Shannon News TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1927.

Shannon News, 31 May 1927, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1927.

The prevalence of mumps and influenza colds among the children is having a bad effect on the attendance at the Shannon school.

■ The weekly card tourney held by the committee of the Bowling Club was well attended last week, when Mr. and Mrs Hensman won the trophies for crib and Mrs Elwood was the winner of the euchre prize.

It was thought that Mrs _ Thubron, whose husband was fatally injured in a motor car accident at Makerua on Sunday week last, had escaped injury,' but on her arrival in Napier it was found she had fractured her collarbone and she has since had to enter the hospital .

The Shannon Choral Society were unfortunate in striking a wet night for their dance on Friday evening, which ho doubt prevented many from attending. Nevertheless, there was a. fair attendance and a most pleasant evening was spent. Mr. P. Cole carried out the duties of M. C., and Mrs Butler’s orchestra provided the music.

The publie are reminded that to-mor-row afternoon at 3.30 the first of the afternoon roller skating sessions will commence at the Druids’ Hall. These will be continued every > Wednesday, and children will be admitted for sixpence, which will include skates. There will also be an evening session commencing at 7.30. All new skates will be supplied and beginners will be instructed free. ... < .

There was a good attendance of children on Friday at the practice for the children’s plain and fancy dress ball to be held in the Druids’ Hall on Friday evening, June 10th. The ball is being organised by the green and white stallholders in connection with the Shannon Athletic Club’s carnival. A further practice will take place on Friday, which all children, who intend taking part in the ball, are invited to attend. ;

The final arrangements have now been made for the forthcoming concert of the Shannon Choral society, to be held on Thursday June 16th. The Male Quartette from Palmerston, whose splendid harmony delighted the public not long ago, will also assist. The full programme will appear later in our columns. One of the best practices ever held since the inauguration of the society took place last week. During the interval Mi;s Bell was heard to great advantage in Schubert’s “Serenade” and “A Coon Song. ”

Two motor cars collided at midday Yesterday on the bridge over the Otauru stream. One was driven by Mr W. E. Trctt, of Palmerston North, and was proceeding to Wellington, the other being driven by Mr A. F. Dustin, Rona, Bay, Wellington, and was travelling .towards the north. They met on the centre of the bridge, both had their brakes one, but this did hot prevent the right mudguards over the front wheel of each car being flattened out and the tyre of each wheel being torn off, besides other minor damages. It is estimated that the damage to each car will run into about £2O. Fortunately neither of the drivers was injured.

It i 3 with regret that I have to announce that unless there is more inducement offered I will reluctantly have to close in Shannon. Several residents have availed themselves of my services with good results, but I must nave a continuity of patients, l'i, costs a lot of money and-time to visit Shannon daily, so unless there is an improvement, I will not accept any further patients after Wednesday next, Ist June. The Violet Ray Treatment is a high class treatment and one well worthy of the support of sufferers. For Rheumatism, Lumbago, Goitre, Neuritis, Sciatica, nervous disorders, falling hair, removal of moles, warts etc, there is nothing better. Levin results show 95 per cent of cures, Shannon will show the same if given the opportunity. The treatment is painless, pleasant and invigorating. Should patients require evening treatments possibly I could arrange an alteration in my hours. Remember Ist June will be the last day if you delay. R. A, Billows, c/o. Mrs Vaughan next Presbyterian Church.

During a thunderstorm oil Friday night at Cambridge, a local resident, W. H. Kayes, was just about to enter his gate when he was dazed by a flash of lightning, and fell against a barbed wire fence, sustaining nasty cuts about the- lips and nose. He did not regain consciousness for , some time. —Press Association.

“It costs more to bring timber from Ohakune on the North Island Mam Trunk to Wellington than it does to bring it from Sweden or America to Wellington,” said Mr H. E. Holland, at New Plymouth recently.

The date for the next annual race meeting of the Levin Club will probably be Saturday, November 19tli, as tins has been recommended by the District Committee for adoption by the Racing Conference.

