Shannon News TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1926.

Shannon News, 19 October 1926, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1926.

Good progress is being made with the Tennis Court at Mangahao, and favoured with fine weather it ought to be ready for play sometime next month. -

It is understood that an election to fill the three vacancies on the Borough Council is practically certain, the names of no less than seven well-known citizens having been mentioned as candidates for the vacant seats.

A meeting of the New Year’s Day Picnic Committee will be held in the Council Chambers this evening at! 7.30' p.m., to make preliminary arrange-, wonts'for the annual picnic in the Domain on New Year’s Day. All interested are invited to attend.

A very enjoyable evening was spent at Mangaore last week, the occasion being a debate between a Mangahao team consisting of Messrs Hutton (leader), Connelly, Sansom, Skein, Ross and White and a Mangaore team, the members of which were Messrs Bass, (leader), Woode, Gregorie. Burgess, Jamieson and Goldsmith. The subject for debate was “That Civilisation is detrimental to Mankind.” The affirmative was taken by Mangaore, and the negative by Mangahao. The judges (Messrs White, Morgan, , and Jones) had great difficulty in deciding the winners, but after careful deliberation gave Mangahao a victory. The ladies of Mangaore kindly provided supper, which brought a" pleasant evening to a close. Mr Blackwood acted as chairman.

Patrons of dancing should not miss fhe "Back to Childhood" dance as advertised for Friday evening in the Parish Hall, as the indications already point to a most enjoyable and amusing entertainment.' Although the first of its kind to be held in Shannon, such events have met with great success in such planes as Foxtou, Woodville, Dannevirke, -a«4 Palmerston North, and alwavs the costumes have caused roars of "laughter, especially when the wearers acted the part of children. For those who are always yearning for the childhood days so long left »behind, here is a chance at last of experiencing once again the delights of childish freedom. Prizes will be offered for the best outfits; but it is not a necessity to be dressed in "something young." If patrons are unable to find suitable dresses they may come in just plain everyday grown up clothes; and still be able to enjoy the innocent fun of it all.

Marvellous blending of tastes is the secret of Milderson/s Jam lit Lit, nutty, creamy, rich, luscious flavour. 1/6 per lb from Ailcluson and Son.*

Howard Andrew, Ltd,., are offering on Saturday next great reductions in their extensive range of Showroom goods, viz. 2/6 in the £1 for Saturday only.

Frost played havoc with Otago Central fruit crops. * Stone fruit suffered most, apricots being poetically w iped out.

A young lady on handing in her Post Office Savings Bank book to . the teller at Masterton was interested in watching him industriously using an eraser on the cover. On asking him the reason, she was informed that it was J bad policy to write one's own nanje pn a bank book, as if it became lost the finder would have a fine specimen signature to forge to a withdrawal slip. .

The American Automobile announces that there is now onu automobile to evey 71 persons throughout the world. The United States continued first with one automobile to every six persons* Hawaii is second, with one car to every 13 persons, New Zealand one car to 14 persons, and Australia comes next with one ear to every persons.

Under the will of the late Miss Margaret Glendining, 200 shares of firm of Ross and Glendining, Ltd., are bequeathed to the Presbyterian Social Service Association for the Glendining Home and 125 in the same company for the Ross Home and a similar parcel to the Theological Hall Lufiowment Fund. All are free of duty.

A maiden wrestling event, Cumberland style, has been added to the Shannon Athletic Club’s sports pregramme, which will be held on Labour Day. This .is a post entry event, for which there is a ■ first prize of £ta and a second of 10/-.

“As far as all-round expenses are concerned, I think New Zealand is the cheapest country to live in. It cost us about £6O to travel through America in 12 days,” said Mr. W. J. McHolm, who accompanied Randolph Rose on his tour abroad, when speaking to a gathering of amateur sportsmen.

A Wanganui retailer discovered a unique advertising scheme, ‘ which certainly won him all the attention that could have been desired. He offered any caller who. produced the .exact amount of 8s lid a ten shilling 1 note in exchange. His offer, needless to say, was readily accepter! Many suspected a “catch” in such remarkable generosity, hut there wasn‘t one, and the benefactor got all the attention he wanted while his offer was open.

