POINTS FOR PESSIMISTS.

Shannon News, 21 November 1924, Page 3

POINTS FOR PESSIMISTS.

i DO YOU KNOW— That the. Shannon Dairy Go. output has grown from 150 tons of butter annually to. 800 tons. That the capital value of the Borough o.f Shannon has. increased by £l-26,000 in the past six" years. That ever £4OOO has been spent on increasing the facilities at the Shannon Railway Siding in the past few years. That thirty new .homes have been built in. the Borough recently and ** in the vicinity. That Mr Seifert is considering building a .village to accommodate his workmen. • That there is more money circulated in shannon than in any qther town its size in New Zealand. That if the Borough Council is asleep to Shannon's possibilities, the 'Chamber of Commerce is very much awake. -. ■ That strawberries and small fruits are being grown in Shannon with great success and that there, is likely to be a big demand for small Holdings for this purpose. That a iHigh School with, a roll of 33 pupils is almost an accomplished fact. • That our,water supply will have a pressure of 951ibs to the square inch. This will be necessary to hose those who have waited so long for a bath.

until the Board's financial position warrants such a course." In formerly moving the adoption of the engineer had brought under his stated that there was one point which the engineer had brough under his notice that morning, viz., the provision of a small motor shed at Shannon. A quotation of £37 10s had been received and they would have to consider this. Another matter was the feplacment of the foreman's car. The Board could not afford to have the work held up by the car breaking down and it might be better to hand it in and got a new one iii its place, that only the lateral lines were still to be done, so that the position was not unsatisfactory. The 'engineer's report was adopted, the engineer being given power to accept tenders for the motor-shed at Shannon.