Shannon News TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1924.

Shannon News, 14 October 1924, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1924.

A meeting qf the Sbannon branch oi tiie i\.Z. Union \yiij, be held in the Counuli "GhamDer, s on vv eunescUiy, evening* • Me.ssis a. A. iNja&h and S. Linldater, M.'sr., .visited (Shannon on Saturday iniornmg ana oonieixed wit;h t-iitj in connection with t/ue MangaiiaQ ceiebr&tio.ns.

'i.n'ree. more, residences are about, to he erected in Snannon, the tenders iqr. .\yiiich fliave been secured by Messrs Spencer Bros. A/start has already heen made on one oi the dwellings in Stafford Street.

Mr and Mrs A. E. Hyde left yesterday on a bojiday visit to tiie South island, .i'hey propose going' overland ironi Picton to Christcnurcn and returning to i\eJson, % via the s dura, Greymouth and the B.uJUer Valley, Mi; Wallace, who. b,a,s been on the staff of the Shannon, branch of the* JbJaiik of New, Zealand for some time, has been transferred to Levin, Be will be succeeded by Mr Fernandez, oi vVellingtoiu

Mr Buckle^on t Geiieral Manager of the Bank of New Zealand, and Mr GWatson, a dii'ectQr;, were visitors to Shannon -yesterday, while on tneir way from Palnierston North to Wellington.* "

Alterations are. to he made to the Tokomaru Hail.. The front is heing extended .out <JS feet 'and two dressing rooms are'heing added, while over; the top of these a circle is to he erected. When completed the hall will he one of the moat along the coast.

. Tile public are : reminded of the :euchre ahd dance to be held in the Parish Hail this, evening, Hinder' the auspices of'the Ladies' Guild of Ven. Bede's, There witi he excellent music and a gqqd. supper and all who, attend are assumed of a good time. ..' ■■ 'ihe paddocks ground tile Miranui and; DaizeU's mills at Ipe present ttme present a really 1 * wonderful sight, they neing covered "with, fibre, spread out lor hleaching. The large quantity of fibre out in .the paddocks at present is qwing to t ne - showery weather and the fact that the mills a,re working at tqp.

The prospects - of the Shannon Biailding Society being successfully floated look extremely hiright. Shares are being taken up rapidly and enquiries are being received from all over the district those, anticipating taking up shares will be wise not to hesitate.. Full particulars can be obtained from the secretary, Mr E. T. Moody.. At the Methodist quarterly meeting held at Shannon, the two circuit stewards, Messrs J. H. Roberts and C. W. Hoffman, were appointed vepresentatives to the annuaLSynod, which meets at Palmerston on November 19th. Messrs Swindlehurst «ind Qhrystall were elected-substitute representatives. Messrg Hoffman an,d A. Osborne were appointed circuit auditors. Rev.. S. Peryman received and accepted a hearty and unanimous in- j vitatioh' to remain in the circuit a second year.

The Town Clerk of Shannon (Mr X T. Bovis) is hi receipt of ■the.i.qllowing communication frqm the Premier, Mr Massey, acknowledging invitaton to His Excellency the Governor-General to attend the opening of the Mangahao Electric Power Works. He' said he presumed the celebrations were likely to take place .some time early in November, and he would ■ accordingly transmit the Executive's invitation" tQ His Excellency. He would advise further when a. reply-had been received from tftie ,Governor-Genei'al as to whether he qan attend or not.

There is a trig demand in Shannon and district at the present time for store and weaner pigs l and quite a number of farmers attended the pig sale at Palmerston North last week, where good prices were realised for tfii s class of pig. On e farmer, who was present at the sale, remarked to a "News" representative that it was hard to understand the prices feaiised. He stated that baconers were now bringing s£d per lb, while on the estimated weight of some of the stores sold t a price equivalent to la, 7d per. ft wm paid.

