Shannon News FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1924.

Shannon News, 8 January 1924, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1924.

A new residence is being erected in Ballance Street by Mr Len Ashwin.

Mr E. A. W. Osborne, who has been spending his holidays in the North, returned to Shannon yesterday much benefited by his trip. Tiie usuial fortnightly meeting of the Borough Council will be held this evening when the representative of the Neiisen-Montgomerie .Co. will present a report and estimate! of cost for sewerage for Shannon under their system. ■ A meeting is called for Thursday evening next /at the Council Chamber of -all ladies in't(eirested in the formation of a Croquet Club in Shannon. Members of the Bowling Club are also invited to attend.

During the past hveek accommodation in Shannon has bieen difficult to obtain, mainly owing to the large number of men passing through returning to the works which will be in lull swing again by the (10th.

The work of installing the' electric light in the residences in Shannon is now being pushed ahead. Five electricians, who are in the employ of the contractors,, Messrs Wall Bros., have arrived to assist in carrying out thei wo.rk.

There is. becoming quite a settlement at Man pH ore, three '.more permanent residences being now in course of jerection and *when completed will make fourteen permanent residences .with those already erected.

’Arrangements are well in hand for the dance to be held in the Druids' 1 Hall on Friday night a ext in aid of Mr Jack Turoa, who was severely injured in ,a motor cycle accident some time ago and who will be unable to work for some tiarme to come. Mr Turoa is a married man with a family depending on him and i a,s his case is a most deserving one we feel sure there will bi a ready response to assist ihim in his. hour of need. A correspondent wants to know ‘‘when the Installation of the lighting will he made in Shannon, by the Hiorowhenim Power Board. We were promised the lights for Christmas,” die isays, “but up to the present practically little has been done in making a start and he considers it. unfair that the deposits should have to ihe paid and then, wait about nine months before the work is completed.”

A general meeting of members of the Shannon Boxing Association will -be be\J. in the Council .Ghaonroeirs on Friday evening, when* important business will be deal with.

The Inglewood correspond, nt of the Taranaki' Herald writes as follows to his journal: “During the holidays several ex-Hnylewood residents have been > niung the town. Included in these 1 was gJad i ) notice Mr Ken Henry. In pre-war days he w.is a bright and active young man. Then he heard the call and ,donned khaki, but like a good -many others found misfortune and returned home minus the right arm. Like .many others he makes light of his affliction, and on the bowling green (extract 8 a lot of pleasure from the ,gam{a, : although handicapped. . He

was one of the Passchendaiele heroes, and lias overcome his disabilities so well that he ,is clerk in the Public Works Department at Shannon. It is cultivating the acquaintance ol; meh like Ken Henry that make s one feel contented with his lot. We who suffer no handicaps rarely give a thought to the other chap who is do,w|a with misfortune. Ken left for Shannon this morning, carrying (With hint the best wishes of Inglewood friends for the future.” All judicial humour, happily, is not retrospective. While some judges dig up from the past, others are. busy extracting it from the present. A little whole ago, in (the Vacation Court, London, it was stated before Mr’ Justice McCardie, that a company was to run a revue named “King Tu Tut-Tut.” Mr Justice McCardie. rubbed his brow. “What does Tut-Tut’ mean?” he inquired. “It is an expression.,” replied counsel, “used on the golf links when a man misses his drive.” “You mean when the clergy are present,” suggested the jvc.ge, amid laughter.—Exchange. An instance of the results which can be obtained from some of the Poverty Bay land was related to a Herald Representative by a farmer who prides himself upon living one of the most heavily stocked properties in the district. This gentleman has a farm of 36Q acres upon Which he wintered 1208 breeding ewes, 870 lambs; and 40 head of cattle and horses, the whole of which were fed solely on grass, this working out at an equivalent of ten -sheep to the acre. In addition to having sufficient feed for this number of stock, a contract has now been let for the cutting of 60 acres of grass for seed.

Three hundred motor Cars an,d motor vehicles were parked at the Foxton seaside on New Year’s Day.

