Shannon News FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1926.

Shannon News, 1 October 1926, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1926.

, Gardening or work of any kind is required by an advertiser on page 3. The many friends of Mr P. Bang, of Foxton road, will be sorry to learn that he is an inmate of the Palmerston North Hospital, owing to an attack of appendicitis., Mrs Gapes, of Lower Hutt, who was one of the foundation members of the Ladies’ Croquet Club, was present at the official opening of the Club’s season on Wednesday. The popular fortnightly dance under the auspices of Ladies’ Guild of Yen. Bede’s will !be held in the Parish Hall next Tuesday evening. A good floor, good music /and supper will be provided. There will be a competition danc e and 1 a 1 1 who attend are assured of a good time. Stock that is impounded and 1 is unclaimed is often a poor business pro-, position for the Borough Council. Last week an -unclaimed horse realised the sum of ss, after having cost the Council £1 IBs 6d, thus placing the Borough on the wrong side oi the ledger to the tune of £1 13s 6d.

Reginald Denny, the star in “What Happened to Jones,” was born and educated in England. He entered naturally upon . a dramatic career, coming from theatrical ancestors, who hav-e been on the stage for more than a hundred years. He is one of the screen’s leading comedians and has apepared in many pictures. The latest comedy release is being screened at - the iMaonland Theatre on Monday.

As advertised in this issue a plain and fancy dress dance arranged by the Ven. Bede’s Vestry will he held on Friday, October Bth, in the Palish Hall. Being the first and only one of the year this will no doubt be a -most popular event. Prizes are being offered for the most original costumes, and the Shannon candiidates for the- beauty competition will be present.

Opportunity was taken at the conclusion of the Borough Council meeting by Mr J. T. Bovis, to bid farewell on behalf of the Shannon Athletic Club, to Mr G. Watkins, who, he said, had taken a great interest m the welfare of the Club, he having been the Club’s first secretary. Mr Bovis expressed the wish of the members of the Club that Mr and Mrs Watkins and family would have every happiness in their new home. The Mavor (Mr Butt), who is a member iof the School Committee, on behalf of that body, in making eulogistic reference to Mr Watkins’ interest in the welfare of the children ■expressed his regret at Mr Watkins departure from the district. The latter suitably returned thanks.

Miidersons have just moved into a new sunlight bakery fitted with the most 'modo.rn equipment for ma-kiny their well-known specialty biscuits. If you aren’t already a regular eater of Milderson's Biscuits, think what you are missing and become one how.*

man wlio rode liis bicycle tune round tlic 'Christchurch Cathedral on the footpath was later fined 10s and ordered by the magistrate not to rule o, bicycle for six months.

The .Railway Department’s accoun.s for tU four-weekly period ended July, 94 showed a working profit of £41,983, compared with £58,508 for the corresponding period of 1925.

The monument erected at Te A roll a to the memory of the late Sir William I Herries will be unveiled on Saturday, October 9, when the gathering is expected to include several Ministers and members of Parliament,

An epidemic of a severe form of influenza is reported to be causing havoc among dogs throughout the Dominion at present. The epidemic started in the south and has now reached Auckland.

Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Syinonds, of Mokoia, arc at present in Otaki on holiday. Mr. Symonds states that feed in the" Taranaki district is very scarce, and that the Otaki district especially is favoured compared with other places along the line.

Mr H. Leger, of Wei area, lias received an order from Suva, Fiji Islands, l'or six ' hens and one male •bird from his celebrated strain of white leghorns. These are being shipped by the Tofua from Auckland on October 9th.

A poll of Hastings ratepayers yesterday on four proposals to borrow a total'of £58,900 foi- bitumen Toading footpaths, etc., electrical appliances and operations, piping open drains, and sewerage, and water works, was carried by substantial majorities.

Levin perhaps holds the record for New Zealand in egg production and the chicken raising done here must necessarily be on a large scale. Mi H. Leger with his noted strain ot White Leghorns has always had a bm demand for day-old chicles and so°far this year has disposed -of 43-10 which i.s the full capacity of his incubator plant. Even this number comes 3000 short of supplying, the orders received.

Wild pigs in tile back of Maxwell town received rather a wide awakening on Friday morning last, when Inspector Till and Senior-Sergeant Lopdell paid them a surprise visit. When activities started in earnest, the bombing caused settlers to wonder if the Chinese army were letting off some fireworks in the district. However they soon found out that a war had started with the pigs The hunters espied two email holds onioying the sunshine, and never dreaming that , the enemy were near the pigs were in a sound sleep. The guns were soon busy on tile favourably located targets, and as a result of the fusilatde twelve lamb-eaters were secured. The bag included some good boars keads. it is reported that there has been some cheap pork floating round. -

Mr -A. Trentier (late of C'.rtkO, lS to be the first-“master” of Um Bongotea branch of the 1.0.0. F., ana will be duly installed this week, wnmi then, will be representatives from Lamierston North end Feilding and ether brancuc.of the society. After the ceremony there will be .a social and dar.ee in the-.oro-nation Hall. Mr. Trcnlmer lias been a member of the 1.0.0. F. for a number of years and is extremely keen to see the branch veil established.

