Shannon News TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1925.

Shannon News, 24 March 1925, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1925.

With view to making it easier for veiiicles to get on and Off the punt at the Manawatu river each flap of the punt has. been increased in length from- six; feet to ten feet.

In this issue tenders are invited by the Makerua Drainage Board lor widening, deepening' and 'banking the drain adjacent to Mr t G. Craw's residence at Linton.

Messrs A. Seifert, J, Kilminster and vs. Kilsby notify by advertisement that trespassers with or without dog or gun on their properties on East and Pretoria roads will be prosecuted.

An endeavour is being made to get a resident dentist lor Shannon and the Chamber-ol Commerce has communicated with the Dental Association in the lour centres on the matter.

The cricket uiattch to have been played at Shannon on Saturday between Shannon and Moutoa was abandoned owing to neither club being able to put a lull team in the ni-id.

There was a good yarding of cattle at the Shannon sale yesterday, bur 'bidding was very dull and only a few lines changed hands, the prices realised showing a downward tendency. Practically no sheep came forward.

Un Friday a meeting was held at shannon between representatives i'rom tlie Palmerston North Hospital Board (Mr W. Murdoch and the secretary) and the Mangahao Medical Association, when the'new agreement was discussed and terms arranged, wihich are to be submitted to Dr. Mackeretli.

A local builder iuforjns us that during the week end five different persons waited on Him for an estimate

with a view to building. At preset] there are numerous enquiries locall for the purchase of town propert; and to meet the demand three propei ty owners intend to subdivide fchei properties at an early date.

The ladies' committee of the Shannon Croquet. Club will conduct a street stall on Saturday next near the Council Chambers, with a view to raising funds. As the Club was only formed last season and the members have been under great expense it is hoped the public will give their patronage. Any persons who have produce, etc., to donate are requested to forward same to the stall on Saturday morning.

Whilst engaged in cleaning a window on Friday Mrs Balfour, of Vance Slreei, slipped off the chair on which she was standing and in falling dislocated her hip. Medical attention was obtained and she was removed to the Palmerston North Hospital for treatment. On enquiry yesterday it was ascertained that the hip had been got back into place but. it will be some time before Mrs Balfour will be able to leave the hospital.

As clswhere notified in this issue, the annual meeting of the Shannon Golf Club will, be held on Friday evening in the Borough council Chambers. As there will be a goou deal of important business to transact, a full attendance is requested of members, intending members and others interested in this most fasdning of all outdoor games. The prospects are very bright lor another Highly successful season.

The modern flapper has now taken to patronising the second class smoking carriages on the railway. Three of these enterprising young ladies joined Friday right's train at Otaki and entering the smoker soon made themselves at home. Before many minutes had passed they had filled the carriage with smoke which they puffed from their cigarettes with the zest of old hands at the game. During the journey their chief topic of conversation was the merits ol the different classes of cigarettes, one remarking that a certain brand was not half as good as it used to be.

Mr J. K. Horn blow, of Foxton, editor and proprietor of the Manawatu Herald, accompanied by Mrs Hornblow, leaves early in April on a trip to the Old Country. They proceed to Sydney to connect with the Ormuz sailing on April 15th by the Suez Canal route. The return journey -will be made via America to enable Mr Honiblow to visit bis cousin, Mr Arthur Ilornblow, a well-Known writer or plays, of New York, and author of "The Lion and the Mouse" and "Bought and Paid For.' j

C. B. Crawford, of Canterbury, has been chosen to replace. Collins in NewZealand cricket team.

The captain of (he Victorian cricket team, when speaking at a dinner at lnvercargill, said that one thing the Victorians were proud of was that two of tne greatest New Zealanders were born in Victoria—Sir Joseph Ward and Glqamingi' i

According to a prominent Hawkes Bay fruitgrower, who was questioned by a Daily Telegraph reporter, tne codiin moth has taken a .terrible ton of all classes of fruit this year ana mis lact, coupled with the recent wet spell, has done much to bring about a very difficult yield oi fruit in so far as parts of that district are concerned.

The health of Mr John Edie, M.P., is causing his family and friends some anxiety (says the Tuapeka Times). About three weeks ago lie consulted a Dunedin specialist aim found that his condition was more serious than he thought. Though ne has made some improvement, it will be a W.eek or two before he will be able to. return to Lawrence.

It was reported.* by the Engineer (Mr T. Overton) at tins morning's meeting of the Horowhenua Power Board that 37 electric ranges had been installed throughout the district, Tne chairman (Mr G. A. Monk) said that tins was very satisfactory. Thinyseven ranges meant thirty-seven demonstrators in the district, and was a fine advertisement for e.lectnc cooking.

