Shannon News TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1927.

Shannon News, 26 July 1927, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1927.

During the progress of the football mateh between Plinnner Terrace and Ballance Street, Mr. J. Curran, of the Albion Hotel, in scoring the Winning try, sustained a broken rib.

At the football mateh between Plimmer Terrace and Ballance Street residents, a silver collection was taken up in aid of the Shannon Athletic Club, and as a result the Club will benefit to the extent of £5.

The annual meeting of members of the Shannon Bowling Club will be held in the Pavilion on Friday evening at 7 p.m.; when the report and balance, sheet will be presented, after which the election of officers for the ensuing year will take place.

It is the intention of Shannon Maoris to hold concerts in Shannon and the surrounding townships, to raise funds to defray the cost of entertaining visiting Maori Haka and Poi teams to Shannon for the People’s Picnic Sports on New Year’s Day.

The dance being organised by the Veil. Bede Ladies’ Guild promises to be a huge success this evening. Mrs Butler’s orchestra will be in attendance. Prizes are being offered for waltzing and card-dance competitions. It will also be a streamer dance. , The ladies of the Guild will have the management of the supper.

The funeral of the late Mr D. E. Forsyth, 'headmaster of the Tokomaru School, was largely attended on Saturday by friends of deceased. Rev. Mr Parnell, of Shannon, conducted the graveside service and many beautiful wreaths, including one from the committee, staff and children of the Tokomaru School, were placed on the grave.

In this issue Mrs Hill announces that she is opening on Saturday in the premises lately occupied by Mrs Johnson in Ballance Street, a shop where homemade cakes and sweets can be procured. The premises have been thoroughly renovated and cleanliness will be her motto. Only the best ingredients will be used and orders will be taken for all classes of cakes. A trial is solicited.

At the last choral practice in Shannon, Miss Pickett was a very acceptable soloist in the interval and it is regretted that Miss Pickett will be moving on before long. She will be missed in the Society. A very good practice was held and special attention was given to the long piece of 50 pages, but the choir will soon master it. Sirs Clifford Jones has kindly consented to hold a special practice on Thursday nights prior to the customary practice for basses and tenors, who no doubt will take advantage of same. Members are urged to attend every practice as the Napier Society require the score of “Merrie. England.”

The management of the Maoriland pictures have booked a special vaudeville turn to appear on Friday, August 32. Cohen is a lightning sketch artist who transforms bottles, saucepans, earrots, pot plants and various other everyday items into scenic gems or caricatures of local celebrities with a few deft strokes of his crayons. Even the latest cricket and football scores are not immune from quick transformation at the hands of this artist. Veema is a dainty danseuse who appeared for some time on the Fuller circuit and has more recently been earning glowing reports when Bhe appeared in various centres as producer of the prologue to “ The Volga Boatman.” Veema will dance her way into the hearts of every Shannonite.

Mr. T. J. Watts, advisory superintendent of the United Fire “Brigades Association, Newmarket, Auckland, accompanied by Superintendent Barnard, of the Palmerston North Fire Brigade, paid a visit to Shannon on Monday morning to discuss fire brigade matters for the town . After a conference with the Mayor, Crs Curran, jun., Gunning, Thwaites and Hyde, an inspection was made of the fire plugs in the Borough and water main. The visitors gave some useful information regarding the future linking up in the borough with four inch mains and the apparatus inecessary to commence a brigade. As the result of their visit an order has been sent away for hose, couplings, hydrants, etc., and these should be here next week.

One of the bright spots in Shannon at the present time is to be found at Howard Andrew’s Q. Q. Sale, where bargains are being sold in all- departments especially in Millinery and Ladies’ coats.*

Tenders are invited by the Shannon Co-operative Dairy Co. for the supply of five to ten cords of 4ft sound firewood.

“Safety first ’* is the slogan of the Railway Department and in pursuance of this policy, the Department is installing communication cords in carriages to be operated on the W.estinghous•; brake. The device will be set in boxes much on the same principle as that for fire alarms.

A correspondent to a poultry paper has put some “new ones” about the shape of the egg as denoting the good or bad layer. He says that lie has noticed that the heavy layer lays a somewhat round egg, where the poor layer lays a longer and more pointed one. He also states that the hen that lays in the afternoon lays a shorter and rounder egg than the one that lays only in the morning.

