Shannon News FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1927.

Shannon News, 18 March 1927, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1927.

On a charge of drunkenness a man named Jack Tennant appeared before Mr E. Spencer, J.P., and was lined 10s and costs.

The committee of the Shannon Football Club will hold fortnightly meetings during the season, and any member with a complaint can have it heard at these meetings.

Mr W. Murdoch, who is' now residing in has notified the secretary of the Shannon' Football Club that he is donating a medal, to the Club to be awarded as the committee thinks fit. A farewell social'will , be tendered Rev. and Mrs A. F. Stewart at the Presbyterian Church on Thursday evening. Friends from the Anglican and Methodist. churches are cordially invited. ’ .

At a meeting of 1 the committee of the Shannon Football Club held last evening it was decided to purchase numbered jerseys for the senior team, and these will be distributed to players by the coach to whom- they will have to be returned after each game. It was decided to raise the money to purchase them by ;means of a street stall or something «f that kind.

The Shannon Choral Society will hold its initial practice on Thursday, March 24, in the Parish Hall at 7.30 p.m., when all members and intending members will be heartily welcomed. The programme is a very attractive one for the first concert and the new music has arrived. It is expected that the choir will be augmented by a number of basses and tenors and although the Society has lost a number of members several new singers are joining up.

The County Clerk (Mr. F. H. Hudson) reported to the Horowhenua County Council on Saturday that an agreement with the Railway Department had been received in regard to dealing with flood-water near Te Horo. The agreement would enable a diversion of floodwater to be majile through railway bridge No. 31. It was resolved that the seal of the County be attached to the agreement.

The distance that school children had to walk in, the earlier days of Palmerston North were mentioned last wefek by the son of one of the pioneers. When he was attending Terrace End school about 40 years ago this man walked from,his home at Fitzherbert to school and back again a distance of 11 miles. In his eight years at school he estimates that he walked a distance of 15,000 miles. In’addition, he had to milk five cows daily.

During lunch a doctor in a certain New Zealand town told his two small boys that he would take' them for a motor run to, the 'seaside'if patients did not require his services, during the afternoon. After waiting in his consulting room for seme time, and wondering.•why his services wer& not sought/, he received a ring from ..a, fellow practitioner, who asked why the former’s ! patients were coming to him. - .Investi.gation proved that the young hopefuls [ had stationed themselkes at the sur-; gery gate and indicated to patients that the other doctor would see their father’s patients that afternoon.

In moving the adoption of the annual report, at the meeting of the Horowhenua Rugby District Council on Tuesday evening, Mr H. J. Jones remarked that neither in ; the speeches at the meeting nor in the Press had hie., noticed any reference, since the return <jf the Maori team, to their visit to. Wale's. He believed that they had had their best, reception in that country,' and as a Welshman he felt keenly the omission of any reference to it. The chairman (Mr J. J. O ’Connor) said he regretted the oversight, and he was pleased that Mr Jones had ealled attrition to itr. 1 The Maori team had had some of their best matches in Wales.

For usingi an overweight motor lorry on the County road ar Cconoor, hoar Pahiatua, Charles Freeman Dogpitt was fined £lO and costs £3. The jQ verseer, in evidence, .stated. it would cost £ l lo to repair the road(. .

The height which field artichokes usually attain is about six feet, buc an area of two acres grown by Mr Geo. Middleton, of' Horahoraj have made exceptional growth. Several stalks at present on show in Messrs G. E. Clark and Sons are no less than seventeen feet in height.

Dr." Nelson, of the Wanganui Hospital, said that it was important that the hospital should have a band of reliable persons* who could be called upon on the shortest notice for blood transfusions. Most transfusions required one pint of blood, for Avhich £4 4s was the usual amount paid. '‘Now, there’s'a chance for some of these unemployed fellows, ’ ’ said one of the members.

R. W. Lamb, the champion Victorian cyclist, in an interview, said: “If I had my money to spare T would establish a sports stadium in Wellington for amatjur athletics and cycling. Cycling has a tremendous bold there. The Wellington people are as fine a crowd of sports as 1 have ever had to do with, and I think that if there were a banked track there there would be a bigger boom in amateur cycling, which is already popular, than at present the people dream of.”

The Main Highways Board, in a communication to the Masterton County Council, drew the attention of the Council to the wide powers given under the Motor Vehicles Act for the regulation of speed of motor vehicles, stating that many complaints had been received of the speed of motor cars, particularly service cars, on main h’ghways, and the ispeed at which workmen on the road were passed. The letter was received, it being stated that no complaints had been received locally.

With the object of improving the strain of game partridges in its district, the Auckland Acclimatisation Society is to import 300 pairs of Hungarian and 100 pairs of French or'redlegged partridges from Hungary, and has commissioned Mr I). Roland, who is personally acquainted with the district in Hungary from which these partlidges are exported, to select the birds during a business trip he is slrqrFy making to Europe. It is expected that it will cost about £t>oo to land the birds at Auckland.—Press Association.

'The Australasian Performing Rights Association now has a lien on much of the popular musical publicati ns arid claims that it is necessary for all theatres, halls, restaurants, cabarets 1 and all places where music is publicly performed to nay an annual license fee to the Association for the privilege of hising their copyright productions. Country halls, where only an occasional social or dance is held, will find the fee in some cases much beyond their means. One or two of the popular dance orchestras are -making inquiries to ascertain if it is permissible-for the orchestra to take out a license fee and it is understood that provision is being made for this, but it will only cover tiie particular event for which the orchestra is engaged.