Dr. J. G. Mackereth has commenced iihe practice of his profession in Shannon in succession to Dr. Macdon-

At a meeting oX the Shannon School c teachers it was decided to. hold a i children's plain and iancy dress hail ( in the Druids' Ila4i on i'riday, Octo- i ber 31st, hall the- proceeds 01 which J will go towards the school fund and j . tloe other hall to the picnic fund. As j the object is to give enjoyment and pleasure to the children it hoped the ( public w.ill give the function its-heart- , iesb supor't and thus enable tne com- j , mitte to attain its object. A meeting j of all ladies interested will- be held | in the • Council Chambers on Thurs- ; dav afternoon at 2.30 p.m. to make ■ all the necessary arrangements lor the catering at the ball. In an endeavour to raise funds lor the purchase of sports material tor t)h e Shannon School the teachers conducted a stall in Piimmer Terrace on Saturday, and as a result the fund will benefit to the extent of about £ls, which must be very gratifying to the teachers for the splendid elfort, put'forward by them. /The parents of' the children contributed liberally to the stall by way of donations of produce,, cakes, poultry, etc, which the teacher 6 left no. stone unturned to turn into cash. Competitions' in connection with the stall were also conducted and the following are the winners: Electro plate dish,. No. 22, Mr Mitchell; breakfast, No'. 19, Mr H. V. Hudson; dinner, No. 73, Mr H. Taylor. The Foxton Rowing Club has been resuscitated and the season will be opened oh Saturday, October .18. Hamilton has the highest birth rate (25.78 per 100(1) and tne lowest deatn rate (5.96 per 1000) in New Zealand. The Sandon'tramway, which covers parj oi the route of tne Leyin-Martqn railway, showed a profit >qf £4O on last month's working. A start was made last week on the. destruction of roqks in Hawkes Bay oy shooting parties • organised by mo farmers.' Umqn. Many farmers were omt with . guns and witqught havoc among the. birds. Hain coxisiderably interfered with operations, ,Tiie Hastings Operatic Society is in a peculiar posuuon, having assets of £2OO. and iegalfy no members, m 1022 only tWQ men and three fadies paid their subscriptions, whilst daring and 1924 no subscriptions were. paid. Ine recent, prosecution heard in Hamilton, in which a farmer was fined £3 tor running an oil engine without a, certificate irom the inspector. Ql machinery has resulted, in no fewer tha,n 300 farmers applying to the department for certificates, stateu i>ne , inspeqtor of in the Hamilton Court. After three centuries of continuous operation, the Bank Qf England is closing its 'ijhreadneedie street premises in November. Pending rebuilding, it has acquired for two years a seven-storied hlo.ck in Finsbury Circus, to whicn it will remoye.in norsedra.vyn lorries, £128,000,000 worth of gold bars 'and coins and £125*000,000 worth of:securities.

A pigeon, which was killed in its flight by a hawk at Aria, king Couniry, was iound qn examination to be a racing pigeon. The hawk was seen to he. chasing the pigeon in title air, hut it -was men tnqught the pigeon was a wild one. One -of the pigeon's rings bore the lettering, PFC 7z, and the other, AFC 52i,25JC6, 47. 'lhe hawk was afterwards shot.

"The case will probably have to he remiandeid inu*eninteiy," [seated Mi Skeddenv in. the Magistrate's Court, Wellington, "as Odiin is now suffering from epileptic seizures,, and, according 1q the physician, not likely to recover." The case, in which-. ciu>lord Odiin was charged With stabbing a little girl, with intent to do grievous bodily harm, was remanded another week.'

At the County Council on Saturday Cr. Brqadibelt stated that the cemetery at Koputaroa was in a very neglected'state. The gates were diiapiuated and stock wandered a.t will amongst the plots, it was decided that tne main gate be locked and a wicket-gate erected tor foot traffic, arid that the local schoolmaster be asked to keep the key of t lx e gate until such time as a custodian could be appointed. A Wanganui business man, as he strolled siQwly Home from wQ on Thursday evening, was blissmily oblivious of the fact that his •mnbrella Was ablaze, and as a consequence he could not understand ytfiy several people* behind him were • shouting out. However, when he discovered the reason lor the commotion, his "gamp" was well damaged. It apparently had caught fire as the result oi lighted ash failing iroin his pipe. All tnat was left of the umbrella when he piresenteu" It tq his wife en arrival home was the handle and the Chronicle.

