Shannon News FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1924.

Shannon News, 28 March 1924, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1924.

During the past nine days the local police have made ten arrests. A junior football mutch between Sharnion and Moutoa will be held in the Recreation Grounds on Saturday next..

The many Irionds of Mr T. Moynilian, who bus been an inmate of a private hospital in 'Palmerston North for some weeks, will be pleased to hear that lie is coming home at the end of the week. >

The management committee of the Shannon. HnFbu'l I Club in vitas ail players and intending players to meet at the Recreation Grounds on Sunday next for a practice match. A meeting of returned soldiers will be held in the Council Chambers on Saturday evening at 7.30 pan. in connection with arrangements for the unveiling of the Soldiers’ Memorial on An zac Day.

The'Town Clerk has been instructed to again write the Public Works Department asking' for a reply to the Council’s letter re a bridge in Sheehan. street.

A Hum named James William Hobson was arrested at Miranui charged with stealing 'the sum of £5 from Jiis room~ina,t;e. appeared before Messrs Gunning, and Spencer. J.’sP., and was convicted and fined £3, in default .one month’s imprisonment. On Wednesday afternoon there was a big grass and fern fire at Mangaore at the 'back of the pipe line. Late in the evening from Shannon it appeared as though the pipe line was on fire, but on enquiry we learn that such was not the case.

While motoring near Marinoto two local motorists narrowly escaped a serious accident when changing gears. Only the cool-headedness and prompt action of the driver prevented the car from reversing rigid over the ■bank. They® are both of the opinion that an old‘horse is a handy thing to have about when a car wants pulling on to the road again.

At the special meeting of the Borough Council on Wednesday evening Cr. Murray drew the Council’s attention to the fact that nothing further had been done in connection with the ramp on live Shannon-Foxton road near Hie bridge. The Mayor and Cm. Gunning and Murray were appointed to attend (lie next meeting ,of tho Ilorowhenua County Council and bring this important matter under their notice.

On Monday night at about 10.30 o’clock, Constable Shannon arrested in Vogel street a man named James Hamilton lor using obscene language. When arrested he was found to nave in his possession two overcoats which had been reported ia.s having''been stolen from. Mr Hugh East on’s motecar in front of the Maorilaud r l heatre. He appeared before Messrs Spencer mid Gunning, .T.P.’s, oil Tuesday morning and far using obsu-n language he was convicted and lined £5, in default two months’ imprisonment, the Bench intimating this class of offence was becoming far too common and in future, if the fines already being} imposed mere' not a. deterrent, the penalty would he more severe. For the theft, of overcoats the accused wa.s sentenced to one month’s .imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to be cumulative. The Bench remarked that this class of petty thieving was too prevalent and they looked upon the present ease as'n .very mean one.

On Wednesday at Mangaliao Const amo McGregor arrested; on warrant a man named Samuel Paul wanted lor alleged theft at Wellington. Mr . Russell Murray, who has resided in Shannon lor the past two years, lias returned to liis home in Australia.

Mr' Bartholomew, ol the Shannon branch of the Rank of’New' Zealand, has left on his annual leave and is being relieved by Mr W. Bailey, of the bead office, Wellington. A sudden death occurred at Tokoniaru early yesterday morning when the six-months-old daughter of Mrs E. Newport passed away. The child had been in delicate . health since birth and bad only been liome from' .Palmerston North hospital about seven weeks. On Wednesday evening when the mother gave it its bottle it appeared to he well. About three o’clock, when it was tlie custom to give it, another bottle, the mother on "going to attend ft, found that the baby was dead. The usual report has been furnished to the coroner.

A. large quantity of heavy machinery for the Mangaliao hydro-electric works has arrived at the.* local railway station during the week, among which was a large Rotor weighing 25 tons, which is believed, to he the biggest single piece of machinery yet landed in the Dominion. The trucks which conveyed it had to be reinforced at Petone. As there is no crane in the local yards the piece oh machinery had to be handled with jacks and took 4? f hows to unload. To convey it to Mangaore, two largo traction, engines were used and it was not without trouble that it .was landed at its destination .owing to the roads being unable to stand the weight. There are five roto-rs to be handled, three being 25 tons each and two of 18 tons, the latter being already at Mangaore. There arc also to arrive a top and bottom ball' stator weighing 10 tons and 12 tons, besides a large quantity of lighter machinery. The .stator is the fixed part of the nower generator. Within it the rotor, driven by water, revolves, and the friction so caused generates the electricity that ultimately becomes motive power and lighting. ■ Policeman At Birmingham Police Court: I saw tlin defendant’s horse and cart outside a public-house. Defendant: The horse walked from where I left n and stopped outside the public-house. The Magistrate’s Clerk: Well-trained horse; it evidently knew' where it would bo expected to stop.