The Centre. Bowling Tournament at Palmerston was won by Needham’s rink, who beat Crump’s rink in the semi-final by. 17 to 15, and then beat Corbridge’s (Manawatu) rink in the final by 16 to 14. Corbridge (bea-t Ramsay’s rink in the other semi-final by 25 to 13.

With last Saturday night’s issue, the old-established Wairoa Bell and Advertiser ceased publication, having become incorporated with the North Auckland Times. The editor ,and proprietor, Mr Arthur J. Stallworthy, who has been, at the helm for over a quarter of" a century, enters upon a welldeserved holiday. The proprietors' of the amalgamated papers ar© Messrs C. S. Rush and Co., Bagnall.

Sellers of fireworks now come under the Arms Act, and. according to the Oamaru Mail, it is expected that quite a number of prosecutions will take place in Oamaru after the holidays, since a number of shopkeepers known to have been selling the class of firework known as a “bomb” or “Lunger” have failed to register with the police. Simultaneous action iB being taken by the. police, all over the Dominion.

Although it was far from unusual a lew weeks ago to hear peopie saying that commercial houses were finding trade rather slack, the retailors throughout the Dominion appear -to have done .very good business indeed durihg this holiday season. The postal and telegraph business is not a bad index of the community’s spending power, and it indicates this seaons something like a record.—Christchurch Press.

Mr Donald Poison, D. 5.0., prior to leaving Nelson as a captain in the Fifth New Zealand Contingent, for South Africa in 1900, was presented by the townspeople with a pan' of field glasses, inscribed with his name and address.. After the close of the war the field glasses, with other property were .stolen. Recently, however Mr Poison received a communication from the South African police authorities stating that, following a grass fire, a pair of field glasses nad been found on. the veldt, and wouid be forwarded in due course.

In the, course of his remarks at the concert last night, the Rev. Fielden Taylor frankly confessed that some of "his hoys had been attracted without an invitation to a local orchard. “I know they are not much yet because 1 tasted one myself,” said the Missioner, who amidst loud laughter produced a tiny green apple from 'his pocket as an exhibit in the Case. Incidentally he paid ,a tribute to the forbearance of the police, when dealing with them. “We are always in trouble, vO'Ui know, and they iare awfully decent about it,” he added. The receding of the waters of the Niagara River has made it necessity for the Queen Victoria Park ( cf mission tO' extend its scenic tunnel under the. falls, a distance of 150 feet. Orders for this work are being called now. an'd the job will be done during the month of December. At the present time the last porthole on the tunnel at Table Rock is just at the edge of the falls. The waterfall at this point is small, iso that the visitors do not realise the volume of water flowing over the falls. Wicb the extension of the tunnel, t’ne last porthole, which will make the tunnel an additional 180 feet hi length, will ho under the centre of the waterfall. On page 2 Howard Andrew, Ltd., have a replace advt. referring to. the wanlp of the New Year. 1

A New Zealander now travelling in England writes to ;-« friend in New Plymouth: “I have hr on at sey eral big functions at which l have enjoyed listening to speeches f rooi such distinguished men as Mr Austen Chamberlain, the Dukes of Devonshire and Northumberland, Mr Avery, the First Lord of the Admiralty, as well as representatives at <he Conference of tne Dominions. Mr M.tssay shapes uncommonly well amongst them.. He Is most fluent, and his sturdy imperialism gets him a warm welcome, everywhere. I am pleased v'nh. his. general manner, too, and »ote hiru a i-iac-tised hand at after-cllnner oratory and advocacy of the needs and claims of the overseas people.'’ Mr J. F. Robieson, of the Dunedin office of the Tourist Department, recently made an interesting discovery While, on a visit, tjo. Hooper’s Inlet, Mr Robieson unearthed a number iof ancient Maori relics, which are believed to be associated with the early moEuhunters (reports the jTimes). Underneath a stratum containing the leg hones of one of the smaller species of. mtoa, Mr Robieson found a greenstone adze. The relics were evidently the remains of an. ancient Maori camp. About 30 years ago the late Mr Augustus Hamilton, while working with Mr (now Sir .Frederick) Chapman at the. mouth of the Shag River, unearthed a piece of polished greenstone in similar circumstances, and that And has since been confirmed by Mr David Teviotdale. Mr Robieson’s find further confirms these earlier discoveries, and proves that the ancient. moa-hunter s were aware of the. remote localities in Which greenstone is found.

