Shannon News TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1924.

Shannon News, 15 April 1924, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1924.

The fortnightly mooting lo f the Borough Council will be held this evening *

Councillors Butt, Gardner, Muuay, xml Gunning (skip), laiter attending .is a deputation at the Horowhenua iiouncii at Levin an Saturday, pdayeu a rink of Levin .bowlers and were defeated iby 24 tp. 15. At Easter Messrs Whibley, Clayton, Aim and Gunning will visit Nelson and play in the howling tournament being held there, while a rink skipped by Mr E. Spencer will play at Palmerston North.

On Easter Monday night a dance will be held in the Druids Hall by the (Shannon Labour Party. The committee assures us that the arrangements they have made should make the dance one of ,the most enjoyable yet held by them. The contractors lor taking out the blue. gums at the Recreation Grounds have finished, and good progress is being made with the-tile draining, also the cleaning up of the rubbish, Md the appearance of the grounds is jreatly improved. • It has been reported to the police that, while Jhing Lee, the local fruiterer, was at the pictures on Wednesday evening an entry to his shop was effected by some person or persons unknown and the sum Qf £l2O in notes and cheques stolen. The back door of the premises was forced 'by the burglars. The police are making every effort to apprehend the offenders.

The Soldiers’ Memorial Committee wishes it to be made known that ail returned soldiers and next->oi-kin of soldiers are especially invited to attend the unveiling ceremony on Anzac Day at 10.30 a.m. The Foxton Band xvill be in attendance and will supply appropriate music. Mr Clutlia Mackenzie will arrive the evening before, and- be the guest of the town. With a’view to making known the attractions ’of the Shannon district the Mayor has communicated with the Minister of Public Works calling his .attention to the splendid fishing water that could be made of the dam at Mangahao, and suggesting that any wliares in the vicinity should be lelt lor touring, parties. The Minister has replied that he will confer with ins engineers and give his reply later on.

An exciting experience befel - Mr Phil Parr last week while bringing a mob of bullocks from Levin to Shannon. On reaching the top of the Ihakara hill some of the bullocks crowded up on the bank with the result that one jumped over the fence. Mr Parr dismounted from his horse and went into the paddock to drive it back. Immediately the animal saw him it charged at him, he ran to ithe crest of the bank where he tripped and rolled down and the next he knew was the bullock coining down the bank on top of him. On reaching the bottom the bullock went through the fence. Mr Parr in the meantime .gathering himself up and going in the opposite direction. The only injury Mr Parr sustained was a kick on the hack when the beast went over the' top of him. Mr W. H. Gunning notifies in this issue that, in accordance with the Shop Assistants’ Award, his premises will ’be closed from Thursday, night (when a late night will be observed) till Tuesday morning.

Mr Cecil Hiuint, Qf the Waikohe Post Office staff, is spending his holidays with his parents here. The next issue of the “Shannon News” will be published on Thursday on account of the Easter holidays. ‘

Special holiday attractions will be screened .at the local tlieatie lor Easter anil includes a matinee on Saturday afternoon, when the special attraction “The Eleventh Hour” will be screened, the •admission being, adults Is to. all parts, children 6d. Ims should be appreciated by those who do not care to be out at night, anu gives them an opportunity of seeing a really fine picture. We deeply regret to have to announce the death of Edward Victor (Jack); second son of Mr ,and Mrs H. V Hudson, of Shannon, and brother of Mr Darcy Hudson, of Levin, the sad event occurring this morning alter an illness of a week’s duration. The little fellow, Who was six and ahalf years old, was in good health and at school on Monday of last week, but was taken ill on Tuesday, pneumonia developing. Despite every attention and care, he passed away this morning, greatly to the sorrow of all who knew- him, Jack .being a general favourite with his school chums and friends. Mr and Mrs Hudson will have the assurance of very wide and sincere sympathy in the great loss that has befallen them.

