Shannon News TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1924.

Shannon News, 7 October 1924, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1924.

At Arapeti during the month of September rain toil on 24 days out oi title 30, ’ J ' At the Parish Hall this evening the juniors oi the. Ladies'- Guild oi yen. Bede’s will hold a danoe when uie step and other competitions will be held. ‘ | : /me drawing Of. the Shannon Bowling and Tennis Clubs’ art union win take place during" the interval oi me Hardeens’ performance at the Maoriiand.. Theatre' this, evening. To-mo Vow afternoon the local Tenjais: Qiup will officta% open tiffin' season on the Courts in Vance '■Street. A cordial invitation jys extended to all. Ladies, are asked to bring a basket., ’ , • The rainfall in .Shannon Tor the month efnding September- |3Qth was •i. 99 inches, rain having fallen on iti days, the heaviest rainfall being on tlie 23rd with ,39inch. For the corresponding period last year, rain toll on 12 days for a, total oi 3;25 inches.

A special meeting of the Shannon Co-operative Building Society will b§ held in the Maoriiand Theatre on Thursday evening at 8 p.m. at widen ail members. and others interested are requested to attend to confirm the rules, elect directors, and transact gieneral business. Mr P- Thompson, of Ballance St., Who was in a critical' condition alterbeing operated on at the Palmerston North Hospital, has now taken a turn for the better and his many friends join, in wishing him a speedy recovery.

JUast week a, couple of motorists had a harrow escape from a serious accident at Mangahao. While, passing near thesatymlll a front spring of die car broke causing the steering gear to jamb, with the result mat the car left the road and went over the 'bank, turning over twice. Fortunately the occupants escaped without injury, but the hood of tne car was badly; damaged. Last evening Messrs Thwaites and' Tippler, chairmen of the Chamber or Commerce and School Committee respectively, waited on the Koputaroa School Committee and placed before them the proposal to establish, a, High School ail Shannon and to enquire it tahy support would be forthcoming from that district. They received a good hearing at the conclusion of which Mr Hood (the chairman) stated the committee would discuss the proposal and notify them later' what support could be expected. The many friends, of Mr-and Mrs J. Turoa will regret tp hear' that theirlittle son is seriously ill, and everyone will join in wishing tne little fellow a speedy recovery. Misfortune has 'been Mr and Mrs Turoa’s" lot for some time now as it was at the beginning of last week their little daughter, May, passed away and about four months ago they lost another little gild While Mrs Turoa is in delicate health and Mr Turoa was laid aside for some time by a serious accident.

iMr Doig, who has been in charge of. the Y.M.G.A., at for the past 18 months, left Shannon bn Saturday for Kaiwaka near Napier, having been transferred to the Y.M.C.Athere, which is ruin in connection with the construction of the East Coast railway. The Y.M.C.A. at Arapeti has been dosed, buit it is anticipated it will be re-opened again at Mangahao in about six to nine months’ time and*will be run during the course of the construction..,of the reserve dam at Mangahao on which it is expected about 250 men will bp employed for two to three years.

At the Shannon Chamber of Commerce meeting Mr Tippler wanted to know what had happened to the "Silent' Policeman.” Or. Beard said it had been referred to at the Council meeting. He said there were difficulties in the way in that it had to be removed .every night and another Wbb that lit wias 1 not thSjjkihd' thle Brigi neer had been authorised to get. What was wanted was one in the ground which would, be lighted. The base was now ready, bu|t the -Engineer of the Power Board had advised not to put it in until the all-night service from Mangahao. was available. It would be lighted from the underground base. \

Mr Fred Rusßng, of Otaki, owner of Bonny Gold, met with a painful accident yesterday. He was riding a horse and endeavouring to head off another horse, when the latter lashed out and struck Mr Rusling' on the leg,, inflicting a nasty fracture.

Measles are very prevalent .m , Feilding. On. account ,of this a school iunction had to be postponed. Foxton fishermen -report flounders to he vtery plentiful in the Mariawatu River at present and some good ■ hauls have been recorded lately. There seems to he an epidemic of frogs in Feilding. At night the roads | are infested with -them, and Oh roads where the traffic is heavy ,the-toli on j their lives is great. ” ] Mr J. Muir Barr has just retired, from the managership oi the Auck- - land Savings Bank, after 46 years’ service. Mr Ciem<em Bartley, who has 43 years’ service to his credit, has been appointed to succeed Mr Barr.

