Shannon News FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1923.

Shannon News, 21 December 1923, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1923.

The iMangahaq works , close down this week lor the Christmas and New Year holidays, resuming again on January 3rd. Already a large number 1 of men have passed through Shannon bound ;for .various destinations to spend their holidays. The many friends of Mr Jack Turoa win he pleased tq hear he has returned to Shannon after having been an inmate of the Palmerston North Hospital lor the past ,six weeks as a result of a motor cycle, accident. Although still weak he is quickly milking a recovery. Christmas business at the Shannon post office h,as (been, exceptionally .neavy during the past week, especially the postman’s deliveries. .The staff have been taxed to their utmost to keep pace with the work. The telegraph work has. also been heavier. On Wednesday at Shannon representatives of ( thia Palmerston. North Hospital B.oard and Mangahao. Medical Association conferred with Dr. Macdonald and Mr Thwaites (chemist) in respect to fixing their remuneration l'or the forthcoming year, as medical officer and chemist to the Mangahao workers. Recommendations were made Which will be submitted to the Hospital Board. Owing jtjo counter attractions on Tuesday evening there was only a small attendance at the general meeting of the Shannon Bowling Club called for the purpose of forming a croquet cluib. It was decided to call another meeting of ladies interested and anembers "of the Club on'Thursday, January 10th. In the meantime it was decided to go on preparing the green.

The following holidays and time ol' closing during the Christmas and New Year weeks will (be. observed hy the grocers, drapers and outfitters of Shannon Christmas Ev,e, close at 10 p.m.; Tuesday and Wednesday, closed all day; Saturday, following close at 5.30 p.m., New Year’s eve,close, at 5.30, Tuesday and Wednesday closed all day, Saturday following! will' ibe observed as the late night. Under the last award of the .’Arbitration Court only one late, night can be observed by business men in any one week. Wiring between Levin and Shannon has been commenced by the Horowhenua Power Board's gangs and already 2.250 chains of wire have been fun, out, besides) 32 Post and-Tele-graph line crossings which were undergroi©ae&

John Patrick O’Connor, a well-1 known iarnier and chairman 01 tn© j school committee at Tinui, was cliarg- | ed in the Masterton Police Court, with i having stoien two sheep, tire property ol David Henry Speedy, a neighbouring’ tanner., Accused reserved his defence, and was committed i.or trial Bail was fixed at £2OO and two sureties ol £IOO. O’Connor was fined £ls on each of two charges of haying in his possession sheepskins without ears.

A big mob of store sheep, some. 250.0 in number, reached Cambridge at the end of last week, after ,being driven from Gisborne. The trip occupied 29 days. The sheep arrived in g°od condition, there being no casualties oh the long journey. The sheep were auctioned by Messrs Dalgety and Co., Litdv at the Cambridge saleyarcts. They were all 2 and 4-tooth wethers and awes, mostly Romney cross. The wethers realised from 245. 6d to 27s 3d, and the ewes brought an average of’ about 24s 3d. “I sold seven cars last week as the direct result of the increased prices of wool,” said a well-known Palmerston garage ‘Proprietor. “A lot oi farmers have been wanting to buy cars for a long time,' hut as money was so "tight’ the . purchases were postponed, hut now that the time has come they are acting quickly. I know one ‘live wire’ salesman who sold close on forty of these cars at the close of ia recent wool sale not many miles from Palmerston North.” A business man has forwarded f’ or publication the following “classic” request which was received by ja storekeeper in Marlborough from a customer in the Sounds. “Wud you plese let me ‘av’ a emty box ’bout a orf ful uv straw, ter make a dog kenel fer a pig.” The recipient of the letter subsequently ascertained that his customer wanted a box and some straw as he desired to send a pig to the Blenheim Show.

A recent visitor to Sydney from this district relates an - amusing incident (says the Waipa Post). He was asked where he came from and replied Te A w amutu. Asked to. .spell it he did - so, whereupon he was asked just where Te Awamutu is situated. He replied, with a smile, that it is thirty miles from Ngaruawahia. Further questioning elicited the information that our town is 22 miles from Wharepuhunga, eight fTom Ngahinepouri; a cloven or so Horn Otorohanga and MaungLataiUltari and upwards of a score from Puketotai’a. This was too much for the seeker alter information, so Hie. talk was. switched to Australian names, among those mentioned being Adjihtoothbong, Biongongolong, Yarragobilly, Nilhmitybelle, Terramungamine, and Eunonyhareenyha. Our Te Awamutu fried was left speechless, but. ’tis said that he will not try any more Maori names on Australians.

