Shannon News TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1926.

Shannon News, 14 September 1926, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1926.

The Bowling and Croquet Clubs will 'Officially open their season on Wednesday, September 29th. A start lias been -made with tire alterations and additions to the Municipal Buildings. Anyone l who is considering installing wireless plants, should ;toteirview Mr T. C. Thwaites, who is agent for the Page six-valve wireless set* complete, wliich he is quoting at £■2.7 10. Mr Thwaites will be pleased to give a demonstration to anyone interested. Word lias been received /by the Shannon Athletic Club from the Centre that Labour Day,' October 25th, has been sanctioned for the local club to hold their first sports of the season. As that day is a general holiday the Club should iiaive a record gathering. A committee meeting will be held on, Thursday evening tjo make -prelimiihary arramgements for drawing a programme.) The Shannon Choral Society advise elsewhere in this issue that on Friday next, the 17th inst., a dance, will be held in the Parish Hall at 8 p.m. Music will be supplied by Mr J. Oilsen and a first class supper provided. .All who. attend are assured of a pleasant evening. No invitations are 'being issued by the Committee and the public air© invited to attend. The street stall held on Saturday by the ladies of St. Joseph's Church proved most successful. The stall was well laden with' goods, an energetic committee of ladies losing no opportunities of disposing of same, with the result that eivery thing was disposed of hy the evening. During the day a number of competitions were conducted,. the ;results being drawn in the evening by Messrs Brann and Bovas, the following being the prize winners—pinner, Mr G. McEwen, junor.; ham, Mr Thurston; cigarette, Mr K. Logan; dress length, G. Jensen; cake, Mr F. Kilminster; doll (Queenie), Mr J. Eade; fowls, Mr Grey; sheep, Miss R. Whitlow; kitty kitchen, Miss N. Butters; cigars, H. Holmes; dishes, Mr J. Hennesscw; coal, Mrs Johnson. "What is your reason for allowing the stock to wander?" asked Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M., of a defendant at the Oamaru Police Court on Wednesday morning. "Just a shortage of paddocks," answered the defendant. "Well, you are candid," replied the Magistrate. "That is the real reason in most cases, I am afraid."" , The chiefs of the Arawa tribe have sent the Bt. Hon. J. G. Coates a farewell letter on the eve of hi 6 departure for England. They wish the Prime Minister and Mrs Coates "bon voyage," and ask that there be conveyed to Their Majesties, the King and Queen, their warmest regards and steadfast loyalty. They ask that the Duke of York, on the occasion of J lis forthcoming visit, will unveil the Arawa soldiers' memorial at Rotorua.

"We have a fearful record in cases Liu which mothers have gone bail for j their son," said Mr J. W. Poynton, j S.M., in the Auckland Police Court on Monday when a young man on bail failed to appear. The magistrate said I he was not sure that bail should be accepted in such circumstances in future although there was no law to •prevent it. Chief-Oetective Cummings said he did not consider the .system right and parents should not be allowed to provide bail. In this particular case accused's mother who had gone bail, had assisted the police in every way.

Somo/ning- in the nature of quick exchange or sharp practice occurred in the money order office in Wangimui last week. A lady went to deposit a £5 note. She handed the note and the deposit book over ,the counter, but was asked to make an alteration in the name. She then took the book and note over to the usual desk far waiting, alongside which a man was standing. Momentarily she returned to get a bank slip, and during that interval the smart gentlemen replaced the £5 by a £1 note. Imagine the surprise of the lady when, on going back to the counter with the note sin her book, she learned that its value was only 20s instead of the major sum.

