Shannon News FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1924.

Shannon News, 26 September 1924, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1924.

The little daughter, of Mr and. Mis i, furoa, who has been seriously iJJ, aas heeii removed to. the Palinerston North Hospital. - x The annual meeting 'of toe Shannon Cricket Cluib will be held in the Council Chambers this evening, when all members and intending members are requested to attend.' Attention is''.drawn in our adverii'sing columns to. ttie euchre and dance to be held'in the Parish Hall on Tuesday ".veriing when the popular novelty or card dance will be introduced in Shannon.

A meeting of the Shannon branch of tlhe N.Z. Labour Party wUI be he'Ju in the Council Chambers on Friday, October 3rd., when. aJ.I nieiwbers and intending members are requested to attend. Business: Election of officers and general. • Evidence that the flaxmilliing industry has ircinroved is contained Hi the fact that ail the strippers are now running" at the Miranui mill and a night shift has been working for the past 'fortnight. Altogether nearly 200 men are employed at this mill, ninety of whom are cutters.

At the present time the Miranui mill is turning ouit about sixty tons of hemp weekly, exclusive of stripper slips and tow, which' amounts to about ten tons. Most of the iatter goes to Australia, the stripper slips being manufactured into fibrous plaster for ceilings, while tihe tow is used for upholstering.

The Wellington Acclimatisation Society are in communication with. Mr Blair of Mangahao and preparations are now being maide to make 'the dam a fishing ground for anglers. There is not the slightest doubt that Mangahao will become one" of the hest fishing waters in the Dominion. ' A dance will be held in the Druids' Hall this evening toy the Druids of Shannon, who invite the residents of town and district to attend. The committee haw ima4e - special arrangements for the floor to be in .good order and to supply good .music and an enjoyable supper, so all who attend are assured of a good evening's enjoyment; ■* Mr Healey, one of the camera men for the Fox Film Co., who arrived in Auckland recently from America for the purpose of taking moving pictures ia New Zealand, which was to include the Mangahao hydro works and the Miranui ftaxmiill, has' been called back to America after only being in the Dominion a few days. He is returning again at an early date.

An endeavour was made to retain the bunting, etc., used for decorating the hall on the occasion of the Public Works Department ball, for decorations in connection with the Mangahao' celebrations. Mr Dinnie was interviewed on toe matter and stated that, while unable to grant the request owing to the bunting .having to be returned to Wellington, there H-as every probability it couftd be obtained.

to convenience was caused a;. few. .mornings ago to some of the dairy ■araiiers; on t?he East "Road who are using electric motors'for milking purposes owing to the juice being cut <jff through of the. wires fusing in the transformer above Mr Hennessey's property. Being unable to get into communication with Levin immediately, the trouble was not rectified until later in, the day.

On an inspection .being made of the local tenriis courts by the committee to arrange matters foFthe opening of Uio coming season it was found that one of the courts liad suffered sever"e damage. The committee found that some persons had been using the courts and playing with boots on, thus doing a great deal of injury to the asphalt. A considerable amount of money will have to be spent, to put the 'court in order and the Club intend in future to prevent non-members from using the courts,.

Two. petitions are in. circulation in ! Shannon and district. One is for signature toy those favouring an extension of telephone hours till midnight, which all users of the tele'phone are asked to sign. To have the request .granted It is necessary to secure at least 75 per cent, of the total .number of subscribers. The other petition seeks to secure signatures of users of the parcels' office at tftie railway station, with a view to having mulch' needed improvements effected to the same, as the present building is far too small and inconvenient for the amount of .business' that is being transacted there.

Yesterday Mr Manihire (London), and Messrs W. Petrie and W. terns (Wellington) paid a visit ol inspection to Mangahao hydro works. . The annual meeting of:'tlie Shannon Tennis Club will be held in tlhe Council Chambers on Wednesday evening-, October list

Mr. sj C Mauiiire, Assistant N.Z. Trade and Produce Commissioner, •London, who visited the Miranui null on Wednesday last, belongs to the Old Country and this was Ms first yasit to New Zealand. He has been in the Dominion for the .past'nine, nioxitus engaged in enquiring into the primary industries of. the Dominion. He retuirrts to 'England via Samoa on October Bt4i.