While the police were looking' for the perpetrator of the assault at Miranui on Thursday night, it was reported to them by the stationmaster that there were signs that some unauthorised person had been in goods shed. A search was made about midnight and a “plant” of oatmeal and chocolate was found, while later a youth was found hiding under the staging. He proved to be a lad naiiied Ryan who had been licensed out from the Training Farm’, and had evidently absconded from where he was working. ' He was taken into custody and removed to Palmerston where lie will appear before the Court.

A point raised 4)y a lady at the meeting of the sanitation committee of 'Health Week in Wellington’in regal’d'to tenants or owners who leave a house and with it a collection of rubbish and old junk as an extra for the incoming tenant ds of quite wide interest. What was the law on the situation, site asked. A reply was given that the incoming tenant who found such a state of affairs should ring up the office of he corporation sanitory inspectors, and they would do the rest. They would (to in search of the former tenant, or owner, and make a little suggestion that he should spare sufficient of his time to go back and clear the place up, or, if his time were short, a sufficient sum to pay others to do the work for him.

A 14-year-old boy on a farm at the Hunter Road at Eltham had an experience which lie is not desirous of having again. He lias been in the habit of keeping a number of geese, and the geese, ganders, and goslings found their way to a flooded creek, The boy was concerned, because the. stream was running fast and he might lose the little ones; accordingly he attempted to persuade the birds both old and young to leave the water. An old gander, besides taking strong exception' to seeing ms charges leaving the water,, also took to the boy, securing itself to the back of his shirt with its beak and then proceeding to thrash him sey-_ erelv. The bov was . severely marked across the back by the gander s wings, and is not likely to forget the incident.

Several patients lining been discharged cured of their various I wish to notify sufferers of chronic disorders, such as rheumatism, lumbago, sciatica, neuritis, nervous affections, neurasthenia, falling hair, etc,, that I can take a limited number of cases. I wish it to be clearly understood, that although I am very busy I have no intention of rushing treatments. Every patient will receive their full time, and more if necessary. The Violet Ray has proved itself in Levin. It stands supreme amongst all treatments. If you are suffering, do not hesitate, call in and havP this wonderful health giving, painless treatment explained to you, without cost or obligation—# A: Biilows, Keedwell's Buildings,

The makers of dairy butter for sale should bear in mind the law that requiresl every pound to have a wrapper bearing thereon the name and address of the packer and the weight. A storekeeper at New Plymouth (Thomas R. Julian) has just been the Inspector of Health for selling butter which did not comply ivith the regulations. The Inspector staCed that defendant was selling pounds of butter cut from a block and these were wrapped in a plain wrapper. Six pounds of butter had showed a shortage of one ounce. He did not suggest that defendant was deliberately trying tp trick the public, but some protection was iiecesrary for people who did not spe their purchase actually weighed. Defendant guilty and was fined 20/ and costs,

‘‘You don’t want fat wpjppn and three-legged hens. That sort of tiring suited the mentality of the English ypkel of 800 years ago,” said a speaker op b.e,half of a deputation from Auckland firms which waited upon the Boys) .Sliow Executive on Saturday and offered tp stage a girls’ inter-house display at the Royal .Show, The proposal was received with enthusiasm, one member saying he had been greatly impressed with the inter-house dUpjpy which he saw on a former occasion «.t Cnrlaw Park. “Pretty girls?” asked another member. “I did not get close enough to adffljre their beauty,” said the speaker, “but I did admire their evolutions.” “A good idea,” said the next speaker. “It will be an attraction for a lot of bachelor farmers. ’ ’ ((Latter*) . “Can they milk ?’ ’ asked somebody solicitously ■ fronj the back of the room. It .was decided to refer the matter to .the' programme committee.

“Fifty years ago, to be told that one had .consumption was another way of saying that one would be dead within a year,” said Dr. C. I. Maclntyre at Wellington. “To-day, from the Cashmere Sanatoriuih, 75 per cent, of the cases turned out are cures, that is, arrested cases. The cure is fresh air and good plain feeding.”

