Shannon News TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1926

Shannon News, 5 October 1926, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1926

Tlie official opening of the Shannon Tennis Club’s season will: take place at the Vance street counts tomorrow (Wednesday) at 2 pun. a cordially invitation i|S extended to the public to- atend 1 .

'At a meeteing held last evening of the Management Committee of the Shannon Football Club it was decided to hold a ball to wind up the season. A meeting of the Club is to be held on Thursday, 14th October, when a committee will be formed and the date arranged for holding the Ball.

We have been asked to state that No. 14 event, the Silent Flyer Wheeel Race, appearing on the Shannon Athletic and Cycling Club’s programme of sports to be held on Labour Day, is open to local riders residing in the districts of Toko.maru, Koputaroa, Moutoa, Mangahao and Shannon; and that entry is open to all makes of racing machines. Also that a post entry event, for maiden Cumberland wrestling, has been added to the programme.

Howard Andrew, Ltd., have a special advt. on page 2, relating to fheir dress materials, and ladies will do well to call and inspect and see the splendid range at low figures.

When in doubt, play* trumps—give them Milderson’s Jam Tit Bit, the original and only genuine Jam Tit Bit Is 6d per lb. from Aitcheson and Son* . ,

The Colonial Sugar Refinery Company has announced an increase of £1 per ton in the wholesale prices of all grades of raw and refined sugar. The new, price for No. 1A is now &23 15s.

Abnormal rains have. fallen in tlie Rotorua district, inches being registered for the past three days, and 2 $ for the past 24 hours. News received indicates that’ the coastwise roads are blocked in places and also the Motu road. Connection is severed. Tin rivers are in high flood. The weather is very warm still and the weather unsettled. ■

At 'three o’clock on Sunday morning a fire, completely destroyed G. H. Armstrong’s bakehouse at Ptikekohe, and partially gutted tlie same owners the same building. The Hire Brigade effected a remarkable save and confined the flames to the rear portion. The insurances on Armstrong’s plant, fittings and stock amount to £685, and on the building which is owned by the estat of 11. J. Lodge, £IOOO.

The early part of last week saw tlio return of spring weather and an appreciable growth is noticeable in all plant life, a factor whichshould lighten the farmers’ perplexities regarding the supply of green feed for cows. The whole countryside presents a fine green appearance, more particularly in tlie Kuku and Ihakara districts, and the abundanc of fresh grass will, no doubt, account for a substantial increase iii this month’s output at the local dairy factories.

Timothy John Downing, a shift engineer, forty years of age, employed at the Waipukurau -Borough pumping station, was .killed about 8.30 this morning as the result of a steel bar which he was using, becoming entangled in the clutch of the pump and being propelled around splitting his head in two. Death was instantaneous. His fellow enginer came into the pumping room immediately and saw Downing lying upon the floor dead. Deceased leaves a widow and a child a week old. During the presentation of badges to the Blenheim Girl Guides, by Lady Alice Fergusson, His Excellency observed apropos of the Guides’ heads, that he was thinking about awarding a new badge to Guides who kept their hair long. (Laughter). “You may laugh,” said His Excellency gaily, “hut some of you will be sorry yet that you have your hair cut off. Long hair will become the fashion again one of these days before long, and. then .where will you all be ?"

Between one and two a.in. on Sunday morning at the local railway station Constable Shannon arrested an escapee from, the Weraroa Training Farm. The youth was travelling in a truck on a goods train from Wellington. He had escaped from the farm on September 28th and had proceeded ito Wellington where he is 'alleged to have stolen a bicycle, and committed other thefts. Yesterday morning he was charged before Mr. E. J. S. Spencer with the itheft of tlie bicycle and was remanded to Wellington where he will probably be charged with other thefts.

The hutter output of the Auckland Province for September, was a record, exceeding jbhe previous September by 3415 boxes. Butter graded at the stores during July, August and September totalled 125,383 boxes, an increase of 14,157 for the same period of last year.

With reference to a scheme of tlie Otago Motor Club suggesting tile .imposition of a tax on motorists to provide for the. tar sealing of certain roads, the Wanganui Association decided to strongly protest against the proposal and desires that immediate action be taken, to squasli the idea by the New Zealand Association.

In response to a question regarding the,.necessity for an improved system of grading footballers, Mr J. J. O’Connor, at. the last meeting of The Horowhenu.a Rugby District Council, informed the questioner that the rep selectors bad the matter dn hand, and the grading .would he more satisfactory next year.

The voting strength of football clubs has long been a contentious matter and file question was recently raised by Mr J. Casey, at a meeting of delegates from the various clubs, when he considered that such voting power should be based upon t|he playing strength of the team during, the previous season. It was, however, resolved that the present system should be retained, viz., Senior teams, 3 votes; junior, 2 votes, and thirds, 1 vote ehch.

Those who question the ability of Mokoia land to produce chou moellier should inspect a crop grown by Mr. J. Baldwin, Meremere road, says the Hawera Star. H,e walked into the local store the other day with a stalk six feet high,, providing shelter in its upper part for a thrush’s nest and five. eggs. On Sunday morning five of Mr Baldwin’s cows were lost in the chou moellier—which in parts reaches a height of seven feet—and it took an hour’s search to discover them..

Goatsrue, a noxious growth which has made its presence felt extensively on pastures adjoining the banks of the Manawatu River, is again springing into- life after the winter period of rest and already the country adjacent to, the river appears’’in a rich green by this means. The eradication of this pest seems to be an impossibility, and there is Tittle doubt that, the recent high floods have scattered the. hardy seeds of the plant further inland than they have been up to the present:—Foxton Herald.

The 1 deflated value of the franc has resulted in many French industries being, obliged to curtail their production or, alternatively, close their factories. The making of cig-arette-papers is an . industry over which France has what constitute almost a monopoly, and the financial collapse of France -has resulted in the closing of the paper mills. Within the past few weeks die supply of cigarette-papers in Levin has been limited’, but at the present time the man who rolls his own ‘'smokes” has now to resort to "tailor-mades,” as there are no papers to be procured throughout the length and breadth of the Dominion.

A curious incident occured a few days ago at a sheep show at Ararat, Victoria. By a mischance six rams sent fiy a Western District breeder, four for exhibition and two for sale, were placed/in the wrong pens. Two of the rams, valued at 100 guineas and sent for- show purposes, were submitted by the auctioneer at the tram sale, and were sold to two farmers for three and a half guineas each. The new buyers, after examining the sheep directed the attention of the auctioneer to the fact that the sheep were eight tooth intead of six tooth, and, afteT further examination, the sale was annuled. The age of the rams appears to have been of more concern to tbe buyers than the quality.

Radio listeners on Saturday evening all speak highly of the reception from 2FC broadcasting station, which at 7 p.m. (Australian time) changed over to their new wave length of 442 metres. After the sporting results had been given out the announcer thanked the thousands of listeners who had written appreciative letters on the programmes submitted on the 1100-metre length and trusted their assistance would still he forthcoming by way of constructive criticism on the programmes of the future. The , Overture from the .Crystal Palace theatre was then broadcasted followed by the prologue to “Stella Dallas,” in which Mr Alfred Cunningham, the popular baritone, who was in Levin on two occasions with the Westminster Glee Singers, had the able assistance of a first class soprano. The rest of the evening was devoted to a studio concert. Recepton was particularly good and Farmer’s promises to he as popular as the other Australian stations.