The early potato season has started ut Pukekohe and at present two trucks per day are leaving that centre.

It was pointed out £y a speaker at a meeting of the Oamaru Chunmer of Commerce that one business in the town came under no fewer than six awards. This led to an endless oonJus ion in regard to holidays. A correspondent writes leelingly to the Auckland -Star regarding the great interest in the All Black matches: "I know of two New Zealauders who were talking about the prospects of. the team from 3 a.m., till daylight. 1 slept in. the same nouse, and had no sleep."

"And how did you get on together when-she came back to you?" asked counsel of defendant in a separation case " neard at Invercargiil. "Oh goodl "it was just like a new world," exclajimied defendant rapturously, "in fact it was even better than that." ■ ' t

The Cromwell Argus reports that Mr and Mi's \V. Partridge, of'CromwjelL lost their infant child, six months old under distressing conditions. The infant had been placed asleep in a cot, and when the mother returned to look at the child a little later, found a cat coiled-up on the child's face and the child quite dead, having been suffocated. . The secretary of the Wanganui Automobile Association informed f * "Ohi'ronicle" representative that application had been made to the Railway Department for details in regard to the oscillating airm danger signal that has been erected in Levin. He pointed out. that the object of doing this was to have similar signals erected at the dangerous crossings in an Q around Wanganui

On a pair erf boots taken to be mended at a Feilding bootshop the. other day three needles- were, broken while stitching the toecap of one of the boots. The repairer felt carefully inside the boot, but felt nothing -unusual until, afte/r (breaking /a. few more needles, he cut open the cap and found lodged between the two leathers—a penny! It is curious how a coin toecame lodged in such a place.—Star. •

It is'reported that spring onions are greatly in" demand by Wanganui amateur gardeners, the reason lor this apparently being the fact that the cold wet autumn prevented the sowing Qf seeds to a large extent. One nurseryman who had large supplies of plants in hand last week' has been unable to cope with the demand for young plants, and "it is understood that other nurserymen are similarly placed.

The kite-flying season is an anxious time for' those concerned with the management of the Lake Coleridge power supply* Kites that become entangled- with transmission' lines are a source of danger to those who are flying them and also to the electrical department's workmen, who have to remove them. In some,, instances it has been found necessary, to shut off •power-on feeders in order,to remove kites from transmission' lines. "If a kite allowed to remain on the wiires and 'rain comes,' there is a likelihood of a 'dead short taking place, necessitating'the shutting down of the whole system.

'••\Yuuti on ine question oi inflated land values it would not ne.«Byjt oi place to point out that inflation is now taking fp'jjace in some of our leading towns ijn. , connection wiin business sites. These are being soid at enormous prices, huge sums sunk in buildings and interest on both added *to overhead expenses, all of whiicn has eventually to come out of the land. "II a Fair lient Bill is neces sary for the protection of those occupying houses, why not have a Fair Rent Bill for those renting shops;, and thereby check extravagant prices and give protection' to the public?"—Mr O. Mqnrad in. his address at the Pal■merstoii North Chamber of Commerce luncheon last week. ■

."There are many other ways that we cquid spend ijo to advantage besides on a spree at Mangaihao. u may not be very sporting, but 1 move that no action be taken," remarked Cr. Jacobson at tlie meeting of the Petone Council \yhen speaking regarding the-letter received from tire Shannon Borough Council asking for a grant of £5 towards the cost of celeorating the turning-on of tlie electric current at Mangahao. Cr. Jackson's opinion was - also that of the otter councillors., and the request was refused. If Cr. Jacobson or any of the other members of that Council of the industrial suburb of Petone had visited Mangahao in the making, There would (says the Feilding Star when referring leditorially to the matter) have been no such, disparaging remark about the celebration of the final phase of one of the great engineering feats of the Dominion's hydroelectric power scheme. Instead, the Petone Council would have been only too ready to join in the privilege or contributing its mate with those local bodies that have dropped tfieir contributions into the hat—Pahiatua, Otaki, Marton, Feilding, Levin, Palmers ton North, and Lower Hutt Borough Councils, Oroua, Kairanga, Hutt Horowhenua, and Pohaingina County Councils, Dannevirke, Mana-watu-Oroua and Taxairua Power Boards and Levin and Shannon Chambers of. iDommer.oe.

