrom America as you sell to hleir. England has the goods andi plroyjides tShte market for your produce. You hlave to pay a very hejavy exchange om ■money coming out, when youl-could exchange it for gpods -there that; you require and are 1 using." ! ' Koputaroa exhibitors were well in evidence at the Wanganui Show this, week. Messrs Webb Bros, slecured four first prizes, two seconds, champion and reserved champion in the Ayrshire, classes. The championships were for the hulls Greenfield's Loyal Jack and Greenfield's Success. They also won a 25-guinea silver cup. Mr R. S. Mitchell's hack Kismet added fresh laurels, to his record. He was placed first in- the list class, first as a lady's hack, first .in. the pairs and first in the hack class, and was also declared champion hack at the show. Mr W. Greggan's pointer was awarded four first prize tickets in the dog section, winning the colonialbred, open," stud and limit classes. 1 The best known, the most en gag-, ing, and the most cheerful or our native birds is thefantail ; (says a contenipoifary), and many:-of'them may be seen in the reserves where trees and bush abound. Who has not watched it darting here ' and there, .looping the loop and nose-diving, unaware that during" all these aerial evolutions it is feasting* on niinutje. insect-life? The. troublesome cbdlin moth falls a victim to. its appetite, tin© germ-carrying house fly it eats with avidity. This pretty bird is wholly insectivorous, and yet there are ignorant people - who ignore its usefulness ' and friendliness, and allows its nest and eggs to be destroyed. At the monthly meeting of . the Miainawatu Provincial Executive of the Farmers' Union on Saturday, the following* remit was received from the Shannon; branch: "That a revaluation of the Tokomaru riding of <the Horowhemua County be asked for." It was decided that ttie Shannon branch to be recommended' to call a meeting of ratepayers and put in a petition 5 to the County Council, the Union bewilling to stand behind them in any just claim. It was decided that the Shannon and Horowhenua districts be invited to send delegates to the executive, that such districts may beicome more conversant with the working of the organisation. Froni Calais' there comes a strange \

story of an aeroplane which leaped

out of control «nd fte>W' away with ■nobody on board. A French airman was starting the'motor of his.machine at Orucatle-PJessieJ Ae'rodome, when he was suddenly called away and left the machine unguarded. 'A few minutes later the aeroplane was seen to taxi slowly along the grass." It .increased its speed gradually until it had reached a height' of 50 feet, sooting above the heads of v the mechanics. Then the machine rose

quickly and disappeared in the clouds. Search .parties scoured the country for several miles round, sis it was expected that the pilotless aeroplane would soon crash, but at nightfall operations had to be abandoned. They were resumed in the mourning /with renewed lenergy. .and scores of people joined in the search for the rscaway aeroplane. It is believed •that the machines escape w,as due to the pilot, haying left without, having first pulled back certain levers.

The Court of Appeal'has just given' an important judgment relating to tli-i power of dairy companies 1 o co;.ipel shareholders to supply their iniik to the company solely. The appc l was from a, judgment of His Honour-the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout)', affirming thie 'judgment of a Stipendiary Magistrate for >a sum of £4O against the appellant for alleged default in. not'complying with clause 17 in the company's articles of asso-i ciatioin,, providing that:—"Every shareholder shall supply to the company the wlicft'e of tine 1 milk or cream produced on his farm (except that

required for liis own household and

farm purposes nnti] the share capital of such member is fully paid up; failing whichi fhe sh'all pay to the said company, n.<? liquidated damage's, the sum of £1 per cow for each and every season or p«vrt of a sen son he fails to supply milk to the said company." The Court declared •the article as being invalid: >as. the articles imposed an itnreiasonablie restriction on the liberty of trade and contract of the parties bound by them, they were'yrjiolly toad.