Shannon News FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1927.

Shannon News, 8 April 1927, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1927.

In this isue an advertisement appears inviting tenders for the supply of firewood to the Shannon School.

The wires on the telephone lines at Buckley have lecently been replaced with new copper wires.

An advertisement- announcing the holidays to be observed during Easter by local retailers, appears in our wanted column.

The infant son of Mr. and Mrs W. Conway, of Nathan Terrace, underwent a serious operation in a private hospital in Palmerston North on The little one is progressing as well as can be expected.

The many friends of Mr Rewi Moynihan will be sorry to learn that he is an inmate of the Palmerston North Hospital, where he lies seriously ill All will join in wishing him a speedy recovery to good health.

'Mr H. C. Jones, postmaster, leaves Shannon to-day on his annual leave, which will l)e spent in the Bay of Islands, where he hopes to have soma deep-sea fishing. Mr McGuckin will be acting postmaster during Mr Jones' absence.

Football enthusiasts are reminded that on Saturday afternoon at the Domain the Shannon seniors will meet the Western United seniors. A collection will be taken at the gate. In the evening the visitors will be entertained at a dance in the Druids Hall.

All the sitting members of the Borough Council have signified their intention of offering themselves for re-elec-tion. At present there is a vacancy or. the Council, this being caused by the resignation of Mr Jas. Curran. This was not filled at the time owing to the closeness of the elections.

The death occurred suddenly at Wellington on Monday of Miss Elsie Reeve., eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Eeeve, Milford, Auckland, and sister of Mrs T. A. Johnston, of Mangahao. Tfio deceased lady resided with Mr and Mrs Johnston at Mangahao for some time, and had many friends in the district.

At a meeting of the Committee of the Shannon branch of the Women's Institute, held on Monday evening, it was decided t) hold the next monthly meeting of members in the Druids' Hall on Tuesday evening, when Mr A. T. White will deliver a lecture. It was also decided to hold the same evening, a "white elephant" stall and a plain scene competition. Members of the Institute are asked to bring along their friends.

The Government have purchased the Makerua Drainage Board's No 2 dredge, whteh is being railed to Kaiti, nortk »f Auckland, where it will be used in a big drainage scheme the Government ha\e in hand. A start Avas made on Monday morning to remove it from the paddock between Kingston and Kara roads, where it has been lying for some Ume, to get, it to the railway station at Shannon. As expected it was a (■low job, but the dredge was safely landed in the railway yards on Tuesday afternoon, where a gang of workmen are now busily engaged in dismantling it ready for shipment. The dredge is estimated to weigh over 50 tons and it is expected to have it ready for railing away in about a week's tim*. To enable the Kara bridge to be negotiated safely the bridge had to be strongly reinforced. A gannet with wide-spread pinions was wheeling over the Auckland harbour off Devonport wharf a few mornings ago, occasionally folding its wings and dropping like a plummet into a shoal of fish. After one particularly high dive, spectators on a passii'g launch saw the bird return to the sut-j face, but there, was. a violent sw}rl of the water and the gannet disappeared. Immediately afterwards the dorsal fin of a big shark appeared and the fish cruised for some time in the locality* ..^^.^^^B^^mmsm^i

Some heavy crops' of mangoUb are reported to have been raised in tnv Paiaka district this season. •

A petition in bankruptcy was filed at New Plymouth on Saturday last by Hector E. Gray, who until about two years ago was prominent in the racing world as a successful jockey.

Says a New York exchange: A baseball team will give "Babe" Ruth £20,000 a year under a two years' contract. This is the highest salary ever paid in professional sport.

Ihe Clutha County celebrated its golden jubilee at Balclutha last evening, the principal guest being Sir Thomas Mackenzie, who was early associated with the district.

'Reports have ccmc to hand indicating that the Paiaka road is becoming verv much pot-holed as the result of extra traffic,. "It is to be hoped," remarks a correspondent, ' •' that the Oonrty Council will at an early date spend some of the 1927 rates collected o.i this road."

Owing to the thoughtlessness of some person who took an acetylene cycle lamp into the King's Theatre, Stratford, on a recent evening and neglected to turn off the water, six women were overcome by the fumes and had to be conducted out of the stalk. The manager attended to the sufferers and had the offending lamp quickly removed.

The Foxton Chamber of Commerce strongly objects to the proposal that Palmerston North should bo allowed to ainex the mime "Manawatu." Tin following motion was passed, with one dissentient: "That this Chamber while expressing no objection to Palmerston North changing its name, take 3 sUong exception to the suggested rame of Manawatu being substituted for that of Palmerston North and that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the Manawatu Countv Council and all local bodies throughout the Manavatu electorate .''