A prominent resident of Auckland, Mr H. E. Vaile, who has just returned from Home, has given the Auckland Herald some of his experiences, and

they are mot at all flattering to our representative in London. “New Zealanders get a greait' reception at Home,” he says, “and I cannot see thajfc English hospitality is in any sense inferior to that of tlhe colonies.. “The only place where I was properly snubbed .was at the office of the High Comimissiqner. Sir James Allen • sent a curt message when I presented a letter of introduction, to the effect that he might grant me an audience in about-a week. Needless to say, he was not' troubled. Many visitors have a similar experience. Apart from this, the office seems to ibe run on wrong lines. There should be no social side, because there are several . excellent institutions that devote themselves to the. entertainment of Colonial visitors. The New Zealand representative in London should be a thoroughly-trained business man, who could buy Government supplies and assist business people to promote New Zealand interests—not a professional politician, who cannot, possibly know anything about business, and who hates to be bothered with these common New Zealanders. “For half the money we. could get double the benefit*^ At the meeting of the Horowhenua A. and P, Association committee on

Saturday, the secretary reported that members’ subscriptions were slow coming in although due- notice had been sent-by circular. The committee trulst that members will make early application for tickets which are now in the secretary’s hands, and are obtainable on receipt of the annual subscription.

The Inspector-General of Hospitals, Dr. Valintinne, has authorised a public enquiry into the circumstances under which a patient was recently sent out to. P.N. hospital. The patient was a daughter of Gr. J. J. Bryce, a member of the Kiwitea County Council. She. was sent into the Hospital for an imediate operation, and it is alleged that a member of the medical staff refused to take the case, with the result that .the patient had to be. removed to Feilding, where an imediajte operation was performed at a private hospital in the presence of three doctors.. The. Hospital Board was disinclined to hold an enquiry and the Kiwitea County Council thereupon appealed tq the Inspecto-Gene-ral.

Reporting to the Horowhenua Power Board. on the progress of pole erecting in its district, the Engineer (Mr T. R. Overton) stated yesterday: “No. 1 Gang have completed the. Borough of Foxton .with ibe exception of a few, dressed poles required in Union Street, which are not yet to hand. The Foxton Beach Line has been erected from the Sub-station to a point .about a mile along liady’s Mile Road. The gang was shifted back to complete the swlamp gap of the Shannon-Foxton line between Barber’s and the River. This work has (been done. The Shannon Borough line is now proceeding and 'a distance of about If miles north of Sban r non has been reached. No. 2 Pole Gang was taken off the Otaki line until the holidays were over in order to allow stocks of cross-arm timber to accumulate”

Payouts by Manawatu factories are as. follows: —Tiakitahuna (cheese) Is 6d; Mnawatu-RelianCe (cheese). Is 6d- Ravens, wood (cheese) Is 6d; Wha(butter) Is 6d; New Zealand Farmers’ Hairy Union (butter) Is 6gd; Kairanga (butter and cheese) Is sd; Levin (butter) Is 7d.

The yacht June has been (selected as Otago’s representative in the Sanders Gup race. A special meeting of the directors of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition Company appointed J. Sutherland Ross to the position of president of the forthcoming exhibition. A Press message from Wanganui states that rain this morning prevented play in the tennis match, New South Wales and Wanganui. II the weather .clears play will start at <1 p.m. Prospects are unpromising.. The inter-college cricket match, Wellington v. Wanganui, .was won 'by the local team by nine wickets.

The Horowhenua A. and P. Association has decided to again hold the smoke concert on the first night oi the show as was done last year and the following have been appointed a committee to arrange the programme for it;. Messrs J* McLeavey, G.. H. Bould," F. H. Nicholson, and W. G. Vickers. '

An invitation from the Wairarapa Power Board to the opening function of the Kourarau Hydro-Electric Development plant at Sir Walter Buchanan’s property, “Tupurupuru, on Thursday next, was received by tne Horowhenua Power Board yesterday. In moving that the invitation be,accepted the chairman remarked would not be able to go- himself but would be glad if other members would do- s°-