Shannon News TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1924.

Shannon News, 26 February 1924, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1924.

Any persons who desine to have alterations or additions made, to the names on the Soldiers' Memorial are asked t.o communicate with the Mayor, or Town Clerk.

AH those who have promised donations to the Soldiers' Memorial Fund and havie jnott ykljt > same are requested to do so, -as by doing so they will facilitate matters as the contract) hjas now Been completed ,and there is a slight, shortage of. funds.

Ratepayers who have not '{.heir rates are notified that Friday. February 29th, is the "last day on ivJiich rates oan be paid without incurring the additional 10 per cent. penalty. The street stall held by tiie Bowling and Croquet Club on Saturday to obtain funds . was most successful, the sum of £ls toeing raised. Mesdaines Murphy, Wjti,tterston and B. Spencer, who were in charge, wish to thank ,all those who donated produce, etc., and the public who so heartily supported them.

At the Council Chambers on Thursday evening a lantern lecture on matters of interest to the farming conv inanity, will be delivered by Mr MeCulloch, instructor of agriculture, for this district, when all llannlers and their sons, are invited by the local branch of the Farmers' Union to attend.

On Sunday evening, Mr Newport, who has been in. business as a draper in Ballance street for the past few Aveeks, was taken suddenly ill and was immediately removed to the Palmerston North Hospital where he expired early next morning. (Deceased is said to have come from Melbourne, and had no relatives in the Dominion. At one time Mr Newport was in business at Rotorua.

Our .attention 'has been drawn to tho danger of young children being allowed to play, unattended by some responsible person, in the pot-holes made by the dredge near the -MiaJigaore stream at the bottom of Sheehan street. Our informant states that some of these pot holes are very deep and full of soft mud and if a small child should 'happen to fall into one of them it would probably be suffocated. He states he has seen quite a number of children of tender years playing aibout them.

In connection with . Thanksgiving services at ''Methodist Church, a flna'l reminder is given for the sale of produce and needlework in aid of church funds, in the Parish Hall to-day, Tuesday afternoon, at 2 o'clock. Admission is free. In the evening at 7 o'clock the sale will continue. A short musical programme has been arranged, and there will be the usual sweets stall and bran rtu!b foir I(h,e j ohiildron. Admission in the evening J ivill bo sixpence. ! Refreshments both l afternoon and evening for those who desire it will be provided.

Mr R. Law, of Te Rohenga, at tho Wellington- wool sales last week realised for his clip as follows :-Six bates hoaiets 19d, 3 bales lambs 18d, 18 do Romiiey ewes 16£; 3 do. pieces IOJd, 10|d and 12id. The Makerua School picnic was held on Fridav in Mr Brown's paddock opposite the sphool, when there was a good attendance 'of children parents and Mends, and a pleasant time was spent by the children in ' lilies, sports, etc. . In the evening a dance was held in the schoolroom, which was largely attended.

The Anglican Ladies' Guild intends holding-another euchre and dance tomorrow evening in 'the Parish 'Han. The last 'one proved to be such an enioyable affair that lovers of dancing and euchre should not miss tomorrow evening's function Ice creams will again be obtainable, and tine usual excellent music has been secured.

The Anglican S#nday School annual picnic was a*eld at Spencer's Bush on Saturday, there being a "•ood gathering of children and parents and. the willing band of helpers made the outing a most enjoyable one. The day was spent in bathing, gamies • and sports, cMery. one having a good time. Tne prize- winners m the sports events were :—Girls : Firsts, Dulcie Pipkard, Dorothy Davis, Irene Sands Pearlie Satherley, clorine Packard:' seconds: >{oan Davis, Mavis SaJtherley Dorothy Hibhell, Dhonda Harding, Beryl Haley. Boys: Firsts: L Merwood Stewart Sponcer, Vincent Pickard, Satherley, Edward Ex ton, Slelwyn Elwoud; seconds, H. Tippler, Oswald Tippler, Arthur Satherley, hiheban Bresnehan and Tippler. The thanksgiving services held in the Methodist Church on Sunday were well attended, the church being almost full at .blotto, servioes. In the morning as usual, there was a large attendance of children, and a duet by two of the children was rendered very nicely. An appropriate address was delivered by the Rev. Mr Boothroyd of Foxton," Worn the text, Ist Chronicles, 29th chapter, verse 14. In the evening Mr J. IT. Roberts also nreadhed a, splendid sermon- from Psalm 126, v-urse 6. That he held the interest of his hearers throughout his discourse was remarked by the close attention, of the congregation from the beginning to the end. Ths singing at boith services was hearty and was thoroughly enjoyed by aH. Altogether one felt it was good to have been there.

