Shannon News TUESDAY MARCH 3l, 1925.

Shannon News, 31 March 1925, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY MARCH 31, 1925.

Mr W. Murclqcli announces in .this issue that he wiU open his Mayoral campaign at the Maoriland Theatre on*'Tuesday, April 7th, at 8 p.m., when he will address the electors of the Borough.

A perusal oi the programme of the sacred concert toj he held next Sunday at ?.?0 in the Maoriland Theatre will convince anyone that <4 is a very attractive one and also, of a high class' nature, combining local talent with that from Palmerston and Mangaore. The local clergy have decided to begin their services half an hour earlier so •as to close in time for the opening part of the concert. The street sttlll held on Saturday by the ladies of the Shannon Croquet Club, proved most successful, over £ll being netted.. During the day competitions were run and t)he following are the results: Dinner, Mr McKenzie, Moutoa; cake for guessing most noted citizen in Shannon (Mr J. Curran), Mr McLachlan; sack ol coal, No. 16, nearest number 13, Mrs ,1. Beard; breakfast, Miss A. Brown.

At 'the Palmerston. Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., Albert Edward Bentley, •22 years of age, appeared on charges that at Miranui on March 28, he did steal the sum of £l, the Property of Roy Phillip Le Quesne and further, that at the same place on March I*, he did steal the sum oif £2, also the property of Le Quesne. On apphcati'On of Senior-Sergeant OGaad>, accused was remanded until Fnda\ next.

An election for the purpose of electing two members to. the Wellington Harbour Board to represent the Boroughs bf Palmerston, FeUdmg, Foxton, Levin, Shannon and Otaki, and the counties of Manawatu, Oroua, Horowhenua, ; pohan-gina, Kairanga and Kiwitea will be held on M ednesday the 29thi day of April, 1920. Nominat’ions of candidates will be received at the Town Clerk’s office, the Square Palmerston North, up to noon on Thursday, the 9th day of April. 1925.

Last evening a meeting was held between the Reserve committee and representatives of the League ari u Rugby Football Clubs, tlie object ol which was to come to some amicable arrangement, between the football clubs lor the use of the Domain for the coming season. After the position had been fully discussed it was decided that it be a recommendation to the Borough Council that the use ot the Domain by the League Football Club and the Rugby Football Clob ix as follows:—The Rugby Club to have the use of the ground three Saturdays to the League- Club’s one, owing to the difference ip.number oi piayeis.

Mr J T. Bovis is offering for sale, Mr G E, Hook’s sections, which were recently cut up into building sites. These sections are well situated, and should prove quick sale, as the price and terms are easy.

Mr A. Biiietis, photographer, of Levin, announces that lie is now taking appointments for Faster wedding photographs. Alt intending patrons may obtain ftfil particulars by ringing. up tlie Studio, phone No. 165, Levin.

Tlie vicar ol an Auckland parish was delighted'to receive from a brother clergyman in the country a case containing many useful and ornamental articles for sale at a bazaar (states the New Zealand Herald). Alter tlie sale the discovery was made that tlie wrong case had reached the bazaar. What the country vicar had sent was a case of lemons. It was brought to Auckland by a young -lady, who had a case exactly similar packed with wedding gifts. Her feelings i/heii she found that they had changed to lemons can be imagined, particularly as the bazaar sale had already taken place.

A small safe at a factory in Newmarket, Auckland, was 'blown open some time between Saturday and Monday last. On account of previous visitations of tile kind, it lias been the policy of the firm for some time past not to keep money in the office safe overnight, and also to leave the safe, containing the books, unlocked. On this occasion the safe had been inadvertently locked by a clerk on Saturday night, with the result that when the staff came to wiork on Monday morning they founcT that someone had blown it open. The damage to the safe and books was considerable, but the burglar got nothing for his trouble.

“This is a world in which we should not tolerate people who do no work— whether they wear spats or ( bowyangs,” said Mr. P. late, in an* address he gave at Napier.

