Shannon News TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1924.

Shannon News, 29 July 1924, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1924.

A meeting oj. ladies inteAsted in farewelling Mr #nd Mrs Murphy will be held next Thursday. A large contingent ol enthusiasts from Shannon journeyed to PaJmerslon North on Saturday to witness Uv Ail Blacks play. The usual .Veil. Bede’s iortrlightly eucliro and dance will be held in tine Parish Hail this evening, when all who enjoy a game ol cards and a dance should not. miss being present. The Parish Hall lias been booked lor Tuesday evening, August sth, lor tire purpose ol farewelling Mr abu Mrs G. Murphy. Arrangements are. now-being made lor holuing the -function on that date. In tilts issue Miss 'Mona Neale am nouncds that she will resume teaching to-morrow (Wednesday). Sit© also notifies pupils who are in the orchestra lor the Foxton concert to attend orchestra practice to-morrow evening at 7 o’clock, ail pupils to bring their own instrument.

x lie ..average payment, lor butte rf at suppiieu to! me Summon co-operauve, uairy Go., tor tbe past season ending June 30th. was 1/6.79. The company intend paying a bonus 'ol l|u at an early date which. will bring the total payment tor the past season up to is 8 1-I6d. This is the highest payout lor the past season of any dairy factory in this district, for Which its suppiiers should ieei grateful. A meeting ol the U.A.O.D. was held at Foxton last Friday night when there was a large muster ol members, about thirteen journeying Irom Shannon. Tire grand secretary and grand treasurer Lom Wellington were present. The rand Secretary gave a very interesting address on Druidism,. The D.P., \sro. J. Crowther, ot Shannon, installed the officers in tiie various offices iof. the ensuing term. .The Foxton Lodge entertained . the visitors to. refreshments in a hospitable manner.

As an outcome of the recent competition with Levin, a choral society is to be formed in A committee lias been set up to go into, the matter. In the Palmerston North Hospital the number oi patients is more liuu. double what it was in 1913-14. That year 915 patients received treatment, whilp in 1923-24 the number was 1906.

The Horowhenua Jersey Club lias decided to hoid a sale oi pedigree Jersey stock early in September. The Club has now got a • membership of over 50, # that a large entry is expected ior the forthcoming sale.

An Invercargill mercer who had been puzzled to account ior tne nonarnvui oi a case containing Handkerchiefs and piece goods has received a letter irom the agent explaining the mystery. The letter stated that the case arrived by a recent steamer, completely and thoroughly pillaged. It should have contained, among other things, 85 dozen handkerchiefs. There was not a handkerchief or an article of any kind left in it. It is not often that the'pillaging is carried to such a stage.

An eyent without parallel in the history of Freemasonry is the fact that lo.ur members of the Royal Fain-, ily now hold high Masonic office. The Duke oi Connaught is Grand Master oi England, the Prince oi Wales is Provincial Grand Master oi Surrey, the Duke of .York for Middlesex, .and Prince Arthur of Connaught for Berkshire. The Royal Family has been prominently associated with Freemasonry ever since jhe eldest son of George II became tl}e first Prince of Wales to become a member ol the Craft in 1737. Since that time the number of Royal Dukes and Princes who have become Freemasons is considerable, and include, besides our present King, two other of our Sovereigns. ■ ’

The Feilding Fire Brigade has retained the .Coley Billiards Shield against Foxton, the challengers, the scores ‘ being; Feilding 197, Foxton 158. “Minis man is N.ew Zealand’s champion bricKlayer. He can lay Abu wricks per day, and can earn unytimironi ill* to- ±ll4 per week,” said the mam usance ofiicer (Mr Campbell) ui n.e roiuw Court in Auckland. Parting in England 65 years ago, uvu hrouiei’s immediately recognised each other when they met recently on uie Wellington where One, who is ageu 84, .had made a trip from America to New Zealand to visit- the other, who is .aged 86. ' An Asiiourton farmer in his bankruptcy statement, included the folio wing i.oi.e : —“one year 1 purenased stock at 41s ?d per heard and som Them six months later at 16/6. I am now working lor wages looking alter uie property. 1 have no expectations. I am married and have lour children, .the eldest being 14 years of age,” Amongst the items ol estimated expenditure disclosed by the Financial statement are the iollowiug : —Waikino tragedy, payments to head-teacher and pupils to cover loss of salary medical and other expenses, £500.; co-operalive field experiments, Department oi Agriculture, £1000; refund oi duty on Flanders poppies, £1748.