A lady with one of those poodles that is a joy to its owner and an object of contempt toj the public at large, was examining the lion's pit at the Auckland Zoo. dog, which sue was holding in her arms, became restive," and in freeing himself jumped into the lion's den. No doubt He was petrified - with fright. A lioness came up t sniffed at him, and turned away; but he was less fortunate when he came under the notice qf one of the lions. The iting Of be.asts gave the little dog a p 4. Which iortunately killed him at once, and he proceeded to make a meal of him.

A new system of dealing with potholes on inaeadjam surfaces is being tried out in Wellington streets, in place Qf a patching .with fairly large metal—two inch metal or thereabouts —the plan is now, to fIU in with considerably smaller metal, such as will pass'through an inch screen, and to bind it do wn - theory of the new plan which is apparently adopted 1 air- ' ly widely in America on macadam roads (for tliere are still a few thous- t and miles of, macadani roads in trie States, in spite of vast bituminous naving and concrete reading schemes; and has also been favourably commented upon, by roading authorities ™ Australia, is that car traffic rather rolls tighter these smaU metal patcheg whereas it scatters, larger, metal. .

Arrangements are said tQ nave been completed for "the establishment, by 'Messrs Kempthorne, Prosser and Go/, of a fertiliser plant at AramQliQ.. It I is estimated that the new works will

>ost between £150,000 and £170,000. au. Mi£ course o f *W interview with vu v.' b. Mgoney, inspector to the Dannevirke Power Board, he stated that his Board >vere endeavouring to tuiange lor. tne community lighting oi the whole of the tousniess ©nop ironts (that is all lights suspended omsiae shop windows) in Dannevirke U.W BOjard would undertake tne whole oi the; cost of installation and charge, the business peo.pie U ininiinuiu "rate" per' annum. It was considered this would greatly brighten Uhe appearance oi the town at mgm, and he oi value to shop-owners. At the County Council on Saturday morning, Cr. Jensen complained mat certain oi-idge timbers stacked at the Side .ol the roads in the Te Horo Riding -had been removed by some persons without, authority. The Engineer stated that the:, timber bad neen wired, dowii aiid that, somebody had cut the. wires and. taken aw.ay the timber,' He had been iniormed by some Qf -tbejsetrtilers .as to w.hq was responsible ' lor this, but there was uniiouity v in getting anyone to. come iorward in view ot a prosecution. It was decided the 'necessary eyid&nce could be obtained the matter (be placed in the bands of the police. ■..'■■,, In the American papers—at least the majority of them—there is only an odd little jpaiiagraplh here and there that recognises there is a world outside of the United States," remarked Dr. j. Macmita Brown, Chancellor of the New Zealand, University • on his returh from America on Monday. "This is. one oi' the- most menacing i eatures of the American nature. I£ (is isolated, not merely in its politics, but in all its attitude from the rest of the world. It is this that will be its nearest approach to isuin. ' No nation, as no man, can isolate itself. W|e are 'born social animals,"' | A torief interruption of the Gam- ' bridge Electric.; Ppwjer . Board's service occurred early on Tuesday evening. The cause was one of those unforeseen occurrences against which H is\ impossible to guard, though such might never occur again. Two sparrows, evidently evincing curiosity as to the working of the electrical, power plant, crept, through a, small hole in itlie Caiii t brid|g.e sub-station and perched on" the 1.1.0QQ volt line, doubtless to take observations. The birds' tails met,, when. they touched the wire, completing a circuit, ending m a sad disaster tQ the;curious birds, and causing' inconvenience to everyone receiving electric'burreitf within a radius o£ £pm'e sen miles. The seat of the trouble was giiiokly ascertained by the Board's engineer and the whole interruption did not last longer than about half an^ur.