Shannon News FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1923.

Shannon News, 23 November 1923, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1923.

The tender of Mr J. Bresnehan has been accepted for carting material in connection with the Shannon waterworks. '

The management of the Maori!arid Theatrfe have been successful in securing the film “Silver Wings” featuring Mary Carr. It will be screened .at the theatre on Friday, November 30 th'. On .enquiry wer learn that Mr Jack Turoa, who is an irimate of the Palmerston North Hospital, as a result Of a motor cycle .accident is steadily improving and hope s to be able to leave the institution shortly. A business man reports that he -re.-?, ceived advise on Monday that a registered parcel had been posted at Wellington on Saturday for him.. After waiting patiently it duly reached Idm on Wednesday afternoon. He wants to. know what caused'the delay. . Miss Mona Neale, A.T.C.L., L.T.C.L., has very generously arranged lor her pupils to. give a concert early next month, the proceeds from, which are to be divided, between the Soldiers’ Memorial Fund and the. school fund. At the concert the public will have an .opportunity of viewing the magnificent harp recently imported by Miss Neale.

The first of the series of evening sports to. be held, in Shannon will take place, on Saturday, December 1, at 5.30' p.m. There will he two races of 75 yards and 100 yards lor boys under 16 years and two men’s races of mOyds and 220yds. It is also intend.ed to hold a cycle road race from Shannon to Miranui and back.

The concert, organised by the committee of the Sports Queen held in the Maoriland. Theatre last evening was a most enjoyable one. There was a good attendance and a first class programme was submitted, the audience showingi their . appreciation by demanding recalls. Each person who purchased a ticket for the. concert had a. chance of winning a prized The lucky numbers are 11, 22, 111, and 222. 1

Wandering stock was the cause of two trains having to pull up at the crossing in. Vanqh stre/ht, Shannon, yesterday morning. In one case the engine missed a fine Jersey cow by inches. If people with stock wish to take advantage of the iroads .being thrown open, they should endeavour to keep the stock from the railway line, otherwise it might be dear grazing.

The amount of cream being received at present at the local dairy factory compares most favourably with the quantity received for this peTiod last year. Alhqjigh in the early part of the season the quantity received was much below that of last year it is hoped that, with, a, good autumn, the average. will yet prove as good as last season’s. The quality of the cream is much better than last year’s and the grade note jus* received is 94£, whereas last year it was an average of 93i for this tdiaje of the year.

Fat lamib sales have already Been made in the Wairarapa at BJd per, ip. Buyers are now offering s|d for wether mutton up to 601bs in weight. Mr P. L. Hoiings. late S.M., barrister and solicitor, has opened a branch office in Shannon and attends there every Thursday, and at any time by appointment. Enquiries at Mr J. lBovis, Shannon,

It is understood that there is a possibility of a small Japanese training squadron .visiting New Zealand next year. If this visit taikes place the/ 'squadron may reach Auckland about the second week in February. There is talk of building a golf course (nine notes) about a mile and a quarter from the Glacier Hotel, at .'the Franz Josef Glacier. It will be located in the midst of scenery that is cjt'and as well as beaut/ilui, and will have a fine natural turf, and should be a popular and additional attraction for visitors to the glacier. Word has \ been received from Mr J. Linklater, M.P.,' that he will have much pleasure m p,erlorimng the crowning ceremony in connection with the Queen Carnival. The crowning of the successful canuiuate is'to taite' place about a week alter the carnival closes.

A letter received in Napier from Cornwall,' England, states tnat unemployment throughout the country is acute, and seems likely to be greatly accentuated during the coming .winter. As a consequence, assisted emigration is being widely availed of, and thousands are embracing inis means of seeking fresh fields, larger numbers applying lor passages to New Zealand.

Surprise was. expressed at the meeting of the Wanganui Hospital Board that the coal bill for the Wanganuii Hospital lor the past month was just on £l5O. ' One member said that it worked out at £5 a day, and another member pointed out that it was equivalen to 1 U tons of coal a day used. Seeing that the gas is also used at the instiution the Board decided to have inquiries made into the matter. ' .

The big Unity'milking plant recent- 1 ly installed at the.. Weraroa. Training rann is giving every satisfaction, the. tanning manager (Mr Spencer) told a Chronicle representative yesterday. By its aid the -whole herd or 70 cows could be. put through by one man if necessary. At present 51 cows were in milk. The boys were first taugnt to milk by hand and were not allowed to touch the machines until they were proficient. The large gardens at the Weraroa Training Farm are looking particularly well just now and tne orchards promise big crops of fruit. Mr. F. Allen, .the head # gardener 1 , . told . a Chronicle reporter that he. had great success with a supply of fowl manure which he -had! procured from a local poultry farmer. Using 5 tons to the acre it had proved a first class soil •revivifier. it had heen used, on cleaii ground and had proved quite free of weeds.

A lad nine years of agje had an unusual experience in Wairoa recently (relates <a. correspondent of the - Napier Telegraph). He . was some distance from home and wa s given a.'lift on /a motor lorry. In. spite ,of the .rough going the little chap went t.o sleep and the driver forgot him until lie had passed through Wairoa and had reached; Opoiti, thirteen miles away from, the boy’s home. The little fellow then set out to tramp back'again, and duly, arrived. When he got home he found that search parties were out looking for him 1 .

