Shannon News TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1925.

Shannon News, 21 April 1925, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1925.

, Tiie practice of tixe Chloral Society on Thursday evening at the Parish Hall will commence at 7 p.m. to enable members.’ to attend Mr Murdoch's meeting at 8.15 p.m. at the Maoriland Theatre.

At the Parish Hall this, evening’ a dance will be held by the committee Of the Anglican Garden Fete with a view fto augmenting it he funds towards installing a hot water service at the Vicarage. The music will be supplied by Mrs Butler and arrangements have been made for an enjoyable evening.

A dance will be held in the Moutoa Hall on Friday evening in aid lof the Moutoa School funds. Free conveyance across the river by the punt has been arranged for and visitors from Shannon are assured that there will be no difficulty in getting to and from the hall so far as the punt is concerned. ’ -

Mr W. Murdoch will again address the electors of the Borough in furtherance of his Ma)yoral campaign on Thursday evening in the Maoriland Theatre. Owing to the practice lof. the Choral Society falling on that evening the meeting will not commence until-8.15 p.m., so as to enable the members of the Society, who desire, to attend.

Howard Andrew, Ltd., remind the public by advertisement on page 2 that next Saturday is a close holiday on account of Anzac Day. Consequently Friday night will be the late night and customers are urged to take advantage of this, inspect the window display, and make their purchases. The firm calls attention to their new stocks of Stetson Hats just landed. They have a special line 01 gents' rubber coats at 27/6. ;

A picturesque feature of the Makerua swamp at Miranui is a flock of about 200 pukekos, who- are to be seen frequently in the vicinity oi the big mill. These handsome ‘ birds have multiplied rapidly in tiie past year or two and have attracted a great deal of attention from visitors, many of whom go specially to see them. Mr A. Seifert has 'made the Miranui prov. perty something of a sanctuary for the pukeko and is desirous, of preserving the birds. Sportsmen are therefore notified that Miranui is closed to those in pursuit of game.

At the Police Court yesterday mo filing, before Messrs Gunning and Spencer, J’s.P., two men were dealt with, Constable Blaikie prosecuting. Paddy Takaatu was charged with being drunk and disorderly and using obscene language. On the first charge he was fined 10s, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment, and for using obscene language he was fined £3, in default one month’s imprisonment. An old offender named James Mclnerny, on a charge iof being an incorrigible rogue, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment and on a'further charge of using obscene language he received a sentence of three months’ imprisonment, the sentences to be concurrent. The accused had been cadging about the town for the past few days and generally making himsell lobjectionable by his behaviour.

Shannon citizens are leaving no -.lone unturned to make Anzac Day one of the most impressive that has 'been held here, as will be seen iby the inset programme. The Levin band will play selections for about an hour before the service begins and will assist in the service. The singing will be led by the Shannon Choral Societv, which gave such a splendid account of itself at the last sacred concert, The Rev. A. F. Stewart will preside and the Rev. J. D. McArthur, and the Mayor will deliver appropriate addresses'. Bandmaster Lester will play the Last Post. The service will lie held around the cenotaph and seals will, be provided for those who need them, whilst, a platform will he erected for tlu> choir. Doubtless there will be a-l.-irtre crowd present, The public are asked to keep the programmes and tiring them to the service.

Mr W. R. Kemball, the well-known Mnsterton sportsman, has decided tu give up horse-racing and is selling the whole of his team of horses.

Before proceeding with business Saturday, the Horowhenua County Council, on the motion of the chairman (Cr. G. A. Monk) a vote of sympathy was {passed with the prime Minister in his serious illness, and also with Mrs Massey. Cr. Monk, in moving the resolution, said that whatever shade of political opinion they might hold, they cquld unite in wishing Mr Massey a speedy restoration to his usual health. 1

“Enough to eat, kindly treatment and a dry place to be down on are ail that a cow asks for and it Rttie enough to give her,” said Mr Watson, at the Jersey demonstration yesterday. The speaker continued; “If your car needs oil, you put more in, but the greatest ol all machines, the dairy cow, is often sadly neglected,.”

Mr EL. E. B. Watson, tiie Jersey Association's demonstrator, is a hrm believer in the art of “window dressing.” He favoured any reasonable means being used to 'improve the appearance oi any animal which was placed beiore a judge in the show ring. Trimming Here and there gave a oeast a much more pleasing appearance, but, lie said, no judge worthy of the name would be deceived.

The dairy pay-outs for the various -factories in Manawatu fur the month oi March are as follow: —(Levm (butter) is 4d; Awanuri Dairy company (butter) is 4d; Whakarongo (butter; is 3d and Is 4d; Kongotea (butter) Is 3d; Shannon (butter) Is sd; Palmerston North (butter) is 4d; New Zealand Farmers (butter) is 3d; Kairanga (bntteriat) Is 3u; (casein) Is iGlen Oroua (cheese) Is 5d (equal to that for January and February).