At the Opera HiQuse in Wanganui one of the young lady .competitors ' who obtained a recall rushed up to t Mr Harold -Whittle, the official ac-1 coinpaiiist, placed'her arms tenderly ' round his neck, implanted a kiss, - and Mr Whittle blushed. | The first consignment of spring lambs from: this district) Was made | last week, when a truckload of 80 was secured by the local agent of the 7 Wellington Meat Export' Go. The lambs, which were ’ black-faces, killed out at oyer 30 lbs. A discoiisolate-lQOking motorist was stanuing beside Ills car on the PaimersiQii-Foxton road oh Saturday morning when the service' char-a-banc came alongside. “What up?” the Mlac. “Something gone wrong with the darn thing,' said the motorist. “Got plenty of benzine'/” ‘Plenty,” was’Hne reply. Mac had a look over the mechanism and lound that the benzine tap had been turned, -off and the motorist hau been stuck up for four hours.—Herald;

While lecturing at Wellington College Mr Bransby Williams, tile famous Dickens impersonator, ■ asked three boys from the audience to' have a guess -at the number of characters contained to the works of the great author. 'One ventured' 500, another 1000 and the third 30QQ. Mr Williams said that he had asked /this at every school he had been to, but had never received such large-figures before. In fact the usual answer' was between oO and 150. . Even one of the. masters at a certain school had fixed;his estimate' at 75, The correct number was 1550.

For sonle time past, a scale has been affecting blackberry in different parts of this, district, more .‘particularly on the Upper Frankly apd Carrington Roads, and also on. th-e Mangorei Road, ((bear New Plymouth), and farmers were naturally very optimistic that at last a natural enemy bad appeared which was going to lid them Qf this troublesome pest. Large areas -oi blackberries were affected, the vines after a while giving one title .impression that they had been severely scorched.---Tatonaki Herald. 7'At the ;Magistrate’s. Court at Wellington last week Dr. E. C. Barnett, of Palmerston, was fined £3oo' lor sending in, incorrect income tax, returns for .the years 1920, .1921 and, 1922. .Defendant’s income came from several farms as well as his profession. The income for the four years was £14,183 and it was returned, as £5444. T/lxe deficiency in income tax was £2385. The Magistrate, acquitteu defendant of any deliberate falsification of his. returns, the discrepancy being due to the system of keeping the books. .

“Rugbyite” writes to the Foxton Hernia; “Now that the football season has ended and with it me right to the use. Qf' Easton Park by me Hoiowhenua Rugby Union, 1 would give a warning to lovers of our na-i tional game to watch out against any attempt to be quted from' tills ground by the League promoters. Tnere has been a lot qf hot air got off against Rugby management to this district, hut when it is all boiled down there is not much to complain of and 1 hope the Borough Council will not be fed into a decision about the grounds for next season without giving all—'Rugby, Soccer, and League a lair deaf.”

A well-attended /neeting <of ; poultryfarmers nvas held in Foxtom on Saturday evening in connection with the. export scheme. Mr A. G. Muuiby, chairman of the Wellington District Poultry-keepers Association, addressed the meeting, pointing out tne benefit of the scheme, and that the commitments for space required the provision of 1300 crates of eggs during the next month. On account oi the agents withdrawing from the scheme on i/he opening of the pulping season, tile W.D.P.A., was laced with the .possibility of having to drop exportation, unless the poultry men outside the Association would come in. It was unanimously decided by the meeting to support the W.D.P.A., to ffie extent of one' hundred crates per week, which amount was considered sufficient to make up requirements.,

■ ’while paying another visit to the New Zealand Pavilion at Wembley (writes a London correspondent) I saw a beautiful bureau made in New Zealand woods and loaned by the King ana Queen. It appears that among the earliest, settlers in New Zealanu was aMr Levein, who arrived. m Maoriiand as far back as 184 Q. Being a cabinet-makeT of some ability m experimented with .New Zealand woods and like «very other settler las. cinated by their beauty suitability for' high-class iurmture. lh consequence he came back, to England m 1844 with a collection which he ex Jii’bited in the Strand, together with in any articles o.f furniture made by lirnseli. Amongst those who lnspect- , S exhibition was Her late Mali, oueen Victoria, who gave orders & a suite of future should be made for palace. It i& from this suite that the bureau has fief graciously loaned by Their Mafest?es g to the N e w. z^ mpnt for the Exhibition at wemmeyIt 5 a beiStllurplew. with mu* ■tistic inlaid wo lll showing fihbaee trees, the kiwi, and a map 3W- a: wto f ***» nr a used including mottled kaui , plrirr-miire, kahmStea, Uohe k«iie. matai, hinau, and others. . (