A fortnight ago a borrowed motor-! car picked up in ■ Melbourne on the previous evenings and apparently driven all night crashed into an electric light pole in Punt road at six in the morning. It was the greatest smash on record. The car was practically dashed to pieces, splinters of glass being found embedded in the front door of a houses across the road. The street was spattered with the blood of the joy-riders, but they dragged themselves away .and have never been found to tell' the tale. The only thing intact was a bottle. The “flannel dance’’ held by the Shannon Golf Club in the Parish Hall cun Tuesday •evening proved a most enjoyable function. The hall had been very prettily decorated for the occasion with streamers of different colours suspended across the hall, with greenery up the walls, the whole having a very pleasing effect. The floor was in splendid order, and, combined with the music supplied by Mrs, Butler, added materially to the enjoyment of the dancers. ! Supper was served by the ladies.’ ! committee in the main hall where long tables* had

been, arranged in the centre. The duties of M,.C. were, most efficiently carried out by Mr Morgan. In view of the fact "that the person responsible for the death of Mrs Oates, of Ararhoiho, has not been discovered, Mr Veitch, M.P., wrote the Minister of Justice urging that the reward for his capture be increased to £IOOO. The. following reply has just come to hand from the Minister of Justice: Office of the Minister of Justice, Wellington, 9th Nov., 1923. W. A. Veitch, Esq., M.P., Wanganui. Dear Sir,—ln reply to your letter of the 6tli inst. relative to the. reward/ of £250 'offered for information leading to the conviction of the person who murdered Mrs , Oates recently, I beg to inform you that the matter of increasing the amount of the reward will be carefully considered. ■ In. the meantime the residents of Wanganui can rest, assurred that no efforts will oe spared to bring the. offence home to the guilty person. The following are the butter-fat payments * made to-day by the Manawiatu dairy companies mentioned for the month of October: Levin, 1/5; N.Z. Farmers’ Union based on 1/5: Rongotea, £11,700, 1/5; Shannon 1/7; Palmerston North, 1/6; Whan karonga, 1/8 (Which includes 2d on. the previous month); Manawatuirßeliiance, 1/8; Awahuri, 1/6; ffiakitahuna 1/8- Kairangia, 1/6 ; Ravenswood, 1/4; J Newbury, 1/6 (also id balance on last season).

There are a number of cases of influenza in* a mild form in Wanganui. 1

Owing to* the wet-ail cricket, tennis andi "howling matches tQ have been played in Levin on Saturday were postponed. Early this morning a fire destroyed the tennis pavilion at Otaki Beach and a small motor garage belonging to Mr Byron Brown. A car, also owned by Mr Brown, was also burnt. “Have you'been underneath the housie to seei’” asked counsel, during tne oross-eixaniination oi a witness m the Supreme .Court at Mew Plymouth. The dispute in question was regarding the condition of a dwelling sold to this witness. “No need to do that,” replied the witness, “you can see underneath the houise lrom inside.” The Judge joined in the laughter that 1 pillowed the witness’ unexpected answer.

Referring to house rents, the chairman of the Horowhenua Power-Bo-ard, Mr G. A. Monk, remarked at the Board meeting to-day that he found on investigation that they, were just as high in Levin as anywhere else'. For a house which the Board had been offered for , its installation Officer—just an ordinary wooden one some distance out of Cown—33/ per week was asked. >

The Marquis of Rip oil died while out snooting on his moors at the end of September. His death furnishes the third instance this.. year o/' titles becoming extinct through the' death of peers without heirs. The . other two cases were those of. Lord ' Seaforth, who died on March 3rd, and Earl Farquhar, who died on August 20th. About 400 titles havie become extinct in the same fashion since the beginning of last century. In the last’ ten yjears 49 peerages have become extinct. ;

Some large consignments of farm seeds 'which had come from Zealand, and which were badly inl-ested witirweed seeds, were seen by *a New Zealand visitor to the Government Forestry and Seed Department at Brisbane (the Southland Daily News reports). These consignments were being held up, and in addition to the reduced figure which- the consignor would receive, he was not likely to* get get one penny of his money for six'months.

The South’ Auckland Methodist Synod/, at ' its ministerial, session on Tuesday, at Hamilton, unanimously recommended Mr. Athol R. Penn, of Lambridge (late of Otaki) as a candidate for thej ministry, the report om trial sermon (preached on Monday night, at Franktou], written sermon, medical examination, and oral examination being very satisfactory. The candidate win need to sit for a written examination iiext month, and Will then come before -the Methodist Conference, at Christchurch, in February next, when the recommendation will bo dealt with.

