Shannon News FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1926.

Shannon News, 12 March 1926, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1926.

The annual meeting of the (Shannon Choral Society will .be held in the Parish Jiall on Tueisdiay evening next. A full attendance oil' meineibrs and intending members is requested. On Tuesday next the Shannon Chor- ■ al Society will told their annual meeting, when the activities for the coining year will be discussed. 'Anyone' interested in choral work will be welcome to attend. ' The annual meeting of the Shannon Football Club, will be held in the Council Chambers next Thursday ■evening at 7.30 p.m.' All members, intending members and supporters are requested to attend: " ;, In this issue will he found the programme for the Shannon Amateur Athletic iand Cycling Club's Sports, which are to be held' on the Domain on Saturday, March 37. Messrs W. Li. Gunning ;and E. A. H. George, who have been on a motor tour through the iSouth Island, visiting the Dunedin Exhibition, returned home on Wednesday evening, after an enjoyable trip.

The secretary of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday received a letter from the Eketahuna oWm-ber of Commerce advising that, that body will support the Chamber in their efforts to have the Wairarapa and, Manaf watu districts connected up with the road at Mangahao. .

A young man named E. F. Sherry, employed as a stripper feeder at.Dalzell's mill at Makerua, had a ftager badly crushed 'in his machine', on Wednesday morning, and it was foittnd necessary to amputate the memhier' at the second joint. Laiter in the daya(t the same mill a flax cutter niairied Treinbarth inflicted a nasty wound to one of his fingers with a flax 'hook.

A letter has been received hy Kew. 'Farnell from Rev. Abbott, of Terrace End, stating his appreciation. and asking him to convey his thanks to the parishioners who have erected al memorial talblet lin Ven. Bede's Chuirch. Shannon, and a pair of brass vases in. St. Aidan's Church, Takomjaru l , in ■memory of the late (Mrs Abbott, At rhe first opportunity steps [will be taken to have the memorials dedicated.

At .about 6.30 p.m. last evening a motor car collision occurred at the outside of the town, Mr EL J. S. Spencer, builder, of Shannon, was driving a oar from the direction, of Palmerston North when he came into' collision with the Highway Transport Go.'s service car, driven ,by a man named Hoskings, which convejys the "'Evening 'Post" ftom Wellinjgton to Palm-, eraton North. Owing to an error of judgment on the pant of one of the drivers the cars crashed into* one another on the Shannon end ,>of the bridge with the result that btoith .cars were seriously damaged and had to be towed into Shannon. Accompanying Mr .Spencer in his car w.ere Mrs Spencer and Mr Jack Newton, the occupants of the service car* (being ihe driver and two p'p±ssenge}r6, but fortunately none of them were seriously injured. Mr Jack Newtcm fared Hie worst receiving s/everal cuts on his face and a bruised eye. Mrs Spencer escaped witli a shaking, the other occupants being uninj-urjed.

A' full attendance of members and St Patrick's Ball to he held in. the Druids' Hall next Wednesday evening.

It is stated that the daylight Limited expresses may toe withdrawn after the Easter holiday traffic rush is over.

Complaints have been made that motorists have disturbed settlers at Newbury corner .at' night to ask the road to Wanganui and at the Kairaiiga County Council meeting yesterday, the engineer was instructed to place a sign at that point. From the wording of a statement regarding the deer-stalking season, an impression has gained currency that the word "open" means that deer can be shot without a license. This is not so. Licenses have, to be taken out as usual. i ."Last year there was not a single egg exported from. New Zealand though £50,000 worth was sent out of the country both, in. 1923 and 1W said Mr O. P. Lynch,at the monthly meeting of the Manawatu Provincial Council of the Farmers' Union. Foullaymen, he added, could mot make the industry pay with wheat at its present prohibitive price. i The rapid strides of the County Football Club is evidenced toy the fact of their intention to field three teams for the 1926 season, two. senior and one junior. Starting a yean,ago with a veritaible handful of players, this club has a membership which shows promise of further increase and a year hence should see them still more deeply entrenched in fooflball records.

By the irony of fate, the, two men who lost their lives in the wreck of the Karu were both good swimmers, while two of those who were saved could not swim a stroke. The latter were supported in the water by reason of their lifebelts, <and 'although choked with water and 'rendered unconscious were washed ashore alive by the force of the surf breaking in on the beach.

Mrs Caipes and her ■ daughter, Dorothy leave for Lower Hutt at the end •A the week to join Mr Capes. Mrs Capes has been a. piwiinent member of the Ladies' Croquet Club since its inception to which she has rendered valued service, and her.'departure will be regretted by -members. Both Mrs Capes and Dorothy apart fronT .being members of the Choral Society, have always been ready to aiasist socially and they will be •missed by a wide circle of Mends. It is said that in London motor traffic has tocome so ernoarrnious that it has not now attained the object for which if.was originally intended —4hat is a higher speed . of public conveyance. In fact, many authorities maintain that the average speed of traffic in London to-day is less tllmn in the days. This may or may not -be true, but it is a' feasible argument, inasmuch as the increase in the amount of traffic js so great that it combats higher speeds.

In reporting on his trip to Duneciui for the conference of engineers, Mr J. E. Menzies, engineer'of the Kairanga County Council, stated that he took the opportunity of going over a number of. roads an Canterbury and observing the methods of maintenance. He thought the traffic \va s not nearly so heavy or continuous as in the Manawatu district, yet in spate of this, he believed that the roads here compared more than. favourably with any that he saw on his tour.

