Shannon News TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1929.

Shannon News, 28 June 1927, Page 2

Shannon News TUES DAY, JUNE 28, 1929.

A notice appeals in this issue that the visiting clay to, Shannon by the Plunket Nurse has been changed to Thursday. '

At the weekly card tourney held last Thursday evening by the committee of the Bowling Club,‘there was a good attendance. Mrs Jas. Richardson and Mr. YV. Forbes won the trophies for cribbage and Mrs. C. C. Franks won the trophy for euchre.

Miss C. B. MaeGillivray, one of the nurses on the Palmerston North branch of the Plunket Society,. and who until recently .was the visiting nurse to Shannon, has tendered her resignation in order to take up duties as sister, at the Mothercraft Home in Sydney.

It is with regret we record the deafh, which took place on Sunday afternoon, ef Douglas Owen, the two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs W. Conway. The little fellow had been ill for some weeks and- his death was not unexpected. To the b.ereaved parents will be extended the deepest sympathy of their' many friends in. Shannon.

At the Domain on Saturday .the much looked .forward to senior football match between Shannon and Hui Mai will take place. Last time these two teams met Hui Mai had a comfortable victory. On this occasion the local team hope tc reverse matters and towards this end :he team will hold a practice on Thursday evening.

~ During the week the following Competitions have been drawn in connection with the Athletic Club’s Carnival Bazaar, the winners being:—Sack of potatoes donated by Mr. J. Curran (hotelkeeper), Mr R. Loughnan; ■five cwt. of coal donated by Mr. T. King, Mrs R. YV. Taylor; box of chocolates. V. MeEwen; guessing weight of Mrs Satherley’s cake, Mr, F. L. Murray lOlbs 13ozs.

The Shannon Choral Society will be journeying to Mangahao on Wednesday next, when they will be the guests of the residents in the afternoon and will render a very fine programme in the evening. A special practice will be held on Tuesday night, when it is hoped that every member will be present. The second practice for “Merrie England,’' will also be held. Buses will leave for Mangahao at 1.45 p.m. and 5 p.m;

At the monthly .stock sale held in the Shannon yards on Monday, there was a good yarding of both sheep and catle, practically all lines changing hands. Prices realised were:—Sheep, Ewe lambs 17/-, mixed sex lambs 16/6, empty ewes' 13/3, fat forward wethers 23/2. Cattle: Pat cows £4 5s Od, £4 10s Od, £4 12s 6d and £5 15s Od, store cows 30/- to £2. 10s Od, poor conditioned springing heifers and dairy cows selling at ruling rates.

At., the Magistrate’s Court at Palmerston North yesterday before Messrs W. F. Durward and C. H. Whitehead, J. ’sP., a charge of having kept his shop open - for the purpose of Sunday trading was preferred against Chong Pok, of .Shannon. The defendant did not appear. The pdlice evidence was to the effect that defendant had been caught selling cigarettes and ivas a big Sunday trader. He was convicted and fitted £2 with costs 13s.

The flooring of the witness-box at the Wanganui Court is badly infested with borer and it only requires a heavyweight Maori to enter this structure, with a top like a Chinese pagoda, for the whole affair to collapse (says the Herald). Incidentally, there are also several old chairs "with nails sticking up in the seats that have been playing havoc with the solicitors’ trousers of late. No wonder one juryman asked recently who was going to pay for damages to his clothes arising from the same cause.

Tlie reason for the appellation of 1 “Sleepy Hollow” to the City of Nelson was explained much to the amusement of his hearers by Mr F. Webb Jones the other evening. He stated that over half a century ago the fire brigade station at Nelson was located side by side with an undertaker’s shed. One night the bells clanged out an alarm of fire at the sound of which the drowsy firemen repaired to the shed to secure the engine. They pulled back the bolts of the shed, darkness at the moment reigning supreme and hitched themselves to the vehicle, trotting along to the scene of the conflagration to the tolling of the bell. On arrival there the glare of the burning building disclosed the fact that the sleepy firemen had in .mistake pulled along a hearse instead of the engine. Hence the appellation of “Sleepy Hollow,”

Whitebait are now reported to be limning in the Manawatu River at Poxton.

During the months of May estates of deceased persons to the number of 134 were placed under the charge of the Public Trustee for administration.

“I will venture to forecast and say that in a few years New Zealand will be essentially a cheese country,” said Mr Wright at Palmerston North. “New Zealand has practically no competitors in the cheese industry, but it has many competitors in the butter industry.”

The N.Z. Rugby Referees’ Association has notified the Horowhenua District Council that, in accordance with its application, Mr E. S. Hylton has been appointed to officiate in the match between Horowhenua and Dannevirke at Levin on Wednesday next. Mr Hylton has also signified his willingness to give a lecture on the laws of the game, on the evening before the match.

Strong criticism of what' he termed “New ZealandJs stupid immigration laws,” were expressed by the Hon. T. G. Murray, M.L.C., of New South Wales, who arrh r ed at Auckland by the Aorangi from Vancouver. He said he was an ardent admirer of New Zealand, but the delay to which passengers were subjected iu taking the oath and passing the necessary examinations upon arrival at Auckland created a bad impression in the minds of visitors.

The King and Queen were to take" part this week in the spectacular opening of the new Regent Street, London, which has been entirely re-built since the war, at a cost of £20,000,000. The shops will have the finest window display in the world, some of the rents being as high as £2OOO a year for a ten-foot shop front.