At athletics Taranaki (*J7 points) secured the West Coast Centre's banner "defeating Wanganui (78 points). Anglers in the vicinity of the Rangitata (Canterbury) river mouth, last week reported shoals of quinnat about the waters' there. The fish have not been seen -in such numbers for many years. ' One angler landed a thirteen-pounder but failed with two others. There were no" quinnat caught in the river, which was in high flood. Who is the youngest regular volunteer milker in the Dominion. Mawheraiti has an example hard to beat (says an exchange). The three-year-old son of a well-known local farmer milks a heavy-producing cow twice daily. He not only bails up the cow and leg-ropes it, but also feeds and paddocks the animal. They appear to have formed a strong mutual attachment, and it is stated that on one occasion, when the boy was absent through illness, the cow almost ceased yielding milk, although it was in the'middle of the season.

Our local gorse pest has at last found favour with foreign fanciers. One of the Japanese guests from the warships was seen proudly bearing a sprig! of gorse down-the foot path oi Lambton Quay. No doubt it will be secreted' aboard .the ship and carried home to sunny Japan, to be exhibited as a herb peculiar ,to the islam visited. If, 'however, the flower should drop a few of its seeds, the uniqueness of exhibit will quickly disappear as far as Japan is concerned.

A peculiar mishap to -a-'cyclist'hap-pened in Wanganui recently (*ays the Chronicle). He was cycling along Nelson street and had just increased his, speed to take the slight rise into Ingestre street when the front wheel threw up a stone from the road surface which struck the rider's foot and glancing off, jammed itself in the crown of .the front fork. The braking effect was so great that tho bike stopped instantly and the rider shot over the front .wheel and landed some yards ahead on his feet, then quickly turning round was in time to see his bike turning a complete somersault, and was able to catch it in his arms, no, damage being/done, his lamp not even falling off. A wedding notice in a Kiowa (U.S.A.) paper reads: The bride is a woman of wonderful fascination and a remarkable attractiveness, for with a manner as enchanting as the wand, of a siren and a disposition as sweet as the odour of flowers, and a spirit as joyous as the carolling of birds, and a mind as brilliant as the glittering tresses that adorn the brow oi winter, and with a heart as»pure as dew drops trembling in the coronet ol violets, she will make the home ol her husband a paradise of enchantment, where the heaven-tuned harp of marriage shall send forth those strains of felicity that thrill the sense with the rhythmic pulsing of ecstatic rapture. A Wellington gentleman paid a visit to Otaki district and essayed his first attempt at trout fishing, borrowing a friend's rod for the purpose. He caught a few fish, nothing out oi the way in size, and proudly returned to the hotel with them. Here.he unfolded them in front of the proprietor, who gently surprised the amateur by telling him it was just as well the police, had n6t seen them or he would have been liable to a heavy fine for taking small fish. The angler glad to be relieved of the evi- | dencie, told the proprietor, tfo take them away. He did, no doubt chuck ling over the success of his leg pulling' for the trout were each round I?- to 211)8, which make'delicious .rat-, in" and afe well over the prescribed; size No'doubt the guests in the ho- . iel enjoyed the trout for dinner that evening,-and the angler knows better ; now.

The hare menace has. become so acute in' the district surrounding Stratford that organised hare drives are being resorted to.

Mortgages registered in vGisboiue for the. nine months December 31, last totalled £758,727, wh.ijsi mortgages discharged represented £397,658.