Within the past few days fly-fishing has produced almost negative. results owing to the swollen condition of the. rivers in the Horowhenua District. The Otaki and other streams are now subsiding, and from now onwards fishermen should land some good catches.

p’hat the foliage of the ngaio is poisonous to stock may not be generally known, but this fact has recently been unpleasantly impressed on a Wanganui farmer, who has lost an appreciable part of his dairy herd, by eating the branches of ngaio treesi which were felled on the land on which the cattle Avere being grazed. ~

“Sixty per cent, of the entire population of Taranaki is dependent upon dairying, and quite threei-fourths of that number are concerned chiefly about cheese,” stated Mr John Fisher in the course of liis,, reply to Mr Timpany’s assertion at Thorn bury that cheese interests were not being looked after by the Control Board

“Tuberculosis ranks fourth in the list of causes of death in New Zealand,” said Dr. T. McKibbin, director of the division of public hygiene, a! Wellington. “Last year 684 persons died from this cause. Of'that number 560 deaths were from chest - tuberculosis, or consumption. New Zealand has now the second loivest death rate from this cause in the civilised world —second to South Africa. ” ; .

“I have just returned from Bai, and have seen farmers and their wives up as early as 4.80 in the moving at work in the milking slied, yet the chairman of the Bank of New Zealand last year stated that farmers should Avork harder!” These remarks Avere made by Mr O. Wilkinson, provincial organiser at the Farmers’ Winter School at Richmond; Nelson. Tie did not know whether the chairman of the Bank intended farmers to get up earlier than that.

Word has just arrived from the Dairy Produce Control Board by the Morring,ville <So*operative Dairy Company that a proposal the company recently made has been adopted by the Board. This is to the effect that the weight of butter in each box shall be reduced from 501 b Box, to 501 b 6oz. This Avill mean an annual saving of about £27,000 to the Industry. The Morrinsville Company will benefit to the extent of about £250 a year.

An irate motor driver whose outfit had to be hauled out of the flood waters near Foxfcon recently, expressed himself in forceful language as to the comparative charges for towing as between horse power and motive power. He said he had paid £1 for horse haulage out of the flood and £2 for motor haulage for less than half the distance on dry land covered by the former. “Yes, you’ve got plenty of water, about these parts—and sharks too!” he exploded.— Manawatu Herald.

Something in the. nature of a bacon war is at present raging at Aramoho, where price-cutting between the suburban tradesmen has resulted in a marked drop in price, despite the fact that elsewhere, throughout the Dominion, bacon prices have shown a general advance. In city stores in Wanganui the ruling price is Is 5d per pound, -while at Aramoho it can be purchased for 4d less. The reduced price is one that must leave a very small margin of profit for the retailer, but it is an ill wind that blows no one good, and the housewife benefits accordingly.

Sir Arthur Myers will, after providing for certain legacies and annuities, leaves the whole estate to members of his family. He made no further bequests in view of the extent of his donations and gifts for public purposes to the citizens of Auckland, but provided £2OOO for the purchases of pictures for the city and £SOO to the Hebrew congregation for charitable purposes. The trustees are given the power to devote to charitable and educational purposes or Auckland institutions any share ,of the estate not vesting or disposed of unde;- the will.

There was a shorus of disapproval at a smoke concert at the Gisborne City Hall oil a recent evening, when a speaker stated that it had coipe to his knowledge that a member qf the Fire Brigade had been threatened with dismissal by the , firm by which he was employe/! if lie should again leave his work to attend a fire,' The speaker said it was' ‘ gup to ’ ’ every firm which employed a fireman to let the man away to a fire if there should be an outbreak during his working hours—(Applause).

In New Zealand the publication of racing tips and dividends is illegal, remarks a wireless correspondent in the Auckland Star, yet we are regularly receiving these per radio from Australia, and doubtless ardent followers of racing are utilising them in their dealings with illegal, but existing bookmakers. It appears that wireless is likely to make /pore than one of our laws and regulations look farcical, r |'lb 3 l-Hest is catering for the racing fraternity •in Sydney is the broadcasting, direct i o <> the training track at Eandwick, the final gallops of the horses in training for the big spring meeting there.

