Shannon News TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1925.

Shannon News, 23 June 1925, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1925.

The new books for the Library have arrived and are now available for use.

Master; Selwyn Jones met with a painful accident on Saturday, by getting his finger caught in a wringer, losing a nail. He had to seek medical assistance.

The Shannon Choral Society has lost a keen member for the time, being in Miss Watterston, who has gone to Dannevirke. If possible Miss Watterston hopes to help in the coming concert. <

The thirteen-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs W. Manning, of Clapham Street, who has been under iwedical treatment for some days, was removed to the Palmerston North Hospital yesterday, where she' will undergo an operation.

Dancing enthusiasts are reminded that the social and dance to be held bv the Shannon Football Club will take iplace in the Druids' Hall on Thursday evening. Special arrangements have been made to ensure those who attend a good time. The music will be provided by the Maoriland Orchestra.

This evening at the Maoriland Theatre, Mr C. H. Poole, ex-M.P. for Auckland West, lectures ion "America through New Zealand Eyes." Mr Pools, who is a very able speaker, has spent four years in the United States and has lectured to-over two million people. The lecture will be preceded by a concert programme.

A visitor to one of the practices of the Shannon Choral Society the other night congratulated the Society on their work, and especially the sopranos, who took their higher "A's" and "G's" with great ease. He said many a society would be glad to have them in their choir. The work under rehearsal, "Esther," is to be produced on Sunday, July 5,

Mr J. Chandler Logan, a Crimean Veteran and a very old resident ol' shannon, is at present an inmate of the Palmerston North Hospital. Mr Logan, who is over 90 years of age, had been remarkably well up to. about three weeks ago, when his legs, started to cause him trouble and it was deemed advisable last week that he should enter the hospital for treatment.

A benefit social and dance will be held in the Druids' Hall on Thursday, Julv 2nd, in aid of a member of'the Shannon Football Club's junior team, who received injuries whilst playing against Miratuii on Saturdav, which will incapacitate him for some time. The dance is being held under the auspices of the Shannon social Club.

At tlie Presbyterian Church, Shannon, on Wednesday last, the marriage took place of ' John Fairgrieve Murray to' Florence Jessie, second daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert McC.ull'och, ol' Margaret Street, Shannon, the ceremony being performed l-y Ihe IVv. A. F. Stewart. The bridi', w'lio was given awav by lier fattier, wore a -pretty frock of white satin a.iut radium lace, trimmed with orange, blossoms and was attended by her sister, Miss Gladys McCulloeh, as bridesmaid, whoso'frock was a dainty 1)1 ue crepc-de-ehine, trimmed with lace and salin ribbon. Mr J. A. Peterson, of Wellington carried out the duties ol best man. Aflor the ceremony a reception was hold at the residence of the bride's parents, where the usual toasts were honoured. The happy couple leTt later on their honeymoon, ' .the bride's travelling dress 'being a pretty brflwn costume trimmed with black fur and bat to match.

It is not often that one is afforded the opportunity of buying a. good thing cheaply. However, customers at Howard Andrew, Ltd., are seeing that good velour coats are being sold at about half their real value. Just'the right time to buy one.*

■ At a meeting: of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce a complaint was made about the condition of the ferry steamer Mararoa., it being staled that she was frightfully dirty, the bathrooms often being awash. ' The lavatory accommodation was shocking. It was decided to inform the Associated Chambers and ask that the Mararoa be cleaned up, and that the Union Company be again written to.

To enable residents of Barkinside, a. suburn of London, to post letters after the last collection at 8 p.m., a letter box is attached to a tramcar which passes through after 9 o'clock.

"So long as the. farmer works 16 hours a day and the other fellow six or seven, we need have no fear for the future "of this country," said a speaker at a Farmers' Union function.

The Auckland Acclimatisation society resolved to write to the Minister of Internal Affairs drawing his attention to the poaching of trout at Rotorua and the southern end of Lake 'laupo and asking' that rangers be requested to obtain convictions as soon as possible.

Baron Hermann Augustus Adalbert de Duderus von Carlshausen, of the European nobility, is door" slammer ■o7 the Bridgeport, Connecticut, fire department. His duties are to close > the doors .of the engine house after Ihe apparatus leaves, in return for which he gets his lodging.

A visitor,from Carterton states that as a result of the heavy, snowfall on the ranges and the intense cold experienced last week the deer have jjoen driven from their retreats in the hills in search of food, and have caused no little damage to the crops in the Masterton district.

Lord Jellicoe is the best advertising agent New Zealand ever had. In concluding a speech to the Colonial Institute he said: "1 will say to anybody who has not been, to New Zealand already, 'Go and pay that land a visit,' and to anybody who finds its possible to settle in New Zealand I say 'Go and settle.'"

The Shannon School Committee stated, in a letter to the Wellington Education Board, that it was opposed to remodelling the old school residence at Shannon, but suggested the erection of a new residence. In face of correspondenqe received from the Department the 'Board of Education was unable to accede to the request.

The Shannon Choral Society, a newlv formed one, has a membership of 40 and althou'gh a young society and a first year one, has made good progress. They have taken up Bradcury's work "Esther," a very pretty cantata, and one within their reach. Their practices have been most enthusiastic and they are giving it in Shannon on Sunday night, July 5, after the church services. At the request of several Levin music loveis amy are repeating it, in the Century Hail on July 9th, in aid of the local school grounds improvement. This is a worthy object and doubtless will be well supported. Amongst the soloists are Mrs W. E. Kilsby, Miss Aim (A.T.C.L., Shannon), Miss E. Jones (Masterton), Mrs Riddler (Mangaore), Mr Philip (late headmaster of Tokomar u School), Mr Mottershead, Dr. Mackereth and Mr Howard Hunter.