It is a little early in the season yet to talk about prices for the current season's dairy produce, but an indication is given, in the fact that a. Wanganui company has been offered Is 7sd per lb for butter for tne earlier shipments {says the Wanganui Herald). Indications point to the price being high in the earlier part of the season, !up tQ" Christmas time, at least.

* The Wellington' Show Association have donated a 35 guinea challenge cup lor competition at the Wairarapa Show and it has been decided that this cup shall be a perpetual challenge cup to be competed for in the sheep classes and will be awarded each year to the exhibitor securing the most points in all sheep classes (including purebred farmers' fats and fat lamb classes). A gold medal will be given each year by the Society to the winner of the cup. At one of the Timaru primary schools' last week, a small boy possessing somewhat of a unique record applied for enrolment. He gave bis age as ten and qualifications for standard two. "Where were you before this?" demanded the headmaster. "Well," replied the youngster, 'this will be my seventeenth school. I've been to sixteen schools in four years.' "How long will you remain here?" queried the astonished headmaster. "Oh, not long," coolly replied the boy. The Aphelinus mali, the natural enemy of the woolly aphis, which, was introduced into this district last sea.sonyCrpm the Cawthorn Institute, Nelson;, certainly appears to have, wherever it has' ibeen liberated in an orchard, made a. clean sweep of aphis. In ong orchard examined by a "Chronicle"- representative, to which the Aphelinus mali had he™ introduced 'in.jthe Autumn, no si«rn whatever of aphis remained, and the characteristic discoloured barkless patches were- being restored by exudations from the branches. It is understood that negotiations are at present proceeding between the timber merchants and the builders, and between the hardware merchants 'and the builders, with the object of forming am association of recognised builders (says a Dunedin exchange). It is contended that at present discounts are given too indiscriminately. The man who builds- a shed worth £lO is said, for instance, to get as much discount in many cases as the man who -builds a house worth £IOOO. It is said that the negotiations, the object of which is to make arrangements whereby only recognised builders get trjade discount, will be brought to a'successful conclusion within a few weeks. Soldier settler s in the Mangateparu soldier settlement (Morrinsville district) are apparently not by any means as well satisfied with their revaluations as in the case of the Te Mirq settlers, for at a meeting of 60 of these settlers: held on Thursday last the following resolution was unanimously passed:—"That this meeting express the utmost dissatisfaction with the results of the revaluation, and press for an immediate inquiry as the aim' had apparently been to bring the whole block down to one level; and that whereas there. Was a • slight reduction on the" capital value ' this was offset by the penalty on the readjustment of arrears of rent, so that in at least 60 per cent, of the cases no relief was afforded." ! "By way.'of illustrating the fact that the laugh is not always against I oar ioreiigii friends imperfectly (acquainted with our mother tongue, may 1 relate-(writes'the'Rev. W. Wesi ton) the following personal experi- , ence? Walking through Leatiherhead ; some years ago. my attention was arrested by the following announce- : ment in the notice hoard of a small chapel: 'On Saturday night, at 8 p.m. ! the annual potato-pie supper will be held, and on Sunday morning' the ( subject of the sermon will.'be ( A night of Horror.' Recovering from this surprise, I turned into the main .street near the-'Ewan Hotel to be confronted with the alluring invitation over a newly decorated restaurant, 'To tyci ists and photographers! ■ Try our Is 6d luncheon. A dark room is provided for developments^.'" a new veiling io ine uiu amy u.. Ills, 'u.li, H UUi wa tlUl, u,,j*^o \V>IU QUt; UuClSlUil .iU'livtU a.l ij% ".n^ om-ui; uio v iui iiuQ. UMV.oi' SUCii OusCi-liuC Ui.un iii ill* me, was givuii uy uio nt,v. jj\'an rlui'lies, uJ. w uaiguniu, in. Lull auuroso.- ".tie Knew a ou'urcn,'' ne "vviiKit: onb manager uisagreeu Wiki iixi mo omens anil was vtuy obstinate iu cling'ing to. his opinion. file otner iiiaiiagcj.b, nu-wever, ueoiueu to give "in to him and agree with wiiai ne bam; trie mux; \\'as so overcome witli tne responsibility which he had wrought uipon Himself and wiiat might jje uie consequences oi it mat ne begged the owiers not to change their views on his account, but that lie would agree with their opinion instead. There was nothing l.ike giving a person a little responsibility tu i bring him to a sense of duty."