The following tenders were -accepted for wiring and installations at the Horowhenua Power Board's meeting this morning:—Group 22 flhouse wiring Tokomaru), Messrs Lunn and Henley £4ll 14s; Group 23 (Tokomaru), Mr C. B. Gilmour, £789 13s 6d; Group 24, (Bruce and Buller Roads, Levin), Messrs Mansqn and Barr, Ltd., £3lO Is lOd.

Believed to be the oldest living white person born in New Zealand, Mrs James Bodggood, of Springbank, Kerikeri, Bay of Island, is nearly W years of age. She is the last of the first white family to settle in New Zealand. Mrs Bodggood, it is stated, has a fine collection of Maori curios-, and can tell many interesting stories of New Zealand in the clays of its early colonisation.

A Wellington message states that in a written reply to the deputation which waited upon him some time ago, and requested him to stand as a candidate for the Wellington North seat at the forthcoming general election, Colonel T. W. McDonald announces that he is now in a position to state definitely that he will accede to the request. He will stand as a supporter of a fusion of the lleform and Liberal forces."

Friday must have been a wild night at Foxton. Saturday's Herald records: "This morning a beer bottle was to be seen hoisted half-mast on the post office flag staff." Also—"An act of hooliganism, was perpetrated at Ihakara Garden last night, when the cannon was wheeled from its position on the top of the hill and left half way down the slope. Such senseless pranks may lead to serious consequences."

Speaking in reminiscent vein at a dinner of the Society of Accountants the other night (says the New Zealand Times) Sir Francis Bell recalled that Mr Macandrew, a Dunedin member of Parliament in the old days, had a great belief in unsinkable ships, and session after session would bring forward a resolution to the effect that we ought to have unsinkable ships; till one day Mr Vincent Pyke put an end to it by moving, as an amendment to the resolution, "and unburstable balloons."—(Laughter).

The; Catholic Bishop of Gal.way, in a Lenten Pastoral says; "1 was hopeful that a public protest from the Bishop would suffice tq end the evil craze of dancing, but my hopes have been disappointed. 1 jnofw (formally forbid every Catholic in the Gahvay Diocese to organise or take part- in Saturday nio-ht dances. If the prohibition is lignored, 1 shall make the offence a reserved sin. If this is insufficient, I shall use the further powers that Christ and His Church have placed in my hands."

The Levin Dairy Company's Maref pay-out to-day was Is 4d per lb ol butter-fat. Advances as under have been made bv factories against Feb ruary supplies : Awahurii (butter; Is sd; Whakaronga (butter) Is 4d and Is 3d; N.Z. Farmers' 'Dairy Lmou (butter) Is 3Jd; Palmerston North Dairy Co. (butter) Is 3d; Newbury Dairy Go, (cheese) Is 5d and 4.29 test; Kairanga Dairy Co. Is 2d on bufterfat, plus l|d for casein in butter fat; Rongotea Dairy Co. Is 3d on butter-fat.

A dramatic interlude in the family

life of a King Country resident culminated on Saturday, when five little tots were commutted, on the application of the police to a receiving home. The father of the little family is an inmate of a 'hospital while the mother has left home. For some time the children have been living alone. A police officer visited the home, where he h>und a mite, aged ten years, had been mothering her wee brothers and sisters. She had kept the house on the I strictest principles of cleanliness and | had even washed a blanket to ensure | the comfort of her charges on tne 1 journey to Wanganui. This article of comfort had been carefully prepared at the wash tub. She, however, in an-

swer to the escorting officer—a married man ihimself—apologetically explained that she had not been aiblo to drv and air the blanket as time did not permit. "Do you klnow," said Sergeant Lopdell to a reporter, "they are the brightest and cleanest Kids I have ever come across. It is terribly sad " So the .poor little mites will rest on the bosom of charity for years to come in spite of the fact that tflieir I distressed circtimstances are no fault 1 of their own.

The Shannon Dairy Company has maue an advance to, its suppliers of Is 5d per lb oi butter fat against supplies received during the mouth oi February.

It is that the Governmentis enquiring into tne recent increase m the puce Q{ i>read turougnoui, uie Dominion, ttfie official opinion ueng fihai uie one penny rise was nut wnuaiy justified.

Tiie County Clerk has already received a, number Or oners 10 tutve up deoentures in tne £i;j,ooo loan uue norowhenua County council is seeding to raise* in its. own district in connection with the Mam iiignways scheme..

