Shannon News TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1924.

Shannon News, 15 July 1924, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1924.

, The .Shannon Co-operative Dairy Co, intend paying Is 8d per lb lor butterfat supplied during the month oi June. ‘ Mr C. G. Franks was taken ill on Sunday and'had to. be removed to the Palmerston North hospital, where he .was operated on, the same evening lor appendicitis. He is reported to he progressing favourably.*' me friends in Shannon of Mr •W. Berquist, who resided here io.r some time, but is now, a resident ol •Te Puke; will be. sorry to learn he is at present in hospital seriously .ill with pneumonia. At the School Committee meeting Mr Voysey, .the headmaster, reporteu that the number ol children on the school roll was 260 and there . had been an average attendance of 322, which was very satisfactory. The good attendance he attributed mainly to the improvement carried out in the scliooigrouhds, the grounds now being dry. At the Borough Council meeting the Mayor stated he had had a talk with Mr Monk' .regarding the Council's! position in respect to the Highwayl Board and he had advised that the Council get in communication with Mr Furkert, Engineer-in-Chief of the Public Works Department, as to what support they would get .as a borough, it .was decided that Mr Furkert he written to on 'the. matter.

As previously advertised, the usual fortnightly euchre and dance arranged by the Ven. Bede’s ladies, will be held this evening in’ the 'Parish Hall,, commencing at 7.30 p.m. Dancing will commence at 10 p.m. when a first rate floor and excellent music will charm away, a few; delightful (hours. A supper of home-made calces and sandwiches with delicious tea and coffee, will be supplied by the ladies’ committee. ,

With a, view to cutting up his property at Makerua Mr H, Akers now ‘has several teams engaged in ploughing that portion of the property which is not ; carrying flax, preparatory to putting it down in grass. ‘To give access to the block Mr Akers is having a road constructed to the Poplar mill, 'while Mr Seifert’s road above the Makerua railway station will alsoi be another outlet.. At the last Chamber of Commerce meeting Mr Gunning pointed out the convenience it would he to Tokomaru residents if they could obtain telephone communications with the /local doctor on Sundays and as a result Mr Thwaites was appointed to interview the Postmaster and the doctor to see if some arrangement could be come to. The outcome is that Tokomaru residents will now have direct telephone communication with the doctor on Sundays and between the hours of 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. on week days. Mr Kealey, one of the leading camera men of the Fox Film Co., will arrive in Auckland from America on August? 18th for the purpose' of obtaining a series of pictures of interest of the Dominion. He expects to be in the Dominion for about a month. Messrs Wilkinson and Hyde, the Shannon picture proprietors, have made arrangements for him to spend four days in Shannon, when he will take views of the Mangahao hydro works, the flax industry at Miranui, and also views of the Makerua Drainage Board’s backing scheme. We understand these pictures are to be screened abroad by the Fox Company and such being the case should; be a big advertisement for the Dominion.

A Stratford telegram says it is just announced there that the New Zealand and Australian rights for fourteen years of the De Forest speaking pictures have been secured by Mr W. P. Kirkwood, chairman of directors of Stratford Amusements, Ltd. The first local demonstration is anticipated in about three months.

A prominent legal man in Sydney , arranged lor £SOO worth ol tickets for tlie Melba Grand Opera season There were, several other • bookings oi £*oo each, while bookings totalling £IOO were quite common. “London is the only city hi the world where they do a thing like /that,”' was an Australian woman s comment wnen a policeman held up six streams of traffic in Trafalgar / Square while • the Grand Hotel cat , sedately .crossed the road With a kitten in its mouth. All evmeuoe oi tlie mildness oi the • present winter is given in the early j nesting oi birds. On July 3, in wnat j is generally’ recognised as we depiu , of winter, a blackbird’s nest was ■ iound in Cambiivige, with, young .birds in it. At Hamilton a thrush's nest contained three eggs, though the usual time lor .these turds to lay is midAugust. ‘

inieresting lossus, -onmtjuueuui j.ignHe, iiavu oeeh tUiSCuVtii'tiu ijy a resiacni oi /vuciuaiicli xney ifrd l ' uu Uuta o.x Oil I'Ai'iiict ija.aiix, W.uiOix grew Zealand ui xennuy uujs. xxie iNu'iiii uiago limes says uun mssn xxuua ui me same species, or an ai-iwu species; were touua near uamura ooiiie yeaxis ago,' auu were .sent to me uameroury Museuin. -' Pile great tragedy oi the present caucatiuiiaa. system, said. Dr. J. j. van rier neeuw m an address ux Welling--•urn, was the tact mat most, ox me ennclren were unable to enoose. a vocation. i\ot merely the geiuus, hut, overy cnild had. a calling, ana it was often tne case tnat a man who was a poor politician wouLla inaye niaue a good gardener.. (daughter.) • Stating that there ha-s been a disjunct easing oil oi the building trade, the Auckland-Star records mat liny tenders were received, ironi builders lor the work. oi maicing additions to a residence ,iii a district well outside the’ Greater Auckland area. The job ijuns abd ut=. '£2OQ; and the .man •who got it. liyel iitty miles away iront me place. ‘ “it is' unlair to. ask employees *to return to work alter an exciting. lootball’matcttT’ said Mr H. Grouoner, at the (Palmerston North Retailers’’ Association yesterday, when the meeting was discussing the proposal to close for 'the AH Bilacks match. The chairman: “Will they be too excited to serve?” The meeting thought not,i and decided to bring ( the employees back. At Wellington on Wednesday Magistrate Riddell entered judgment lor tUe plaintiff in a i claim against , a city hotelkeeper • for the loss of belongings while the plaintiff was staying at tne hotel. His Worship remarked that a •notice, was posted hp stating that the licensee would take no responsibility for property lost, but this did not relieve ihim from, liability ‘under the Act. This was one of the risks attached to keeping licensed premises. Strong exception wak taken at the County Council meeting Saturday to the leniency of the lines imposed m case of wandering stock. In one case particularly, where a fine of 5s only was imposed in respect oi a wandering hull, it was pointed out that such fines were totally inadequate to prevent people allowing stock to stray, with the result that the public was not sufficiently protected. Substantial fines were the only interest arid it was regrettable that these were not imposed. The Levin Racing Club has decided to build the new totalisator house by clay labour and will commence oper-. ations within the next fortnight. The' new rail is now: practically completed. With the exception of about 200