* In a letter to the South Island Motor Union regarding rural hoardings, the Acting-Minister of Rail.v-i.vs i'ays: "The policy of. the Railway Department in this matter ?s to take advantage cf the business offering by advertisers and to give in return the best possible sd-vice in artistic style and displr.y of its advertising media. While so stating the *)osition however, I hasten to add that no ! advertising matter will be displayed by the Department "where there is reasonable ground to believe that the natural beauty of the surroundings will be interfered vith. "

The cablegram published on Saturday, to tne effect that a London newspaper, the Mirror, had stated that Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York was not suffering from coneilitis while in New Zealand, but was merely resting in view of the impending visit to Australia, is the subject of an official denial. The statement, ;t is pointed out, is quire contraiy to fact. Her Royal Highness had a severe attack of ton siliiis as stated in the official medical bulletins. Her temperature during the first three or four days of her illness was over 102 degrees, and she had by no means recovered her strength .before leaving Wellington.

The regular race crowd last week was quiet and orderly, giving the police an easy time" (says the Bulls correspondent of the Raugitikei Advocate). A pickpocket'"'was run out of the township on Tuesday, he and his companion receiving such a fright that they did not show their faces again during the course of the meeting. One person, whose conduct towards racecourse Detective Ward and officials of the clubs was taken exception to, was disqualified from entering a racecourse for twelve months. Concerning this it may not be generally known that any person judged to be guilty of improper behaviour towards any steward, member of committee, or official, may be fined a sum not exceeding 50 sovs, or may be disqualified for a period not exceeding one year (Part IV., Eule 7, of the Rules' of Racing).

An English visitor entered one of the depots in San Francisco, and said he wanted a sleeping berth. "Upper or lower?" asked the agent. "What's the difference?" asked the man. "A difference of fifty cents in this case," leplied the agent. "The lower is higher than the upper. The higher price is for the lower. If you want it lower you'll have to go higher. We sell the upper lower than the lower. In other words, the higher is lower. Most poopie don't like the upper, although it is lower on account of its being higher. When you occupy an upper you have to get up to go to bed and get down when you get up. You can have tht, lower if you pay higher. The upper is lower than the lower because it is higher. If you are willing to go higher, it will oe lower." But the poor man had fainted.

"A deputation from the ManawatuOroua River Eoard waited on the Prime Minister and Minister for Public Works yesterday to put before them the recommendation of the recent Commission that the Government should contribute -£201,000 towards the cost of the Manawatu river improvement scheme. In reply, the Prime Minister said he did not propose to discuss the proposals of the deputations but h« would remind them that the resources of the Government werd not inexhaustible, and before any contributions of the nature suggested could be considered the Government would have to be very eartain that the scheme would prove successful. He recognised the inportanee and the value of the work to the people' affected, and he proposed to have the matter gone into cawfully by the Minister of Public Worka and suitable authorities. The deputation would be advised as soon as consideration had been given the proposals, and the question as to how much, if anything, the Government might contribute. The deputation added the Prime Minister, had come along at a time when it was a little .difficult for the Minister of Finance tojfind all the money that would enable the work to be carried out, in addition' to other calls on the Treasury.

'' Chinamen are just as law-abiding as white citizens and are entitled to so much protection," said) Mr E. D. MosVey, S.M., at Christchurch, this morning, whan he fiued Jack Taylor, a' seaman agad 25, £2 and ordered him to pay witness's expenses and interprepreters' fee 10s 6d, lor having unlawfully assaulted a Chinaman the previous evening in Manchester Street.

The Official Assignee at Auckland, having announced that nobody having an income of under £SOO a year can afford his own motor-car. it appears

that 79,430 New Zealanders run cars who eannot afford the luxury. Income tax figures show that there are 25,011 people having an income of £SOO or over, but excluding cycles and trucks, there are 104,491 cars used in the -Dominion!.

A difference of 30d in the price of fertilisers in the North and South -Islands was ramarked upon by Mr J. Carr (Methven) When wheat-growers had a talk with the Minister of Agriculture (the Hon. O. J. Hawken) recently. Mr Carr asked if thero was any possibility of the price being lowered in the South also. "What happened in Auckland," replied the Minister, "is an example of what, can be done by farmers when they organise. A company, with 8000 farmers willing to buy from them, bought out a large fertiliser works in the Waikato. The price immediately fell, and I believe that the present price in the North Island is below production cost. I don't know how you could improve your position in the south, for there is only one seller, and you are scattered buyers."