A new -scheme for breeding trout was mentioned by Mr C. A. Whitney at a meeting oi the council .of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society. Instead of raising the fry in tanks and liberating the fry in the streams, Mr Whitney said the eyed ova was “planted” with a machine in shallow pebbly-bottomed streams. The ova was drilled in a manner similar to the drilliii£i of seed in a field, and was covered with pebbles. The whole operation, was done with the machine. In this way the ova was protected until it had developed sufficiently to- fend lor itself. The new scheme had been tried in America and in Otago* with wonderful success, and he would like to se'e it tried in the Auckland district next year. The scheme will be discussed further at a- later meeting.^

The habitat and moviements of certain small fish and insects during autumn and winter have been a mystery to many civilised and uncivilised peoples, but according to Dr. P. H: Buck a noted Maori ethnologist, oldtime’ Maoris possessed iaccurane knowledge of the movement of whitebait, which many l white people lack to this day. “Many people think there is something of mystery about whitebait arid where they go in certain months,” he said. “While I was attending the Pan-Pacific Congress in Melbourne lately, a man said to me: “There is one thing you scientists do not know—what becomes of whitebait, and what they .are.” There is no mystery in science' regarding thiem, nor yet among the Maoris.. The adult fish goes down tq the. sea to spawn in March, and the small fry, or marketable whitebait, returns 'any time from Dune to September. This is m accordance with an old. Maori legend, that at a certain time of the year all whitebait must return to their parents in Waiuni (“Great Waters.”)

An arrangement has been made with the Post and Telegraph Department by which postmasters in all towns where there is no permanent officer of the Department of Labour will act as cm- : ployment agents. Any employer desiring the services of a worker is invited to apply at the nearest Post Offiee and notify his requirements to the

postmaster who will, if no suitable worker is available locally, immediately communicate with the nearest omce of the Department of Labour. Men in need of employment are also invited to communicate with the postmaster and an endeavour will be made in the same way to find them suitable work. Should a worker be found on the application of the employer the latter will be charged a small fee bv the postmaster and should employment be

found on the application of a worker he will likewise be charged \ a small fee. There will be no fee unless an ’engagement is effected. The fees will vary , according to the rates of hvages. It should be understood that in towns where there is a permanent officer of the Department ‘of Labour inquiry ' should be made to him and not t,o the

postmaster. No fees are charged at the Department ’s permanent offices. It is hoped that employers and workers will make use of the facilities now being provided when it is considered that the iDepartnient should be ab'lo t/o (fill a large percentage of tiro vacancies that may be notified.

A,record was established -at the last meeting 6f the Hauraki Plains County Council, the sitting lasting 15* hours.. The meeting closed At 3 a.m., 84 resolutions having been carried. It is estimated that over £ISOO worth of potatoes were despatched from Pukekohe one day last week, the largest quantity exported from pukekohe in a. single day this season.— Franklin Times.- ' -

A Msterton resident who has just returned front ,a visit to Sydney, speaking to a reporter with regard to the progressiveness of the New, South Wales capital, remarked that in Castlereagh ■ street alone over £5,000,000 worth, of buildings are at present in coprse of- construction. A Greymouth telegram says it is reported from Arthur’s Pass that a series of earth tremors occurred throughout yesterday.. Several, shocks were also felt at Otira and two shocks occurred there this morningi. The damage was slight.

A Waikato youth has returned from Germany, where he was paid off from a German boat, after having shipped at Panama as a -stoker. His two months’ wages at the. American rate of pay totalled 800,000,000 marks (£32). The German rate of pay would have been only £1 10s. A suit of clothes cost him 97.000,000 marks (£4).

v Hector Gray, the well-known New Bealand jockey is* apparently more at home as a judge, of a good racehorse than of ,a dairy cow. “Pretty’s Flirt,”, the pedigree Jersey which has -just put up a New Zealand and Australian record'by giving lOlOlhs of butterfat, was purchased by Mr W. H. Miers, the present owner, from Mr Gray two years ago for 40 guineas. ,

Mr Richard Cobbe, of Feilding, is announced as a candidate for the Dairy Control Board election, having been nominated by twenty-one factories. His application for ta copy of the roll was refused by the Minister of Agriculture though it is understood the roll has been issued to the ticket. The Minister has been advised that a writ will be issued if a refusal is persisted in.

The Wanganui Borough, Council have decided to take immediate steps to improve Aramoho Park. An order is to be placed at once for the. necessary material for the children’s pii/groujnd, which is to include see-saws, a large chute, - a merry-go-round, swings, baby chairs and a rock-a-bye/ Provision is to be made in nextiyear’s estimates for the balance of.the improvements which include a paddling pool, shelter sheds, conveniences/ etc.

Every time the Cambridge Band announces an open air concert rain sets in, This has become so noticeable that it is quite a. common topic'-for jesting. This caused,Mr F. Lye, M.P., to remark that a band was a acquisition to any town, and was very necessary in a town like Cambridge, which was the centre of a dairying district. If at any time a drought set in, and the farmers were anxious . for rain, thev had only to call the band out for* a programme and rain would'assuredly fall. • The natives of the Chatham Islands who' were fined for failing to lay their dog taxes hit on a' much better plan than passive resistence. The stay says they gathered round Lie lock-up demanding ■to be allowed to “take-cut” the fine. This seems to have cured the. authorities completely of the .effort to recover the amounts. They fcould make no complaint either. The natives Were placing no obstacles in the way of-the administration of justice. They were doing their best to be helpful. _