Shannon News FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1926.

Shannon News, 8 January 1926, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1926.

MesSdames C. C* Franks and Balfour left on a holiday visit to ChristchurCh on Tuesday*

Mr Cry Us, who was stationed at Mangaore during the installation of the plant at the Power House, is visiting Shannon. He is aeoompanied by Mrs Grylls.

Taking advantage of the fine weather during the past few days harvesting is in full swing around Shannon. The crops generally are good and some fine, qat crops are to be seen* in the distrigt, "

At St. Paul's Church, paraparaumu, which was tastefully decorated by girl friends of the bride, •the mairiiage was solemnised on Tuesday, ,22nd December, Mary/ Bertha,■■third daughter of/ Mr and Mrs Maloolm Maclean, to> Alvan WSjHmette White, Musselburgh School, Dunedin, son of Mr and Mrs A. T. White, • school house, Shannon. The Rev. H. F. Wjttson performed the ceremony, and Miss Hrene Johnston presided at the orgam. The bride, who was given away by her father, was attired in a dress of beaded geo-, rgette over white satin, with fixture of old lace, and wore the. usual veil. The bridesmaids were Mtiss Rita Maclean, sister of the bride, in a dress of pink marooain, and Miss Lorna White, sister of , the bridegroom, whose dress was of lemon coloured! marocain, and Mr Q! J. Bishop was j best man. After the ceremony, a reception was held at the residence of ■ the bride's parents. ; i

Howard Andrew and Co., Ltd., advertised special prices for January, and readers Will do well to 'note these prices. The wool at the last Wanganui, sale, held in November, averaged a little over ls A per lb, while the*, average per bale worked out at £lB. A considerable number of •■ Wool growers, in the Wanganui district are not prepared to submit their, wool for auction at the present market rates, and are waiting for later sales. A far-sighted poiicy has been adopted by the Birkenhead Borough Gouncil with a view. to minimising accidents from increasing motor traffic. This is in the direction of rounding off difficult street corners.

Ht is.• just about forty years ago, 'says a Wanganui paper, that, residents, at considerable expense, got out a consignment of blackberry plants, which -were planted with great care in the vicinity of Kaiwhaike. It has resulted in a wonderful. crop along toe river, and elsewhere t An American coal magnate told Dr. Thacker that one of his friends had stated to him that when he Would arrive in New Zealand The coal baron would only have to ascend to the top of a hill of 200 or 300 feet high and with a pair of binoculars he would be able to see the whole of New Zealand in from 30 to 6Q minutes! ♦ ; The average hay-crop harvested this season has been a good deal lighter, than usual; where farmers have been accustomed to securing crops of three . tons to the acre, a good many of them j have been able to obtain only two. This lack of body or substance would be due to the lack of rain and the j prevailing dry condition of toe soil i which, although suitable to lucerne, brings poor results in hay.

It is toe intention of the. New Zealand Institute of Horticulture to conduct examinations in toe near future, and already over 100 applications have been received from candidates for .too New Zealan'd diploma in horticulture. This and other information was given by Mr G. A. Green, the Dominion organiser, to.a recent meeting of the Institute. He stated that probably a definite four years' course 1 in horticulture' in preparation for the diploma would be issued before long.

An exchange says. that camping out in the thermal regions. is heooniing increasingly popular with families owning motoir cars. The shores of Lake Taupe are at present dotted with tents Many families are camped on the shores, of Lake Rotorua,

-The following advertisement appears in the P.almerston papers: ".£SO Reward.—Lost, Saturday night, between Alexandra and North streets,. wallet containing £316. Empty wallet found. Above reward will be paid to honest person returning money/'

The lawyers who were called in to deal with the estate ,• of a rich York manufacturer who died recently got a shock when they were given his papers. The widow simply produced a little tin box from a drawer in a writing desk. It contained seven papers, but one was a stock certificate worth £250,000, another a life insurance policy worth £2oo,ooo,and the other five were Government bonds valued at £2G, 000 each.

A noxious weed that has been the cause of much trouble to agricultur ists in Australia, Pathurst burr, was discovered by Messrs Neill and Ward, of the Department of Agriculture, during their recent, investigations in the wheat-growing' districts of Canterbury and North Otago. It was on ■a/ farm in North Otago that they came across several isolated plants, ad the attention of the farmer to whom thejand belonged was drawn to their presence, and,to the danger of allowing them to propagate.

This story, from the "Otago Daily .Times" may not be true, although some people pretend to believe that it is. No Scotsman would be guilty of such a thing! A Scotsman from down south visited the Exhibition. When he got home Sandy was asked how he got on. He replied: "Vera weel; indeed. I did a'richt. I went into the Exhibition wi' half-a-crown j and came oot with half-a-crown and six free samples of things and here they are. They'll save me a bowbee or twa! And he spread the samples out on'the table.

