Shannon News TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1925.

Shannon News, 25 August 1925, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1925.

The bankruptcy is reported of A. Judd, Senr., Tokomaru. This was erroneously reported in the Palmerston papers as Mr A. Judd, of Shannon.

Miss Freda Cameron, who is an inmate of the Levin Private Hospital, suffering from severe injuries received on the golf links, is reported to be progressing as well as can be expected, but is still seriously ill.

Those in search of a good evening's enjoyment should not fail to attend the Grand Victory Ball to be held under the auspices of the Shannon Football Club in the Druids 1 Hall on Friday evening next. The music will be supplied by George's Orchestra, while the smallest details in perfecting the arrangements have 'been carried out to assure patrons having a good time.

A meeting .of those interested in the formation of a branch of the Plunket Society in Shannon was held in the Council Chambers last evening and although the evening was wet there was a good attendance. Mr R.-■ L. Tippler, President of the Chamber of Commerce, presided, and after explaining the aims and objects of the Society, the following officers were appointed:—President, Mrs Hutton, vice-president, Mrs Thwaites; secretary, Mrs B. Spencer; committee, President, vice-president and Mesdames Riddler, Johnston, McKenzie, Beard, Hudson, C. Easton, Brann and McCulloch, with power to add; advis-ui-y committee, Messrs R. L. Tippler, Brann, Cherry, Beard and Burns, and Dr. Mackereth. It was decided that subscription lists be opened and that the Shannon Borough COnncil and Horowhenua County Council be writ ten to for donation's. It was also resolved to hold a baby carnival at an early date with a view to raiding funds. The committee decided to meet monthly, but a special meeting will be held to-morrow afternoon in the Council Chambers at 3 p.m. to appoint sub-committees to make arrangements for the holding of the proposed baby carnival. The meeting terminated with a vote of thanks to the chair.

According to the latest regulations all busses must be provided with a rear door in case of fire.

The average value per bale of the wooi sold in New Zealand for the year ended June 30, 1925, was £29 4s Bd, as against £23 ls"4d in 1923-24.

A French lady living in Palmerston states that the lrane which previously was worth £4 per 100 has fallen to £l. Her income consequently has fallen from £4OO to. £IOO per annum.

When an application for £5 for the cost of photographs of nurses to hang on the walls of the new nurses' din-ing-room came before the Hawkes Bay Hospital Board objection was made on the ground that the nurses by refusing to collect for the hospital had lost £IOOO to the institution.

On the recommendation of the consulting engineer, the Horowhenua Power Board has adopted the following rate for small pumping motors, replacing windmills and the like: Motors up to and including I h.p., £3 10s per annum; over I h.p., and including h h.p., £4 10s per annum, payment to be made. on the actual size of motor only.

"Do you always lay a man out when you hit him with that weapon?" asked a newspaper man of a sturdy shore patrolman from the U.S. Fleet in Wellington. The other handled his irucujent-looking truncheon fondly. "Waal," he opined, "if I hit a man and he doesn't drop, 1 just take a -bender round him to see what's holding Mm up."

A unique coin, a 1717 penny, was exhibited by Mr P. Thomson at Monday night's meeting qf the Stratford Borough Council. The penny, which is half as large again and more than twice as thick as the penny now in use, was found during excavations on the section below Mrs W. Newman's house near Kawaroa Park, New Plymouth. Although considerably pitted, the impression of George 1. and the date are clearly discernible.

As an indication of wbat Taranaiki can grow it might be mentioned that finest quality broccoli at a New Plymouth vegetable sale realised 18s per dozen.

Although Mv McKenzie, president of the New Zealand Rugby Referees' Association, was delayed on his journey and arrived somewhat later than was'expected, there was a fair assembly of referees, and players at his lecture last night at the Century Hall. With the aid of a blackboard, this authority on the rules of Rugby dealt exhaustively with the whole question, and his exposition was au eye-opener to some of the players who were at the lecture. Mr McKenzie intends to make a longei stay when next he comes to Levin, which will probably be- very early next season.

Old age is not always a regret. Mr John Corrin, of Tenterfleld, in tho northern highlands oi New South Wales, whose youthful activities have just been proclaimed to the world, is to-day at the age of 82 -years stiil an active tennis player and can, it is stated, hold his own with most of the players in the town. One of the early residents of the district, and now a retired farmer, Mr Corrin walks a mile every bright day to the local public courts and plays untiringly throughout the afternoon. He has hobbies in literature and . hia garden, and is a foremost prize-win-ner each year at the local show with his vegetables and flowers.

Through his gift of a lion to the Wellington Zoo, Mr J. J. Bioyn has a half-interest in uil litters produced there. Recently a family of four were born. The two that belong to Mr Boyd were offered to Admiral Goontz as mascots, for the flagship, hut, though appreciated, they were refused on the ground that lion cubs had an incurable nabit of growing up, when they would have to be got rid of.. It was suggested that the most appropriate mascot to present the flagship with would be a tuatara lizard from Stephen Island—said to be the only living representative on earth of a very interesting form ol life. A. tualara is harmless, economical (it only eats about once a month), and is said to live for a .iimdred years..

Raffles is a subject dealt with in (lie annual report'of the Department ol Internal Affairs, which says that the conditions under which licenses to raffle are granted provide that only the articles specified are to be raffled, and that there must be no substitution of other prizes or payment in cash. Certain cases have, however, come under notice in which advertisements have been placed on the tickets in which private motor firms offer to give to the winner a motor car, suite of furniture, etc., for the prizes indicated on the tickets.. To prevent any evasion of the Act a condition is. now inserted in the license that no advertisements will be permitted on any part (back or front) of the tickets, or any part of the book or tickets.