The people of Thames are making extensive preparations for the entertainment of pioneers of the mining industry," who are expected from all parts of the Dominion for the Diamond Jubilee of the opening of the Thames Goldfields, which occurs on July 30, 31st, and August Ist. The celebrations will extend over three days.

That there is money available for investment, in Auckland is shown by the fact that the £75,000 worth of debentures issued by the Glen Afton Collieries have all been taken up in a few days. There were two lots of debentures, the interest on those free of income tax being at the rate of 6£ per cent., and those not free at 74 per cent.

It is a well-known fact that rain sometimes has a depressing influence on the farmer. This statement seems to be borne out by a little after-dinner humour on the part of the hon. member for Waitomo at the function given in honour of Mr. Wm. Goodfellow this week. Speaking of farmers and wet Sundays, the hon. member said that after a wet Sabbath he always knew that his mail was going to be a big one. .“For,” he declared, “not being able to do anything else when it was raining, the farmer sits down and writes a letter to the member and sallies him up about eveiy tiling" and--anything---in-general. -

The police are searching for a gray mare, the property of Kio Jockey, which was taken from a paddock at Manakau a few days ago. A saddle and bridle was removed from Mr K. Bryant’s stable at the same time, and it is supposed that the same person was responsible for both thefts. The episode happened very quietly, the prowler carefully fastening the gate after taking the horse from the paddock and evidently entering a whare where a farm hand was sleeping in order to take the saddle and bridle' with which lie rode away. On the same night a motor garage was entered and a spare wheel was unfastened and removed but the bolts were carefully replaced.

The British Imperial Oil Company’s oil-tanker Maliston, which has arrived at New Plymouth from Singapore, is the first vessel of its type to bring a direct shipment of oil to Taranaki. The vessel will discharge her cargo through pipes direct to the company's tanks at Moturoa. Under the auspices of British capital, the arrival of this vessel will mark an important step in the progress of the port as a distributing centre. In this case the area supplied from New Plymouth will extend beyond the limits of .the province, it being expected to distribute to centres as far as Marton, including Wanganui, and perhaps up the Main Trunk as far as Taihape.

Neither fines nor imprisonment can check the livelier motorists of California, who take life as readily with a car as with a gun. Accidents multiply as fast, as sentenced grow more severe. The sage magistrates of , Berkeley, therefore, came to the conclusion that they must be misdirecting 1 * their energies. The responsibility was clearly not with the driver, but with the car. Now the motorist who kills a man is allowed to go free, but the peccant vehicle is locked up in the town gaol for a few months, its owner having to dispense with its services and travel by Shank’s mare meanwhile. This is said to be the most effective deterrent yet discovered for reckless motor-cars.

Two sisters motoring along the Great North Road to London in the early hours of one morning had an adventure more suited to the jungle than to a nro'-aic English highway. Their car was a sports model. “It was pitch dark and raining it-ard, ” said one of the sisters to a “Daily Chronicle” representative, “when ten yards in front of the bonnet loomed, ten elephants, a camel, a spotted horse, a zebra-donkey hybrid, and a keeper.: The next moment there was a broadside crash into the elephants. When we recovered- ourselves our heads were sticking through the roof of the car, the axle was broken, and the elephants were frisking about amongst the wreckage and venting their displeasure with their trunks. ’ ’ Men in charge of a lorry some distance away gave the sisters shelter, and later in the morning their brother, Who was in search of them, was alarmed to find the ruins of their car by the roadside.

The Bebbington Shield football match, between Horowhenua and Dannevirke, will be played on Wednesday next at Levin, instead of at Foxton as previously arranged. The state of the ground at Foxton is the reason for the change of venue.

“He’s got the wood on us,” facetiously remarked a Stratford County Councillor when it seemed that a person carting firewood in excessive quantities could not be controlled under the Motor Regulations.

In the Taranaki Herald of June 25, 1877, it is recorded that twenty-six years previously the farm of Mr P. Elliot. Okoari gowned at the earlier date by Mr Stephenson Smith), had been fenced with puriri posts which cost 4d each delivered on the ground and kohekolie rails' which cost one penny each. In 1877 puriri posts cost Is 2d each. Labour in 1851 cost 3s 6d a day and flour was 30s to 40s the 100 pounds.

A Wanganui paper recently published the following name of a Welsh town: Llanfairpwllgwyllgogerychwyrndrobwllantysiliogocli. It has been translated by a Welshman. Here is the meaning of the word: “The Church of St. Mary in a hollow of white hazel near to the vapid whirlpool and to St. Tysilia’s Church near to a red cave.” It is the name of a parish, and is called Llanfair P.G. bv the natives for short.

The heads of Dunedin have been busy trying to discover the donor of £17,000 handed to Mayor Tapley, C.M.G., the day he vacated office (says Smith’s Weekly, Sydney). The money was to purchase the great organ that was such an important feature of the grand concert hall of the Wembley Exhibition of 1924-25. Guessers have placed this splendid gift to one of the magnates of the Dunedin and South Seas Exhibition, but they are wrong. The generous donor is one of Dunedin’s merchant princes, whose business activities are largely concerned with butter, clieese, petrol, shipping and such like, but who has never taken any part in civic life. But he is a practical philanthropist, and his benefactions are many.