Shannon News FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1927.

Shannon News, 11 March 1927, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1927.

Mrs Main, of Mangahao, is visiting her daughter, Mrs Grainger, at Arapuni. Mr F. Thomson is spending a holiday in the Waikato district and is staying with his brother at Cambridge. At the school committee meeting on Wednesday evening, the chairman (Mr R. L. Tippler) and Mr W. Brown, were welcomed back after their recent indisposition;. Tenders are invited in this issue for the purchase of timber from the old fence at ihe Shannon School. The closing date is Wednesday ,March 16th, at 8 p.m. ■ Owing to a rumour being current that the Parish Hall will not be let for dances, etc., in the future, we are asked to contradict the statement. A notice to this effect appears elsewhere in cur columns. This year special concessions will be granted for engagements for the season. In connection with the resolution passed by the Council at its last meeting to ask those Boroughs affected to co-operate and urge the Main Highway Board to subsidise boroughs on the same basis as counties in the cost of constructing main highway roads through boroughs, the Town Clerk informed the Council on Tuesday evening that he had forwarded the resolution on to 92 boroughs. /t wa3 announced by the Town Clerk of Napier on Monday night that the Borough Council had been successful in raising locally a loan of money totalling £26,180. "Without wishing in any way to throw cold water on the celebrations in connection with the Duke of York's visit, I venture to say that if the Gov ernment had been content with just one less haka they would probably have been able to give us the support which would have enabled an invitation, to be sent to the Pan-Pacific Science Congress to meet in New Zealand in 1928 or 1929," remarked Mr T-I, E. Vaile at the annual- meeting of the Auckland Institute and Museum recently. "I don't know if Parliament knows w r hat a Pan-Pacific Congress i 3, but I think that the fact that they turned us down flat merely shows that they have some very shallow ideas." - A mishap with painful consequence j .happened when a ear containing f. number of Levin bowlers came to the bridge at Awapuni, on the journey to Palmerston" North yesterday. This is a structure that urgently requires attention, owing to the decking being several inches higher than the roadway. When the bowlers' car struck the' bridge the resulting jolt threw Mr W. Shennan, of Levin, against the rai l supporting the hood and he received a severe cut across the face, necessitating surgical attention. (Several acciderts have occurred at this place, and unfortunately there appears to be an impasse between the Kairanga County Council and the Main Highways Board as to replacing the structure, which is considered by motorists to be a deathtrap in it si present condition.

Considerable comment has been made concerning the disappearance of the bouquet placed on the cenotaph at Hamilton by Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York on the occasion of the Royal visit. Various statements have been made regarding the matter, but a person who states he was an eyewitness of the incidents states that the facts are that ro sooner had Her Royal Highness left Soldiers' Park, than there was a general rush by lady members of the audience who witnessed tin; incident, in order to secure a souvenir flower from the bunch. Encouraged by one souvenir-hunter plucking a bloorr'. from the bouquet, others followed until there was nothing left of the beautiful emblem but the ribbons, which also were seized upon, so that before the Royal Party had left the town the whole bouquet had been ton* to pieces. Times.

Nine Jiundred motor vehicles passed along the main road at Waitotara on Sunday last in 12 hours.

Some three millions of men, women and children directly or indireci'y g<*t their ; living from the Ford indus" s in America.

It now takes 32s 3-Jd on the average to purchase what 20s would purchase in July, 1914, a rise of over 60 per cent.

In 1916 the average mortgage per acre on farm land in New Zealand wa-j £3 9s 7d, and that on city land £491 per acre. In 1924, farm mortgages rose to £4 7s od and city mortgages to the extraordinary amount of £2.024 per acrer

"The American visitor spends much of his spare tine in New Zealand buying curios and mementos," said Mr-W. Brown at the Chamber of Commerce meeting at Wanganui, when referring to the recent lour of the from the liner Franconia A number rf, the visitors had shown him tikis th(;y had bought in various places. The tikis were made of New Zealand greenstone cut in Germany, but he did not enlighten them.

A Wanganui party of seven made good time to Auckland last week, without pushing their car at an extravagant speed at any ptage of the journey. A point in their favour was that ab were drivers, so that" by an occasional change they maintained a consistent speed, which took'them from Wanganui to Auckland in just under 10£ hours. They noticed distinct improvements in the condition of northern roads, though many temporary deviations make for shocking conditions near Auckland, where miles and miles of concrete highways are being laid.

Mr William Qtoodfellow, managing director of the New Zealand Co-opera-tive Dairy Company, Ltd., left New Zealand by the Makura last week ami there is considerable mystery surrounding hii departure, says the Waipa Post. According to the official account of the monthly meeting of the Control Board last week, Mr H. D,. Forsyth was appointed to the research committee of the Board "pending Mr Goodfellow 's absence in the United States.'' Mr Goodfellow's departure has given rise to several rumours in interested quarters, where the serious position now facing the Control Board is well known. It is considered that the accu mulations of N.Z.. butter in London are the reason of Mr Goodfellow's departure, his objective being to negotiate a considerable sale to America and Canada, and tins relieve the congestion in London. Failing success, he may perhaps proaeed to London in an attempt to avert a crisis.

"The gradual narrowing-in of the open range on the Kaingaroa Plain by the tree-planting operations of the State Forest Service is yearly restricting the area of the great wild horse from Mount Edgecumbe and Mount Tarawera right down to Ruapehu," writes a correspondent to the Auckland Stan. But when riding over the plains anywhere from the trans-Kain-garoa road to the Urewera country southward to the desolate Rangipo, one still sees numbers of those untamed animals roaming the pumice country. It must take, a 'great deal of foraging to obtain a satisfying feed on these scantily-grassed places. Travellers the motor roads who see these horses §yeing them from a distance, wonder what their origin was, and some have answered the question with the guess that they are the descendants of horses brought there by the military during the chase of Te Kooti in 1869. However, Sir Douglas Maclean, of Napier and Wellington, and owner of the celebrated Maraekakaho sheep station in Hawke's Bay, supplied the solution of the question recently. In the early days—the exact date he could not recall—his father, the great Native Minister, Sir Donald Maclean, sent up from Maraekakaho a stallion and several mares of a sturdy pony breed to be liberated on the Kaingaroa Plains. The animals were a hardy kind ,and Sir Donald believed that they were likely to become useful to the inland Maoris, and perhaps pakeha settlers when they increased. They certainly increased and they provided the Maoris with cheap and plentiful mounts. ■' \