Strawberry, a Westland cow, won a trotting race at Reefton last week. Her name was not on; the official card and no money was invested on her, but she won in a most determined fashion. Just as the field--for the Scotia Handicap was nearing the bend for home, Strawberry ambled oh to the track. Seeing quite a number of horses with their legs tied together, she apparently decided to show them wihat a healthy cow could do if she chose, and in 'spite of a mixed gait she had speed enough to pass the judge first.

The present voyage of the Aorangi was; made memorable by reason Of the fact that its passengers had two Christmas Days this year instead of one. Christmas Day proper found the Aorangi at Suva". Leaving in the afternoon, she passed the 180th longitude late at night, and when the passengers; woke up next morning they found that the date was still December 25. That is the way of the Pacific route. One gains a day on the • way to America, and loses it again on the return .voyage.

The Pialmeirston railway staftion presented an animated appearance yesterday morning upon the arr,ival of the train from Wianganui, says, the Standard. A party of Maoris, numbering about 200, who have been visiting Ratana, thronged the platform while wjaiting for trains to the Wairarapa and Otakl distrrats. A van on the train marked "Maori dogs," on being unloajded, disclosed a large collection of dogs of various types and sizes., The efforts of two men to lead the exceed canine's along the platform by means of sundry lengths of string caused much amusement.

Grafton Bridge at Auckland will soon have as grim a, reputation as the Gap at Sydney and the Dean Bridge over the Water of Leith in Edinburgh in its attraction for mor-bid-minded people seeking self destruction. It was the scene again yesterday afternoon of a sad tragedy, when a man named Alfred E. Hanscomb, aged, about 45. years, climbed to the parapet at the highest point on' the bridge and rolled off to crash to his death in Grafton Gully. The fatality occurred aJbout 12.15 . o'clock, when a numtoer of people were crossing the. bridge. Hanscomb was a tramway motorman, a married man, with six children. He had been on the Auckland City tramways for 14 years, but lately had been afraid of going blind. The last Grafton Bridge sensation occurred last Tuesday, when a young man also' crashed to his death from practically the same spot as deceased.

Mr and Mrs r\ Healey, of the Avenue, were returning from, early •service at church on Sunday morning, and had just readied Mr L. Ingram's house, at the northern end of Oxford Street, when their horse slipped on the bitumen. Mrs. Healey was thrown on to the horse and sustained slight injuries to her hand as a result. Mr Healey was not so fortunate,,, he falling with some considerable force, striking the road with the top of his forehead, as a result of which he is suffering temporary paralysis. Since the accident occurred Mr Healey has endured a good deal of pain, and although he spent a restless night he was able to slightly move both his arms yesterday. Has back and shoulders ajre badly bruised and it will be some time before he will be able to -move with comfort. It will be hoped by their many friends that Mr Healey will soon regain his normal good health and that Mrs Healey's injury to her hand will not prove serious.

, The, Paeroa ; office of the New Zealand; Dairy, Company paid out £87,5$ W November hutoeriat—£76,ol9, was. for butter and £11,574 for cheese. This is record payment. For December advance prices "for superfine butterfat were; Butter,.ls 4d per lb; qheese Is sd. • '■•'... • ' • •

When the-two* industrial sites at Petone were sold at a'uction last montli the. purchaser of one of. them remained unnamed, having acted through' an. agent, *lt is now stated that his principal was a large American motor concern, Which handles several well-known cans and motor trucks, and which intends to use the site for a large assembling factory to supply the New Zealand market.

A case of remarkable ill-luck was brought before the notice of the Deputy Official Assignee at New Plymouth(Mr. J. S. S. Medley) when two young men, Leonard Hanson Wood and William Norman Leech, farmers, of Awakino, appeared in bankruptcy, the cause of which was stated to be the loss by. fire of £250 in cash with which bankrupts were a few days later intending to purchase stock for their farms.- • , - •■ j .^iWtikM The Tarahald News siays: "The spectacle is presented of the North Island being studded wilth-meat works for which there is little'or no use. The fact is, and it has taken time' to recognise it, too / many , works were built for the needs of the country, .and the inevitable has happened—things are being reduced to their true economic proportions, and the law of the survival, of the" fittest is operating with ruthless precision."

. "I don't" think,there is a man in the town wjlio- would - not buy British goods if *he could get them at the same price *and they gave Jhe same service, "j, declared Mr H. Vaider, president of the Hamilton .Chamber of Commerce, during adiscussion on the necessity for buying British goods, at a meeting of the charniber. Mr Valder added that the sentiment was all on Britain's aide, and if British manufacturers would acoonimqdate their wares to Dominion) heeds, and the prices were right, he thought there was no doubt that Britain would get the trade. He mentioned the amusing fact that at the Dunedin Exhiihition the electric globes bore the sign, "Buy British Goods," ,butt unfortunately the very beams from' which the lamps, suspended were of Oregon pine. (Laughter).