I>i-. Telford, District Health Officer at. ciu-istchurch, has withdrawn lus resignation and continues in liis position rie resigned on account of dhleiences with the Health Department in regal'd to the metnods of combatting the epidemic.

In tlie paunch of a bullock killed at Bathurst recently was found a remarkable medley. There were six nails, varying in length up to about three inches, a hack saw blade, two sixpences and a couple of large flat stones , The animal was in good condition.

An Fltliam settler advertised i'or a iarin hand. He was pleased to have turee applicants call upon him; but ne was surprised to find that each oi them arrived in a, taxicab. None ox them were engaged, hut one who made ins way to uie fann on iShanks puny, and looked like a worker, got me job.

“Twenty-five years ago 1 came to Wellington to enter the profession qi law. without a penny in my pocket, without naving passed a single examination necessary at the tune, not even matriculation, and knowing probably not more than ten or a dozen people in Wellington,” said Justice Ostler when presiding a.t the annual meeting of the Wellington Boys’ institute on Monday night.

It is believed that tlie fatal motor accident by which the two. brothers Youngman were killed at Paparnu was caused by a defective wheel, resulting in a tyre bursting and overturning (he car. Mr W-filmm F. Youngman was a married man, 52 years of age, with a family of seven children, and was farming at Inchhonnie.. The other victim, Mr Hurry Alfred Youngman, was also a married man, with a family ol eleven children. He was a sawmill manager.

Toll-gates are gradually to disappear in Taranaki as a result of the National Highways Boat’d operations The first to go is/the section north oi Waitara borough' over 25 miles m extent from Waitara to Mangatunu iunction, which 1 is a portion -of the national road from Auckland to Wellington. This has been gazetted a national highway, with the result that Clifton toll-gate at Waihi on the sec x tion disappears as from Ist April, it is expected that another toll-gate m the Stratford district, .also on the main arterial road, wifi shortly he closed as a result of a similar piocess.

At the meeting of the executive ol the Wellington provincial executive of the Dairy Fanners’ Union Mr LI. Fox reported having sent the following telegram to Mr' Grounds, chairman of the Dairy Control Board.— “Doubts are expressed regarding your attitude to the election of the Dairy Control Board. Are you m favoui of amending (legislation to provide for the ward system, individual producers to have a direct vote for their respective wards.” The following replv was received:—“l favour individual suppliers having a vote in weir own ward; the board should not interfere regarding legislation. ’ me chairman (Mr N. Campbell) expressed tlie opinion that this was clear enough.

Many SQutifianfiers (says tile Southland Times) are familiar with the story of the' English tourist who on his way to Stewart Island, confided t,o a fellow traveller that he would “probably stroll round the island alter tea and come home next day, but now a new “howler” has been brought to light. A, few days ago, tittle party of enlightened Englishmen walked into the local Tourist Office and presented the astonished an a amused officer with keepsakes in the form, of four pairs Qf brand nsw Canadian. webbing pnowshoes such as are used by trappers in the frozen north. They explained that beioie coming out to New Zealand t _ y thought it a land of eternal ice und enow where travel would be unposs Se wltbout the racquet-like encumbrances.

\ Dunedin telegram to the “Chronicie” to-dav says; The family of the l.ate Alexander Thomson have handed over to the Otago Museum a priceless collection of Maori and other curios, the'chief loi which is a huge maa egg. There is only one other complete Moa egg in New Zealand, which is also in the Museum. A third is said to exjst in a private collection in England. The other articles include spears from Australia, New Guinea, the Solomons, and the New Hebrides, a Japanese sword of exquisite temper, pineapple clubs, bamboo pillpws from Fiji, Maori adzes whose size and perfection make them the gems of tne collection, and a Maori mat which has a history, having been owned by Kereopia, the murderer of Rev. Mr Volkner at Opotiki. The Mauri section consists of 373 stone implements.