The (Shop Assistants’ Awaid recent* ly gazetted contains a new provision in regard to> Easter (holidays. It specilies that in the Wellington district these, shall he Good Friday, Easiei Saturday, and Easter Monday, but m any locality in which any of the above holidays are not customarily observed, it' shall be lawiul lor an employer 'by • agreement .with the Union to substitute another day lor any such holiday not so observed. The award applies to drapers, hoot stores, and fancy goods stores. So far as Shannon was concerned a number oi the retailers affected submitted a proposal to the authorities that Eastei Saturday he not observed and that People’s Day of the Palmerston Show be substituted therefor. This course was agreed to by the Employees’ Union in Wellington, and an. advertisement appears in this issue setting forth the names of the firms 1 who will follow this course.

in tiie course of his address at tiie Jersey demonstration at GamerMye, Mr 11 . E. 13. Watson stated - mat it, was commonly supposed that because a cow gave, say ;cOihs of milk at a milking, she hau that amount of milk in the udder .when she entered tne bail. That was not so. As a matter oi lact, said Mr Watson, from 75 to 80 per cent, of the yield was secreted during the actual milking. At Saturday’s meeting oi the Horowhenua Gounty Council appreciation was expressed of the response by ratepers to the County’s appeal to pay rates before the 31st Marcn. The balance outstanding was already considerably below that of last year, and it was now fioped that these outstanding amounts would be paid before tiie 30th June so that .advantage might be taken of the Government subsidy.

During the hearing oi an application £qr separation wnich came nelore Mr F. K. Hunt in the Magistrate’s Court at Auckland, it was stated foir tihe husband that his wife had taken all his clothes. When he returned home he could not even find , his, trousers. “Well, I paid lor every stitch of his clothes out of my own money. They are my property,” said the wijfe from the witness-box. The Magistrate: Yes; but trousers are no good to you, you know. I think you had better give them back, anyway.” The total Bank charges for the Horowhenua County Council for the past year were stated at Saturday’s meeting of the Gouncil to be only £ll as compared with £351 for the previous year. This amount includes charges for keeping the account, chequebooks, and interest on overdrafts, the saving in the present year being in this latter respect, owing to the more satisfactory manner in which the County rates have been paid, and which have enabled the current expenses of each month to be liquidated out of revenue.

Residents of the Horowhenua County who are Inclined to take a pessimistic view of the roads in the district are sometimes surprised to hear the opinions of people from other parts regarding them. A Waikato motorist who was fin Levin to-day Spoke enthusiastically of the local roads “Your people do not know what they are talking about,” he said. “They Should motor over the Waikato roads where nine inch potholes are the rule and not the. exception. Your roads here .are splendid and taken over all as 'good as anything of their kind in New Zealand.” Mr E. Slevin, the Horowhenua Power Board’s reticulation and canvassing officer for the southern end of tire district arrived in Levin this week and will commence his duties at Otaki on Monday next. Mr Sievin was for some years connected with the National Electrical Engineering Co.’s Hamilton branch and has had wide experience of hydro-electric power in connection with the Central Power Board fin the Waikato. His district will extend from from Otaki to Paekakariki .and during the present week he is touring the district in company with Mr Jack in order to familiarise himself with the country and gain a definite knowledge of local requirements. The question of diseased stock wandering on the roads was brought up by the Horowhenua County Council’s ranger, Mr G. Wattson, at Saturday’s meeting of the Council. He stated that several such animals had lately been running on the Gounty roads and were difficult toi deal with as he did not think it desirable to put them in the pound, with healthy' animals. Such animajs were hard to' find owners for and he would like some instruction from the Council regarding his' duty in the matter. It was agreed that steps should be taken to have such diseased stock destroyed, the ranger being complimented on his action m avoiding risk of infection t-O' healthy anitnhls.

The Rongotea Co-op. Dairy Co. is this year sending all its export butter by motor lorry to Gastlecliff (Wanganui) as its port of export. The Executive Council decided today that Robert Herbert Scott, who was sentenced to death for the murder of a young girl at Makar aka, should suffer the extreme penalty of tiie law. Scott is now at Mount Eden gaol. During his visit to Wellington, the Mayor of Palmerston succeeded in securing Departmental approval to the proposal to give the sailors Qf the Fleet a two-day excursion in Palmerston and district. The Minister of Railways has agreed to the special tram returning on the day following the visit (May Ist), and this will allow of trips to Feilding and Marton lhe Manawatu Racing Club has voted £IOO towards the entertainment fund. A youth who came before the court at New Plymouth on a charge of driving a motor delivery van at an excessive speed, gave evident, signs oi being hard of hearing. This prompted tne Magistrate to comment on tne fact of a person with such a defect being allowed to drive a motor, and he said a time might come when .the defendant would have to depend upon his hearing to get out of trouble. Without desiring to prejudice him m his employment, Mr Mowiem told the boy he ought to mention to his father, for whom he worked, the fact that his deafness was a detriment to him as a motor driver.