Mr Henry Ford, an employee ol the firm of Aulsebrook and Co., Cnrisichurch, last week celebrated the completion of 50 years' service with tne nrm. This is -regarded as a record ol service in Christchurch. The manner in which buyers from Levin, Pohangina, Feilding Wanganui and iiaetihi were- bidding at the Braincepieth gale was an indication that there is plenty of feed for stock in those- districts.---Wairarapa Age. A prominent resident of Brook-sub-(26 miles from Ohristchurch), Mr J-.. R. Drew, has just celebrated his lOOtn birthday. He was born in Wiltshire, where he spent the first sixteen ye a i>> of his life. Mr Drew enjoys good health and takes a keen interest in all current affairs.

"J know, some of you think I'm long-winded," said Councillor F. i. Cooke, in the course of a speech at «. meeting ol the Chnstchurch City Council, "but it is necessary to indulge in repetition in order to drive the arguments, into the minds ol soul of you, whoso minds have been suspended since the age of fourteen years."

An Invercargill motorist was hailed tiie other day by an acquaintance and informed that he had been keeping rats in his car, as he had just seen one jump out (says the "News"). The motorist was surprised, but offered an explanation, which appeared to meet the case. A few days later Hie had occasion to. remove # the iront seat to examine his battery, and .was amazed to find a rat's nest in a sinal. vacant compartment next to the. one enclosing the battery and in the next were nine young rodents! His battery was "bone dry!" \ Amongst! the many novel inventions which theJPrinee of Wales was shown during a visit -to the Middlesex Hospital was a clock which would f go for thousands of years.. It is :s radium clock which registers the nrin utes by means of a piece of radium acting on tvv 0 metal leaves. Close by the clock was a bottle containing two and a-tialf ounces of substance the equivalent ml energy. to 1000 tons of coal.

A chance capture of a carrier pigeon bearing beneath its wing a small packet containing a drug, has led to the revelation .that hundreds of such pigeons each carrying its little consignment of narcotics are being released on the Mexican side of the border at specified times by a smuggling gang, the birds arriving a few hours later at their owner's homes on the American side.

When the Hon. C. J- Parr was at Te Aroha last week a deputation waited upon him with regard to the prevalence of gambling in the town. Captain Rothmham, of the Salvation Army said he was handed only recently, a betting chart from which to select a "double." He knew personally that a local bookmaker had openlv made bets with boys and -ouths. Several others spoke, and asked the Minister t 0 act in some manner to blot out. the bookmaking element.The Minister said that the law was hedged with many difficulties, but he promised, as Minister of Justice, to do something to alleviate matters

Complaint has been made of. the manner in which the.school authorities make changes in school readers without warning. This is stated to cause not only unnecessary expense to parents buf also heavy loss to stationers who often have large stocks of all 'standards of readers left on their hands. An Auckland suburban, stationer stated that the -losses through the changing of reading books nullified all profits on otherschool requisites. If chants were necessary it was suggested that warning should be given to stationers before they were roadie.

A curious claim, that will be received by Scotsmen with mixed emotions was made by one of the visiting Japanese naval men that "Auld Latig Syne" is as much Japanese as it is Scotch. The imitative Japanese have borrowed melodies from the English, Scotch, Irish, French and Germans, and have put their own words to the tunes. In the case of "Auld Lang Syne,'-' however, the translation dhows that some of the spirit of Scotch song has been preserved. The Japanese claimed that the Scotch and Japanese originally were the same race and that the Scotch had preserved the melodv from their old Japanese traditions. It was at the Japanese Language Society's outing that the claim was made. Long ago an examination of ancient Japanese pictures proved that many fairy tales supposed to be of English, Irish and Scotch origin were known and told. and illustrated in Japan at least a thousand years before they were known in the United Kingdom.