An old Maori who was travelling by train the other day, when asked if he saw the. green moon at Auckland last week, replied that there was nothing unusual about it at all 1 , (says the Star). The old-time Maori was always looking out for signs and wonders, and in the very early times he had always heard it stated that a green' moon meant peace, Just as a fiery-red moon meant war. He had been talking wfth some learned young Maoris lately, and they had told him that all the nations had signed a treaty of peace that there was to be no more war, and he could not un-derstand-the pakehas, who' thought they knew so much, not connecting the green moon with the peace treaty. When he looked upon it he decided to make the journey to Auckland by train, because, previously tQ that he was afraid to travel when the trains were so full of people; he thought some might occur, but he knew there would be no accident when lie had seen the green moon.

■Difficulties connected with the English public. school boy migration scheme are! discussed by a former public school boy in an article in the King Country Chronicle. In the course of it the writer says: "As regards the charge of swollen heads, I, cannot help tout admit it. But I will say this; They do not get ithem until their arrival here. On their arrival at port they are met toy the UnderSecretary of Immigration, who says some land and complimentary remarks about them to their faces. Then on their arrival at the chief town of the district in which they are going to start work they are met by the president of the local chamber of commerce, half its members, a press reporter or two, and half the population turn out to see these super boys. Then they receive a very flattering address, read what is said of them in. the paper—hence the swollen heads. On the other hand, if they were simply met by a minor official at each stage they would not acquire swollen heads."

The independence and resource <»!' the camping motorist is illustrated (the Te Kuili airbnicde says) by the history of a little camp at present to be seen on the roadside, near Awakino. The steering column of the j family gar broke, the machine mounted a bank and rushed swiftly to the bottom about 30 feet below. How it failed to overturn is a mystery to its. occupants, all of whom escaped- unhurt. Did they ring up a repair shop for help, a taxi for transport, and a hotel for accommodation. Not a bit j of it. The whole' family literally put j its shoulder to the wheel, and after prodigious efforts the car was return-" ed to the road. There they dismantled the broken parts, and paterfamilias caught a (passing service car lor Te Kuiti to get new. ones. But he could not find in Te. Kudti what he needed and so departed by the express for the garages of Auckland. Meanwhile the family philosophically pitched camp by the roadside and is awaiting his return, secure in the thought that no hotel bill attaches to a fresh aoir cure by the side of the broad highway.

The Waipukurau Jockey ©ub had a narrow, escape ylroiii iosiiig liis new stewards' stand during its meeting on Boxing Day. A strong'..'\yinii was blowings at the time. of the. discovery of a fire in its incipient stages under the seating'accommoddtion. A dropped lighted cigarette end > fanned by the wind apparently set the boarding on fire. Fortunately toe smoke was noticed by the occupants of the stand and the application of a jug or two of water soon had the outbreak extinguished.

A bather at North New Brighton failed to enjoy his dip as much as he might have done "(relates the Christchurch "Star"). On'leaving home he brought with him. a small' bottle that, according to the lalbel, should have contained cocoanuit oil for use to prevent sunburn. Someone, however, had changed the'mixture, and when the bather had carefully smeared himself over he found that this skin was reacting painfully. Then it turned out that the oil was really furniture polish. When last seen the victim was scraping it qff with a .knife."

Experimental radio stations are now being erected in remiote parts of Australia to link up the settlers and wayback cattle stations with civilisation. Stations have been built at Wavehill and Camooweal (Northern Territory) and it vis anticipated that owned sets will co-operate with these newly-installed transmitters. Such a system will spread a wireless, web over districts which, at present, are served onily by a once-in-6,ix-weeks mail. Thus will the world's whispering, be heard by these hard working people, who enjoy few o£ the compensations shared by their southern, brethren. \ " '

Discoverihg late on the day toefore the holidays, that by some mischance there was no meat in the house, the wife of an Ash-burton cleric dispatched Mm hurriedly dolwn town! in his ear to get some. After a round of closed up shops, one butcher was at length found to .supply the late shopper's wants, and the man of religion set off home; leaving his parcel on the back seat. Encountering gome of his flock hurrying to catch a train, he exhibited the true iQmsitinas spirit by taking them and their" many parcels to the station, and stayed' till the train drew out. His friendly action was but ill-rewarded, however, as on arriving homfe. he discovered,that the meat had gone with [the parcels of the holiday-makers. The minister and hi* wife dined out next day.