A AiJis'n.-i-iuii. lady, who is visiting America, .ioiwu.iu.ed the following clipping, io comfort those who compnm. ..-ut.. pests in New Zealand:— Barfing ton, la., August p.—The Mormon ny, one of the inost dreaded pests wnicUi annually vJteits the lower i\iississippi cities of and liii-: nois this year is present in even larger numbers. Local citizens and those •f Muscatine, Fort Madison, and Keokuk, and small cities, are using every known device to rid >the locality of the insect. A few days ago city employees hauled away 27 wagon' loads of dead insects, which after a night's festivity round the -'arc lights dropped dead on the street below. ' All shops and street lights Wlior-cvw possible, are being covered with red paper or cloth, as red seems to be obnoxious to the pest. Large fires also are being used to attract the fly and in which they are burned. The fly is from 1| to 2A inches long.

The young seal presents one of Nature's mysteries. When it, is born it weighs only 31b., and 1% days later it wvigiis 701 b. iwo special trains, with i : 440 baskets containing a total of 31,t>00. pigeons lor training far racing, arrived in Selby, JSngiuud, lately, unis number, which,, aonstituites & record;, is higher by 10,000 ilhan last year's, and indicates the great increase in popularity of pigeon racing. The birds; which were all young, were brought from three Northern counties and represented 43 federations. The sudden appearance ojf the head of a sea lion breaking the surface 01 the .water in the wake of a crayfish pot, which a party of Maoris were hauling into their boat at Mataura Bay,' so scared the Maoris that .they let their crate of.crayfish go. - A fisherman who accompanied the party states that one of the natives became panic-stricken' by the sudden appearance of what seemed to them to be 1 a strange and formidable monster.

Boot manufacturers in Dunedin are getting the minimum 01 pleasure out 01 the sunshmy_ weather that this district has,enjoyed lor the past fourteen -months.- it is affecting their trade seriously. The manager*.of one of the large factories said to-day: "Our warehouse is fuil of boots that we have no hope of quitting till next winter. We are keeping going with difficulty, mostly in making for ladies and. fancy light boots." Another manag-er said: "There has been practically no demand this last winter for the strong boots that usually got off smartly. The -weather has been so consistently fine that men are; in a manner of speaking, walking about without boots. Any old pair serves the purpose. Meantime we have not reduced our hands; we are keeping them going in making up for next winter, but that is a long way ahead, and stock is accumulating fast. All this, however, relates to men's boots onjy. The demand for ladies' boots keens up \Vell and that is a great help."

According to an article in the Grey River Argus, Open * Bay Island, off the We.stl.and Coast, near Okura, contains the only remaining large colony of wejeas in the South Island. On tjhg mainland these birds are still to be found, but their numbers are fast diminishing" owing in. great measure, it is believed, to the attacks of ground vermin.. The weka itself is a sworn enemy of the rat, and where there are many wekas the rats are few. Thus- the weka contributes much to , the protection of smaller birds. But < the weka itself is unable'to. stand up to the large ground vermin. On Open Bay Island tfhe birds, originally placed there by seamen of a» coastal steamer, ihave thriven wonderfully; so much so that there is now insufficient food for them;. The Native Birds' Protection Society is interesting itself in the subject, a*hd is endeavouring to arrange that the birds shall be fed so" that the colony may be preserved. A strong colony of wekas is not only of great value for observation tf>y ornithologists, but may provide birds to recruit the weka colonies on the mainland, or in bird sanctuaries. ,