Shannon News TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1923.

Shannon News, 11 December 1923, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1923.

Constable Shannon is at present on Believing duty at. Eketahuna. < Owing to the heavy 1 rain on Saturday the cricket match at Shannon between Mioutoa and Shannon was postponed. The quarterly meeting of the Chamber of Commerce will be held, in the Council Chambers cto Friday evening next. On Wednesday next at 2.30 p.mthe Tennis. Club wifi oflicially open their new courts in Vance street. A cordial invitation is extended to ail to attend. Tlhe Foxtoji Chamber of Commerce have decided to arrange a conference of dairy farmers to go into the question of erecting a dairy lactory in Foxton. ■

Yesterday the contractors made a start with the erection of the Soldiers’ Memorial, which is to- be erected near the. railway station gates opposite the- Clul> Hotel. It is expected to lay the foundation stone on Wednesday, December 19th, , A school teacher a lew days ago was giving her class, a lesson on general products, during winch she- ashed il' any of the. class knew where “cork” camjp from. “I know,” said jt>ne bright hopeful. “Well, tell me,” said ‘the teaCbdjr. “What Daddy (brings' from the pub..” replied the child. Collapse of the teacher 1 A painful accident happened to Mr W. Stewart,, eldest son of ltev. A. W. Stewart, on Saturday evening. He was. coming to Shannon from Mangaliao in a motor lorry. When nearing. Arapeti, ip attempting to pass a vehicle, the lorry ran .into the bank, and Mr Stewart, .who Was sitting on the| side of the lorry, was crushed between it 'and the bank, resulting in his. collarbone being broken. He was brought into Shannon and after Ueceiving medical attention Was able to. proceed to his home. On Friday at the local police) Cjourt, before Messrs Gunning and Spencer, J.’sP., an old 'Offender named Edward Sullivan was charged with being an idle and disorderly person. The poliae stated he had been sleeping in a shed at the Miranui mill and making himself a nuisance and had refused) to leave when requested to do so. He had only been out of gaol .a fortnight after having served a, month for a similar offence. He was convicted! and sentenced, to three months’ imprisonment. The clocks on the Mangfahao undertaking are all advanced half-an-hour in order to take the* fullest advantage of the daylight.

I A census taken -of the children, at Arapeti and Mangahao revealed that no iewer than 93 little folk live with their parents on the woirks. It is proposed to organise a Christmas treat i'or them.

A LoinJjon cablqf announces the death ot Mr Edward Martyn, dramatist promoter of the Gaelic’ League and President ol the Sinn Fein from 1904 till 1908 j aged <54. The third shipment ol butter made by the Okoia Co-operative Dairy Co. realised 2065. The shipment from the Wangaehu company arrived in London a few days ,later, and, meeting a rising market, sold at 2075. Thursday’s price is 216s.—Wanganui Chronicle. s There are signs of a revival in the land market of the, Waikato. At Hamilton last week an agent effected the sale of a farm of fiO.Q- 1 acres at Tuhikaramea at £4O an acre, and another of 900 acres at Motumaoho at £22 per acre. ■ • , .The Horowhenua County Council’s •ranger reported to the Council at its meeting oh Saturday that he had impounded 29 head of stock during the month. He had been, on thg roads mostly at night and had found very little stock.. A meeting of the Taihape St., Patrick’s Day Axemen’s and Athletic Club decided, to put on another £6OO sports programme on the 17th and 19th of March, including £IOO for the Sheffield. Handicap and £165 for the fourteen-inch chop. , . One problem that has had to. b)8 considered in connection with the great dams that" impound the water at Mangahao and Arapeti is the possibility of their silting-up. ' The Horowhenua Power Board party learnt on Wednesday that records had been kept of the movements of shingle during big floods and these revealed that, the prospect of silting-up was not a very serious one.

A motor cyclist who lives in New Plymouth ha.s adapted his engine to drive a saw for cutting firewood. He is no< doubt prouid of his ingenuity, but he should realise that, he is making| a great nuisance to the residents for a considerable distance round his house (says the Herald). Unless he turns his attention to some less objectionable source of power it will probably be necessary to take action, to preserve the peace of the neighbourhood. /

A New Zealand record for wool prices was obtained at the Wellington wool sales on Saturday in the disposal of 100 bales of the choicest Merino clip by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, Co., Ltd., on- behalf of Mr. Charles Goulter. of Hawkesbury, Marlborough. The wool was passed in during the sale for 2 8 id., but before the series closed, it was sold, the leading line of six bales realising 304 d.—-a Dominion record. The previous record was the sale of eight bales , at 29Jd. per lb., secured from the same clip at last year’s Wellington sale.

The Waitemata has a fascination for Lord Jellicoe (says an exchange).' Although he . only arrived from Wellington on Saturday morning, His Excellency was out on the harbour' in .the Iron Duke in . the early afternoon as an interested spectator of the Sanders Gup trials, afterwards taking part in the race for the fourteen-foot-ers in the Ponsonby Cruising Club’s harbour races. Lord Jellicoe was sailing his own boat, and in the fine muster of over twenty starters he manoeuvred into the windward position and'crossed the line within a few seconds of the fall, of the flag, and after keen race finished fifth. One of the most interesting operations on the Mangahao works in the concrete elevator at the Power-hoU&e at Mangaore. The building is 75 feet in height. In the centre there rises a stout mast 93 feet high, and on. the mast there runs a capacious bucket .worked by a wire rope and donkey engine. The concrete mixer is stationed on the hillside outside the building and the mixture runs down a chute to the hopper at. the. foot of the mast. The bucket when full is elevated to the top of the mast, where it automatically tips into another chute, which delivers the concrete to any part of the building, where it is required. Its operation is an object lesson to visitors in modern concrete construction.

