Shannon News TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1924.

Shannon News, 1 July 1924, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1924.

A series' of dances are . being held at Tokomaru.toy the combined' committees, qf the Domain Board and Athletic‘ and Football Clubs for the purpose of raising funds to enable them-to put the Domain iin order. It is their intention to further drain the ground-and re-plough and levei.it.

The leading “star” in the film “Know thy Child,”, to toe screened at tiie MaQriland Theatre on Wednesday evening, is a Dunedin young lady, Miss Vera James, who is recognised as a really clever- film actress. The picture is an Australian stoiry which should appeal to all colonials.

The Robinson, Crusoe Pamomime Co., gave a performance in Shannon on Thursday evening’, ■ when tiie re was a fair attendance. "Miss Winifred La France, as. the principal hoy, and Mr Sinclair filling the .role of dame, performed their parts most creditably. The minor parts were taken w.e1.1 considering the performers were amateurs. ~

The public ef Shannon and district' are looking forward to .the opening of the cabaret on Friday .evening .at the 'Druids’ Hall. There .wiil be splendid'music and already a, rush has'set in to book seats, the price of admission being within the reach of ah; and the success of the venture being assured.

The arrangements are all complete for the.holding of tire, children's aaruie in the Druids’ Hall on Thursday, evening. There is. every indication there will toe a large attendance, judging by -the interest taken toy the little ones; and a most enjoyable evening is promised by the committee to alt wlio attend.. A seripus motor accident occurred in Grey street, Shannon, last evening about 6 o’clock. Mr 1 R. Laughnon, son of Mr G. A. Louglirion, of Palmerston, was driving a oar .along tne street, and it is surmised' took the wrong turning at the comer. The car was capsized and Mr Loughnon was rendered unconscious. He was removed to Nurse Linklater’s hospital, and had nqt regained consciousness this. morning. Another occupant of the car escaped without serious injury.

On Saturday evening Constibale McGregor arrested a man named William Henry Whitla charged with, the theft of ah overcoat from the front of Mrs iL. H. Martin’s drapery shop in BaUance Street.. Accused appeared before Messrs Gunning and Spencer, J.’sP., yesterday informing chai'ged with the offence. He pleaded not guilty, stating he had no recollection of taking the coat'. After the Bench had heard the 'evidence of die: owner and J. Hamilton, the accused was convicted and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour, the Bench stating thieving 1 was becoming far too prevalent in Shan- : non and they were going to severely' punish offenders who come before thorn;.

The green committee conducted' a stall near the Council Chambers on Saturday, which ‘' proved quite successful, oyer £ll toeing raised by trie sale oi produce and holding of competitions. The following are the winners of the various competitions Breakfast, Miss P. Patton; dinner, Mrs Saxon, guessing length of string, 51 feet, correct length 51£ feet; tea., Mr A. E. Morgan; weight of cake, Mr L. Randall, 6lhs 4ozs; IDoulton basin, . Mrs F. King, No. 28; treasure, hunt at Domain, Master Hemmingsen.

The . last of tile five generators lor the power house at Mangaore arrived | at Shannon by special train froui-j Wellington on Eautiuay evening. uftv-, ing to the size of tiie generator, tiie l weight of ‘ wliich is about 25 tons, special: arrangements were made lor its transport, it being conveyed by specially constructed trucks so as to enable it to be taken through the tunnels,. and even then, owing to the height, there .was only a few inches to spare. Men are now busily engaged 'in unloading it on to an oilier truck. It is hoped to get it out to Mangaore on Wednesday, Two large traction engines are to take it out.

The monthly meeting of the Shannon brunch of the N.Z. Farmers’ Union was held in the Council Chambers on Thursday evening, there being only a small attendance of members. The president (Mr R. L. Tippler) presided. Mr G. Marriott, provincial organiser, was present reporting that his canvass of the district lor new members bad proved satisfactory. The secretary, Mr Reid, furnished ’ a report of the conference recently held at Feilding for which he was passed a vote of thanks. A complaint was made by the "president of the filthy state of four cattle trucks which had been (provided by the Railway Department at the local railway station to convey, a consignment of 'cattle to Rotorua. It was decided to write to the Minister of Railways drawing his attention to the matter.

At the. iHawera Winter Show, the Levin Dairy Company was awarded first for best box or factory butter open (95 points), and the gold medal in the open classes (North Island) 280.5 points. .Shannon was first for best box of first assistant’s make. $ ■ A Christchurch 'telegram .states that Ernest James Hawkins,, a school committee secretary, was fined 40s and costs for putting only a penny stamp on a receipt? for £5 given to the Railway Department in connection wjth a school picnic. .. * ■

Miss Vera jyiacmillan, of Tamahere, Waikato, who met with a serious accident on April 23 .while riding in the ladies’ hunting event at the Royal Agricultural Show, has made a remarkable recovery. She is now able to walk, and slie will top. able to leave the hospital in a few days;—Sydney cable. 1

Rev. Oliver Haddon, at Cambridge recently, scored nicely in his reference to Maori customs. He declared that tattooing among Maori women was now almost a thing of the past. The Maori wahines would bear favourable comparison with' their European sisters in the art of making themselves look beautiful. The Maoris were now leaving the tattooing to the pakeha ladies, who did it with powder, rose colouring, etc. Some experiments have recently been carried qut in England to test the comparative merits of slop and dry feeding for both bacon and pork, and the results are very interesting. It was found that under wet feeding it took 4.91 b of food to secure lib live weight increase, as against 51b when dry feeding for both bacon and pork, costs to produce one score (20 lbs dead weight being 12s 9d and 13s sd. For porkers the cost to produce one score dead weight was 9s 3d wet and 9s 6d dry feed.—Exchange. ' In 1899 a Napier business firm went bankrupt, and for 25 years the creditors had ■ considered the bankruptcy and any possible dividends dead and buirled. However; during the period, the estate had received increments, and through the death of an interested party a dividend of 12s 6d in the £ was paid the other day. One firm, which had written off the amount as a had debt in 1908, received a cheque for £3lO, and other creditors have also- benefited.

A body found in the MajnaJwatu river at Foxton on Thursday has been identified as that, of Ernest Stuart Mcßean, a young school teacher recently employed by the Hawkes Bay Board. His story is a pitiful one and serves to emphasise die terrific strain the war had upon the nerves of some of those who went away. The deceased, who was a comparatively young man, was employed by the Hawkes Bay Education Board as a teacher, and had pro-

gressed so well in the profession that he had, not long prior to his death, accepted a position as master of a school in the Gisborne district. His war service, however, played* havoc with his nerves, and he was forced to take, a holiday with his brother in Palmerston. During April he became visibly worse, and when the Anzac Day parade was advertised, Mcßean suffered the hallucination

that he was again at the war, and became very upset, though he attended the service at the Showgrounds on April 25. On the following Sunday. (April 27), the deceased left the house of his brother just after dinner, and though a search was made for him, no trace could be found.

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