4m which has its- humourous si - occurred at. the Otaki Gorge !ast - ■ : tug. ; The !< c-d “limb of tiic law” ,;■ hi search of a clue, and in his irivas:Nations slipped, and fell heacllono- into the icy waters of the quicklyflowing Otak: Liver. His sudden immersion was fully appreciated by Ins companions, but not so by himself.

The late Mr. Herbert Smith, of \Yol-liiig-tor., by the' strange terms of his bequest, will probably earn the ,glatitude of many parents (says an exchange). Mr. Smith .has left £lO, Opt) to b(T spent in seven years for developing the phvsique of New Zealand, boys and girls. 'For girls he particularly recommended'skipping, which faith coincides with that held by many leadingdoctors, both at Home and abroad.

In 1924 the only country with which we had a trade credit balance was Gertnaiiv. and that was largely .due to oui sales 'of wool in that quarter.”’ stated Colonoi Mitchell in the course of hi-) treatment of the . trade economies or New Zealand at Palmerston North. He pointed out that in most eases the value of our exports in recent years had been nearly as great as that of our impoits.

“Wo have to remember that we are 710 W-, with so great a foreign competition, up against much leaner years than formerly. If we had a certified balance-sheet of the country we could cut our cloth from year to year so u- s to keep, our- national balance on, the right side of the ledger, ’’ remarked Colonel G. Mitchell of Wellington, when speaking yesterday in Palmerston North on some features of the economics of exports from New Zealand.

Fourteen clays’ imprisonment was the sentence imposed by Mr. J. Cl. L. Hewitt, S.M., at the Palmerston Magistrate 's Court on John McDonald, a seaman, 50 years of ago, who pleaded guilty to using obscene language on a train between Johnsonvillc and Palmerston North on September 25. SeniorSergeant O’Grady stated that accused, who had been travelling on a secondclass ticket, had entered a first-class carriage and had gone to sleep there. When the guard had cutcred the carriage for tickets accused had used most filthy language in the presence of eight ladies. Sentence as above was passed by the Bench without comment!

“It is wrong to expect our teachers to put up with a lower standard of comfort than that enjoyed by the ordinary working man,’’ said Mr. C. S. Thompson at a meeting of the Canterbury Education Board last week, when the subject of installing a hot water system in a country teacher’s house was under discussion. Mr. Thompson said that a hot water system wag a necessity, yet the board had houses all over the country without them. The department had taken up the attitude that it would not give money for this purpose, but he thought they should ask the department to reconsider its decision. It was decided to hold the matter over till the next meeting.

In his address to the Wanganui Rotary Club on Monday Mr. J. S. Barton, S.M., confessed that he was baffled by the problem of the young girl criminal. It was difficult to follow feminine mental processes in these matters. “A girl will stand and look at you with the mild eyes of a heifer,’’ he declared, amid laughter, “and you have not the faintest idea of what is passing through her mind.’’ He pointed out that a “Big Sister’’ movement, corresponding to that Big Brother system, that had done so much to redeem the lives of wayward boys, appeared to be impracticable, owing to the complexities of the feminine character.

The Taranaki Otil Company's well at Huatorea is now down .over 2000 feet and with information obtained by geologists from this bore the company now proposes to put down another well close to Tokomaru Bay. lt> is also prop able a well will be sunk in Central llawkes Bay.

An Auckland paper relates that, whilst motoring at Takapuna, a party <?ame - upon a char-a-banc in the course of being dismantled to discover the cause of its breakdown. “The fact is,” the mechanic informed the party, “that it’s an Italian machine, and all the printed instructions for it are in - Italian.”

It was stated at the meeting of delegates to the ILorowhenua Rugby District Council Conference that a sum of a little over £-21 had been expended towards the farthering of school football doling the current, season. Such a circumstance is an earnest that the Management \ Committee this year is doing its utmost to - encourage the younger footballers in this district. ,

There was a total clearance of pigs submitted for sale at the Levin saleyards to-day. The offering of sheep was a small one, but most of tile lines sold, with the exception of new season's lambs, which were passed in at 255. Vealers were quitted at 3 guineas apiece, 4-years-olcl bullocks at £S failed to attract buyers, tout good fat cows brought prices ranging between £9 ami £lO.

The work of transplanting 100,000 onion plants is not an easy job, tout that is the number which has lately been put in at the Infirmary garden at Auckland. Provision is made for an onion supply throughout the year and the above unrnber just about meets the needs of the home (remarks an Auckland exchange). The plants are grown from seed sown in the volcanic soil for which the garden is famous, and ,the bulbs come to maturity very early.

For the theft at Taihape of 1401 b of wool valued at £7 10s, the property of Belk, and 601 b of wool and one 'wool pack value £3 15s the property of McCarten, William James, Tasman Morris, a labourer, aged 21,, was to-dav sentenced by Mr E. Page, SM. to three months’ hard labour oil each charge, concurrent, to be served at the • expiration of a present term of 12 months’ reformative for another crime.

