Shannon News TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1924.

Shannon News, 19 February 1924, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1924.

With liis usual generosity, Mr Chong Pok, our well known fruiterer, donated a tin of lollies for the scramble at the school picnic on Saturday.

Good progress is being made with the banking ol' the Otauru Stream at Shannon. The work up to the railway will be completed about the end cf ttie month, alter which the dredge will proceed to the Tokomaru. At. Jo-nigiht’s Borough .Council meeting the committee set up by. the Executive of th)e. Domain- Carnival Fund will present to the Council their estimate ol the cost lor tile draining the Domain, ploughing', discing, lolling and sowing same and for lopping and extracting the gum trees. The many friends of Mr T. Moynihan, who. underwent an operation in a priv'alje hospital at 'Palmerston North, qn Saturday morning, will be pleased j.o hear he came through it alright and is now doing as well us can be expected.

With the object -of raising funds Uhe Shannon Bowling and Croquet Club will run a stall on Saturday next near the Council Chambers, where cakes, fruit, produce, etc., will be on sale. Bowlers and crouqet players are asked to roll up and support the stall, thereby ’helping their club. Keen competition was aroused at the school sports at Pliminerton on Saturday, for the handsome salad bowl and servers so liberally donated by Mr S. Steer, of Miranui. ,The race was run in two heats in each of which' there was a large number of competitors. Master James Ewart being I*l6 winner.

Oin Friday aftjernoon at Buckley, Mrs W. Easton entertained a number of bandsmen belonging to the Queen Alexandra’s Own, Band, Wanganui, which was so successful at the contest at Palmerston North last week. Among the party was a cousin of Mrs Easton’s, Mr C. Humphreys, who has been playing in different bands in Wanganui for the past twenty years. The following particulars of the rainfall in Shannon will be of interest. On Tuesday the 12th, two inches of rain fell, the largest riecord in Shannon since the records started i October, 1919.“ On Saturday, the 12th. 1.11 inches fell and on Sunday 17fch 1.24 inches, while on Monday at 6 p.in. the gauge stood at .84, giving a total of 3.19 inches for less than 48 (hours. While unloading pipes at the railway station yesterday afternoon Mr Bob Nleale, foreman ior Mr C. C. Franks, met with a painful accident owing to a pipe rolling and jambing one of his fingers, laying it open, to the hone, and necessitating medical attention.

As announced on page 1, Howard Andrew’s Ltd., gigantic clearance sale ends in 2 days’ time. The sale has been unique in the history of Shannon, and doubtless their numerous clients in Shannon ;and district will take advantage of the two more days.

,T3ie Shannon Cooperative Dairy Co. are paying out Is 8d per lb tor butterfat supplied during January.

,The No. 2. dredge is now well up. the Tokomaru and will shortly be starting? the banking in the vicinity of Makerua.

The failure to keep an alleged promise to marry resulted in the ag-, grieved lady horsewhipping the mail concerned, a well-known, resident ot Masterton.

A wreath of pothutakawa blossom, brozen in a block of ice, is to be shipped to London to be placed at the base of the cenotaph in Whitehall on Anzac Day on behalf of the Mothers Union of Auckland. <

Eleven electrical engineering firms have tendered for connecting the two Foxton blocks with electrical connections. The Power Board, at Tuesday s meeting, will make a decision. We are informed that no time .will be lost in completing the installation in. readiness for the supply, which will be turned on about June or July. The -white pine (kahikatea) of tlie Auckland provincial district has been tested by the State Forest Sbrvmo and .found to be a suitr. r .> maternal fo; the manufacture ot wooden mulches.

Something of a record was made by a farmer who lives about nine miles from Timaru (South Canurbury). hen days after he cut his crop of wiieat, in had the money fiom tiie sale. of it m his pocket, the g.iun having been dc livered to a mere..ant and i 'id ; or.

While a mob of steers weio conui'! down "Gentle Annie,” near Upokongaro, they were joined by a stag. Vin. stag kept with the cattle all day, spent the night with them at as accommodation paddock, and was still keeping •company when destination was reached at Fordell—Wanganui Chronicle. A Tauranga resident, Mr. G. Crosloy, who takes a keen and practical into:os. in horticulture, has achieved excellent results with a crop of Up-to-date potatoes. These were planted eight weeks ago, which is considered late for Tauranga district, and new potatoes arc now being dug. The crop is a heavy one. The tubers are well matured and are absolutely free of blight. The experiment shows that in a fairly dry season potatoes planted late in Novembe. or early in December escape blight and return a good yield. A method of dealing with ratstail, which has proved a pest is the north is given by Mr. B. Martin Grubb, of Port Albert. Katstail has taken possession of great areas of good limestone country, and chokies out the finer grasses. Mr. Grubb writes: "The great discovery has been to burn off the ratstail and then sow clover, with a liberal topdressing. You get a real fine pasture. This will apply to all the ratstail lands in the north, but we did not know it until this season. I think wia could milk 100 cows for six months of the year where we have 47 at present. Two months ago the cattle were not able to keep down the grass and clover. ” A recent effort to dwarf the origin mark "Made in Germany” brought the following from the London Morning Post:—'This all too familiar expression "Made in Germany,” to which can, in part be traced to much of the appears m a slignily varied form. The words which meet the eye of the casual purchaser arc "Designed in England;” in smaller print below appears, for those who look for it, "Made in Germany.” By way of comment it might cause of our unemployment to-day, now' truthfully b’e added that unemployment is "designed” in England and "made” in Germany.