yards, Where some of the old posts, which were tob good to • .scrap,'’ were used, the whole, of the posts are concrete, surmounted by a solid 4 x 4 jarrah rail, so that the Club should be relieved froim any anxiety as to replacements in this direction, anyhow during the lifetime o.f the present members. At the, meeting o.f. - the Horowlienua County Council .Saturday Cr. Harkness stated in reierring to; the excellent state of the roads in the County, thai a Wairarapa motorist, had intormea him that they were the best he had travelled on,- on either side of title

range, which he put down to the iact

that the Horn when,ua County was, oui of the many co.unties interested, keeping up adequate maintenance on the roads which had been gazetted Main Highways. He-, Cr. Harkness, was' oi opinion that the roads were kept in tlheir present order by the liberal use of ihe grader and roller and tjhe County would benefit when it came to finding the money for the construction of the Main Highway. Becently,.when the flood waters covered portion of the Shannon-Fox-

ton road, the oar occupied by two Fox ton musicians suddenly stopped 'on the return journey front Shannon. Investigation of the -mechanism fail-

ed to locate the fault. One occupant refused to subject his tootsies,.to a cold immersion and so the two sat in the vehicle and broke the stilly night and tlie monotony with musical selections on the cornet and side drum. As morning dawned the mechafiic gave the handle a turn over and off she went. The cause of the trouble was that the cornetist had 'poshed in the switch accidentally and unknown to the driver, and hence the stoppage ana lonely vigil!—Herald.

A correspondent writes to a contemporaryWe read a lot as to what should be done for the man who bought laud at boom prices in order that his loss might be saved or staved; but no one has yet mustered up any sympathy for the other sections of the community who invested in other classes of property. During the land boom, -shares in almost every class of investment or industrial securities became highly inflated, and millions of pounds were lost by investors when prices , receded with the subsequent depression. The losses on the shares of one company alone, with headquarters in Christ-, church, amount to well over a million pounds. A cruel public will say that they were only gamblers, bent on a speculative rise, and therefore not deserving of help—yet their case is. not dissimilar to- that of many of the farmers who purchased for an immediate gafii

Seldom does the theft; of a motor car .prove 1 beneficial Jo the owner pi the car, but such Is the position in the case of an Oakland car which disappeared from Gore Street anu was found in Harcourt Street, Grey Lynn, Auckland. / The car was not at all damaged, and did not appear to have run very far. More,, important to. the owners;, however, was the fact that although the benzine tank was practically empty when the car was stolen, it was practically tun I when it was recovered. The owners gain on .the whole incident is thus ; nearly eight gallons of benzine. According to a press correspondent, the All Blacks had a rough trip i across the Tasman in "the Ulunaroa, 1 and on the second day eleven oi ) them were cot cases. Naturally, there were some humorous incidents, and much good-natured (banter attached to it all; A five-eighths .from Auckland sat down to dinner on •the second night out—he had done finny well up to this, stage: His order was boiled fowl. It duly .arrived, and, after gazing at it for a‘few seconds, —he was almost \as white as the fowl. _,he departed hurriedly, exclaiming as he .went, “I’ll see you later.” “Oi course uproarious laughter , ensued at our table,” says the Writer, “and we have -not yet discovered whether the five-eighths was talking, to us or to the fowl.”; - *

The good old. Australian game, ‘two up” brings down' upon those. playing it the clutching hand of the law (reports our 1 Sydney correspondent). Seemingly, the ...only way in which to .play it with a lull sense of security is to wait until one gets Into gaol. The story, as' told by a gaol official, of ho.w punishment has been meted out to the prisoners who took part in ‘the recent uprising in Bathhurst gaol throws an interesting and almost humorous sidelight on life behind grim prison walls. The ringleaders, who were sentenced to 28 days’ solitary confinement,, had previously enjoyed special rations and also concessions,'whilih, so the story goes, permitted the men at the week-ends and on holidays to sit about in groups in the exercise yard • and yarn, and even, play poker-and “tw6 up,” with tobacco as the stakes. 'AU these privileges are now. but a memory for .the insurgents. Formerly they were also allowed a safety razor and shaving I material in their cells* .and could gratify their fancy ' for any special style of hair-cut or trim. This little.'concession has also gone. ' The authorities issue a specially printed newspaper for circulation among the • prisoners, and picture shows-and concerts are regularly given, so that there are l worse places than prison so' long as one behaves • himself' When" he gets [there. •'