In reference to, a Press Association message circulated on Monday from Dunedin notifying a fall in chocolates, representatives of the merchants state that the reduction refers only to tablet lines and not to loose chocolates. v A new railway regulation came into operation lust Monday requiring guards to wave a green tlag in addition to blowing a. whistle as a signal to the enginedriver to start the train. This is following a practice on the lines in Great Britain, which wu.s followed in New Zealand many years ago; and then dropped. The flag is a small one, carried in the breast pocket of the guard’s uniform coat. 'At Orongorongo yesterday the Mayor of Wellington (Mr Wright, M.P.) performed tiie ceremony ol turning on the water from Orongorongo stream into the Wainui stream, thus providing ah assured ample water supply for the City of Wellington and suburbs- for many years to come. Many congratulatory speeches were made. Mr Robert Semple, who was the head of the party who carried out the work under the co-operative principle (the price being £6 14s per foot), said the Australian- and New Zealand records had been broken in the matter of speed arid possibly the world’s record. He stated that the cost was £150,000 and payments to the party amounted to £70,000.

The Koputaroa district is looking particularly well now alter the and consequent growth of grass, lliere is a growth reminiscent oi late spring over tiie whole countryside, widen despite the fact that there was a bareness m the paddocks beiorc the rain is now getting away from the stock and should provide an excellent supply of autumn and early winter feea. Tho general opinion amongst dairy tanners in the district is that their returns will be considerably higher this season than last, as despite the low return of the January-February period, there lias been an increase during tho period just. - concluded. With the excellent feed which is now available as compared with -the dried stalks' usually obtaining at this time of the year, the milk-flow should be maintained at a higher level during the coining ■months and prolonged past the usual time. '

A compliment, unique in its character, has been paid to Mr Massey by a Belfast firm oi manufacturing warehousemen (Messrs Hobertson, Ledlic, Ferguson and Co.) who .have issued on fine art paper, a calendar in folder form illustrated with views of Ulster and also depicting Mr Massey’s Ulster visit in a series of eight views, three of which are of Limavady, the New Zealand Premier’s birthplace, including the school where he received his earlier education. The inner almanac sheet carries a descriptive account of Belfast together with nine views of the city. The outer sheet comprises four pages descriptive of “Premier Massey’s Ulster Visit,” the leading features of which are covered in an interesting letter press summary, illustrated by the eight views already referred to. The outer page carries' Mr - Massey’s portrp.it with the inscription underneath ‘‘Our Mr Massey will he with you soon,” and the printed statement that “Speaking at the Ulster Reform Club luncheon the Right Hon. H. M. Pollock referred to Mr Massey as the greatest commercial traveller in the British Empire, one who believed in pushing Empire goods for Empire consumption ; trade within the Empire.” The almanac forjns n.n exceptionally interesting souvenir of Mr Massey’s second visit to hi§ native country.

Sydney ’s tlnoulenod water shortage lias been relieved by continued heavy rains.

For disfiguring the Palmerston footpaths by painting 7 *" large footprints leading to the - Army Citadel, as* a I means ol advertising a. luneliou, a Salvation Army officer was fined £2 and costs at the Palmerston Court on Monday. The Prime Minister stated at Ta.uma run-mi that the value of the exports from New Zealand tor the 11months ended February, was £44,708,926 which was a tremendous total tor’ a small country. The total value for the year, he said, would be almost fifty millions. In acclimatisation circles there is considerable interest in regard to the prospect of quinnat salmon mailing a run in the Wanganui and adjacent rivers. Recently at the mouth of the ltangitikei river quinnat salmon could ho seen playing about, and it is l;c> lieved that fish have also entered the Wanganui, although definite proof on that point is being eagerly awaited. No news lias yet been received in official circles in regard to the successor to Lord JelliCoe .as GuvornorGeuei'ui of New Zealand. In reply to a query, the Prme Minister said Unit be had heard nothing in regard tithe next appointment. As a rule the i'l-'inior was consulted, and he expected that that course would he adopted os usual. “What did the doctor tell you?’’ asked the opposing counsel of a wh ness in a compensation case heard .