Some level ’crossings in New Zealand cost as much as £16,000 to eliminate, and the average eost of elimination is, £SOOO. There are 3000 public level crossings in New’ Zealand, of which 300 are on main highways.

Fearful and wonderful are some of the interpretations given by school children. In a reeent test in history (the Reformation period) a boy w r ho attends a Te Awamutu school wrote that “Bishop Latimer w r as taken and burned to a steak! ”

“Watching growth of gorse and blackberry, fungus and other bacterial growths, also benefits derived from rabbits, floods, hailstorms, droughts and ' other blessings,” was the illuminating reply of one farmer to the question, “What is your occupation'?” in the last census paper.

“Some of our retailers are even forgetting 'to advertise, and are grumbling arid growling that their business is falling off. These men should realise that they are up against it,” said a Christchurch business man, “and should use a little push. In our line we find that our figures are beating last year’s, and we advertise.”

A Pukekohe resident informs the Waikato Independent thaT Chinamen and Hindoos are gaining a great hold of the market garden industry in that district,'where hundreds of aei-es are tilled by these industrious foreigners. The white growers are being pushed out of the business, we are told, by the coloured men, who pay high rents for the land and work very long hours.

An qmusing sidelight at a clearing sale at Cambridge was concerned with the disposal of a garden roller. There were only two bidders and both were keen, the article being finally knocked down for 32/6. The chagrin of the purchaser can be imagined when he subsequently discovered that the other bidder had been operating for his (the purchaser’s) wife.—lndependent.

There are now ten “community buses” operating in the various suburbs of Auckland. The first was placed on the road six months ago and the additions recently are due to the City Council having raised the fares of ..buses. The capital coat of the vehicles is provided by the residents of the respective suburbs in which the vehicles operate and the running expenses are provided for by voluntary contributions. The drivers are not allowed to accept fares. . :

-The following is vouched for by a resident of Rangitikei (says an exchange) : On a recent Friday morning a’cat was given to a lorry driver who conveyed it in a closed hencoop from' Onehupi to Feilding. The cat was kept in the hencoop and fed on Tuesday morning at 4 o'clock. At a quarter to six the same morning the cat was back at its old home. The distance, by road is about 50 miles, with a river to cross, and as the cat was dry when it arrived home, it evidently crossed xhe bridge.

The honour of life membership was conferred on Messrs L. J. Procter and H. Coley, of Foxton, at the annual meeting of the Levin Raeing Club, last evening. The President (Mr T. Bevan) remarked that these gentlemen had been members practically from the inception of the Club, he believed they had never missed an annual meeting of the Club, and they had its interests at heart. When the race meetings in Levin were suspended, these two members stuck to the Club right through, although they did not reside in the im? mediate vicinity. The stewards had thought that it was only right, in view of the loyalty and long service of Messrs Procter and Coley, that they should be made life members. Mr R. A. McDonald described them as “old friends and old sports;” and in responding they concurred in the opinion that the Levin Club was well worth supporting because of the-true sporting instincts of its members.

The County balance sheet for the year ended March 31st, 1926, was received from the Auditor-General, at the annual meeting of the Horowhenua 'County Council, and was certified as correct, with the following; exceptions: (1) The cost of the erection of a depot (£739) had, without authority of law, been defrayed out of loan moneys; (2) interest on fixed deposit amounting to £8 153 had incorrectly been credited to the Main Highways machinery loan It was requested that the matter, be accordingly adjusted. After discussion in committee, the following resolution, moved by Cr. MeLCavey and seconded by Cr. Ryder, was adopted: —“That the balance sheet for 1925-26, as, received from the AuditorGeneral, be now adopted and finally settled;- and that the sums charged to Main Highway machinery and construction loan accounts for the erection of a depot be refunded in accordance with the Auditor-General's letter of the 16th inst.;: also that the necessary adjustment be made in respect to interest on fixed deposit and the machinery loan account.”