Shannon News TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1926.

Shannon News, 12 October 1926, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1926.

The fortnightly meeting of the Borough Council be held this even ing.

At the opening of the croquet season at Foxton on Wednesday last, Mrs McLachlan, one of the Shannon Club's leading players, won the golf croquet competition.

Nominations for the election of live trustees of the Buckley Drainage District will be received until 12 o'clock on Wednesday, 20th October, at the office of the Board, Plimmer Terrace, Shannon, by the returning officer, Mr J. T. Bovis. ,

The next date for the Shannon Choral Society's concert has been fixed for Thursday, November 18. This will be the best ever given yet, including, a fantasia from ' * Maritana.'' The Society will be augmented in the male sections by members of a Palmerston choir, and lovers of good music may look forwards to a rich treat.

Despite the heavy rain on .Friday evening there was a good attendance ,nt the fancy dress dance held in the Parish Hall; but unfortunately there were very few in fancy dress. Mr A. E. Morgan officiated as M.C., the, music for the dance being supplied by Mr J. Olson (piano) and Mr Prentice (cornet). The following were the prize winners:—Most originnal dress (lady), Miss Caldwell, "Lily White Flour"; (gents), Messrs Cole and Kennedy, "The Cow." Prettiest dress, Miss N. Balfour, "Turkish Lady"; best dress, man: Mr L. Merwood, "Old Man Jazz." The prizes were kindly donated by Messrs T. King, B. Spencer, C. C. Franks, T. C. Thwaites and T. Shannon, to whom the thanks of the vestry are tendered.

It adds the zest that makes their lunch more appetizing—Mildcrson's Jam Tit Bit Biscuit, 1/6 per lb. from Aitcheson and Son.*

Howard Andrew have always been noted for their crepes of good quality at very low prices. They have just landed a big shipment of a very largo assortment of shades. See advt. on page 2.

While examining the vegetables at the Hawera Hospital Board's farm the other morning the manager discovered a thrush's nest, complete with eggs, in the head of a cauliflower.

A -Matamata greengrocer hought carrots and leeks from a farmer in the district, and when he cam© to weigh some of them in small lots lie found that three leeks weighed Bilb and three carrots 7£lb. The purchaser did not even know the name of the grower who could otherwise be given credit for the production, of such weighty vegetables. The leeks were«the largest the grengroc- ; er had ever Been.

The annual meeting of the Farmers' Co-op. Auctioneering Co., held at Hamilton was most harmonious. Shareholders expressed pleasure at the sound j position and congratulated the directors j on-the excellent progress made in the 1 last three years. A dividend of six. per, cent, for ordinary shares was de-; clared.

A warning of the danger to lifethrough flying kites is'being issued by the Public Works Department to schools throughout the Waikato. The danger lies ill the kites becoming entangled with the high-powered electric wires, which on wet days might cause the current to flow through the string to the flier of the kite, carrying death along with it. A few days ago a party of linesmen discovered a kite with a long dangling line caught on a 50,000 volt line. Had the day been wet and the swaying cord come in coiitaet with any live object the result might have been disastrous. Parents are therefore asked to warn thier child™ of the dangers of kite flying.

"Fined ten bob." This colloquial expression from tho lips -of tlie presiding Justice rather upset the gravity of the . Palmerston North Magistrate s Court on Monday.

A man appeared in the Magistrate's Court in Christchurch on Saturday on a charge of failure to maintain his wife, the warrant for his arrest having been issued eight years ago.

The police control of traffic in Auckland is to cease in' a month's time, when the work will be taken over by a staff under the direction of the City Council.

A* Ford motor car, owned and driven by Mr. C. Carnion't, of Green Lane, Auckland, burst into flames in Hinton's Gully on Thursday evening, and was completely destroyed. The insurance policy of £llO expired three days before.

The massive reinforced concrete water tower on Bastia Hill, Wanganui, has been completed to a height of 100 feet. There are still 26ft of the tower to be built before commencing the construction of the tank to hold 120,000 gallons. The tower, it is said, will be the highest of the kind in the world.

"Don't cuddle up your children. Let them have plenty of fresh air and sunlight. Why let your children go to a stuffy entertainment on an afternoon when you caii let them get out on beaches and iinopen spaces? There are no more resources in any part of the ■-Wifld than there are here ftor the health of the children. Let v them get the fresh air and sunshine, then there will be no disease, and our hospitals will be practicallv empty." These remarks were made* by Sir Truby King, Director of Child Welfare, during the course of a lecture on "The Sun Cure" before a crowded and interested audience at the Leys Institute. Auckland.

An Aramoho resident scratched his head and pondered, when he rose on Sunday morning, to find that several hens and a turkey were missing from his poultry yard. Finally he took his troubles to that haven for the worried, the Police station, with the result that within a couple of hours the missing birds had been located, along with two men considered to have been interested in their disappearance, and a further sequel will be Court proceedings within a couple of days. It is alleged that the birds were, stolen during a nocturnal descent on the poultryliouse, and when traced the pair*'believed to be responsible were busily preparing them for the cooking pot.