In the days or Auld Lang Syne a. New Zealand grown tobacco made its appearance on the market but failed to get a hold on the smoking public. The leaf was alright, but there was something deficient in the curing, and the industry languished and fizzled out. A much more recent attempt to solve the problem resulted in the production of the National Tobacco Co.'brands, now firmly established in the favour of smokers. The secret of this success Is said to be due to the new toasting process which the manufac : 1 turers are now applying to their tobaccos and which has resulted in a mo?t remarkable rmp'rovement in tine smoking quality. The difference between the toasted awl the nontoasted product is as wide as a cooked potato differs in taste from a raw potato. Anv smoker can easily convince himself bv trying just a few pipes of any of the following brands: Overhead. Gold, very mild; Toasted Navv Cut of medium strength; and "> Cutting No. 10 foi' those who prefer a full body.*

The traffic tallies recently taken on lihe niatn roads in the Kairanga Countyf over a period of 14 days ol 2i hours each reveal the interesting information that an average of -Wo , motor driven vehicles passed over Raugitikei line daily, 450 over Foxtoji line, and 305 over Napier road.

A letter received by a Masterton resident from a friend in Scotland stated that he had sold an estate m the Isle of Mull consisting oi 'JOOU acres and including five farms and Ia cottages. The price for the lot was £4500. "It had cost mc £SOO a year,"' he added, "in addition to the rates and super-tax, so that if 1 had given it away I would have been £SOO a year better off." The grandfather had bought the estate for £35,000 uT 1867. The sale means ispensing with, old farm servants, some oi whom hau been 50 years on the estate.

To rise, at 3.30 o'clock every morning and milk 60 cows, repeating the performance in the afternoon, is the task performed by a couple who have, recently leased a farm in the Maneraiti district (sayafcfote Grey Star).* One advantage they have, however, possessed by very few dairy iarme.s, is that the separator is driven by an ■ electric plant. This plant seen in action gives convincing proof ol flu labour-saving . qualities of electricity. For the bridge across Sydney 1 i bour 20 tenders were received. One of the tenders was received in a packing case measuring about Bft by 41t. that required several men to lift and a lorry to move. Inside were a painting of the proposed 'bridge, and volumes".of computations, sketches, and blue prints, whose name was legion. It ,is estimated that the six tenderers spent more than £150,000 in the preparation of their tenders. The bridge will cost about £6,000,000.

An Australian who has just arrived in the Dominion from Sydney told a "Times" reporter yestierday that a new cafe (had just been opened in Sydnev. They had brought out the Savoy "Havana Band from the Savoy Hotel, London, at great cost. Tins was originally- the New York 'Havana Rknd They had also secured the head waiter from the Carlton, London, the chef of another leading London restaurant, wlhile the-waiters also come from large London hostelnes. The syndicate is said to have spent quarter of a million, on the project. Setting his trap to catch weasels, Little Boulder, a ten-year-old Indian boy in Canada was disappointed when he found a little black animal caught in the steel jaws. In disgust he took it to his father. "Hump'" said the noble redskin,. as he sprang on Iris cayuse 'and galloped as fast as he could to the Hudson's Eay company's trading, post There he-traded the skin of the little black animal for a team of horses, a sleiffh a double set of harness, enough provisions to last throughout the winter, and 50 dollars in cash. It was a beautiful specimen of silver black fox.

In pursuance of the decision arrivd at at last meeting of the Horowhenua County Council that members of the Council should make a trip to Wellington for.the purpose ofinspecting the work now being carried out on the Hutt Road with a view to acquiring knowledge which would be of value when the Mam Highways Bill comes into operation, a ■party consisting of Cvs. Monk, Brbadbelt.'Catley, Bryant, Wihyte, and Jensen accompanied by the County Engineer and County Clerk yesterday went to Wellington for that purpose. The party were greatly impressed with the work being done, which is, however of such a nature as to be unnecessary on a purely country road. Five inches of bitumimsed surface is being put down on a 2«t width, the cost per sq. yd. being approximately 10s. The City Council is, moreover, 'fortunate in having an unlimited supply of excellent stone at Ngahauranga, where practically no carting is required. The process was carefully gone into by the party and some valuable data secured, the pai.ty returning to Levin early m the evening. ' '