In the House of Representatives Mr J. Linklater, M.P., gave notice oi ms intention to ask wnetiier in view oi tne excellent results obtained from the testing of cows throughout the Dominion and the increased production' oi butterfat received from the dairying lands by the activities of head testing associations, the Government will take immediate steps to lower the excessive -freights charged o)n sulphuric acid on the New Zealand railways.

A professional skater in Palmerston North i-s endeavouring to skate continuously lor 48 hours, the New Zealand record. Recently...a Wellington pianist claimed to have established a world’s record by playing without intermission for over 100 hours. Strangely enough, one never hears ol persons anxious, to put up records chopping wood,, shovelling gravel or similar useful occupations.

An amusing l incident was witnessed on the Palmerston railway station on Wednesday morning, says the Standard. A telegraph messenger was endeavouring to locate the addressee of a telegram and a new arrival to the country beckoned to. him. The boy, after a few minutes’ endeavour to understand the immigrant’s dialect, gave up the attempt, and, turning to a companion, remarked in a disgusted tone: “It’s no use, they can’t speak English.”

A director of a dairy company m the Wanganui district recently stated that at present the country was overstocked with dairy cattle and the price was accordingly, kept dowii. He believed that had it not been for the fact that this class of cattle was difficult to sell, many dairy farmers to-day would have turned their attention to sheep. The position was that having bought cows at a high price, say, up to £l4 they did not Care to sacrifice them- at hall' or less that, figure. In second-class herds cows were being sold from 80s to £5. Countrymen, yet unable to converse in their native tongue! in conversation with Mr John C. Young, of the Maoawatu Football Association, who met the Chinese footballers in. Wellington, a /Manawatu Times representative! was interested to learn that the visitors dO ! not gp-eak to each other in Chinese, because one cannot understand the ’talk of the other! To the man from the North the Southern Chinaman’s dialect is as a foreign language, and consequently English is used as a common medium which latter is absolutely essential. Peculiarly, enough, the footballers can yet understand Uie other’s dialect when it is written.

“A Country Council has no morals,” declared Councillor • Smyth at the meeting oi the Waitomo Council recently, winen a letter Irom the Bank of Australasia, appealing that the Council should, on moral grounds, pay half the cost of the fence erected by* it between properties of the two bodies, was being considered (reports the King Country Chronicle). “Speak far yourisll', Councillor Smyth,” retorted Councillor Thonts. Several councillors commented that, the bank was not hi the habit oi considering anything but legal obligations, and it \vas decided to adhere to the previous refusal to pay part oi the cost oi the fence.

The Herald states that a pleasant social function was held at Foxton as a “wind-up.” to the recent combined choirs competition held locally an<f in Levin. At a suitable juncture in the evening, Rev. Peryman presented Mr H. Osborne with, an ebony silver mounted baton., suitably inscribed, on behalf of members of the combined choir. In doing so, he said that lie was sure that if the decision at the recent competition had been by public vota, Foxton would have won easily. (Applause). Mr Osborne announced that the recent competition in Foxton had proved a financial success, . resulting in the sum oi £2 10s being placed to the credit of the combined choirs*

Talking of inflated language, which is one of the cultural evils of the time, a Taranaki paper reports that a Maori called at .the Hawera station and pompously asked for his luggage, which, he said, consisted of two Suitcases and a wicker* basket. The station hands searched for the luggage described, but could not find it. Then the traveller made the discovery himself. Pointing to two corn sacks on a harrow he informed a porter that they were his suit-cases. The lemainder of .the luggage was still missing, however, iand urged by the native the railway people located the “wicker basket” at the Waitotara station. It was an old flax Maori kit containing a pumpkin. , But why blame the Maori? (remarks a North Island paper). He takes his tone from the European t 0 whom ail concerts are ‘grand,” cabins '/.State rooms,” and ayes ‘‘answers in the affirmative,”