'liie public hospital ut (j'soorne is to benefit by a donation oi £SO, the result ol a" wager over uie measurement oi a meat sale. The wager arose over a. difference of opinion netween a popular auctioneer aim an.auer townsman.

Dr. T. iMcKjibbiii, Director of Public Hygiene, states tiie Department win siiortiy consider the question of the mandate, winch now nolds good to April 1. The Public Health Departmem is ascertaining irom the various health districts how severe are the cases that are nemg reported tins month and this will he the guide in dealing with this matter.

Wonderlul fruit returns have been secured in Uie abandoneu mining claims on tiie Cornwall Fiats, outgo,, from what was considered hopeless, buti'an wastes (says an onangej. irrigation is the main factor in success, ilie nver Kakarau was dammed and uie water turned on to the flats. Now it has been growing for some years some of the best lruit produced m the Dominion.

A very interesting sight was witnessed on tne Hokto Beacn on Saturday evening. Every wave >ui tiie incoming fltde left behind it as it receded, thousands on tliousands of tiny pipis, none larger than a threepenny piece. No sooner had the water leu them stranded than the instinct for sell preservtion asserted itself, and they were up on edge burrowing into the damp sand, which at times was whitened for long stretches by the tiny shell Ash.

The Government is to be urged to alter the system of identification plates so as to provide lor indicating 'the district in which the motor vehicle is garaged, .and the following suggestion was made at a conference of motorists at Ghristchurch, to be brought up at a conference with tiie Minister of Internal Affairs at Wellington*—"That the letters N.Z.' be deleted from the plates, and that prefix letters be substituted, and that tiie figures be not more than four J n number; also that tiie plates be permanent, not annual, and that the colours be white on black."

lliis is an -old story, ibut it is going the rounds an Britain again, and it is far too good to miss. ".The lady had Iqst her husband and had given instructions to the stonemason as to the wording on the tombstone, the ending to be "Rest in Peace." In the meantime her last husband's wjUl disclosed the fact that she had been somewhat shabbily treated. She rushed round to the stonemason and told him to omit the words "Rest m Peace." "I'm very sorry," he replied, "but they have already been carved. "Oh, well," said the irate lady, "add 'Until we meet agaml"

"Sport," a pretty collie dog owned by "Jiim" Parker, was present on the wharf at Lytteltpn waiting for the arrival of the southern sectional tlie All Blacks, no doubt unaware pi the surprise in store: lor him. As the Wahine neared the jetty Parker whistled to "Sport," ana tiie dog recognised the whistle, but could not qiwte make out where it came from. As the Wahine pulled up Parker was still trving to attract "Sport's" attention. With a little pointing by Mr Parker, sen., from the wharf, "Sport'' was able to discover his master. His antics fully demonstrated the extent of 'his joy. By this time the mam centre of attraction was the dog, who ran up and down the wharf in an excited condition. Then "Sport" suddenly discovered that a gangway had been lowered and without any delay or beg-pardons to the passengers on the gangway and deck, he bumped and dodged his way until he reached his master. The reception "Spoi't" got from the All, Black can well be imagined, and the incident will long be remembered toy those who attended the arrival at Lyttelton of the AH Blacks.

This is what Dr. Gvisclule, Deputy. .Minister of Agriculture, Ottawa, says: "The wool sup-ply of the world is down and the supply of mutton low,' he went on to say: "The United States can take all the mutton Canada can provide Ihem with.' A similar pronouncement on the wool situation was made by'Mr. Walter Andrews, of Great Britain, a past president of the British Wool Federation. He says the world is hungry for avool. Total production, he claims, is 800.000,0001 b. r.hort ot: the pre-war total. The supposed huge surplus on hand at the close of the war. he states, was Utile, more than the normal reserve, out

ils pivs'-iu-o as a visible supply on hand led to extravagant use of wool and depressed new production. The present deficiency has led to sublantialiv, higher prices than in pre-war

days and a growing use of substi. futes. "Artificial silk manufacture,' says Mr. Andrews, ' is going ahead by

leaps and bounds. This synthetic fibre cannot replace wool, because, useful as it is in certain directions, its hygienic properties are inferior to those of the sheep's neoce." A further factor in the shortage is the increased use of knitted goods. This is

described as having increased enormously in European countries. There is, apparently, every reason fny Dr. G-risdale's statement, mid for viewing the future with optimism, notwithstanding the depression in values that has taken place.

Foxton ratepayers yesterday rejected two loan proposals for the construction oi swimming baths (88 to sty, and tiie erection, of a Horary {% to §0).

a solicitor appearing for a man cnargeu with men at uie augkuuiu i oiioe .Court, alter nib cuent hod guue into uie prisoner's dock, ■ asKtsu tne Magistrate if lie would allow accused to sit alongside mm during uie. Hearing ox the case, "Ut course, certainty, - replied Mr Poynhjn, smiling, "the prisoner's dock is leaMy only a survival ol ancient times, when prisoners were m the habit of attacking tne juuges."

