Shannon News FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1927.

Shannon News, 1 July 1927, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1927.

Miss Molly Butt who has been spending a holiday in Auckland has returned home.

There was a goo\l attendance at the card tourney held by the Women’s Institute on Tuesday evening and a most enjoyable time was speut by those present. Mr. B. Wilkinson won the competition for a cake and Mesdames Merwood and McKenzie (Buckley) won the card trophies.

Those who journeyed with the Choral Society members to Managahao on Wednesday afternoon were treated to some remarkable reflections in the Mangahao dam. A splendid sight was the high hills, verdure clad to the top, taking in the blue sky, clearly reflected in the water.

The question was asked by Cr. J; Curran, senr., at the Council meting on Tuesday evening if a person with, say, two or three acres in the Borough and 50 to 100 acres outside of the Borough, is allowed to water all the stock on the farm off the ? Borough portion of the section without extra charge. Hq was replied to in the affirmative, but it was pointed out that, if a large'herd was being watered from a small borough section, the Council have the right to instal a water meter. .

One of the 15 competitors for the long-service prize which the Prince of Wales is offering to farm labourers at the Royal Cornwall Show at Truro this month has been 624 years with one employer.

The proceeds of the recital given by Paderewski at Wellington c-n Saturday towards the immediate relief of , necessitous cases of New Zealand soldiers who served in the Great War totalled £538 9s Id.—Preis Association.

lii recommending farmers to take up pork production as a side-line, Mr S. Vickers, at the annual conference of North Taranaki branches of the Farmers’ Union recently, quoted figures to show that of the fifty million pounds spent on pork by England, New Zealand’s share was one half per cent.

s In a central Hawkes Bay town recently a meeting was held for the purpose of furthering the work Of a certain mission (states the Napier Telegraph). All those who attended were asked to bring an article which would be useful to the natives concerned. One w.ell known sympathiser took a bottle of castor oil.

The takings af the main gate and the stand, in yesterday’s rep. football match on the Levin Domain, amounted to £4B 9s, which is a record for a Wednesday game here. The returns from the small gate in Bath Street have yet to be made up, and these should bring the total to about £SO. A few people had travelled through from Foxton by various means, but if the road had not been flooded at Wirokino, there would probably have been 200 more people in attendance, making about a thousand in all.

“Perhaps it will surprise you to know that over 13,000 different species of plants have been imported into New Zealand,’’ said Mr 6. A. Green, at a meeting of the Auckland Citrus Growers’ Association, when the renaming of the Poorman orange was being discurssed. He stated that the nomenclature of the imported plants had become badly mixed, and it was thus very difficult to decide how to name the Poorman orange correctly. Scientific information upon the question was being sought.'

A general invitation to the twins of Liverpool was issued for a recent Saturday by the proprietor of the Shakespeare Theatre, where the twin sisters Berry were playing in “Two Little Girls in Blue.’’ Somewhat to the proprietor’s surprise 510 pairs of twins arrivod; each pair produced birth certificates, and was admitted, 250 pairs finding seats in the stalls. The majority of the guests were girls; the oldest pair was seventy, the youngest four. Some drove up in motor-cars, while, others walked from the poorest parts of the city. Nearly 9000 sets of twins are born in England and Wales alone every

“Brick will never come back into use for high buildings owing to concrete not requiring, such a large ground space,’* said Mr Justice Frazer in the Arbitration Court recently. “As far as I can see, there is a tendency for brick to become more popular for che building of private houses. —Lyttelton Times. •

It is announced that the champion hen will be on exhibition at the World’s Poultry Congress, to be held in Ottawa. This bird, as “Hen Numl% Six,” was one of a pen owned by the University jf, British Columbia, which" took part in the egg-laying contest conducted at Agassiz; British Columbia, in 1926. Her marvellous record of 351 eggs in 364 days is the wonder of the poultry world.

A Taihape telegram says that Henry Mitchell Fisher, late manager cf Collinson and Gifford, Ltd., drapers, pleaded guilty to stealing £8 the property of the Company, and was committed to the Wellington Supreme Court for sentence, bail being allo\ved in his own recognisance of £2OO, with two sureties of £IOO each. The charge of presenting a revolver at three shareholders of the Company and other offences, will be heard before the Magistrate on Friday.

The New Zealand Co-op. Dairy Co. Ltd., will make a further payment of £400,000 to its suppliers at the end of August, bringing the average price of butter-fat up to nearly Is 4d per lb. for the season. This represents a bonus, as it is usually called of over 2d per lb. Suppliers to the Northern Wairoa Company, we are informed, will also receive a bonus of practically the same amount, but of course the aggregate sum will not be so great, but should represent an amount of approximately £3O,■000.

There has been much curiosity in political circles as to the reason why the Government, in appointing a second Whip. has passed by the member for Rangitikei, Mr Glenn, who is at present absent from New Zealand. The Rangitikei Advocate, commenting on the matter, suggests that its member has shown independence that does not please his party leader and adds: “Should Mb Glenn definitely break with his party, which is' not unlikely, •he will not lose many friends in Rangitikei.” The statement is now made that Mr Glenn has resigned as Whip because he desires more independence and because of pressure of private affairs. His resignation has been accepted by the Reform Party. It will be remembered that the member for Rangitikei severely criticised the Government and Prime Minister last session in regard to the location of the Agricultural College at Palmerston. .