Shannon News TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1927.

Shannon News, 8 March 1927, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1927.

A fishing party from Shannon, lino fishing, met with splendid results at Kapiti on Sunday, a catch of four hundred weight of fish being made, which included 646 good-sized schnnpper.

Members and supporters of the Shannon Football Club are rerr.inded that the annual meeting of the Club will be held in the Council Chambers on Thursday evening at 7.30 p.m.. A full attendance is requested as several important matters arc to be dealt with

A painful accident happened to Mr. Beg. Merwood, at Hunterville, last weckk. While negaged in jacking up a lorry, the j ick slipped jamming Mi. Merwood's right hand and breaking two of his lingers.

The annual St Patrick's Ball will be held in the Druids' Hall on Thursday evening March, 17th In the past thesj functions have been most enjoyable, and the committee are leaving no stone unturned to make this year's ball equal its predecessors, therefore the public can look forward 'to sp'Md't.g a pleasant evening tin the date mcv lioied

At the conclusion of the prize giving at Ven Bede 's Sunday School picnic on Saturday, the Vicar (Rev A. J. Farnell) took the opportunity of asking Mrs Cole to accept on behalf of Miss Nancy Cole, a white oval hand mirror, in appreciation of her daughter's 6| year's work as a Sunday school teacher. He said they had been very sorry indeed to lose Miss Cole's' help, but congratulated her on the noble work she has taken up. They hoped that it would not only reflect happy associations of her time with them in Shannon, but also prove useful in other ways. Mrs Cole returned thanks through the Vicar to the teachers anc'. scholars for the gift to her daughter.

Howard Andrew, Ltd. offer some seasonable and timely bargains that will be found worthy of inspection.

February was a record month for fires in Wellington, 98 outbreaks occurring during the 28 days.

A total of 2,0,328 motor cars and ear chassis were imported into New Zealand last year, as compared with 18,825 in 1925.

The Penrose railway station was. burglarised on Saturday night. Ajn attempt to break open the safe with explosives failed Nothing is missing.

Three ships despatched from Lyttelton during the past few days—the Cambridge, Port Napier and Mahaua —took produce valued at two million pounds sterling. The Cambridge took what is believed to be a New Zealand record for exports in one vessel.

''Go along to the auction mart and get a sugar bag of potatoes for a shilling. '' This sounds too good to bo true for the housewife, yet the facts will bear investigation (remarks the Auckland Star). Potatoes just now are a glut on the market, and have boon knocked down lately at Is to 4s per bag, according to size and quality.

The destruction of the bonus- system in the N.S.W. Government railway workshops is aimed at in a. Kailway Bill now on the stocks. The system has vastly reduced the cost of production in some of the shops and enabled thousands of good workers to add materially to their wages;- but Red Union officials, inferior workmen and go-slowers object, so away it goes. The Government brickyards, one of the few Australian State undertakings which haven't reached the bankruptcy, stage, have, a profit-shar-ing system, the employees dividing £9OOO or £IO,OOO a year,.which puts about 9 per cent on to their wages. This experirr.ent, the management says, and the Auditor-General agrees, "is in a considerable degree responsible for the success of the undertaking-."

The fact that hilly country which is valued so little except for wintering stock and for maintaining the rabb. : t pest is producing more sustenance than formerly is revealed in the annual report presented to the last meeting of the Manawatu Rabbit Board. "Those in actual occupation of rabbit infested country," says the report, "will, doubtless," notice the material difference in the carrying capacity of their properties.''

In view of the opening of the shootin a' season on May 1, members of the Acclimatisation Society, liberated 110 pheasants on the ranges between Aokautere and Linton and 40 below Tokomaru yesterday,. Mr E. V. .Lloyd, of the Palmerston North branch cf the society, states that they were all this year's birds and could fly well and were brought down from Auckland. Five hundred pheasants have been released between Taihape and Levin recently.

One of the f Wanganui City Councillors left it rather late in ordering his top hat," and whejivhe : came to look round the various shops he could neither get the article he wanted nor one to fit him. He then got in touch with a local undertaker who had just the goods he wanted. The said councillor duly appeared in the borrowed hat to receive Eoyalty.—Herald.

When members of the' Featherston Fire Brigade went to use their engine to answer a call it was found that some despicable person had drained the benzine tank of every drop of benzine. The tank had been inspected on Monday evening, February 14, and then had four gallons of benzine put in. Some time in the last eight days, therefore, somebody had broken into the station and committed the dastardly, theft.

Major Seajgrave will attempt to reach a sp;ed of 200 miles an hour in his 1000 h.p. Sunbeam racing car on the Florida sands in March 10. His car is fitted with two 500 horsepower engines, and it is reckoned that they will propel it at a speed of 9(i miles per hour in first gear, 156 miles per hour in second, and 212 miles per hour in top. The car will consume a gallon of petrol per mile. The car is described as the most powerful and scientifically perfect tJi.it' lias yet been built.

A photograph published last week in Auckland showing the Duchess of York and Mrs. W. E. Wilson, Dominion Commissioner of the Girl Guides, shaking hands has attracted considerable attention because the Duchess and Mrs. Wilson are shown each extending the left hand. Several correspondents wrote suggesting that this result is a consequence of reversing the photograph in the process of reproduction. This is not so. The Girl Guides always shake hands with the left hand and salute with the right, says an exchange.

"It wa3 interesting to me," remarked Mr. W. J. - Poison to members -o;: the Wanganui Eotary Club, while telling of his trip abroad, "to see the extraordinary thrift, energy and capacity for hard work of the German farmer. When I was in Germany almost all the country was under the plough, and the most extraordinary fetility was evident. Even the poorest of German farmers maintains his respectability, and is always decently dressed. I was struck by their scientific methods of crop rotation, and by their advanced use' of- labour-saving machinery, such as tractors, cropping machines, and potato diggers.''