Shannon News TUESDAY, FEBRUARY, 10, 1925.

Shannon News, 10 February 1925, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, FEBRUARY, 10, 1925.

There la ai big demand in Shannon for electric ranges, quite a number having been installed recently.'

With the advent of electric light in Shannon some residents have taken the opportunity of brilliantly lighting their lawns and on fine nights groups may be seen playing croquet until 10.30 p.m.

Mr Roberts, of the Wairarapa, the New Zealand Party’s, nominee for the Manawatu seat is visiting Shannon and wifi speak at. Shannon on Saturday evening. Last evening ne addressed the men at the Miranui mill.

An accident befel .Mr 'Burroughs, of. Nathan Terrace, on Sunday whilst engaged in harvesting on Mr W. Gardner’s farm. He was, loading a dray with hay when the load slipped at the same time precipitating him to the ground. In falling the fork penetrated the top of his. arm, necessitating him receiving medical attention.

Owing to the restrictions in regard to the epidenlic of infantile paralysis still being in , force the committee of the Methodist Church Bazaar have thought it advisable to postpone the Bazaar till a later date. However, as a large number of the garments are suitable only for summer wear it is intended to show them for sale at an early date, when it is hoped the mothers will corne along to see them before buying' elsewhere. The lime and place Of sale will be advertised in Friday’s “Shannon News.”

In keeping with their usual progress, the proprietors oi the Maori - laud Theatre have now installed new scats in the Dress Circle. The floor has been polished and stained and the whole renovated. This, together with the superb chairs, which arc set at an - angle to give perfect vision and comfort, make the circle almost perfect. The proprietors claim that when the ground floor seating is completed, and this will be done within the next few days, Shannon will have the best equipped theatre of any town of its size in New Zealand. The chairs have been installed ,by the Parsonage Chair Co., Wellington.

An amusing experience (though not perhaps to the chief actor) and guaranteed to be a fact by those in the know, happened not one hundred miles from Mangaihao. It was just after a pay day when one of the men returned from town, well loaded with whisky, even to half a bottle in his hip pocket. On reaching his wliare he crawled into what he thought was his room. It was, however, the space underneath the wliare, which is raised some feet above the ground at the back. Now it happens an Irishman nearby owns a pig. which was in the halbitof taking up its sleeping quarters under the whare. During the night our friend was aroused by the snoring of his ibedmate and turning over sleepily gave “Dinnis” a dig in the ribs and enquired if “He would have a drink out of the bottle.” Getting no response, he went off to sleep again, only to be. aroused once more bv the snoring. Once more he gave the porker a dig and asked him to have a “whisky,” but getting no response, exclaimed indignantly. “Don’t you understand plain English?” Hiis discomfiture when daylight revealed the scene can he better imagined'than described.

The death is reported of Mr W. H. Graham, for over forty year’s connected with the Christchurch Press Company, latterly as assistant editor. He Pad a lengthy illness. The refitting of tbe interior of an hotel in Dunedin, at a cost of £16,000, is being so designed as to provide specially for the adequate housing - oi the Governor-General and suite (says the Dunedin Star). A suite of ten rooms is being set aside for the V iceRegal visit.

An interesting peep into the past may be seen at me Bank oi Australasia, Kanaia, where there is now located a huge sate made of boiler plate in Australia, and sent to New Zealand in tne year 1636. Had it been located in a less favoured district (tne iNorililander says) it would probably now be filled with mortgages, the result oi the recent slump.

A hoy in Ekotaliuna showed very alarming symptoms identical wuu tiiQse ot uiiantiie paralysis in its eaiiiest stages,. Searching inquiries revealed the fact that he and his hrutner had embarked upon a plum-eat-ing competition and one boy had eaten 100 and the other 105. Evidently anything over the century was too much even for their huge capacity.— nxprese.

-‘‘lt would seem to me,’’ said the Hon; R. F. Bollard in Taranaki on Monday, “that with a lithe top-dress-ing the land in the Taranaki would ba greatly, improved. They top dress in •Waikato and we know tile benefit of it Do you know wbat a critic of the vvaikato said to me the other day: ‘Since,’ he declared, ‘they have been top-dressing in tbe Waikato, the land has bevoine two. feet higher above sea level!’ ” (Laughter).

A farmer brought some produce to the city and sold it. Thought he, ”1 will surprise my wife." He bought a a, suit of clothes, a hat and a paii of shoes, and put them under the back seat. On the way home he stopped at the river, took off all his old clothes and threw them in. Then he looked under the seat for his new outfit. It was gone! Finally he got in the buggy and said, “Giddap, Maude we 11 suiprise her, anyhow.”