A vote of confidence and appreciation was by acclamation, passed to Mr John Casey, secretary of the Horowhenua Rugby District Council, at the meeting of delegates held last night to discuss the division of union proposal. Assiduous attention to minor details and the efficient way in which the secretarial duties -.were conducted had given much satisfaction while Mr Casey’s whole-hearted interest in football had been an mspiration to frotfr officials and play■ers.

A cabled- statement from London last week to the * effect that there> were a million' boxes of butter (25,000 tons), in store in London was so worded as to cause concern in dairying circles. It is pointed out, however, that this is equivalent to five weeks’ supply for Great Jh'itam, the weekly consumption being 0000 tons. Last, year at tins time there were 20,000 tons or 800,000 boxes.- in store in London, that is, one week s supply less than there is at presen . The seamen’s strike held up the new season’s' supply in the early part of the season last year, but it Will he seen that the outlook is very little worse this year than m the past.

Daring the past six years, it staled bv Colonel Mitchell in the course of his "address at Palmerston North reeentlv, New Zealand had accumulated a loss of £24,000,000 in its national trading account, so great had been _ne imports in relation to the exports. We had not felt the “pinch’’ because we had borrowed £28,000,000, but that was not sound finance and, unless measures were taken to curb national extravagance, as could be done by the centralisation of shipping, the country must suffer.

A consignment of 100 queen hunilne bees is shortly to be sent from Canterbury by the Agricultural Department. They will be of the apis tcrrcstvis species, which is regarded as the of the three species of Now Zealanu humble bees (states the Christeiiurc.i Sun). This will be the third season that a consignment of such bees has been sent to Victoria, but. it is not known locally how the others fa ml, Australia being generally regarded as providing more trying conditions toi such bees than the Dominion.

There was a deliberate attempt to destroy by fire a large property known as Bell’s Buildings, To Aroha, last. Friday evening. One of the occupiers discovered, on entering the shop, that three-parts of the main stock room had been burnt, while parts of the building were saturated with kerosene. There was slight damage done to the stock; the kerosene evidently burnt out, and the walls were merely singed. Another effort to create a fire was made next door, where a box of ipaper, etc., was piled up against the building, but. was noticed in time to save the property. The police are investigating, but so far there is no clue to the perpetrator.

Conscience money of a most unusual nature was received by a well-known Gisborne business man a few days ago. Enclosed in a letter from Auckland were three one pound notes and a short note to say that many years ago the writer had contracted a debt of £3 with the brother of tlyi Gisborne man, and asked that the money be forwarded to the proper quarter. The brotlrer in question has been dead for a number of years so that the debt itself must have been contracted many years ago. The letter was unsigned, and now the Gisborne man is wondering want n. should do with the money as las deceased brother’s estate was wound up several years ago.

It -has been decided by the Government to further develop the oyster beds in the Auckland province, and it- is proposed to put down new beds. “I fail to see any danger of a pest of flying-foxes in New Zealand,” remarked an Auckland man who has lived for some time in Tonga, when discussing the recent find in Matangi. “They live only on fruit,” he explained, “and fruit is not to be had in New Zealand all the year round.” In the Islands there are always bananas and oranges, with other fruits according to the season. Here lam sure the animals would starve.” Regarding the way the flying-fox arrived in the Dominion, he said he was sure no one could have brought it as a pet —the musky smell would have been too offensive, and would have revealed the very undesirable immigrant to the customs officers. A distressing) case was mentioned at Monday’s meeting of the executive of the Christchurch’s Citizens’ Unemployment Committee 'by Mr. R. B. Owen, who stated that a family consisting of a man and his wife and four young children had jbeen visited, and the wife" had ben found ill in bed. The husband had been found work on several occasions, but had given up the jobs because he ‘‘felt crook.” The woman and the children had scarcely enough clothes to cover them. Mr. Owen re- , ported that he was bringing the ease under the notice of the Rev. F. Rule, and was suggesting that something should be done for the children, who must be -in need of better surroundings than those they are now placed in. Mr. Owen’s action in the matter was endorsed by the executive. Speaking at a meeting of the Waitpmata Chamber of Commerce in regard to a testimonial to Mr Alex. Harris, M.P. for Waitemata, Mr G. ' H. Minchin, the newly-elected president, said that he had the greatest admiration for their member, but if he had been Mr Harris he would have resigned and submitted himself to tiie electors, as soon as ever Mr Coates had taunted him in the rather tactless way he had with regard to leaving the party. The greatest tribute they could have - paid to Mr Harris, the biggest testd- • rnonial they could have given him, was to have had a chance to reelect him as their member after he had, put up his strenuous fight on their behalf. Several members said that, while they had never supported Mr Harris previously, if he had resigned they would vote for him on this occasion because they approved of his recent action in Parliament.