Ratana’s secretary, in conversation with a Wanganui pressman, stated that the Christmas gathering this year was the. most successful ever held at Ratana’s village. The attendance Avas approximately 3000, coming from as far south as the Bluff. The organisation was all that could be-, desired, and all spent a happy and instructive time. . There were many inspiring addresses, including some by Ratania, and it is predicted that these will be productive of much good. In addition to a local orchestra., Avhich comprises about 90 there were other visiting bands at the P a » so th£ lentertainmenft side was not neglected. One , patient, who came from Rotorua, was carried in from the railway station, and left apparently fully cured. Ratana received a letter from a resident in Holland a few days ago appealing, for his prayers and spiritual intervention. The gathering concluded on Wednesday. Ratana.’s Avork now -extends to Europeans, and several -who sought his aid during the year are reported to have materially benefited. The “Wairarapa Age” relates details of an accident attended by very serious results which occurred after midnight on Monday at Martinborough. Two young men named Percy George and Alexander Wills were returning from the direction of Carterton when they met another cycle ridden by a youth named Knutson, of Dyerville, who had as a passenger a schoolboy named Roy Prentice. There were no witnesses of the mishap, and nothing Avas known of it until some hours later, when the four victims were found lying on the road, all badly injured. Young Prentice had a thigh broken and an elbow badly injured. Knutson had a toe pulled off and the. s»e of the foot badly lacerated, his shoulder injured and both arms for the time paralysed. Wills received a fracture at the base of the skull. George had one finger , severed,'fh© remainder having to be amputated. All the patients were taken to the Greytown hospital. Wills is in the most serious condition. .

That there is a good demand for New Zealand butter in Australia is demonstrated by the fact that a Wanganui factory has just received a definite order for 100 boxes from the Commonwealth.

“I have dealt with farmers for 30 years, ’ ’ said Mr. W. D. Hunt, at a meeting of the Wairarapa Frozen Meat Company, “and I have never yet met a farmer who told me I was giving too much for the stock he had to sell. It’s not a human thing to do. Even the farmer always wants to sell in the dearest market and buy in the cheapest.”

The distinction between character and reputation was pointed out by Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., -in the Police Court at Auckland. Some men of good reputation, stated Mr. Poynton, had bad characters. On the other hand, some men of good character had, unfortunately, bad reputations. Character was what a man was—reputation was what people thought he was. Mr. A. Rose, the licensee of Tattersail’s Hotel, in Cashel Street, Christchurch, has just completed the purchase of the lease of the premises for nearly twenty years for about £20,000. This is for the lease of the building alone and does not include furniture. The purchase is of considerable interest as indicating the appreciation in Christchurch city property. The price is a record for similar transactions in city hotel property.

“It is well for parents to know,’’ stated the headmaster of a large school in Auckland at a prize-giving ceremony, “that what business men desire most in boys leaving school is not so much a knowledge of book-keeping and office routine as reliability of character, willingness to work, habits of punctual ity, neatness and accuracy, trained intelligence, and, last but not least, courtesy.”

A Masterton man who has resided in South Africa for the past 20 years, stated to a Wairarapa “Age” representative that the progress made in New Zealand towns in the matter of street construction is amazing. There were no footpaths worthy of the name in Johannesburg, he said, except uiose made by private enterprise, cinder paths being the most common. He vas also greatlv impressed by the good condition of the road between Masterton and Kourarau, and thought it surprising that a metal road would stand up to motor traffic in the way it had done.

* A sawmill is working in a pinus insignis plantation a few miles from - Oamaru, and is producing large quantities of timber. The pines ore about 60 yeans <old and some of them cut as much as 70Q feet of timber. A fine example of the ready adaptability of the modern boy to meet the immediate need of the occasion was

given to a motorist on the way to New Plymouth from Stratford recently. On crossing the railway line at Midhurst and rounding the bend in the road, the motorist was confronted by a small boy standing in the middle of the roadway, with outstretched arms in the approved style of constituted authority and on stopping the youngster quietly picked up a box on the roadside, placed it on- one side of the car, and helped himself to a seat on the other. His destination, he said, was a road about a mile and a-half further on, and

in conversation with the driver, it w r as discovered that this was the customary

method of this lad, on his mother’s instructions, of travelling between his home and Midhurst when on the family errands. The man who meets you in the street and asks you to hold his overcoat while he lights his cigarette is to be viewed with suspicion. Two cases of this sort happened in Wellington on Wednesday. In the first instance, a pedestrain was accosted outside the Jewish Club by a man who politely asked him to hold his overcoat while he lit a cigarette.