Settlers in the Whangainomona district have been placed in woeful plight by the recent floods. In some cases metal roads had just reached farmers who had been years waiting? for them, and backblocks life was becoming a little more endurable. And now the floods and landslips have simply washed the metalled roads into the gullies, and. left many farmers where they were years ago (the Eltham Argus says). It is a heart-breaking trial for many settlers. It is the 'Opinion of some people that the Whangamomona County Council will find it impossible to carry on, the work of reparation being too great for them to attempt.

Owing to the depreciation of the franc and the adverse state of the exchange, members of the crew of the French sloop Aldebaran, now at Lyttelton, will find their stay in New Zealand (rather expensive (says the Lyttelton Times). Their wages work out at 6Q francs a month, and on the present rate of exchange is 73 francs to the £1 sterling, it means that their one month’s wages are equal to less than £l. They admiilt that unless they are granted free passages on the railways many of the ratings will not be able to visit Christchurch. Mr R. C. Stewart, who is in charge of the British and Foreign. .Seamen’s Institute, has made application to the Railway Department for free railway passes. Much regret was expressed in Auckland last Friday when it became known that Miss Evelyn Mabel Wyman, a well-known and highly-es-teemed pianiste, had committed suicide by gas poisoning at her studio. Evelyn Wyman, who was 41 years of age, was the daughter of Mr G. W. Wyman, of Northcote, and she resided at her own house, at. 67 Symonds street. Her body was found by her parents and at the inquest it was stated that no note or other intimation of the reason for her action were left by deceased. The caretaker of the building in which her studio was situated said that he saw her on Thursday afternoon when she seemed to be in her ordinary health, there being nothing unusual in her manner. Miss Wyman, who had been teaching in Auckland for albout 20 years, was a brilliant pianiste and a frequent performer at local concerts. For some years she studied in Germany, taking a degree with honours at the Leipzig Gonserva.torium.

Mr I. Hopkins, the expert on bees, writes to the Auckland Herald as follows: —With regard to- the item on stingiess bees lrom an American source, stingless bees are to be found in different parts of the world, but for commercial purposes they are worthless. Two of tiie best known of the genera, melipona and trigona, are natives of South America, and the largest of them are sometimes cultivated by the natives in a primitive fashion in hollow logs for the little honey they store. Although they are not armed with’a sting they/can bite and worry a person worse than can a stinging bee. Occasionally a colony of stingless bees has been taken from South America and exhibited at shows in the United States, and I have no doubt that was the case in this instance. As for there “being a heavy demand for the bee throughout the country,” that is simply a figment of an inventive American pressman’s brain. No mention of tlhe bees has been made in the American Bee Journ als, all of which I receive monthly, so that it is likely we shall hear no more of the estimable qualities of stingless bees.

The objection mentioned by many small householders to the use of electric .ranges' is that as they give out no heat, extra heaters would have to be kept going to heat the room, whereas with a cpal or wood-burning range, the heat thrown out also warms the room. Speaking to a Chronicle representative this morning Mr Jack, the Horowhenua Power Board’s reticulation officer, explained that the objection was not so serious as appeared at first sight. With the up-to-date electric ranges now coming on to the market and the low price for power charged locally, cooking by electricity would be considerably cheaper than by coal. A fact overlooked by many Was that the coal range was kept going at night after cooking hours mostly for heating purposes, when it cost more than would an electric heater. Taken all round it would pay from a monetary point of view to put in both heater and range, besides giving less work and more general satisfaction. To heat a room 15 by 16 feet, a 1000-watt heater would be required, and- would cost for power l|d per hour. Such a heater would cost from £3 to £4, and a.t the price stated would be considerably less costly to run than would a coal fire. Naturally a smaller room would be still less costly to worm.