Shannon News FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1927.

Shannon News, 13 May 1927, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1927.

.Rev. A J. Farnell, whose health has not been too satisfactory of late, is at present on a visit to Auckland.

The social to be held by 'the Shannon* Choral Society will take place on Friday, May 27th, in the Druids’ Hall.

The first of the monthly dances organised by the committee of Yen. Bede’s Ladies’ Guild will bo held in the Parish Hall this evening.

Mr Jas. Curran, of Sheehan street, left Shannon on Wednesday, en route for Sydney. He is taking the racehorse Otauru Eclipse, across the Tasman, the horse having been sold to a West Australian sportsman.

The card tourney held last evening by the committee of the Bowling Club was well attended and a pleasant time was spent by those present. The winners were: —Crib: Mrs Butler and Mr Forbes; five hundred, Mrs Ellwod.

To-morrow evening in the Council Chamber at 7.30 p.m., a meeting of members of the Shannon Amateur Athletic Club and the general public \yill be held to appoint a committee to raise funds to clear the debt on the cycle track at the Domain.

The social evening held in the Ballance street hall by the members of the Women’s Institute on Wednesday evening was well attended and proved very enjoyable. Competitions wehe held, the winners being Mesdames McKenzie, Bell and Taylor.

At the Competitions Society’s Festival at Pajmerston North, Miss N. Balfour, of Shannon, was placed first with S 4 points in the ’cello solo (under 16). Miss Joyce Thomson, of Shannon, was also a competitor in this class. Commenting on the performance, the judge, Mr Towsey, said', “I think that it is very wonderful to have young ladies of such an age playing the ’cello. We could not get them at that age in Auckland. One competitor (Miss Bah four) was much better than the other. ’

During the week-end burglars broke qpen the outside of a showcase at thcshop of Fargher and Co., Napier, and removed clothing valued at about ■£s• The showcase of a book shop adjoining was also prised open and one book removed. Across the street a determined effort was made to open the island window of Thorpe’s boot shop, but the effort failed. Incidentally, the window contained only odd shoes, there being not a sirxgla complete pair. Entrance to a' pastrycook’s shop from the rear, where a glass was taken out of a door, was gained ''by apparently the same party, and from here the burglars secured cash amounting to about £2.'

Several of Shannon’s best known residents have already commenced a course of Violet Bay treatment. Mr. Billows can no.w be consulted at his rooms in Mrs V&ughan’s residence, next to the Presbyterian church. Without obligation to continue, any person suffering from Goitre will be treated free for one week if they apply before May 11th. The Violet Bay treatment is painless and free from shocks, in fact it is impossible to receive a shock. It is used principally for the relief of rheumatism, neuritis, lumbago, sciatica, nervous disorders, neurasthenia, etc. Mr Billows also makes a speciality of hair and scalp treatments. For falling hair, premature baldness, etc., there is nothing better. Warts and moles are also rapidly removed. Don’t be a martyr to your dread disease any longer, make an appointment at once. Consultation is free. Hours 9 a.m. to 1.30 p.m.*

Eleven tenders were received at Monday night’s Foxton Borough Council meeting for the erection of a caretaker’s cottage at the rear of the Town Hall. That of Mr J. Harvey, of Levin, the lowest tenderer, was accepted ai £635. Mr M. B. Varnham. (Levin) is the architect, and Mr Wm. Trueman was appointed clerk of works. A start willbe made almost immediately with the erection of the building.

According to a ’bus conductor, an infallible portent of wet weather is the softening of the indelible pencils which he and his colleagues use in making those notes which are, to the passenger, such a mysterious part of the job of conducting omnibuses. Bain is sometimes signalled in this way as much as 24 hours ahead, he says, and his view, justly of unjustly, was that the indelible pencil had a more accurate notion of things meteorological than the experts.

“Ninety-five per cent of the farmers we meet will join the Farmers’ Union, the other five per cent, wouldn’t be much if they did join,’’ says Mr. McAlpine, Dominion Organiser.

A party of Wanganui sportsmen report securing a good bag in the Waveriey district on the opening -lay of the shooting season, some 209 ducks falling to thirteen guns.

