Shannon News TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1926.

Shannon News, 20 July 1926, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1926.

Eight truck loads of bullocks were despatched on Saturday from Shannon to the .freezing works in Wellington.

The Shannon School football fifteen journeyed to Ohau on Saturday, where they met and defeated the Ohau boys by 9 points to '3.

While playing football at school last week George Exton, the nine-year-old son of Mr and Mrs E. Exton, of Vance Street, broke his collarbone.

There is a good deal of sickness in Shannon at present, quite a number being laid aside with the. “flu.” Last week a case of scarlet fever was reported and the patient, a little girl, was removed to the Palmerston North Hospital.

On charges of using obscene language in a public’ place, to wit Ballance Street, and being drank and disorderly, John DuteT appeared yesterday before Messrs Spencer and E. Butt, J.’sP. He was convicted on both charges and was fined £3 in default 14 days’ imprisonment on the first charge and fined £l, in default 48 hours on the second.

The Sports Queen Committee, in connection with the Moutoa Hall Fund, held a successful street stall, in Foxton on Saturday. The winners of the following competitions are: Cigarettes, Mr F. Spring; nightdress, Mrs S. Barber; small box chocolates, Arthur Pullen (Moutoa); large box chocolates, Mrs Jensen (Foxton): dinner, Mrs Hartley (Foxton); box of soap, Jean Campbell (Moutoa).

The. ladies of Shannon and district, who are out to raise money for the purpose of giving extra comforts to patients in the Palmerston North Hospital, will hold a dance in the Druids’ Hall on Friday evening next. Every arrangement is being made; to make the dance an enjoyable one and as the purpose is such a worthy one there should be a large attendance of the public. Mrs Butler’s orchestra will provide the music. A meeting of the Committee is called for Wednesday afternoon at 2.30 p.m. in the Council Chambers.

The street stall on Saturday organised by the Mayoress, who was assisted by a large number of ladies, to raise funds to be used for comforts for patients in the Palmerston Ncith Hospital, proved a great stress, despite the boisterous weather which prevailed. The ladies made a great effort and as a result the sum of £37 bis was raised from the sale of goods and competitions. The public responded splendidly to tbe demands made upon them, and to them the committee extend their thanks. In the even ill g the following winners l of competitions were announced, the remainder of the competitions will be drawn at the end of the work: —Dinner, Mr G. Quarrie; tea, Mr Conway; box of cigarettes, M. Hickey; Mrs Spencer’s bowl, Mr O. Hanifin.

The unemployed register in Dune din now shows 148 names. 36 mei were placed in work up to yesterday

Dunedin has so far escaped any serious influenza though colds, sore throats and mild flu are very com mon.

Two Hawke’s Bay drovers recently completed an 'exceptionally long drive with cattle, having set out from Tautane Station, Waipukurau, some six weeks ago with 150 head. They picked up another mob of 200 and took the whole of them through to Taumarunui, a distance of over 257 miles.

Messrs Italeigli Bros., of Alfredton, have split up a totara tree on their Saunders Road farm that will take a lot of healing. The tree yielded 600 fencing from seven lengths. The smallest length split up into 80 posts. The top of the tree which probably contained another couple of lengths, had broken off when the tree had fallen and had been carried away by a slip.

According to a well-known Palmerston North poultry-keeper, in the last fourteen years eggs have never been so scarce as they have been this winter. He ventured the opinion that the prices ruling next winter would he higher still. This is in a great extent due to the fact that of late years householders' have given up the practice of keeping a few fowls, on the score that they don’t pay.

A case of scarlet fever Otaki liais been reported. Every precaution is being taken to prevent its spread.

The N.Z. Gazette notifies the taking of land in the Kairanga County for the purposes of road-diversions in connection with the Palmerston North railway deviation.

Fifty-three miles of extensions to New Zealand railways were transferred from the Public Works Department during the year ended March 31. This comprised 30 miles in the North Island, making a total of 1360 miles; and 23 miles in the South Island, making a total of 1778 miles.

At a meeting of the Ashburton Rugby Sub-union, A. Shannon, himself a referee, was warned off all Ashburton Rugby grounds till the end of next season for joining with the crowd in hooting a referee during a match at Rakaia. Six members of the Rakaia senior team were disqualified for one week for leaving the field.—Press As sociation.