The stranger calmly threw the garment over the other man’s shoulder, ignited the friendly weed, retrieved the coat and passed on. The obliging pedestrain N subsequently found that £5 was missing from his cash. The other case had similar results.

From time immemorial the. period from December 2oth to January (ith was marked by feasting. Some authorities have maintained that in this respect Germany and Scandinavia excelled the remainder of the world, but this is doubtful, for Britain has always known how to “do itself avcll’’ on such occasions. At all events, to England belongs the honour of having produced in comparatively modern times the greatest Christmas pie on record. It Avas made for Sir Henry Grey in 1770. It contained two bushels of flour, 20lbs of butter, four geese, two turkeys, two rabbits, four wild ducks, tv r o woodcocks, six snipes, four partridges, two neats’ (ox) tongues, two curlews, se\ r eH blackbirds and six pigeons.

Curious rumours (says a London paper of October 12th) are in circulation about the Prince of Wales and Canada.

His Royal Highness is known to tpo very much attached to that country, and he showed in his leave taking how much he regretted that his visit had come to an end. He remarked, however, that he would soon return and prolong his visit as much as possible. This has given rise to much speculation as to whether a change in the Constitution is in contemplation. 'mere are those who seem to foresee great deve-

lopments within the Empire at no great distance of' time, and one of them is the raising of Canada from the status ef a dominion to that of a kingdom.

"Prizes to my mind—-and I speak as an old teacher—are very nnfair. They do not represent the real value of a pupil’s work in the school, and are not a fair indication of ability,” said the Hon. G. M. Thomson, at the vacation ceremony of the Dunedin Technical High School. "For example, the boy or girl who comes from a professor’s home, where (there is available a useful supply of books, has much more chance of winning a prize than the boy or girl who comes from a labouring man’s home. Our certificates may not seem of any value, but I assure you that they are of great value as a recommendation.”

The Ruahines received a good coating of. snow on Christmas night. A southerly gale dispersed most of it before .Boxing mid-day.

A Wanganui farmer expressed the opinion. that California quail were becoming such a nuisance in some parts of the back country that it would be necessary to get them put in the same category as rabbits and shoot them at all times of the year. He said the grass sowing season was fairly close at hand. »!nd that a farmer had enough to contend with without quail eating all the seed.

Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., report that they 'have received cable advice from their London office to the effect that their first consignment of lamb on account of Mr James Craig, Wangaehu, ex s.s. Tainui, has realised 12Id per lb. ex store London, which equals nearly lid in the paddock, New Zealand. Those people who believe that the day of the gig is past would have been surprised had they visited Temuka (says tihe Timaru Post), when the annua.l sports meeting was held. In one street there were 50 gigs lined up on both sides of the. road, and they had all come from the surrounding . districts, which, being flat, are especially suitable for this light kind of vehicle.

The following, appearing in an American paper, will seem strange to New Zealanders: “The growing interest in rabibt breeding in Southern California was reflected in an exceptional showing of these animals at the Los Angeles County Fair. The rabbits had a large tent to themselves, and 700 of them were on display, all the leading! breeds and varieties having generous representation.” It was the day before the gala at Kai Iwi, and some members Qf the dxjecutivie 'had beien busily engaged for some time measuring out and alloting spaces for the various stalls, driving stakes in for boundary marks and clearly labelling them. Well satisfied with their efforts, the working party adjourned for the day, but in the evening one of them took a walk down to see if things generally were all right for 'the morrow, and he found all the pegs missing. A camping party had commandeered them to boil the billy, blissfully ignoring •s@Bd oqj tio sfiutypTßui uiwtd at#