Shannon News TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1926.

Shannon News, 27 July 1926, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1926.

The annual meeting of tin: congregation of the Shannon Presbyterian Church will be held in the Church on Thursday evening at LUO p.m. A full attendance is requested.

All good things come to uri mid, but the best is often at die end amt 60 it is proving at Howard Andrew’s gigantic sale for during tire last tew days a Is in the £ will be given on all sale prices to purdia.-ieis who purchase £1 of goods.

The dance held on Friday evening and organised by the .Mayoress (Mrs Butt) to raise money towards providing comforts for the patients in the Palmerston North Hospital, proved a most enjoyable function and as a result the fund will benefit. There were many Palmerston North people present, including Mrs S. V. Trask and members of the Hospital Day Committee. The following ladies assisted the Mayoress, all of whom are to be complimented on the effort- they have put forward for such a worthy purpose:—'Mesdames Taylor. Whibley, T. S. Spencer, E. Spencer, Jamieson. Bowler, Richardson, Cole Cronquest, .James, H. Easton, C. Easton, Saxon and Misses Caldwell and M. Butt.

The Shannon Choral Society had their first practice on Thursday night for the session and tackled the newwork very we 11.,, There was a good number present, notwithstanding so much sickness in the town. A number of apologies were received from absentees. The secretary presented an estimated balance sheet, all the returns not. being in. Whilst the expenses of the concert were paid for, it was regretted that there would be not enough in hand to pay workingexpenses, so the Society has decided to give the same programme in Kevin pn August IBtli.’ The committee in future, will be more strict as to attendance of members at. the practices and if members do not attend a certain number of practices they will debarred from conceit work. Every consideration will be given to bona tide reasons for absence, such as sickness and absence from lown. The conductor hopes to see a full muster next Thursday, seeing that the Levin concert is so near and so much has to he done hi choral work tliis session.

The Mart on Schools have closed for a further week owing to the epidemic. There are several serious cases in the district.

No night attractions are to be provided at the Auckland Royal Show, it being considered the expense of lighting does not warrant it. It was stated at a meeting of the A. and P. Association that the cost would he £SOO a night. The secretary reported that the prize money would exceed £2OOO and towards this a subsidy of £1250 had been provided.

Footpaths are very handy tilings to have about a town. This fact was well exemplified in Blenheim recently (says the Marlborough Kxpressy Past the doctor’s residence were a heifer and two calves, while in Weld street a “new beauty” was parked'su as to occupy the whole ul' the footpath. The cattle perhaps, should have known better; the car bore a “foreign” number and the owner may not have been aware that it was a palh.

“You are very foolish to meddle in the quarrels of hoys,” said Mr K. C. Cutten, S.M., in the Children’s Court, at Auckland, recently to a youth, aged 19, charged with assaulting a boy, aged 10, by striking him in the lace. It was stated the boy struck defendant’s small brother. Defendant then chased him and held him while his brother hit him. Not satisfied with the punishment, defendant also “ruck him. The magistrate said defendant had committed an assault, and would be convicted and ordered to pay costs.

The almost incredible tenacity of a .12-year-old Maori boy of Waitara was revealed the other day. The hoy was a member of flje Waitara School liugby team to play the lnglewood'school. lie arrived on the Waitara railway platform just in time to chase the train out of the station in a valiaid but unsuccessful attempt to join hifellow team members. N’olhing- daunted by missing the train the boy set off on foot for Inglewood, thirteen miles away, and the pace at which lie covered those miles may be imagined from the fact that'he arrived in Inglewood in time to play with hits team and, incidentally, to play a dashing game.

While- liio cost of handling overseas cargo in Auckland is only sonic life a ton, it runs into over £8 at a roadstead like Gisborne.

Tile unnuaL cycling road race l'roin Tiidaru to Christchurch has been dclinitciy fixed for October 2nd. For ilie inst time this will not allow the placed riders to compete in the Warrnambool event.

The Wellington Acclimatisation Sociciy proposes to push on with, the attempt to stuck this district with pheasants, the importation into New Zealand ot' quail from California having been disallowed by the Department of Internal Attains, owing to the prevalence of foot and mouth disease in America at the present time.

Deferring lo the Alaslerton Daeing' Club’s decision to hold its next meeting at Trenihum, the Wairarapa Standard observes: “For a number of years the club lias been steadily going back. and this new move is a desperate expedient to save itseli from extinction. It might lie passible for the Carterton• Daeing Club to amalgamate with Masterton and bold a three days' meeting at Trentham, IhOii'eliy bringing factions together that, prejudice .done is separating.

Poachers of game, dynamiters ot fishing sir-cams and gentlemen of a similar kidney must-find, at times, their operations costly, l.ast year, fur example,! the vigilance of rangers acting on behalf of the Wellington. Acclimatisation Society was. rewarded Ivy if convictions, representing £255 in fines pa ill by poi sons with too unhealthy an interest in opossums, pukeko, black swam, Imres, etc., and resulting in a closer observance of the provisions incorporated in the Animals’ Protection and Caine Act of 1921-22.

Quite the best story going the rounds (says tile Bui lb cor.i espondent of the “Advocate”} concerns a Ahutonian who advertised in an Auckland newspaper for a Judy help, and dually selected, from a number ot applicants, a person named -‘Whisker.” The stranger duly -arrived, and was met on the railway station. The Mart orb an h fit si question was, ‘‘Are you one of the Bulls ‘Whiskers’?” referring to well-known district family. ,Oncc again the unfortunate name caused discord and misunderstanding, for the northerner “took the huff” and caught the next ,train back to Auckland. The Martonian is still advertising for a lady help!

A Hawera financier had bias in-ess dealings recently with a man whose ease presented features similar to the following: Farm, 50 acres; commitments, £4000; and he was looking for more money on the property. He failed absolutely to realise die seriousness of his position. The features of the average case presented by such men comprised die borrowing of money at say 6 per cent m farm Jand valued at £BO per acre. This gave an overhead cost of £\ 16/ for interest 10/ in rates, and 2/ for incidentals per acre per year. If the farmer had herd averaging 20011® bulterfat, with butler at 1/6 per 11), -each row would give him roughly £ls a year. With a cow to two acres, lie drew 7 less than £2 10/ per acre per annum clear. Lack of economy, when associated wdth such bad 'finance, threatens to tighten money still further for those whose methods were not so sound a« the industry as a-"whole.