The opossum season in the Maimwutu district has proved very sucmso- i iul so fur (says the Manawatu Dauj : Times). It lis lound that although it as plemiiul than last year the skins m opossums are of much better quality. Since the opening ol' the season, tv. I Palmerston North sportsmen have j cured 400 skins irom the near range..-, while others have secured lair bags, j It is reported that a hardy iaruuv, ■ who resides not far from the Waia.. j Valley, took drastic measures a m- ' day v ago to. free himself ol a bout ox , lumbago (says the “Marlborough m.- j press). He instructed a relative to ! rub him down vigorously with a ve-1 terinary embrocation- generally used ’ lor horses. The cure was a complete , success, but tire sufferer is now in hospital undergoing treatment lor a blistered and highly-inflamed back. It appeals to be another case of'the cure being worse than the disease. Horse racing is claimed to be the spurt ol kings, ana ngntly so 'remarks tiie Wanganui curdniciej, iur one certainly requires a considerable ..'•bank roll” if he desires to ‘follow me irregular “gee gees” irom week to ween. However, tortune smued on a none too wealthy punter who resides in the vicinity oi Wanganui, aud ne can boast o.f having purchased a car, valued at £650, out. of his winnings on the tote. He has gone so iur, and has decided to give the game up before bis luck turns. A wise move, no doubtl Competition lias existed iu some places' as to the discovery ol the man - deemed to be the meanest yet. One Tuimerston North resident claims xo have discovered one that will ecnpse all comers (records the local, Times), me other evening the resident paid a visit to soma friends, and left his bicycle standing up against the lence. When he came lor- the machine a little- later he lound that the light had gone out, and upon investigataon discovered that someone had removed the generator irom the acetylene lamp, taken every bit of carbide irom it, ana eureiully replaced the fitting. This certainly takes some beating. What, may ibe described as a “record” rush was made by .a young lady, well-known in Napier, who, aiignting from .a car in Hastings Street, at about 5.30 o’clock, made a dive lor a music shop, just as the store was closing in order to purchase some gramophone records. In her hurry (recounts the Telegraph) she tailed to notice the closed shop door, which .was composed of plate glass, and walked through it, to the accompaniment of tinkling sounds of failing glass and exclamations from the store manager. Luckily the hurried customer sustained no serious injury a nd tire glass plate was fully insured.

An idea of what can, be done on a small iarm under intelligent management and with good stock, may be gathered from the- returns received i>y Mr G., seivers, of Fairfield, whose three cows ha.ve this year produce! i (factory'returns) over 1400 of butterfat. These cows, together with a horse, are pastured on an area of five acres, the whole of their feed being produced from this area. One acre is kept in constant cultivation, oats for spring feed, maize etc., .lor the autumn and mangolds for winter being grown, besides hay being saved from surplus pasture in the summertime. Such illustrations of what can be oroduced 'from small areas by intense cultivation are . illuminating as indicating a remedy for the excess prices at which much' of the local land was purchased.

On l-iuday last Constable Owen, u. Foxioii, as tiie result 01 a conipiaim received oi an attempted burglary the township arrested a Maori answermg- to toe descriptio.n given oi me burglar.' The arrested man, wno recently spent about three weens in nevin under tiie name ..oi Joe Smith, wiieli searched was lound to have in bis possession several articles taken lroni Levin bouses during the past lortnight. Tiie police records revealed that he had a l'uirly lengthy record where his name appears as Tlios. Hamilton, the names oi White and Butler appearing amongst his- alaises. He was remanded to Palmerston ishrl-li where lie will appear beiure a J.P.’s Court to-morroSy, and will probably be remanded to Levin afterwards to answer several charges here.