First grade eggs are 'being sold id Wellington at Is 8d and Is 9d a dozen wholesale, both prices being unusually high-for .this time of the year. Not for many years has the ruling market price been within 2d or 3d of this quotation. The market is firm and lias a rising tendency, all stocks being cleared at ruling rates. Judging by the trial sets of the new British sih r er coinage, the designs are to be extremely attractive and beautiful. Some are absolutely original, Avhile others have not been seen since the seventeenth century. The King’s head will remain as before; it is the reverses that lia\-e been altered, 1 and these arc absolutely different from anything in existence at present, Avith'the exception of the shilling, which is only a modification of the existing design.

The Waitotara County Council has been horrified to discover that settlers may hand over to it their road frontages if the road is not a full chain Avide. The “catch” in this form of apparent benevolence is that a settler can thus get rid of an aAA*kAA r ard drain or unfenced qua/ry that happens to mar the front of his property. If the land is valuable, he naturally Avill not part with it, but .where he possesses an awkAvard strip of land lie can dedicate to the County, and the County 'cannot reject his generosity. Such are the processes of the laAv. —Wanganui Chronicle.

It is a long time since the poultry Industry was so popular as it is to-day. Local poultry-farmers during the 1926 incubator, season 'were obliged to refuseorders for some huudreds of chickens, and it seems likely that the export of eggs from New Zealand in 1927 will be much in adA-auce of this and previous years. This condition lias been brought about largely by the influence of poultrykeepers associations and egg circles, the organisation of which has resulted in 'the poultry industry being placed on a much stronger foundation than hitherto.

There is hi operation in the Christchurch branch of the Government Savings Bank Department a regulation or a convention whereby whe-n a withdrawal is made the customer has to take, the sum in question in whatever form the teller chooses to hand out. This discovery was made by a representative of* the Christchurch Press-,, who asked for some single notes but: Avas handed a bulk note for the amsOUftt. withdrawn. “Why cannot a oust emerge t his money as he AAmnts it,’* he asked. “We haA r en’t time to worry about, that,” replied the teller, “and if youwant the note changed yov will have to go someAA’here else.” “Js that your ordinary practice and your ordinary courtesy,” inquired the customer. “Yes, ’’ replied the teller, “AA r e get nothing and w:c give nothing.”

At the Baupo Drainage Board meet-, ing, members stated that ratepayers hacS complained to them that the names, of; some' of the defaulters who were sued for their rates at the DargayilLe- Magistrate’s Court were published in the local newspaper while others who received summonses were not mentioned and. they thought it very unfair. The North Auckland Times representative explained to members of the board that the paper only published the names called out by the clerk of the court, which cases went in favour of plaintiffs bydefault because the defendants did not, appear to defend them.; All eases confessed, , paid into court or struck out* were not published by the Press and this custom prevailed, all over the Dominion,

An amusing story is being told of how Prince George scored over two photographers in China, where he 'is serving i.'.nj.he Royal Navy. The Prince travelling as Lieutenant Windsor, paid a visit to Kuling, a well-known health lesort, but. news of his arrival leaked out, and two Chinese photographers walked half down the mountain to carry out a photographic coup. The Prince with an officer of H.M.S. Bee, met the Chinese on the way and they asked him- whether lie had “seyn the King of England coming up, ’ ’ Prince George told them lie was following up behind—“the rather heavy-set man in the sedan chair.” The photographers fell into the trap and took beautiful pictures of the ship’s doctor!

“A very weighty objection raised against the trawlers and Danish seiners in the Eauraki Gulf,” said Mr A. E. Hefford, Government Fisheries Expert, addressing the Philisophieal Institute in Christchurch, “is that this sort of fishing gears destroys the spawning beds of the schnapper. Blood-curdling visions of millions of schnapper eggs qnd fry crushed on the bottom the trawl or the Danish seine have been conjured up, Exactly the same sort of arguments were raised against the trawlers in the North Sea more than half a century ago, They were generally accepted) and in some quarters caused serious perturbation, until in 1867 a Norwegian professor of biology discovered that file egg of the cod, instead of bping stuck on the bottom (as with frpsh water fishes) actually floated in the water. This is the case with /ill fopfi fishes,