Shannon News TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1927.

Shannon News, 15 February 1927, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1927.

A meeting of the School Committee will be held this evening to make final arrangements for the annual school picnic, which is to be held at Plimmerton on Saturday.

Nurse Norris, late of the Karitane Hospital, Wanganui, who has been appointed resident Plunket nurse at Levin, part of her duty being to visit Shannon every Monday, paid her first visit to Shannon yesterday.

Miss N. Cole and Miss D. Spencer, of Shannon, have received notice of their appointment as probationers at the Wellington Hospital, and both will be leaving Shannon shortly to take up their duties. This makes four young ladies from Shannon on the staff of the hospital, Miss W. Fitzgerald and Miss G. Jones being already there.

The public of Shannon are reminded of the meeting of citizens, called for by the Mayor and Councillors, to be held in the Council Chambers this evening at 7.30 p.m. to discuss the construction of swimming baths. The Council have prepared a scheme which they will place before those present. They have gone to a lot of trouble to obtain information as to the most suitable baths to construct and the cost of same, and as baths are badly needed in Shannon, it is hoped there will be a large and representative meeting of citizens.

John Albert Olsen, grocer, of Shannon, has been adjudged bankrupt. A meeting of creditors will be held at the D.O.A.'s office, Palmerston, on Friday next. Bankrupts statement shows that the amount owing to unsecured creditors is £279 5s 7d. Assets comprise stock £l5O and plant, £10; leaving a deficiency of £ll9 5s 7d. The unsecured creditors are as follows: — Whittaker and Sons, £2 4s 8d; Irvine and Stevenson, £lO 18s 8d; E. II Dowker, £4 6s; E. E. Tingey and Co., £3 14s 6d; Thomson Bros., £3 2s 10d;"Swinson and Co., £2 12s 6d; E. W. Mills, £1 4s; Blacks Manufacturing Co., £1 5s sd; Burns Philip, Wellington, £223 7s 8d; Barraud and Abraham £4 6s; G. W. Arlidge £4 10s; Kiwi Baeon'Co., £6 Is 9d; H. L. Young, Palmerston North, £3 14s 8d; Shannon "News" £1 13s; Dr. Mackereth, Waipukarau, £2 9s 6d. Always to the fore for local needs, the enterprising firm of Howard Andrew, Ltd., advertise specialities for the coming picnic next Saturday, for ladies,' gents' and children. * No cases of infectious disease were : reported in the Horowhenua County for j the month of January. Masterton has experienced a heat wave for over a fortnight. The glass several times registered 90 and over, and 86 was quite common. Yesterday there was record heat, when over 93 was registered. The amount received in dog tax collections during the past year was 25 per cent, greater than in the previous year, stated the County Clerk (Mr. F. H. Hudson), at the meeting of the Horowhenua County Council on Saturday. Cr. McLeavey stated at the meeting of the Horowhenua County Council on Saturday that he was very pleased to see that the County engineer had attended to the bridge on the Ohau West Eoad. Some of the settlers had said they were very pleased with the work. He was also glad that the engineer had started on the Ohau West Eoad, and he hoped that before long they would be able to drive out in tn fjho TiaqaH ft* Oknn _- -

Spencer Stratton, a son of Mr. .T, Stratton, of Kimberlcy Eoad, Levin, took part in the motor-cycling ut Maroobra Speedway, Sydney, on Saturday, and won the flying five hundred, his average speed being 86£ miles an hour. He also broke his own.record for 3$ h.p. machines, travelling at 93 miles an hour.

The funeral of the late Mr. John O'Hagrin, who was the victim, of the sad drowning fatality at Foxton on Friday last, took place at Kumeroa yesterday. The procession of fortythree cars gave evidence of the high respect in which the late Mr. O'Hagen was held by the residents of the Kume-roa-district. At a" special meeting of the Horowhenua County Council held on Saturday, a special order was passed, on | the motion of Cr. Ryder, seconded by Cr. Bryant, authirising the raising of a loan of £I4OO for constructing an extension to the Waikawa South Eoad, including purchase of land, fencing, and general expenses. Cr. Ryder stated at the meeting of the Horowhenua County Council on Saturday, that Mr. Staples had in-, foimed him that Telegraph Department workmen had destroyed certain, bush 'on his property near Manakau, which bush the late Mr. Staples, senr., had carefully preserved for 30 years. Without notification that they were going to do so, he said, the Department went in and slaughtered it. Preparations are being made to ensure that all shall have a good time at the Bachelors' Dance, to be held in the De Luxe hall tis evening. The floor will be in the best of condition, excellent music will be provided by an orchestra, and there will be refreshments. An additional attraction will be a wireless installation to be arranged by Mr. J. C. Milnes, and if the conditions are favourable dances will take place to the music of the Ambassadors' orchestra, of Sydney. Flannels may be worn to-morrow night. An act of vandalism has been reported to the secretary of the Cook memorial committee in connection with the national monument at Ship's Cove. It appears that visitors to the Sounds, at Christmas time defaced the tablet on the memorial by carving names deeply beside the inscription, concluding with these words inside the ornamental border: "Palmerston North Y.M.C.A. party, Xmas 1926-27." On the wooden crosspiece of the anchor surmounting the memorial a great many names have been hacked. A copy of the names has been taken with a view to further action.—" Blenheim Press telegram. The policy of the Railway Department, in running fortnightly Sunday excursion trains frcm Palmerston to Paekakariki and back, is evidently meeting with wide approval. The train which made the trip yesterday, calling at all stations en route, arrived at Paekakariki with about a thousand passengers, of whom 135 were from Levin. The intense heat experienced lately has had much to do with the increased exodus to seaside resorts during week ends, and yesterday there was a great deal of traffic to the principal beaches, where the facilities for bathing provided a welcome relief from the sultry oppression.

Lamb, the Australasian champion, won the half-mile and three-mile cycling championships at the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Championship meeting at Auckland on Saturday. The mile went to Oakley, the chances of Lamb being nullified by an accident in which Grose, Fleet, I'Anson and Ferguson fell, in the last lap Grose was second in the half-mile, and Oakley second in the three-mile In the three-mile walking championship, Lankey, who finished first, was disqualified for lifting. Cabot (Otago), the title holder left the track as a protest against Lankey's lifting, and no race was declared. The championship shield was easily won by Wellington.