The Foxton Harbour Board is laying down flax refuse on a track about 12ft in width and H chains in length, leading from the old river bQd at the seaside across the drift sand on to the ocean beach. The object is to provide access for motor cars through the drift on to the linn beach. If the experiment is successful motorists will be enabled to travel along the sea coast at low tide for many miles along Uie seashore, thus .providing a delightful drive, as the sand is very firm along the coast.

“How do you fix the date as New Year’s Day?” asked counsel of a youthful witness at the Supreme Court at Palmerston North on Saturday. “I got very ‘full’ on the night before," blandly'’replied the youth, “and dul not get up till, four o’clock.'' When asked a minute later if the night was dark, the witness said there was a moon, and His Honour interjected: “Perhaps there were two!” Still persisting, counsel asked; “How was your memory on that, day?” With a shrewd smile the witness replied: “Not too Hash in the morning; but alright in tbe afternoon,’'

A fishing party on board a launch on Sunday got a heavy haul in the portion'' of the harbour between Matakanu Island and the. mainland, states a correspondent of the Auckland Star, it was estimated that tbe net contained about three tons oi fish. It was too heavy for the party of three to haul in, so they contented themselves with picking the fish. After securing about 350 they let the bulk of the catch go. The fish secured consisted of trevalU, kahawai, ahd schnapper. The same party, earlier in the day, secured 90 schnapper in an adjacent area. This was an exceptionally good lot, some weighing about fiJlb

A sensation was. caused in the vicinity Qi a circus, at New Plymouth a few days ago, by the escape of a young "lion. Leo was being put through some tricks by his trainer, but instead Of jumping through a loop, he bounded through the door u! his cage. Scattering a crowd assembled to watch the animals, the lion jumped a hedge into the grounds, ui a cottage near tbe gasworks, and ignoring a little boy in the garden, who toddled to tell liis mother of the “big dog,” proceeded, to paw the vegetables and snarl defiance. The lion was finally “netted” with a carpet aim dragged back to its cage, much humiliated, by a dozen men.

In view of the persistent rumour that the Dairy Board is about to exeicise its statutory authority to take absolute control of all dairy produce intended for export, it may be opportune to explain how the Meat Board which operates under practically the sumo authority as does the Dairy Board handles the interests of the producers subject to its jurisdiction. The Meat Board since the very beginning of its activities has sought to assist the producers without dislocating any of the existing channels of trade or discouraging any effort on the part ot private enterprise that appeared to be of service to the producers. The fact that the prices of meat have been well maintained without, any of the disturbing fluctuations which have affected the butter market testifies to the soundness of this policy. Beyond regulating the quantity of meat shipped each month the Board has done nothing to interfere with the marketing of the farmers’ pvoduce. The great bulk of the slaughtering in the Dominion is done between the beginning of December and the end of May, but the Board doe-s not allow the moat to lie shipped promiscuously, as appea rs to be the case with butter directly it is graded. It has put into operation a scheme by which the shipments ot meat are spread over the whole year according to the estimated requirements of the market.

A man who was churned at Auckiunii willi oyster poucinng stated that he merely lasted one out ol curiosity, mi was lined. £2.

Wiien three motorisls named Bird, pigeon and ilnusn were uned u*liampstead, Loiiuon, me iViagisuat.es clerk was named uowe. Ilie popularity ol Wie Mount Eg•niunt tup is exeinpluieu ny uie iaei liiat on a recent aunuuy no ieos man bt cais were urawn up at uiie mne at Dawson Balls.

j.ne consumer does not pay lor on verusing; neiuier uoes me trailer win. advertises, me man wno pays is un man wlio does not auvemse. —Air j. .>Ollll at a ridmpsiead Ulianmer 01 Bommeree meeting.

There are now. 371 -00111-111-1116-510. u-iepnoues 111 new. Zealand, ana m. revenue lrom these'. during llie yea. ended Mtircli 31 last was £ii3,i34, 01 Boi per instrument, and lor 3ue> oj these tliq charge is only id per

Tiie wool buyers who. attended tmDunedin wool sale engaged a spec la. tram to take them to Invercargill uattend the sale tuere. About l.orty 01 them travelled .by this means, the total cost being about £175.

“There is always trouble over accounts that run on lor years, and the people who let them run 011 are just as much to blame as the tradesmen who allow them to,” stated the magistrate in the Eketaliuna S.M. Court.

In conversation \vith Mr W. E. Barber, who was associated with Sit James Wilson as representatives ox the Munawatu county Council at the recent Shannon bridge conference, the Foxton Herald was informed that the subsequent support in favour of a new bridge as against temporary repairs to the. present structure was only decided upon alter careful consideration of the whole position, which’ convinced him that the erection ol a new bridge was the only safe and permanent settlement of the question. He feels sure when all the facts are known, all concerned will endorse the new bridge proposal.