The proverbial “Chinamhn’s luck” was in evidence again at Takapuna races on Saturday afternoon (says the Star), and when the handful of winning tickets were paid out on Arch Ami, which got second place in the last stride in the Vauxhall Handicap, a celestial was there with two of them. “Charlie”/ collected the best part of £IOO. For, the greatest part of the betting there was not a ticket rung) upon the inside totalisator 1 , but when the machine, closed, there were five lonely tickets on the unknown performer. As the official figures showed 51 ten shilling tickets taken out on the horse the remaining 41 must have been taken out on the outside machine. Certainly the ten shilling ' “tote” tempts patrons to try the long odds where they hesitate at investing £l. The dividend was one of the biggest ever returned in-Auckland for second place at either trotting or galloping.

Those entitled to vote for the election of members of the Dairy Control Board are reminded that the ballot closes in Wellington on Thursday, December 13, and that their voting) papers should be forwarded before that date. The various candidates and tickets have been very keen in putting their views before suppliers, who will have to piake up their minds individually as * to their decisions. In this district the directors of the Levin Dairy Company have recommended suppliers to vote for the Dairy Council’s ticket, which comprises Messrs Dalrymple, Forsyth, Goodfellow, Grounds, loms -and Motion. The Kuku directors advocate the same candidates with the exception that Mr Cobbe is chosen in place of Mr lorns. It is desirable that the vote should be as large and representative as possible, so that every supplier should make a point of seeing that his ballot paper is forwarded before Thur&^y*

A wCQI buyer, wlio. has been operating at all the sales held in the Do-, minion this season, informed a Wanganui Broker that the wool offered at the Napier sale was the best display he had seen in any sale during his many years’ experience.

“I suppose that in Taranaki children are assets and that in other parts of New Zealand they are, liabilities,” observed Mr Justice Salmond in the Supreme Court at New Plymouth, when the part played by children in farm life in Taranaki was mentioned. A Wairoa telegram says that on Saturday evening two bathers collided when diving off the Nuhaka, Dredge. A lad named Christy sustained a broken back and is now lying paralysed. The other swimmer only sustained slight concussion.

People sometimes talk' about slums in New Zealand, towns, tout that is because they do not know what a real slum, is. The. Brady Street area, Bethnal Green, now being cleared by the Liondon County Council, had 5-8 houses on seven acres, or an. average of over 75 houses to the acre. The Crosby Row area of just over one acre bad 88 houses.

So many motor services are now running irom Wanganui to other parts of the Dominion that' it has been necessary to arrange a special stand lor them. Provision had to be made for cars leaving ,(and arriving) daily for Palmerston North, Marton', Hawera, and other services —to ' Mount Egmont. There are five different firms running services, and they all start from the Rutland : Hotel in the Avenue. The St. John’s Hill and Mosstowh services also start'on the opposite side of the. Avenue.

It is somewhat early \to start election rumours; nevertheless, it is being stated that Sir Frederic Lang wilT be a candidate at the next General Election. It is known that a surprise was sprung upon him at the last election, and that his supporters were caught napping, holding the. opposing candidate and his supporters too cheaply. But it is ■ a long time, from now till the next General Election, and not much credence can be placed yet upon rumours as to who may or may not he candidates.—.Eltham Argus.

“Dairying and fruit-growing are the principal uses to which the. irrigated laud is put in the Yakima district, but thousands of acres have been •partially, ruined by irrigation coupled with lack of drainage. This matter of drainage is regarded as so important that in bringing in new irrigation areas drains are put in at the same, time as the water channels are constructed.” Mr Jas. Begg, who recently visited the United States, said this in the course of an interview with the Otago Daily Times. He had studied irrigation in view of it s application to parts of Central Otago. There has been sold to America for shipment direct; to New York via Vancouver and San Francisco in November and December some 60,00 boxes of New Zealand butter. The. price for purposes of valuation of this great order may be taken at equal to Is 6d per pound f.0.b., or a toal of, say, £225,000. The butter will bear a duty of 8 cents per pound, or 4d at the par rate of 4.86 dollars to the £1 sterling. But at the present rate of exchange, sa.y 4.36, this duty will be equal to about 5d in English money. In any case the butter cannot be sold wholesale under 2s 2d per pound, and it is quite conceivable that it is retailing at the equivalent of 2s 6d per pound. The power behind: flood water was strikingly demonstrated during the preliminary work at the Mangahao dam during the past winter. To enable the by-pass to be constructed a temporary coffer dam was put in consisting of a huge mass of concrete sheathed with stout sheet iron driven into the river bed by an automatic hammer. The weight of the whole dam was probably 500 tons, yet on three occasions the Mangahao, when in .flood, bent and twisted this great bulk of metal and concrete into a right angle. Viewing the river at its normal level it is almost incredible that it could effect such a result, but the spectator gets an idea of the might of the power that it is proposed to harness and utilise in the service of the community. ,