The wary motorist goes liand-in-hand with safety, us proved yesterday when the steering-gear of a ear broke as it was passing over the lluainahunga bridge, situated between Mauriceville and Masterton. It is, indeed, fortunate that the car was travelling slowly, and that the bridge side was sufficiently stout for the machine to be checked in its course to wards the river, as otherwise there might have been another tragedy to record. - ,

During a fire inquiry at Wanganui a witness apologised for being compelled to use profanity during the course of his evidence. The Coroner, Mr J. S. Barton, .S.M., explained that the witness had not broken any x rules of the Court. “There are four swear words in the Court language,” he said, “two nouns and two adjectives, and most unfortunately this book of mine (referring to the Magisterial note book) is full of those four words.

When a queen bee is sent from one part of the Dominion to another, she has to be provided with a bigger retinue of attendants than the Queen of No less than 15 worker bees accompany her, and if the weather is at all cold, she must have as many as 30. Their duty is to keep her warm, feed her, groom her, and in many other ways look after her welfare. Sent alone she would most certainly die. For the purpose of sending queen bees from one part of the ' country to another, the postal authorities have provided specially ventilated b^gs.

A Wanganui business man’s experience of unemployed labour has not been happy. He gave one man a job digging a garden, and it cost him £8 10s for work that should have taken only a couple of days. Later his wilting beneficence again asserted itself, and he gaVe another workless worker an opportunity in his garden. At 2.30 in the afternoon he was called home by his wife. “Look at him,” she said, “He’s been like that since one o’clock.” The exhausted toiler was asleep under a tree.

A rural community near Wanganui has been interested by a little drama in its midst. The manager of a farm had been dismissed by iris employers. Falling a victim to the prevailing ’flu, he was taken in by sympathetic neighbours,' and was still sick when his former employers communicated, asking if he would take his furniture away. Mustering their resources, the indignant neighbours sent along a spring dray and wheelbarrow, with which the furniture was removed. It took six loads to do the work, while the ex-employ-ers, owners of a motor-truck that would have done the job in ten minutes, sat back and watched the. process.

The Pictorial History of ihe Dunedin Exhibition, just issued, is the first industrial display had been suggested in Dunedin by the Manufacturers" I official publication to give due recog- | nition to the gentleman who* originated the enterprise and who was responsible for the form in which ttie public eventually saw it. A small Association, but on January 27, 1923, Mr Edmund Anscombe, a well-known Dunedin architect, wrote to. the press, a stirring appeal that eventually inspired liis fellow citizens to take the project on a much more ambitious scale. “I am strongly of opinion,” wrote Mr Anscombe, “that the time is opportune to successfully carry out here in Dunedin an Exhibition which should eclipse anything previously attempted in New Zealand. Let it be the symbol of New Zealand’s spirit, typifying the resources, enterprise and progress of the Dominion. . . .

Can we not adopt the slogan, ‘lndustry, ’Thrift, 'Prosperity',’ (and show that we to-day are men capable of carrying to a successful issue an Exhibition as suggested. A big undertaking carries with it the magic of enterprise.” Mir Anscombe’s wide vision and enthusiasm eventually overcome the “winter show” idea. He then became responsible for the whole conception of the Exhibition as the public saw it and the construction was carried out on his plans and with so much expedition that a new standard was set for exhibitions rn that the construction was completed many weeks before the scheduled date. Not only so, but, he also planned and constructed the remunerative Amusement Park, the retention of the principal features of which by the Exhibition Directors instead of leasing them to concessionaires was- an important factor in the financial success of the undertaking.

The consumption of honey in New Zealand lias increased two-foid during the last 10 years.

It was in the small hours of the morning, says the Manawatu Daily Times, when two practical jokers, unknown to,i each other, decided to have a. prank with a friend who had made two atempts to leave in bis auto. The car had been left running for- a few minutes, so the first joker decided to turn off the benzine, while a few minutes later the second man decided to do likewise. The result was that when the motorist came out lie left the jokers to solve the mystery of how a car will travel without “juice.”