Shannon News FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1924.

Shannon News, 30 May 1924, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1924.

Tlie Mayer (Mr. Murdoch) is in receipt el an invitation to attend the Manawatu Winter Show and .Smoke concert.

A close holiday will he observed at the local post oilicc on Tuesday, 3rd June, King's Birthday. All mails will close at 7.50 a.m. The telephone exchange will not be open. The many Mends, of Mr and Mrs Ben Sands, of Stoijt .Street, ' will be pleased 'to hear that their little daughter, who had to ibe taken to the Palmerston Hospital on Wednesday, where she was operated on, is now progressing laviouratoly.

The Yen. Bede’s fbrtnightly euchre and dance will be held in the Parish Hail on Tuesday evening next when a most enjoyable evefting’s fun is promised. The pointy for euchre up to the present will be_ posted at the hall and at least- cine novelty dance will be introduced.

Miss Winnie Pickles, of Shannon, who intended to compete in the violin solo ‘section at the Maria,watu Competitions last week hut was notified that there ’were no other entries in her class, played by request, and illie judge, in commenting- icin' her playing, described it as being' very clever, also stating that she- possessed 'undoubted talent. /

At Tuesday night's meeting ol the Borough Council the Engineer stated that at the next meeting of the Council he would submit a detailed report on tlie waterworks. Tie said the reservoir ’Was norw nearing completion, there only remaining the plastering and roof to put on. The pipes were now laid l rum the- reservoir to the bridge at Mangaure. Ai. the .Maoriland Theatre to-njghi -Mr -Maurice Yancam, wlio is on a walking lour ul the world, will give a shoif lecture on liis 57,000 unite walk around the world. Bootmakers will be interested to know where anil how he has worn out 114 pairs of boots. -Mr Vancain. is -the original Gentleman Uoiljo. lie started without clothes ui‘ money in a newspaper suit to walk around the world lor a wager ol £7OOO. lie carries 10 books ol official recordss of-places visited. Tbe' induction of the Hew Mr l-’ar-' nell as Vicar of the pa.roch.ial district of Shannon took place at Ven. Bede’s Church on Tuesday evening in the presence ul a large eofngrogajtion, many parishioners coming from Tokonnaru. Thu ind'uc)tioh se'rvice, which was most impressive, was conducted by the Ven. Archdeacon A. M. Johnson, ol' ■Wellington,<. assisted by the lii'v. ]•’. S. Ransom, Vicar ol' Peluiie.

When considering the estimates l'or tlu; present year 'the Borough Council were of opinion that a saving dould be effected if they undertook the sanitary inspection 'of the Borough themselves, which duties at present, are .being carried out hy an' inspector of the Health Department. By doing so they would effect a saving of Cld -per year, which is paid to the Department. To ascertain whether this could be done the opinion of .Mr J. T. Martin, solicitor, tior the .Municipal Association, was received, It states that the inspector must, hold a ceiU.ifieate either from the Royal Sanitary Institute or the Sanitary Inspectors’ •Rtjjard, Bond,on. Thd Council were of opinion there Avere nihil capable of performing the duties but. they did not bold the necessary centificafes. It was resolved, on the motion of Cr. Hyde, that if it was possible for Mr Edwards to get the eerjiflcalfe a,s required 'under the limith Act the Council would be pleased for him to undertake the duties. Mr !A. Billons, photographer, of Levin, inserts a notice in this issue in regard to photographing June weddings.

“1 speak my mother .Tongue only ! once a month,” explains Miss MacBuff,' of the China. .Inland Mission, now in New Zealand, “and that is ou the first Sunday of cadi month, when I come into the head station.” In recognition of nts as clerk to the Bangitikei Qounty Couiicil lor over 30 years, Mr 11. 11. BichardsQn has been given a bonus of £oo by the Council and granted two months’ holiday.

One oi the Otago University staff has been in communication with the University ol Geneva, and was pained to receive from that distinguished seat of learning the other day a letter addressed: “University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, U.S.A.”

The municipal year in Palmerston ended most satisfactorily with a surplus of over £SOOO. The Borough Council decided to reduce the general rate by a hall-penny, also to reduce the price of gas 3d per 1000 feet. The electric lighting rate, however, will be raised by Id in the £l. The Wanganui Education Board inis approved of the establishment ol a district high school at Eoxton. At present ~i pupils. leave their homes before 3 a.m. Jor Palmerston and do not get back until nearly 7 p.m.

The lvopularoa East Drainage Board has completed the cleaning out ol the stream from the mouth up, a very satisfactory job having been made. The bottom of the creek lias been dragged, and a. considerable amount ot accumulated growth removed, so that the country in the vicinity'shuuid benefit considerably during the coming winter mouths. Apples from a humorist’s* point of view form tite subject of an article in the current number of the Fruitgrower (states an exchange). The writer points out that apples are horn on trees, spend a large part of their lives in barrels and .are buried in pies. Apples, uni ike melons, are eaten irom. outside in, instead ol from inside out, but sometimes, when green produce an inside-QUit. sensation. The apple is popularly believed to have caused the first fall ol man, but since then the banana, has given it a hard race, with the orange peel a good third.

The ingenuity' of small hoys is never at a loss to produce some, new and exciting sensation with whatever apparatus may he at hand. Ail the equipment needed to create the latest amusement, which probably produces ieolings similar to those oi an aviator when looping the loop, is a wuru-out motor tyre- of a moderately large size. The process could be seen in Liardet street Assays the Taranaki Herald), wnen ii diminutive youth crouched within the lyre and was periorming a series of somersaults as his companion howled it merrily along tho street. ' /

Says the Christchurch Dress: “The White Cross League, lias done useful work in drawing the attention of the community to the cancer of impurity. It is, whatever mistakes it may make, one oi the influences' working for clearer and healthier living by young and old. But we should not count its endorsement of a lecturer a sufficient guarantee of that man’s or woman’s suitabilitv for the most difficult and delicate ‘ilpsk the guardians Id the voting can. undertake. The League has no claim to be the final authority in such a. matter, and we hope the Minister will not jeincourage it to suppose that it has.”