in response to persistent demands from farmers (in the Wairarapa for the services of Mr W. J. McCullough, instructor in Agriculture, the provincial secretary (Mr 3. Watson) repealed to the provincial Executive of tne Wairarapa Farmers’ Union that no had conceived the idea of petitioning Mr McCullough’s department to have him stationed permanently in Master - ton, to serve the Wairarapa provincial district. M|i* McCullough, wh° attended the meeting later, had this matter mentioned to h'Un, and lepl.eu that flits was not prepared to give an answer. Ho did not know that his services wore so valued in the Wairarapo. Ho agreed that, there was woik for an instructor here, and if the exe culivo was keen on the a PP OIII Sjf} of an export he could only reoom mend them to apply to the Department of Agriculture and they would get a direct niiswer. It. was decided_to at nlv to tiie Department to have Mr McCullough transferred ffi Masterton.

Taranaki Oilfields, Ltd., reports that uit l'arata i>ore is clown llOoft. me uuie is wet and progress stow.. line iuoiuroa oore is down it, unu is roamed übiloit for iai-uicu easing.

A coincidence that is probably as unique as it is interesting caine to ligiit at the seventh-seventh annual re-union oi tbe Qtagp Early Settlers Association at Duneum tins ween. An old identity wno nad spent 63 years m Dunedin, was conversing with another old identity, and auiung tu* course of conversation it was found .that the two> men had been boys on tire sinp Resolute which arrived in 1864. Tne two boys had parted at the jetty, one going into, the country, and the other settling in the city, and not lor 63 years did they again see one another, it was a happy hour for those two old gentlemen as they sat and conversed of what tne years had brought since they had parted as boys in the distant past.

Many beginners make a mistake in bringing up young poultry along with the grown fowls from the time they leave the mother hen. The effect is to check the growth very seriously, for at feeding times the young birds are constantly being bullied and have a poor chance of obtaining a sufficient supply of food. Growing chickens need to be fed frequently, yet if food is thrown down four or five times a day the old birds get the greater quantity and the young ones derive little benefit, N o matter how limited the accommodation may be, if chicks are reared they must have a separate run and sleeping quarters, and must on no account be kept with the old birds. Unless that precaution is taken it is of little use rearing young stock, for certainly they will not pay.

A fatal street corner accident happened at the intersection of Ghutrch and iVlcGiffert Streets, in Palmerston at 5.30 >pjn. on Saturday, when a married man, Walter James Baigent, of 23 Worcester Street was killed. Mr Baigent was cycling along Church street behind a 5-ton motor lorry belonging to Messrs Child Bros., and as the lorry turned the corner into McGiffert Street, he also turned, ami endeavoured to cut in on the. left ihana side of the motor. Whether the lorry took the corner more sharply than he expected, or whether he misjudged the pace at which he was travelling is not known but just at the turn the bicycle skidded, throwing the rider and the machine beneath the lou'ry, the rear wheel passing over the ueceascd’s head. The other part of his body was untouched. Death must have been instantaneous. The driver ui iiu> lorry was unaware of the approach behind him of tike deceased, and the first intimation he received ■of anything amis was when he felt a bump and looked back. When he pulled up, Baigent was dead. Deceased was a carpenter. He was 4.1 years of age and leaves a widow and four children.

Does tobacco growing in New Zealand pay? The answer to that question is: Look at the rapidly increasing number of men on the land who are now turning their attention to tobacco culture in this country. The early attempts to. put New Zealandgrown tobacco on the market (about 30 years ago) were, it must be confessed, disappointing. The samples produced were very crude. But modern methods of culture and treatment of the leaf have completely altered all that, and as an average crop of New Zealand tobacco is now worth 450 per acre (sometimes more) there can be no question about tobacco culture paying the farmer. As to the “weed” in its manufactured form' it is excellent. Unlike most <ot the imported brands it contains very little nicotine, and may be indulged in ad fib. without harmful results, while the toasting of the leaf (quite a new idea) develops flavour and aroma surprisingly. Undoubtedly this industry, already flourishing, is destined to become of national importance. Leading, lines are: Riverhead Gold, mild; Navy Cut (Bulldog), medium; and Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullhead), fu11.—34.*