A very satisfactory record was pul up this year by Mr 11. Lancaster's S' year-old pedigree Jersey cow, Jersey Corner Aisike. This cow rah with the herd during the whole time oi testing, merely receiving a small additional ration .oi oil cake, ami in 323 days, she produced 551 lbs oi buttertat. Spousing to a “Chronicle” representative oi the value oi records, Mr Lancaster stated that lie considered the present, system oi forcing ior this purpose, completely wrong. What was necessary was to produce a cow which, would make big records under herd conditions, and this was the ideal whidh he intended to work lor. Next year his intention was to have his paddocks so arranged that .with tiie addition oi green crops, he would have succulent green feed all the season, and to test his cows under t.use conditions, with the addition of a ration of concentrates during the winter months only. With this end in view he put down in the autumn, a paddock of oat, tares, and 'Western Wolths which will be ready when the cows come in. Next month he will put down a paddock of practically a mixture of clovers only, and in March another paddock of oats and mixed grasses which will carry the cows on into the early winter. For winter feed mangolds will he grown, and also as a standby in case of a dry summer, an acre of lucerne. By working his permanent pasture so that he can run the mower over the paddocks occasionally so as to prevent seeding, Mr Lancaster intends to keep the standard of his feed up to spring quality and is confident that under these conditions cows will produce up to the full capacity of which they are capable without the injury so often done to constitution by forcing.

“By the end of fliis present planting season the Slate plantation will# eo*er 60,500 acres (this year the ser-c vice is planting 8500 acres which is Qjyer five times the average of the years before toe establishment 'Of the rurest service),” Captain Macintosh bills says, "in five years as large an acreage of plantatio.il has been estab(iisneu as would have taken 1.4 years under the old regime.”

A party ci tour young men returning irom Taiinerston North to Wellington this morning by motor ran* over the bank at the Makerua rail- . way siding, tortunateiy without moire serious icsults to themselves than a severe shaking. The accident occurred snortly before dawn. The car laileu to negotiate the turn at the bottom . of the hill and went straight on into the fence. It was considerably, damaged. The party returned to town by train from Makerua. “The roads are in a disgraceful condition, and it is a shameful thing to put soldiers on land without giving them proper access,” remarked a Wanganui resident when referring to conditions existing in the Sandoh Block of the Returned Soldiers’ Settlement, Ohingaiti. He stated (says the Chronicle) that when he travelled through the settlement the other day his car was on numerous occasions on the verge of capsizing. He instanced the case of one returned man whose cart capsized when conveying provisions to his home. I don’t know how some of the unfortunate settlers get out of their in the winter time,” he concluded, “and it is not safe to drive over the roads at night.” “rui. reasons waiicn 1 nave never neen-able to agree with the Farmers’ union nas, since its inception, made nee u'tiue its slogan, it shouiU not be ditncuit, therefore, ior its/ members to „ceept with acquiescence the verdict oi uie electors of Britain, inciuumg me agricultural uistricts of Engianu, in connection with, the great or nee i-ruue and protection recently laid beiore them. 1 am bound to say tnai, m spue ui trie iree trade piank on our platform, very many, indeed, I beuevc, a vast majority or the producers oi tins CQunu'y regret the attitude > oi the British public. Without subj scrimug to ail that was said on. the conservative side it looks to the New. I zeaiander scanning the situation from a distance as if the Britisher has discarued a simlitngswonh. ol extra wages in order to save a pennyworth of bread. But from tne viewpoint of the Empire surely a tariff that would [help to make us self-sustaining without .inflicting hardship upon the Mother Country is not an impossible thing. I There is no desire in .the Dominions to ! impose greater* burdens on the Brit- } ish taxpayer • the desire is to lighten 1 I tnose burdens. That can well be done ■by expanding the Empire, settling its . I outposts, populating the overseas; and only a flscai system that will give them some preierence over the foreigner wiJi adequately do that. Surety, if we further curtail the foreigners’ trade in favour of the Homeland, we are creating employment, adding to the wealth of the community, and assisting in relief from high taxation. We realise that we must make sacrifices in return lor Great Britain’s protection apart from the ties of blood, but we do not want to make unnecessary , sacrifices.”' —Mr W. J. Poison, Dominion president of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, speaking at the annual conference at Wellington.