Shannon News TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1926.

Shannon News, 26 January 1926, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1926.

Misses N. and Li. Silvester, of Mas-, terton, are at present staying with. Mr and Mrs Wilkinson, of Vance Street Mrs A. Page, of Gape Palliser Lighthouse, is at present visiting her brother Mr E. T. Exton, of Viance Street, Shannon. A general meeting of members of the Shannon Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club will he held in the Council Chambers on Thursday evening at 7.30 p.m. After Saturday next all Borough rates unpaid will incur a penalty of ten per cent, and legal proceedings will he taken to recover same without further notice. • People’s Day of the Levin Show takes place to-morrow (Wednesday). Entries are large, and there will be many attractions for the public. Given fine weather a large attendance is expected. At the meeting,of the Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday evening it was decided to write to the postmaster requesting the installation at the Shannon post office of a slot telephone machine and also a stamp machine. With a view to raising’ money to augment the funds of the People’s Picnic, Mr C. Young intends holding a series of cycle road races, the first of which will take place on Saturday, Februaryl3th. The route chosen will be from Shannon to Buckley, returning via Levin road. This distance to be covered twice. Prizes will be awarded for first, second, and third and fastest time. Entries close on February 10th.

At the 3moke concert at Miranui last week, Mr Pedder, secretary of the Go-operative Society, furnished the following interesting figures which will give some idea of the magnitude of the task of provisioning the mill. Allowing for 366 days in the year, each man received 1095 meals; thus the laverage number, viz,, 130 men, consume 148,350 meals. This number does not allow for casuals. To provide these meals it takes 233,675 lbs of meat, 6240 2-lb loaves, 10,272 lbs of butter, 53,760 Lbs of flour, and 7300 gallons of milk. He saM that all the bread and small goods are made on the premises, while a herd of twenty cows are kept to provide milk for the men. Prom the refuse from the catering departments 60 pigs are kept and the co-operative society is now producing its own bacon, and it is hoped in the near future to grow its own stock, to provide meat and do the slaughtering 1 . Howard Andrew, Ltd., in their replace advt,, advertise cheap clothes and boots for the working man, and % pdruhaj of ,tha prices will prow* th*§r hr* afopdMul viaJn*.

iln this issue Miss Agnes Aim, A.T. C.L., L.T.C.L., teacher of pianoforte, singing, voice production, and theory, announces that she will resume teaching on Monday, February Ist, 1926. During a cricket match in Hastings two Indian runner ducks walked across the batsman’s line of sight says an exchange. The next two batsmen made ducks 1 The Taranaki Oilfields, report that the Tarata bore is waiting for the cement to set. The Moturoa bore has resumed drilling and lias now reached 3217 feet in. sandstone. Gars have been coming into New Zealand at the rate of iUO per day for the last six months, states Mr F. W. Furkert, chairman of the Main Highways Board. Mr Furkert says that rate cannot continue. Now Zealand cannot absorb so many cars. “Boy cyclists, it seems to ine, disorganise the whole of tfie motor traffic in the city of Christchurch—they are an absolute nuisance at times," said ,Mr H. Y. Yiddowson, S.M., m the Magistrate’s Court after he had dealt with a telegraph messenger (besides half a dozen other juvenile cyclist transgressors) for having dashed across an intersection in the city in spit© of the traffic constable’s stop signal.

The queer antics of bowlers while wiatching the progress of their bowls after delivery, is a source of amusement and humorous comment on every green. A certain croquet enthusiast, of the female sex, went one better while engaged in a croquet tournament recently.' The umpire’s decision of a “clear shot” was disputed and in order to verify the disputed point the player unceremoniously prostrated herself on “mother earth” to get a true line of vision much to the amusement of the spectators.

A large flight of seagulls, about a quarter of a mile Ijrorn The shore off New Plymouth, drew the attention of some people a day or two ago. The birds were observed swooping down to the surface of the water. A pair of field glasses revealed a large school of fish, probably kawhai or mackerel, swimming on the surface. Ait this season of the year these fish frequently become infested with sea lice, a creature about an inch' long and half an inch wide. These vermin attach 1 themselves to the fish with their hooked legs driven into the skin lie alongside the back and side fins, where they annoy the fish greatly by feeding on its flesh. These sea lice also get into the gills and even on the tongue of fish. There appears to be an understanding between the seagulls and the fish. • The latter swim along the surface and the gulls % overhead, picking off the vermin, thus securing a good feed and relieving the fish from their tormentors. Hundreds of gulls participate in the banquet while, the number of fish must have been very large, as the sea surface was disturbed over an area of quite three acres.

An unknown Phoenician town, after being submerged for many centuries, has been accidentally discoveri ed by Arab fishermen. It lies' on the north coast of Africa, near to Jerba, the famous island of the “Lotus Eaters.” The men, when diving for fish, suddenly happened upon the remains of the ancient submerged town, and revealed relics which have aroused the highest interest amongst archaeologists. This is not the only town which has been swallowed by the sea. In Central and Southern America, there are enormous tracts of territory, which have only lately been trodden by white men, where great discoveries have recently been made of remains which date back to the dawn of history, and whose interest and extent can hardly be realised. Well known, too, are the famous ruins of Zimbabwe, in Rhodesia, recently visited by the Prince of Wales. They have not yet been fully explored, but are thought to be the remains of the fabled city of Ophir, which is mentioned in the Bible as the source of the gold used by Solomon when building the temple. No gold, however, has been found there so far. And on the northern coast of the great Zambesi River, there are other vast ruins which have not yet been excavated. It is possible that the cities, of which they are the remains were built by the Phoenicians, the great traders and travellers of ancient his* tory. In the neighbourhood of Kerli, near Bochara, in Turkestan, not far from the borders of Afghanistan there is another wonderful submerged city, which is partly hewn out of the solid cock whilst the age-old forests of India and Annam conceal ruins of such size that they dwarf even the Pyramids of Egypt. Lastly, on the East Coast of England there are said to be the remains of a submerged ci£y near Southwold, and of another off the Reculvers, on the coast of Kent.