Shannon News FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1925.

Shannon News, 9 October 1925, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1925.

Mr D. E. sslacey, representing the Matakana Radiata Afforestation Co., returned to Shannon from Auckland on Tuesday, and is now staying at file Club Hotel. Owing to indisposition the Rev. R. Haddon was unable to deliver his open air address on the Prohibition question as advertised for last evening. As a result of the recent wintry weather in the Wairarapa a farmer counted 290 dead lambs in one of his back paddocks, also a number of dead ewes. The result of the guessing competition for the “baby’s toilet hut fit” which was donated by Mr T. ('.. Thwaitos, chemisi, to the blanket Society to help them raise funds for the Society, was made known yesterday, Mr Gilbert Patton being the lucky winner, guessing the exact number of peas, which was 309.

Mothers wanting clothes, for their children are advised to cfilL at. theMethodist Church Shop (xiext Ryder’s) on Saturday. next, as they cannot obtain any at such a reasonable figure anywhere else. Beautiful pen painted centres and oilier fancy-work can be obtained besides dressed dolls, home made iollies, bread, cakes and produce. “Come and inspect,” is the invitation given.

Acting on the suggestion of Cr 'uiwanes the Council decided on Tuesday evening to endeavour to obtain a photographic enlargement ot His Worship Hie Mayor, group pnoto of the present. Council and photos ol those gentlemen who have sal on the Council since it was formed, with a view to having them hung on the walls of the .Council Chambers as a record of the Councils that have sat around the table. Cr. Tliwaites said that when the building had been renovated it would be necessary to have something to adorn the hare walls and he thought the photos would make a fine and, interesting collection as well as be a record. The. Mayor, Crs. Tliwaites and Butt and the'Town Clerk were appointed a committee to attend to the matter.

Before proceeding with the business at the Council'meeting on Tuesday evening Cr. Tliwaites, on behalf of the councillors, welcomed hack tc the Council His Worship tin: Mayor (Mr W. Murdoch) after liis recuit illness. He expressed the pleasure ol the Council at having the Mayor .lack once more at the helm, and hoped that the progress he had made towards restoration to health would be sustained and that it would be if crmaiient and that-he would long <ontinue to be their guiding siar. .Its Worship thanked the Council for their good wishes auU for the deep and kind sympathy extended to him by tile Council during ids illness. Cr. Butt (Deputy Mayor) thanked the Council for the .assistance and courtesy they had rendered him during the" Mayor’s absence, councillors eulogising the good work he had done.

A sale presenting unusual opportunities ol' obtaining tjualily furniture will take place in sjlianriQii to moiaow. wlien Messrs C. Carmichael and*’ Co. will ol'l'er the contents ol Mi s. W. Carter’s eight-roomed residence. The lots include a Buhni piano, an organ in walnut, and many pieces of furniture enumerated in the advertisement in this issue. ihe sale commences at 12.30 p.m. The Timaru Herald states that some forward sales of this season’s lambs have been made up to 26s per bead, delivery to be given hr January with no right of rejection. Papers just to hand from America would indicate that secondhand cars, are a glut on the market. Used o.„rs are advertised freely as low as 2tj dollars or approximately £5 Bs. After a meeting of the executin' Council yesterday, the Prime Minister (Hon. J. G. Coates) stated that, the date .of Hie general election had been definitely fixed for Wednesday, November 4,

The substantial sum ul' £44,800 was paid out this week to suppliers of the Joil Dairy Co., at Hsawera. The total of the company's payments last season amounted to £-.161,320. After live years of investigation to determine the incidence of goitre among New Zealand school children, a final survey of the schools is now being made by Dr. Baker McLaglan, an officer of the division of school hygiene, Christchurch. Dr. McLaglan is now in Auckland, and though she has not yet worked out the exact percentages, Dr. McLaglan is of opinion that the schools in Taranaki, Horowhonua, Levin and Otaki are extraordinarily free of goitre. The inspecting officers were surprised at the l'reedom of the scholars in the Levin District High School from the complaint, and there can be little doubt that the ascertained high iodine content of the soil, in this district is a factor in this satisfactory state of affairs.