Shannon News TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1926.

Shannon News, 4 May 1926, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1926.

Miss Cane announces by advertisement, that she has opened a grocery store in Plimmer Terrace. As a result of the heavy rain over the week end, the drains on the Foxton road overflowed their banks and flooded the Sbannon-Foxton road. The annual reunion of the Shannon Returned Soldiers will be held in the Druids’ Hall on Fid day e vening nex t at 8 p.m. Nurse McGillivray, who succeeds Nurse .tones as Plunke-t- nurse in this distrfbt, commenced her duties in .Shannon yesterday. . Mr C. Vaughan, of Shannon, -who has been an inmate of tile Palmerston North Hospital for some weeks past, is reported to be progressing satisfactorily. • 1 The duck shooting season opened in Shannon on Saturday morning in boisterous weather. A good number of local sports were out and sonic fair bags were recorded. Shootists state the ducks ' are not so plentiful as in previous seasons. In this issue is an announcement Troin Mrs R. Terry, dressmaker, notifying she has again started dressmaking at Mrs Easton’s residence, Ballance Street, and that .she will be pleased to meet old and new customers. During the progress of the third grade game on Saturday between Shannon and Foxton, W. Hibell, a Shannon player, received a . nasty knock on the head, which rendered him unconscious for some time. On recovering he was able to proceed to his home.

Mr J. A. Olsen announces in this issue that on Saturday next he will open a strictly cash grocery store in the premises, iPiimmer Terrace, recently occupied by Mr C. Hardie, tailor'. The business will be known as the “Kash Store” and only the best quality goods will be stocked and sold at the lowest possible prices.

The publication of census returns for the Otaki and Levin Boroughs, as well as the surrounding areas, has been delayed owing to householders being absent when sub-enumerators call to collect the census forms, or failing to make provision for them to be transmitted to the postmaster. Returns from Shannon have: been in for some days, but the census enumerator (Mr B. Magee) is'still awaiting those from the two other boroughs in the Horowhenua County. Howard Andrew, Ltd., the up-to-date drapers, Shannon, announce that they are holding a fashion display in the Maori!and Theatre on Monday, May 10, during the screening of the' picture when the latest, in costumes, coat frocks, • evening- frocks, neckwear and footwear will he displayed. Purchasers of 20s worth of goods from this date to The display will be entitled to a free pass to the display and picture show.*

A fashion war between the thirty marriageable girls of the town of Nun jar in the midst of Kansas prairies and the town eiders, heavilybearded parents who rule the town, is near the revolt stage. The young women, balked in repeated efforts to bring outer-world fashions to this place which the elders would hold to 2s primitive ways of half a- century age, arc believed to be on the verge of defying their parents, and, in many cases, their ffanc.es. The older men, in solemn conclave, have ruled that none of the young women who recently bobbed their hair may marry until the hair grows out again to a length of to inches. Twenty-eight of the thirty young women of the town recently bobbed their hair. Half of the young women are engaged to marry hard-work-ing, steady youths of the town, and these young men almost unanimously have announced they will abide by the elders’ rule.

A motion suggestion that the maximum age limit- in connection with Junior National Scholarships he reduced from fourteen to thirteen years was passed at a meeting of the Auckland branch of toe New Zealand Educational Institute.

There was considerable liveliness in Otaki after the football matches on Saturday resulted in three players making their appearance at the police court this morning. A Maori player named Ropata was charged with striking H. O’Rourke in the face, and was fined £1 and costs, in default 14 days’ imprisonment. T. John and T. Bevau, both residents of Otaki, were charged with disorderly conduct and drunkenness and were fined £1 and costs, in default seven days’ imprisonment.

Afier presiding at the Christchurch Court from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. yesterday with one break only for lunch, Mr 11. A. Young, S.M., collapsed on the pavement outside the Court (building when he was about to leave for home. He had had a particularly strenuous day. Assistance was immediately forthcoming and after he had been brought round, Mr Young Avas placed in a car and driven home. He Avill not work this morning, says a Press Association telegram. Within the past week decided -opinions have been expressed that the Magistrates in Christchurch are overworked. •