Tile Spring Show held at Parana- I •raumu last week drew no lees than 850 entries. In the school section | there were nearly .400 entries, some of the classes having as many as 40 entries. "The Post and Telegraph Department nas outgrown its name," humurously remarked Mr J. L. Walton, New Plymouth, at the re-union of officers on Wednesday night. "If you look down the list you will find we : do the work for every other departi ment. So why not call us the Government right away." (Laughter). ! Tire strange way in which a power line at Matangi was broken was reported at the meeting of the'Waikato branch of the Farmers' Union on Saturday. A flying-fox had come in contact with the wire, snapping it in two. Thas is the first case of its kind known. The flying-fox was disj covered dead underneath the wire, has since been stuffed. I A direct compliment was paid to i the newspapers by the Swankers Club at a smoke concert at Wanganui. recently, when the toast of the Press was' the first honoured after the loyal toast. The change from the tail end of the programme . was a .recognition of the helpful ] publicity given to the club in its charitable efforts. "What do you value your farm at?" asked counsel of a, witness at the Gore Court on Wednesday morning. "1 am not a valuer' of land," he replied. "Well," persisted counsel, "what would you sell for?" "1 have a wife an six children so it is not, for sale.' 1 "Then dt would be useless offering you £2O per acre?" "Don't you risk it if you come with the cash,", said witness amiid laughter. In consideration for the large number of old age pensioners, and other elderly and infirm people who patronise post offices, the Department intends in future buildings to do away with flights of steps in the approaches to public offices. Thus the new post office to be built at Castlecl'iff will be very little above ground level, and the Wanganui Post Office and others that will shortly be reconstructed will probably embody the same thoughtful provision. i "The Government is rapidly making the public prohibitionists," exclaimed a hotelkeeper the other day. He got an invoice for a case of gin amounting to £lO. The •' customs duties payable in respect of the' case amounted to £32. In other words over three-fifths of the cost represented taxation. Thas meant stiff prices for the gin, "which the public were unwilling to pay, and they bought cheaper liquor." For the first time for over 4p years Uh'' swivel bearings of the chime of bells at the Christehurch' Cathedral are being renewed. The old beanings though still good, are of the type that necessitates continual greasing, and are liable at any time to run stiff. The new bearings are of the modern ' oil-ring type, and when filled with lubricant need very little attention. They will be tested shortly, and while this' is in progress the hells will be muffled so that the tongues will hot strike. Hobbies as a rule are nice things to have if they are your own, but they do not always fill your friends or neighbours with joy. But like.every rule, this one has ite blatant exception. Alma Rubens, whose latest Fox Films vehicle is now showing at the People's Theatre, is the exception. Alma is very fond of children, and she has made it a habit to add to her Christinas list every child actoir that has appeared in one of her motion pictures. Thereafter she remembers each one at Christmas with an appropriate gift. A curious accident occured near Wanganui the othvr day. Two service cars, one closely following the other, were headed for the city, when the leading car came suddenly, round a corner, on two milk drays standing in the roadway. There was a scream of hastily applied brakes, and the car pulled up within a foot of one of the drays but the car behind could not stop in time, and cannoned into the back of the first automobile. No damage was done, but the two youngsters in charge of the milk carts were given a hectic five minutes by the irate ■car-drivers.

"I would like to move that we express our sympathy with Mr T. K. Sidey, xM.P., in his "efforts to promote the Daylight Saviihg Bill, and that we wish him better luck next time," said Mr G. W. Ci. Smithson, at Monday night's meeting of the Christchurch Bowling Centre. (Mr E. Bealey, in seconding the motion, said he could go further than the mover and recommended Mr Sidey to bring down a Bull for the abolition of the Upper House. "A very goood idea," remarked the chairman (Mr H. B. Oakley) amidst laughter, Mr Smithson's motion was carried unamious-

A sensational motor-car accident I happened on the road between Mun- | garoa and Akatarawa recently. A motorist accompanied by a friend, wag returning to the city at night, when he met another car. He immediately dimmed his lights, but the courtesy was not returned. The ciity bound driver switched on his lights again, only to discover two pedestrians in front of him. In order to avoid running them down he swerved to the side of the road, and the car plunged down an Bft. bank, somersaulting as if did so. The occupants of the car had a miraculous escape, as they were pinned beneath the machine. Though it was some time before they were rescued from their unenviable plight, they suffered nothing more serious than severe shock and slight injurious.

"How aire you going to dissect it," said a member at a meeting of the Auckland Provincial Industrial Association when British-made goods were under discussion. He instanced the case of a boot made with a British sgle, German patent uppers, stitched with American thread, and with French wooden heels. "It would do you good to stand alongside customers in the 'groceterias, and hear them insist on having New Zealand butter and no other," writes Mr M. A. Earle Kelly, of Vancouver, and until recently a journalist in Wellington. He remarks that hithefto Canada published very little 1 news from New Zealand, "not because 1 Canadians were not interested, for I find the people of British Columbia more interested in New Zealand than ; in any other .part of the British EmI pire."