The firm which was considering the matter lias abandoned the idea of starting a butter factory hi Foxton. At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, Mr »Perreau said that Uie representatives of another firm had made enquiries and were prepared to commence operations locally provided •the first firm abandoned the idea. He said a site had been inspected in a central (position, apd further steps would be taken at an early date.

The advent of electricity has caused a big slump in the gas consumption in Foxton. The Borough Council has therefore reduced the price of gas for cooking and heating to 8s 9d per 1000 feet. Where cooking and lighting is charged tlhrough the one meter, the first 400 feet consumed will be at lighting rates and the balance at 8s 9d. Tne Town Clerk- ,

and gas manager were instructed to get out a circular pointing out the advantages of gas cooking.

The following gives some idea of the profits made by farmers out of sheep during flhe last season, writes our Raetihi correspondent. At last year's Karioi sheep fair a local farmer was offered 14s for his ewes, which he declined to accept. Since then ewes returned near .100 per cent, of lambs, for which, he got £1 each, and t the wool clip brought in to t)he credit of the farmer nearly 10s per head. At the fair at Karioi on Thursday last the same old ewes were disposed of at 32s 7d. By keeping the sheep the farmer benefited to the tune of £1 15s 7d per head.

Policemen kept a vigilant watch on the gate at the Linton Sports yesterday with the idea of upholding the Health Department's mandate regarding the admission of the, children to public gatherings,, but about a score of the juvenile admirers of the Australian athletes, who were competing at the function, were not to be outdone. They perched themselves on the trees over-looking the track, and were able to witness, all the races. One party went sq far as to bring cushions and lunch and did not move from the-trees throughout the afternoon.

The Foxton Chamber o-f commerce has received a letter from Mr Win. Ross, managing director of the Poplar Flaxmilling Co., Ltd., confirming the verbal offer of £IOOO towards the cost of the erection of a bridge across the Manawatu river at Poplar and land for the road to connect up with Rangitane Road in line with poplar road leading off the Fqxton-Shannon road. The writer concluded; "We only trust that you may be successful in being able to call on us for the money." The erection of tne bridge and road to connect with the road through Mr Akers', property would provide a quicker route from Foxton to Palmerstori, avoiding the Himatangi triangle and would give access to land eminently suited for closer settlement and thus add to the general prosperity of the district. It was decided that .offer be communicated iu Mr Akers and to await his reply belore further action is taken in this important matter.

After many years' . anticipation Human Catholic parishioners of Paimerston saw their magnificent new church of St. Patrick opened yesterday, Archbishops Redwood and U'Shea aim many other church dignitaries participating. The church, tne erection of which occupied 20 months, is "Tii conformity with unadorned Gothic design, with a, lofty spire of about 180 Jeet high. The building is a spacious one, caculated to fuufif requirements of tiie parish for many years to conjee. The seating accommodation is from 1050 to HoO, leaving room for .spacious. aisles, and beautifully ! designed altar work. The new cnuroh was commenced 12 montlis ago. The site cost £7000; alterations to presbytery £1900; new church with incidentals, £32,000; the whole undertaking approximating £40,000, of which only £12,500 remains unpaid. The offertory yesterda yamounted to £ISOO. A magnificent peal of 'bells were rung for the first time prior to the service.

The Paimerston Times reports that a remarkable accident occurred there on Saturday evening. A car driven by Mr R. O'B. Loughnan, coming down Rangitikei Line from the Bulls races, caught the -rear of Mrs James Dawber's sedan just as her car was clearing the inter-section with Featherston Street. The sedan bumped with great force into the telephone-box on the corner and it was knocked clean off its pedestal.. There was a man inside and he presented a ludicrous spectacle backing out of the contrivance on all fours! Fortunately he was unhurt. He was Mr Alfred Goldfinch, who was just about to insert the penny in the slot to call up a number where he could get the result of the last race at Bulls.. Hearing the crash he looked out of the glass por* tion of the box. and saw the secran, swung around by the impact, coming straight for his frail shelter. It was impossible for him to make his escape and he had only a moment to wait before the car was on him and overturned the whole show. Beside a bit of a shock Mr Goldfinch suffered no injury or inconvenience and backed out of the bottom of the box which had no floor to it. Mr Goldfinch added naively "it quite put the race out of my mind for a while." Both cars were badly damaged.