“At a prohibition lecture once,” Mr H, E. B. Watson told ills audience oi the Jersey Demonstration on Friday, •T heard the lecturer say ‘that there was nothing like whisky to make people oblivious, of its effects.’ But when i go round and see the class of cow that many iarmers are carrying on with, I begin-to think that wffisky is not in it as a deceiver witir the scrub cow.” (Laughter and applause).

Preparations liave been completed for the Horowhenua Power Board’s Ball, which is being held in the Cosmos Theatre' this evening. The Jazzmanian Orchestra has been secured for the occasion, and the decorations are reported to be on a particularly effective scale. The catering is in the hands of Mr A. L. Williams, which is sufficient guarantee of its qualify, and the function gives promise of being one of the most’ successful in Levin.

Big prices were realised for Jerseys last season, said Mr H. E. B. Watson at the Jersey Demonstration last week, but he was pleased to see that many had been sold at prices which had not paid for the rearing of them. Many of those present would, remember that last year he had said that a lot of scrub Jerseys were being bred and kept just because they we r e in the stud-books. He was gl a d to see that people were beginning to recognise that the scrub pedigree animal , was still only a scrub, and to refuse to pay good prices for them.

A young man brandishing a revolver created great excitement in Heretaunga Street at Hastings on Saturday evening. A large cyowd collected, but was kept at a respectable distance by the flourishes of the menacing weapon. A constable appeared on the scene and took the man mto custody, when it ,was i'oiund that the weapon was unloaded. At the Police Court sitting at Hastings, this morning, Henry Havenson, 22, was remanded on a charge of drunkenness, presenting a revolver at a man in the street and being unlawfully m possession of an unregistered weapon.—Press Association.

i Whilst there was no such thing as an efficient d.ual-purpose cow, Mr H. 'E. b. Watson told the gathering at the Jersey Demonstration on Friday last, there was nothing against the combination of show points and production in ths same animal. At UX6 same time he would advise the youngbreeder to avoid the “pretty” cow. It was better tq get first the high production animal ajnd (breed show points on to her, rather than take a “pretty” cow and try toi breed up her production. Make the cow pay her way as you go along, Mr Watson concluded amidst applause.

In his anthropological study Of the Maori people Dr. P. H. Buck, Director of Maori Hygiene, has discovered that they were, as a rule, free from a tendency to goitre which is now manifesting itself to a considerable extent among European colonists. This he fold. the Dental Conference, he attributes* to a large extent, to the fact that their foods contained consti--1 tuents which are said to bet lacking in the salt consumed by Europeans. Goitre was definitely known to tne Maoris. In point of fact they identi- ■ fled it by the word “Tonga,” which signified "large neck.” Tne disease occurred most frequently among inland tribes, where in one case he had traced it in the history of one family 1 through four generations. To the coastal tribes it was virtually uni known, 1 and this fact was attributed ; to the consumption by their people of edible seaweed known as “Karengo, ’ 1 which made a palatable article of diet, and of which he was personally very fond. The matter of registration of motor lorries was discussed at Saturday’s, meeting of the Horowhenua County Council, when the chairman (Cr. G. A. Monk) said that the County was in a peculiar position as there were very few lorries domiciled actually in the County. Most were in the Boroughs and unless the closest co-operation was exercised between the Boroughs and the County, there was going to ,he trouble. Another thing was that (the greater number of the lorries runI liing over the road were domiciled in * Wellington, Feilding, etc., and it was ! probable that these would use the ! roads considerably and tile County I would get nothing from them. It ) would look as if some definite arrangement would have to .be made I so that each County would get a fair allocation according to the traffic on the roads, irrespective of where the lorries were registered. The position was difficult: Horowhenua- was part of a group of counties from the Hutt to the Rangifikei and although it was agreed to* divide the license fees, the difficulty was to agree on a basis of distribution. The matter was one to lie very carefully watched, or it was feared'that the County would find itself left

A Press message from Raetihi says that jean Robinson and Pauline Thompson, aged nine and ten, were missed last night from Oliakune. Search parties were out all night in the bush and the children were found at daybreak asleep and unharmed.

It is not my province to enter into the merits of the hot controversy now going on in regard to the Dairy Export Board’s decision to go in for kbsolute control of export next season, says a writer in the “New Zealand Farmer.’’ I can simply reflect opinion as it is found in this atmosphere. It is no exaggeration of partianship to say that commercial people who hand farm products, and are bound hand and foot to the producing industry for their own success, are seriously alarmed over the prospect of 20 million worth of produce being taken out of the hands of those who have previously dealt with it, to be placed under the sole control oi people who have yet t 6 prove their capacity for dealing with so vast a business proposition. As this interest views it, the judgment of a comparacisely few men is replacing the judgment of a large number of dairy factory directors who have, in the past, "exercised full discretion as to whether they would sell f.0.b., c.i.f., or consign to London agents to do their best, or to get best terms subject to certain limits. The pooling of the whole operation is undoubtedly a huge experiment, and the Government has itself a serious responsibility to face in deciding whether or not to issue the requisite Order-in-Council. Perhaps they may delay a little, and then a ~ little more —until the general elections in December are over. The question is in danger of becoming a political one of the first magnitude.