Shannon News TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1924.

Shannon News, 2 December 1924, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1924.

Tiie vital statistics lor Shannon for the month ending November 30th are: Births 4, deaths, and marriages nil. The hag was flown fro.m the Post Office yesterday in honour of the Dowager Queen Alexandra who attained her 80th birthday. The local JPost Office is shortly to be thoroughly renovated and arrangements are being made to have, the office find residence . connected up with the. local water supply. The. local picture, theatre, has secured the. official, film of the. All Black v. Devon and this together with usual programme will be screened on Wednesday next Football enthusiasts will be afforded a splendid opportunity of seeing this, match and also the others that will be. screened later.

Some time, between Saturday night and Sunday: morning an entrance was effected to the. premises. o.f Mr H. Hook, tobacconist, by some person and a quantity qf tobacco and a small sum iQf money was stolen. The entrance was made, through a skylight at the rear of the premises. The matter has been reported to the police who are making inquiries. Owing to the popularity of Spen-. cer’s Creek as a bathing pool the need for a dressing sided- for ladies has become recognised and to achieve this end a meeting of all interested Will be held in the. Council. Chamber on Friday evening next at 7.30 p.m. to discuss ways and means to raise funds for the. purpose. The movement Is a worthy one and it is hoped there will be a good attendance.

The rainfall in Shannon for the month ending November 20th as. supplied by Mr Sinclair, 1 of Vance street, shrows that, rain fell on 8 days for a total of 1.49 inches, the heaviest fail being on the 19th, whidh was .42ineh, As compared with a similar period last year, rain fell on 10 days with a total of 1.49 inches, the heaviest being .35inch. Miss Mona Neale, a.t.c.1., 1.T.c.1. A.L.C.M., qf Nathan Terrace, Shannon, has been successful in gaining her L.L.C.M., diploma, (pianoforte examination), and is now. entitled to wear, the gown, cap and hood of the college. She. was also successful in passing her L.A.B. • qualifying examination of the Associated Board of the R.A.iM. and R.C.M. of London. Miss Neale is a pupil qf Mr Robert Parker, F.R.A.M., for pianoforte, and is a pupil of Mr Leon De Mauny for violin. Both teachers are well-known musicians of Wellington. Nuance Ewan-Balfour gained honours (83) junior violin exam., and Josephine Thompson (honours (80) preparatory violin examination, both pupils of Miss Neale’s.

profound regret was caused in Palmers ton (Sunday at the news of the death of Mr R. T. Bell, the. welikuown flaxmiller, aged 47, after three nays’ illness.' Deceased was associated with the late Mr Robt. Gardner in flaxmilling at Koputaroa and later acquired extensive, land arid flax interests in the Rangiotu, Tokomaru and Moutoa districts. He was. one of the promoters of the banking scheme at Makerua and consequently a member of the Makerua Drainage Board, chairman of the Mana-watu-Oroua River Board, managmg director of the big Whitanui flaxnnlls and president of the n.Z. Flaxmiliers’ Association. The late. Mr Bell was always a hard worker, of courteous and genial disposition, and ’was very popular with all whom he came, in contact with, enjoying a reputation for fair and conscientious business methods. He was a keen yachtsman in his younger days, and had always enjoyed good health, but worked nn„der great pressure. The late Mr Beil was well-known in Shannon. The. death is reported from Brussels of Puccini, composer of the operas “Madame Butterfly” and “La Boheme..”

At title Christchurch wool sales on Saturday there were only about a dozen Jots, passed in. When the first was passed fat a good price, the buyers would not listen to the rest of the clip being offered. This probably had a salutary effect on the vendors whose ideas are up in the dress circle. It is. announced by an advertisement in tfliis issue that a special train will leave Shannon on Wednesday, December 10th, ( at 9.9 a.m., for the Woodville Races, returning Thursday evening. Excursion tickets will be available..

Three trucks carrying about 2000 goats passed through Palmerston on Tuesday, en route from Taianak to Hawkes Bay. They were of nuxeu hreeds ages and sexes, and are. pi esmnabiylo be used for; the destroy tion ol blackberry. They have no other known virtues.

A dairy farmer who is in a fairly l.'irce wav at Newman .states tnat nc lias doubled his butterfat. production within five years by improved pasture. In that period he has spent some £BOQ hi improving his. land ana i.oD-dressing and the. increased yield SrSSSS. leaves him a handsome profit. The increase tins year over his hrst year’s production lie estimates will be £6oo.—Eketahuna Express. a uiystenuus uioease nas i, -~’ presence iviiown in a sneuei i ui.ju» iion in me WiiiMuA states j.e t'-.u * o lane, me mummy organ ex .me forestry uup an mem. lno ocii . ■ compooca ei pinus l.uaiaia, auoui i a. to joO root in neigih- nast year, just alter tne trees had ftowereu, hve ui them gradually died irom no. appaient cause, lite trees liaa been at t.*e same height when the present -ecu t .er of me lauu took possession amo •lx years, ago, and it is now wonde* ja .vhetiiei ne are. dying of senuo decay.

••necenUy one oi the. Italian Jisnui;; launones caugUt a trust fish on one oi tlie.tr deep-sea set-lines” (writes Mr A. nausea, 41 years a iigntiiouse Keeper, to tUe Post/. “TUe depth Of water was about IQO fathoms, and tiie hook a large, hapuka hook. The hsh was 5Si inches long and weighed 51b exactly. I am writing you because i have never heard of a frost fish being caught on a line before, and I have fished off and hn for fifty years on tiie New Zealand coast, both east ami west and north and south ,of hath islands..’'’

Why is there £uch a difference between thg number of “cuts” of lu- 1 cerne obtained by different farmers: After substracting the. balance which may legitimately be-put down to ■•inference in soils, there still appears to be a discrepancy which snould be possible of explanation. Mr G. worn, of .Bartholomew Road, is at present taking the third cut of the season on a small patch, growing on his farm,, the lucerne at present being on an average, according to actual measurements taken by a “Chronicle” representative, 2ft 6in in height. Both of the preceding outs were about me same height, ahd Mr Webb states that he ‘ expects to. take at'least another seven crops off before June. The area on which the crop is growing, about one eighth of an acre., received this year, a top-dressing of seven wheelburrow loads of fowl-manure, the first manuring since it was. sown, six years ago. Last year ten cuts were taken off this piece of ground, whilst the average, number in the district is five. A possible explanation in this case is. that the crop is growing alongside a, piece of bush where it. is sheltered frqm all winds and receives all the sunshine possible.. The. average lucerne crop is. grown out in an unsheltered paddock, and perhaps it is this matter of adequate shelter wlricn is essential to the best results.