A regrettable incident occurred in the second grade Rugby watch, Naseby v. Hyde, when a Hyde player struck Graham (referee), rendering lnm unconscious for five minute.?. The Dunedin Star says that ,I’Ovce proceedings will follow.'

Third party insurance for jnotorists was advocated by the council of the Auckland Automobile Association. It was decided to support the efforts of the North Island Motor Union in this direction.

, As a result of £IOO being lodged in the, Auckland Savings Bank eighteen years ago to the old N.Z. Swimming Association account, the N.Z. Amateur Swimming Association benefits in principal and accrued interest to the extent of £226. Half of this will be allotted to the Auckland Swimming Centre in appreciation of its research work.

The Auckland Swimming Centre has suspended C. J. Sainty, a committee man of the Ponsonby Amateur Swimming and Life Saying Club until he has made a satisfactory explanation in reference to his nomination of a girl whom he was coaching in the “Tiny Tots’’ race, it being alleged that he knew the girl was over the age limit. —Press Association.

A hoe, wich is estimated to be 6000 years old, has been discovered at Mar-ton-cum-Grafton, near Harrogate. The implement is made of hard sandstone and apparently measured originally about sin ,by Sin by liin. Mr. R. C. Dewes, who found the tool, presented it to the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, and it is now in the museum at York.

In the course of an article on the Animal Breeding Research Department of Edinburgh University appearing in the Wool Research, Bradford, it is mentioned that, in addition to Corriedales from New Zealand, Merino from South Africa have been introduced into Britain by private breeders. These experiments are allowing observations to be made on the imported animals, and on their pure and crossbred off-spring, and the effects of the new environment are being watched.

After the Maori Memorial Service at Moutoa Gardens, Wanganui, on Monday morning, (reports the Chronicle) the young men crowded round the base of Major Kemp’s statue while Hon Pukehika, an old veteran who served with the friendly natives under Kemp, described to them the battle at To Kooti’s Pa at Pourere, on October ;U, 1869. Scenes from the battle are engraved on the base of the statue/and by means of these, old Hori illustrated his tale. Although bowed by years, and with snow-ufhite hair, the veteran’s eyes gleamed at the ree.olleetion of the struggle, and his voice gained in strength as he told of the gallant deeds of his comrades of long ago.

Some fanners in the Tauranga district do not “put all their eggs in one basket}’’ and one settler appears to have got truly remarkable returns. Of a 60-acre farm he uses about 20 .acres for intensive agriculture. That the enterprise returns him good money is evidenced by the fact that last year he secured £3OO for his maize crop, £l5O for kumeras, and £3OO for water melons. Added to this was £llO for eggs from his white leghorn fowls, while many other side lines such as a heavy crop of tree tomatoes, lemons, apples, etc., must have brought his returns to something like £IOOO.

How a French flag, missing for six vears, had been discovered at the Dunedin Exhibition, was related by Premier Goatcs in liis Anzac Day address at Christchurch. He said that the people in a French town had sought for a missing flag for six years. The- whole of New Zealand had been canvassed for it, and finally it was located at the Dunedin Exhibition. The flag was returned to France at the time when Mr. Coates was touring that country on his trip to attend the Imperial Conference md he said on Monday that the peoole of the town had been very grateful ■or the return of the long-sought emblem.

An interesting event at the Palmerston Competitions this week was a pronuneiaion contest. There were seventeen competitors, three of whom were men, and the winner was Miss Josephine Woolf, who made four mistakes in thirty-one words. The words select-ed-fior the contest—with the number of mistakes made by the seventeen competitors over each word given in parenthesis—are as follow: Acumen (8), Flaccid (9) Deficit (9), Coadjutor (11), Conversant (8), Applicable (5), Mulcted (15), Minuet (3), Indisputable (10), Longevity (8), Gist (4), Decade (9). Orgy ( 6 )j Respite (5), Papyrus (12), Scion (8), Clematis (2), Irrelevant (nil). Inexplicable (9), Hospitable (3), Allies (11), Indissoluble (15), Spontaneity (7), Privacy (5), Municipal ' Philanthropist (6), Indicted (3), Despicable (7), Internecine (13), Disuetude (10) MeSdames (7). The only word in whiclu-Ihere were no mistakes was “Irrelevant. ”