ihc Arbitration Court, at Palmerston. “He told me I had chronic gastritis, chronic appendicitis, and chronic rheumatism,’’ stated the witness .“And what else?” queried counsel. “He said I was in liis opinion a general break-up,” was the astounding? reply. The possibilities of the district from a potato growing point of view are well demonstrated in the crop pro diiced this season by Mr F. lirtuch, of Heatherlea. From an area of 12 acres, a crop of fl ions to the acre were produced, of which seven tons to the acre were table size. The result is (he more satisfactory in that this is the fourth successive' year in which potatoes have been grown on the same- plot. *- la these economical times, to be the father of a numerous family is not the fashion, but lieue and there are exceptions. One of these men was present at a meeting of parents regarding the overcrowding of Addington School, says the Christchurch Sun. “I have always had five children at tlue school.” he said, “for tho-last four, five, dr sixyears there have been five.- When one has left there lias been another to start. Goodness knows how many more there will bo!” A later speaker suggested that perhaps the' overcrowding would be itdioyitul if mr. wont" out of the district.*-'?!:'.

The 'value of green-manuring, which unaccountably does not receive • the attention it should from farmers, is well exemplified in the case of a crop of potatoes grown on the property oi Mr F. Ertuch, at Heatherlea. Here a crop of eleven tons to the acre was produced, the only artificial manure used being four cwt. of a two-to-one mixture of blood and hone manure and super to the acre. Before the planting, however, a crop of oats had been grown and ploughed in. That this green manuring was responsible for the result achieved was demonstrated in another paddock of potatoes grown by the same farmer, but which did not receive this treatment and which returned a yield of barely half that of the first. How far is the common hawk the friend or enemy of the farmer? .(asks the New Zealand Herald). One of the latter, living no great distance from Putaruru, is now asking himself that question. The raising of young turkeys is one of the lesser industries oi his farm, but a turkey egg is a delicacy which a hawk cannot resist, and cunning indeed is the turkey hen that can hide her nest from the thief in the air. ’ This particular farmer saw no prospect of an increased flock unless he caught the thieves, so he made a decoy nest in the clover and round it set rabbit traps, covering them with rushes or straw. In this way he trapped some 200 hawks, but by. then it had- occurred to him to inquire more fully into the matter of what hawks livcq on when turkey eggs were not to be found. Of seven further hawks which he caught, two had empty, digestive systems, two had what was*to all appearances undigested rabbit fur, a fifth had rabbit fur and skylarks feathers, a sixth had apparently dined exclusively ,on skylarks, while the last examined, besides the feathers and beak, had unmistakably a quantity of skylark eggshell. Personal magnetism, that elusive quality said to he a sure key to success in business or other undertakings, may prove to be a handicap in some- other ways, according to the story told to a Greymouth Star reporter by a watchmaker. A Greymouth resident, he said, purchased a tenguinea watch from another firm in the town, but found that he could not denend nnon.it to keep going. As he said, “the watch went when he went,” Six or seven tries by the firm who sold the watch failed to locate any defect, and it kept running all right while in their possession. In despair, the owner of the, troublesome timepiece took it to the watchmaker referred to. He examined it closely for a few days, and it did not adopt the go-slow nolicyijLpnce. So he returned it to the ovSrer again. Half an hour afterwards the watch was returned by a disgusted man—stopped. The watchmaker restarted it, lwt. shortly after the owner put it in his pocket, it again went on strike. The secret, dawned upon the matchmaker. The magnetism in the owner’s body was sufficient to affect the watch, and that accounted for its-stopping. Such cases were very rare, he said, and he had previously never met one. The only thing for the magnetic man to do was to secure a non-magnetic watch. One of these was shown to the reporter, and had the words “non magnetic lever” stamped upon the dial

It is anticipated that some of t£o County Councils will close the roads to heavy traffic from the first of May for four or five months. Herbert Francis V. Miller, fanner, of Foxton has been'adjudged a bankrupt while a petition in bankruptcy has been filed at the D.O.A.’s office by Phillip James Hamilton, of Levin. , The blight that is ravaging the blue gum plantations in the Waipukurau ‘district is attacking the native bush in. Wanganui, the ngaio being particularly susceptible to it, says the Press. Following on a letter which Pat Hunan, the Australasian sculling champion, has received from Mr Ilornblow, Mayor of Uargaville, there is a possibility ot the forthcoming match, between Hunan and Dick At ml being rowed, on the Northern Wairoa river.