Mr Cutten, S.M., in the Children's Court, at Auckland, issued a warrant for the arrest of a youth, who failed to appear to answer a charge of aiding and abetting two other boys who pleaded guilty to using obscene 'language over the telephone. It was stated that the missing youth was known in Ellerslie as the bad boy of the village, and that lie persuaded other boys to enter a telephone box and ring up a constable against whom he had a grudge. One placed a penny in the slot and the other at the dictation of this youth, made use of the language complained, of.

' On Saturday's meeting of the Horowhenua County Council, the. Works Committee advised, with regard to the Otaki Racing Club 's request to have the approach to the racecourse improved, that the obstructing trees have been removed by an arrangement made by the parties concerned., and that in connection with the matter the Committee consider that Mr L. J. Kilmister deserves the thanks of all parties for the manner, in which he has met the situation. The Committee recommend that Mr'Kilmister be asked if he is willing to dedicate to the Council at their expense the piece of land which it is understood Mr Kilmister is prepared to give to enable the roadway to be widened.

Here's a problem in psychology: A young woman was employed by a Christchureh business firm for eight years (says the' Sun). The head of the firm had every confidence in her. She lived in a rented room. Recently, after i\ short illness, she died. The landlady called upon the gill's employer to join lier in takiug an inventory of the contents of the room. . This is what they found: Three and a-half bags of sugar, about the same quantity of tea, dozens of bars of Moap, about 10 pounds of block cake (all in small slices), 147 sovereigns, 45 five-pound notes, and many one pound notes. It was evident that the tea, sugar, cake, and soap had been taken to the room in small quantities and carefully accumulated over a period of years.

Two cans of cream, identical in age and flavour, were consigned to a creamery dairy farmer in the Auckland province recently. Being greatly surprised that the contents of one can should be graded first-class and the other second-class, he complained to the manager, and received in reply the fol'owing letter, which he cr.iis'ders a gem. "The cream you take exception to was graded by the company's head grader in conjunction with your own grader. So you can be assured you have received a square deal. Evidently some harmful bacteria had found its way into one of your cans. It has been my experience to have had butter graded first and second out of one cream vat. I 'haven't solved that problem yet. I am one of a twin pair. I hold a good position. My other half doesn't. We both had the same opportunities—in fact, he had far better chances, Can , 'ou explain- I know a restaurant in iAuckland where you can get six different kinds of soup out of one pot; 'why? Best wishes for a piosperous iseason,"

The councillors for the Wirokiuo riding with the County Engineer recently visited and inspected the bridge on the Hokio Beach Eoad damaged by the floods. After discussion on the ground, it was suggested that the present bridge be removed to a new site. A location survey of the present road will first be made and when this has been done the Engineer will report fully on the matter.

A shining cuckoo, a migratory bird from New Guinea, and very rarely seen in these parts, was observed in Levin on Saturday afternoon. Like the cuckoo familiar to the English countryside, the shining cuckoo lays its eggs in the nests of other birds, and apparently the bird seen on Saturday was intent on ousting a blackbird from her home, but unsuccessfully, for the latter was? seen to give chase to the interloper, finally succeeding in putting tho unwelcome visitor to flight. If is said to be the first bird of this species seen here for a number of years.

The indications are /that cricket this year will be very popular hi Levin. In addition to the Levin and Weraroa teams an endeavour is being made to' form an Old Boys' Club, while the possibilities of one, if not two, teams among the County workmen are not at :,11 remote As Shannon, Foxton :..n ' Otaki will each field a team, it seems there will be a revival of this summertime sport, and local cricketers may look fonvard to some very good matches during the 1927 season.

A keen sense of humour is possessed by the new Minister of Public Works, Hon. K. S. Williams. At Thames on Wednesday, Mr T. W. Rhodes, the local member of Parliament and the Mayor of the. Borough, had expatiated,on the trials of the settlers of Hikuai, due to the lack of'access, and he concluded by saying: "My heart bleeds for them, sir, every time I go out, there. I hope you will do i something for them, sir." With a twinckle dn his eye, Mr Williams replied: "I suppose if we don't do something pretty soon you will bleed to death." '

A Kaiti resident vouches for the following story, says the Poverty Bay Herald." A 51b tea canister, reposing on a stable shelf well out of the reach of children was used as a repository for nails, and on a recent inspection was found to be more than half full. A "neighbour having mentioned'that he was picking up a surprising number of new nails in his garden, the owner' of the tin chanced to again inspect his nail supply the other day. He found that a couple of starlings had practically cleared the tin and had already laid the foundations of their nest in it. '\

An amusing instance of the poundkeeper's devotion to his duty Avas related at the Ngaruawahia Borough Council on Wednesday evening. A horse had strayed from a stable and was nibbling tho'grass on the roadside. The poundkeeper happened along and tried to seize the animal but, (.coming frightened, it van back to the stable. The poundkeeper not to be denied, followed, took the animal out again and claimed a leading fee'from the owner. That was one side of the story. The pound keeper's vomo>: w:.s tint ne y.nil put a halter on the horse which had dragged him into the stable and nearly crack-d his ribs" og'jt it ' tne wall.s "That's th? man we want," said one councillor amid laughter.