Rates are generally somewhat difficult to collect and county councils usually experience considerable •trouble in this .respect, but the Taranaki County Clerk lias just refunded over £6O to ratepayers on .account of the rates on their properties having been paid twice' over. This unique position arose as a result of lessors and lessees and mortgagors all paying tile rates on the same property. Even a Maori was cited as an "offender."

At Dargaville recently two of the crew of the Dairy Company's s.s. Pioneer went out for blackberries at Tangiteroria, wilien they did 'exceedingly well. They filled two benzine tins, left these in a paddock while they went away to fill a third one, and their thoughts were centred on the pleasant, time they would give all their Dargaville friends the next day. Alter they had filled the third tin they returned to the other two they hud left in the paddock, but, to their dismay,,, they found rtttiat the calves had been before them and had eaten every berry, in fact, they had a hard job to .get away from the animals with the third tin. Next time they go out blaefcberrydng the do not intend being so greedy; they Avail ibe satisfied with #, \tih each.

Entertaining adventures of gramophone pioneers are recalled iby the silver jubilee of His Master's Voice Company celebrated recently. The early days of the company, which was incorporated December 10, 1900, were memorable for the first gramophone recording expeditions to the chief cities of Europe. In Milan the recording instruments were set up in the room above the hotel suite of Verdi, then in his eighty-fifth year. In Waisaw, a great earth jar, containing fifty gallons of bi-carbonate of soda for etching, hurst during the night in the expedition's hotel quarters, and dripped through the floor upon a sleeping guest below, nearly causing the confiscation of the entire equipment .by authorities on the alert for anarchists.

Decrees absolute in. divorce petitions stalled 613 for Hie Dominion in 1955 -a record.

"Do you know the best prize you could give to .benefit the district—a substantial prize for the farm with the least weeds on it."—Mr Long at the Manama HortiioulUuraa iSocieity's meeting. Over one hundred prsotationary school-teachers, sixteen of whom left the Normal Training College in 1924, are at present without permanent employment in Christchuirch, states the Lyttelton Times. • New Zealand uses dinar© petrol per head of population itilian any country in the world except one United States and Canada. In Cue United States the consumption in 1924 was 69 gallons per head, in Canada 29 gallons, in New Zealand 20 gallons, in the United Kingdom llj gallons, and in Australia 81 gallons. ''■ Can a farm .employee legally leave an 'employer without a week's notice, even when several months' wages are owing to him, and, according to hiiiii, lie has difficulty in getting his' money? The effect of a Magisterial decision given in Balclutha was that even in such a circumstance an employee is liable to have a week's wages deducted, in lieu of notice, from the amount owing to' him. ,

With a total of 37 big-game fish landed with his own . rod . Mr . Zahe Grey has been the most successful sportsman in ttie Bay o£ Islands to date this season. So far,, the Bay of Islands Swondfish Club, which at present has exactly 100 financial members, lias certified the capture of 203 Dig-game fish and as the season is only hall-way through, it promises to be a record. t

"We're all in debt up to our necks and going deeper still; we're buying things we can't afford, and mock the old-time way of salting down a little hoard against a rainy day. No more afoot the-poor man roams, in gongeous car he ©(toots; we've mortgages upon our homes, our furniture, our boots. We're banished all the ancient cares we paint the country red; we live like drunken millionaires, and never look ahead;" A newspaper, published in Yugoslav language, appeared in Auckland last Friday. The new journal is called Novo Dabo, ' which, in English, means! The New Era, arid contains not a word of our language. The first issue was edited by a visiting journalist and Press correspondent, Mr N. B. Marinitch, and ran into three thousand copies. Preparing the paper for the press was an onerous task. It involved translating material from Italian, French, German, Russian and English into the Yugo-Silav language —a task which gives an .impressive idea of the .editor's knowledge of .foreign languages.

Wanganui shopkeepers are. beginning to realise that the nighitwiatchrnan is a valuable institution, states the Herald. Last week he found, a number of shops and offices open,, while some considerate shopkeepers left their lights burning brightly to cheer the night watchman in his lonely vigil. One of the largest stores in the city had been locked, but the key., had been left in the door. Behind that door were stocks valued at £20,000. On the same night goods manun factured locally and Valued at, £SOO were left unprotected in i a factory, when the last man out failed to shut, the door behind him. A solicitor's office was also found open. Five lights were found burning in various parts of the business area. ,

While visiting a certain country district recently the. inspector for the society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals came across tih^. following case, reports a Christchurch exchange: A farmer had evidently left his farm for some considerable time. His cattle were grazing in a small paddock with only a stagnant pool of drinking water. Two hoirses were lying dead in another paddock. In a sty were three large pigs. There was plenty of potatoes for them to feed upon, but' the water trough was bone dry. The inspector filled a kerosene tin with water and gave it to the thirsty animals. .After, la brief interval the water was all gone. 'Pigs, as a rule, require very little water at one. time,, but these drank the four gallons of water straight off. A report on the case has been furnished to the police.

Some old Maori tracks across' a farm property at Waitomo came under notice in the Auckland Supreme Court recently. It was explained by counsel that the King. Country was, in its early days, intersected by tracks used by the Maoris in their journeyings. When the Government surveyors plotted out subdivisions of the .native blocks they were instructed to reserve these tracks, and this-was done in regard to all sections which they traversed. When proper roads were formed or dedicated in the district the custom of track reservation fell into disuse. In many oases the tracks existed, as regards recent years, only on the plans, so that the settlers whose lands they crossed enjoyed the "use of them for grazing purposes practically free of cost.