A start has been made in preparing the place in the Square at Palmerston, where the railway deviation will be made to permit of the work of erection of the soldiers' war memorial being proceeded with. The shrubbery on the eastern side of the line thru ugh the Square has been removed, while the rail fence is also in process of being dismantled. This deviation will cost the Memorial Committee £3SJ. The "idea is to place the memorial in the plumb centre of the Square so that it can be seen irom the four arterial streets radiating from that centre. The memorial is a replica in marble and granite of that at Folkstone, England, and has been done by the same sculptor. It will be one of' iiic finest memorials in the Dominion when completed.

In consequence of a notice issued by the Wanganui Harbour Board to the owners of the wrecked Cyrcna, Messrs D. K. Blair (surveyor to Lloyd's) and A. S. Long (repressning the owners), waited oai the chair man of the Harbour Board. The notice served was practically a denial id that the owners remove the vessel, which the board considered would, from her position, constitute a menace to navigation. The conference between the parties was moire or less a failure, it being claimed that as portions of the steamer do not endanger navigation the board has no power to compel the owners to remove the wreck. Nevertheless, it is intended to lay an anchor from the afterpart and so obviate possibility of this section of the Gyrena wandering.

That the world is a very small place is realised by a brother in New South Wales and a sister in Wales. In every town, in every hamlet, in every suburb there are almost countless Joneses. The world is full of them. Thirty years ago Mr Charles Jones left Wales for Sydney. As time went on, he lost all trace of a sister in his native land, and he finally gave up all hope of ever getting into touch with, her again. But some workmen were slating a roof at the Mortlake gasworks, in a Sydney suburb, when the attention of one of them was arrested by an inscription scraped on one of the slates. The inscription conveyed a very human message, even if it was not in English undented, it read:—"Nantle Station. If anyone was to see this slate, and somewhere near New South Wales, Australia, will he or she inquire if Charles Jones, who came from England some years ago, is still there. His sister, living in Wales now, would like to get news from him. His home is at South Gerney, Gloucestershire.''' Another workman looked at the inscription on the slate. "Why,' he exclaimed, "that's Charlie Jones. I worked with him for years. With this Jones, the latter, after a long search, got into touch. It was, strangely enough, the missing Charles Jones. The son of his sister had loaded the slates for New South Wales, and on one of them she had scribbled her message, in the hope of tracing her brother.

A death followed the exciting experience of i.ue launch Karoro in a storm jii the Wiiangarei harbour last week. Mr Bod. McGregor, who was overcome, apparently by fumes, when extinguishing a benzine fire, appeared to recover hut could hardly speak next morning and was taken to hospital. He died on the following day. The Advocate says nis death was similar to that of those who died from" the effects of poison gas in the Great War.

"This young woman is a professional poJker player," said Chief Detective Cummings, when Clarice Adelaide Wynne, smartly dressed, was before Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M., it the Auckland Police Court cm a charge of having obtained two pairs of shoes by means of a false pretence. The S.M. gave, accused- a chance and ordered her to come up for sentence within one month. Restitution was. ordered with costs £3 Ss.

"Whilst on the subject of balancesheets and payouts,'' said Mr C. G. C. Dermer, at the annual meeting of the Cheltenham Co-op. Dairy Company, "it would appear that some standardised form amongst dairy companies of presenting their annual accounts and directors reports is desirable. While some companies set out the fullest • information in black and white such us the strict average of the monthly advances, the cost of administration, etc., I regret to say that there are other companies who issue unintelligible documents in which it is not even stated what their actual average payout is, or what might be forthcoming by way of a bonus, and when such bonus (if any) is to be paid out. It is compulsory for life insurance companies to publish standardised accounts, and some such similar methods for dairy companies would in my opinion be in the interests of the hardworking producers in this great industry of ours."

"The evils of gambling are never properly explained to children," said Mr J. W. Poynton,' S.M., at Auckland. "A boy hears his father talk about the man who has been lucky enough to win a lottery and has gone for a trip round the world; he heap his mother refer to someone else, who has been equally fortunate in an art union, or other like speculation, and he is naturally curious. He wants to know how. this little fortune can be obtained, and later on he finds his way to a gambling school and gets himself into trouble. The bey is not to blame, He had never been warned; he had never been told that gambling was a social evil. It was beginning at the wrong end, and he should have been told at an earlier stagie. Whole nations had been demoralised by gambling, which induced habits of sloth and speculation instead of industry and thrift. They could never suppress gambling; the ycould only do what they could to abate the evil."

Bert Garfield Taylor, flaxcutter, of Shannon, appeared before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., at Palmerstan last wee.K to, answer a Charge laid by the inspector of factories, Mr J. Lowden, that he did work on Saturday, June 13, after 1 p.m., that day being the half-holiday." In outlining the case, the inspector stated that defendant had been found working after 1 p.m. on the day concerned, and was. employed at Seifart's mill. The Union had had repeated complaints of men working during prohibited hours, particularly on national holidays and exception was taken to the men working on such days. It was therefore decided to make a case so that the matter could be given publicity, and the attention of the workers drawn tot the fact, Defendant was working on "piecework," 'but had not been authorised by the firm to work overtime. It was the first time such a case had been before the Court, and as defendant was in rather poor circumstances, he would not press for a heavy penalty to he inir posed. The action was merely brought forward as a .warning. His Worship imposed a fine of £l.