.-States the Eketahuna Express:—A Kaiparoro party recently organised an eel hunt, and traversed the Makakaln river for about half a mile. In tills distance they caught 32 eels ranging up to 14ilbs m weight, and one, which was. considerably bigger than any ca'Ujght, they could not land. One 10 lb eel when opened \yas found to have a big trout, minus the head inside ol it. With eels as plentiful as this it will be recognised that the deterioration of the Makakahi as a trout flsiiing river is unavoidable. Our informant suggests that -a remedy would be for parties, to cover the whole reach of file river in relays and catch aU the eels that could he secured; the trout might then have a chance again.

Complaint was recently lodged with the District Traffic Manager at Auckland by the Hamilton Chamber ol Commerce relative to the inability ul passengers io destinations north ol To Kuit-i to reserve seats front Auckland, The letter also expressed the opinion tha.t it was sometimes possible, however, to secure a seat on the Main Trunk when the reserving was ostensibly heavy by tipping a porter. In reply to the Chamber on Tuesday night, the ’District Tralflc Manage : stated that acceptance of tips by members of the railway stall was absolutely forbidden and a close watch was kept for instances ol this breach. When qne was detected, the officer was. immediately suspended, and ultimately dismissed, If the offence was proved against him.

Mr W. C. Buckner, manager of the Dixie 3uiJil.ee Singers, is proud of ins company, not only because of its musical talent—but because as a combination it is a direct successor ot the Donovan Tennessians, one of the pioneer organisations of negro singers. In conversation with a Wanganui Chronicle representative Mr Buckner said that the original Fisk Jubilee Singers who toured New Zeulanu

nearly thirty years ago, were organised in the United States in 1871, and iwo years later the Tennessians came into- existence. Like the old Fisks, the Tennessee Jubilee Singers “carried on” for many years, singing their folk songs and plantation melodies to vvjarmly appreciative -audiences in all pails of America and Canada. When the old company dissolved in 11101, Mr and Mrs Buckner 1 billed the gap” by forming tire present company of Dixie Jubilee Singers who, until, they left for New Zealand in October last, were continually on tour either in the Big Republic or the neigh bouring Dominion.

Many theories of currency (have been Jormed, and many explanations oi those theories have been formulated. Surely file most lucid explanation is contained in the fallowing extract from Professor Knapp's hook on “Money,” quoted by the ••Economist." “But the papyroplatic variety is only mentioned as an example. Ii might also happen that every pound handed in might he paid Jor in ISDS marks as before, hut that ibis sum might la paid in thalers. In UU scase the Coalers would he hylogeuic, indeed eliryscgeiiie money, but they would be S argyroplatic, Mid therefore not ortho- i typic, for gold lias remained our liy- r lie metal, while the thalers are made oi. silver. Such a form is ineompre-1 hensibie from, tiie point of view, oi ; the metalist, while it offers not the . smallest difficulty tq the chartalist. In Holland, though the system is not, laid down in actual, ordinances, Jfce j Dutch silver gulden is a near ap-1 proach to chryso.ge.nic argyroplatic, money. This brings out very clearly the difference between the patic and genetic point of view.” Though the explanation may be intelligible to the J student of Greek, it will be quite . Greek to the general public. The j work is a translation from the Ger-, man, and when the extract given is read, that the author should apparently prefer paper money to simple gold' is not surprising. 1

The Port Nicholson Band art union resulted as follows:—ist, J-BtiBl; end, cctiC; 3rd, 15869; 4th, 19468. implying to a deputation front the luruuaki Jockey uiuo on aannuay, the Hon. Bullard sum ne lavuiucu permission oemg given lor me. telegraphing ul oeis cut Ute luiuiisaioi, the publication 01 tuvmeuds, ana me permitting bl tlouoie toiahsuiors. ■ln regard to agncuituiai euuco. lion and reseat on, i\eW /.eatauu streets oeimtu any outer pan ut me British. Empire,’' said Pruiessur u. T. l-eren ut a ineemiy m AiuSiei urn to discuss tile quesaun 01 agnounaial education, “iins is omy 10 ne capeoted, as New Zealand is only a juuug country, but steps ntusi be vakeit to improve mauers," n is important, lie added, mat evciy ~uuue man m New zeuianu wno mieims 1Oecome a laimer suomu nave poriunity 01 atienuing an iukuiuhu.. and there have hunueu out to mm way of lectures the accumuiaioa e.t pertence Qf others—tor, alter ait, utat is what our lectures noii-duwn to.