Some time ago the Wellington Automobile Association erected posts along the Levin-Wirokino-Foxton road which is subject to. flooding. The Association’s action is much appreciated by the travelling public. At Wednesday's meeting of the Manawatu County Council, the Association asked that depth marks be painted on the posts, which the Council asked the engineer to attend to.

When the telephone rang at the Christchurch Boys’ High School recently, there was no one there to answer. Desks were empty. Class rooms were still. Books and bags lay undisturbedin their lockers. It was not like Monday, with its customary noise and clatter. ~ “Measles?” speculated the man who did not know. But it wasn’t measles that caused this unwonted calm. It/ was centuries. .When Page, an old boy, recorded his first century, the boys were promised a half-holiday. They got it —and an extra half because of Mcr*. ritt’s fine performance.

Mr John Henry Reed, wlfo, as driver of the Great Western Royal train, once saved the life of Queen Victoria, has died at Newport, Monmouthshire. -Aftm: he had brought his train to a standstill at Windsor Station, Mr. Reed observed a madman with a revolver in his hand. As the Queeu stepped out of the Royal saloon the man pointed it at her, and was about to fire, when Mr. Reed jumped from his engine and threw himself upon the man. After a fierce struggle the man was overpowered. Mr Reed was 85 years of age when he died. . •

A catastrophe has befallen a promising infant industry, the freezing and exporting of day-old calves, says the Stratford correspondent of the Taranaki Herald. It appears that_ the import into the United Kingdom of this rather immature meat has been all along barred by Government regulation. Until last year the trade has been too small to attract the jealous attention of meat importers interested m sources pf supply other than New Zealand. But recent developments have attracted notice and the authorit ies have' been moved to intervene. Farmers will not lose over much thanks to the very keen demand for skins, but the Co-operative Rennet Co. was relying upon the freezing works for its raw material. The saving of veils at a price the company can give does not appeal much to the individual farmer.

One night, a few weeks ago, the natives at Motuiti, near Foxton, found a swagger putting up for the night at the Motuiti Railway Station. The night was very cold, and the man half starved and they asked him to put in the night with them, which lie gladly did. The following morning they asked him to stay on with them for a while and have a spell, and once more he gladly accepted their hospitality. As time went on he was sent into Foxton with money to purchase provisions for the pah. This he did, and a second time he was sent in on a bicycle with £3 on a similar mission, but on this occasion he failed to return. The police were communicated with, atnd Constable Owen issued a warrant, for the man’s arrest, and last week lie was arrested in Wellington, where he comes up for sentence. The bicycle rvas recovered at Paekakariki, where it had been' sold. —Herald.

An excerpt from a letter from Mr G. A. U. Tapper, now in England, gives an instance (one of many) of the changes being made there owing to postwar conditions. “When at Shrewsbury we went to see an old home of the Ohclmondeleys, Condover Hall, with 4500 acres. A beautiful Elizabethan house built by Judge Owen in the 1500’s. The family only sold it recently. The church contains the tombs and statues of many of the Cholmondeleys in beautiful marble life-sized figures. The place is now owned by a Jew of the name of Cohen, the head of a large N drapery concern in Wales, Lewis and Co., Ltd. This is typical of the changes passing over England. The old families, due to the heavy taxation, cannot keep up their homes in their pre-war style, and rather than reduce their mode of living prefer to sell and live in quiet retirement. The farms are mostly purchased by the tenantry, who are beepeoming {freeholders,- which will in time be a good thing, perhaps the salvation of England.’’

A large car pulled up in front of a bowser in a neighbouring town and the driver asked the proprietor to fill up the car tank, which held nine gallons of petrol. The filling operation completed, the driver, feeling in his pockets, regretted that he hadn’t the price of the benzine on him but said he was a well-known man in an adjoining city. The petrol pump owne : r demurred and said lie did not give credit. Then a thought struck him and he invited the purchaser to step inside and write his name, and while lie did so, the bowser man took possession of a spare wheel at the back of the car and locked it up. The car owner was then informed that when the petrol was paid for lie would return the wheel. This had the desired effect of producing the cash and the wheel was returned and the car left with the least possible delay.

Wliat’s in a name? The Power Boards’ Conference at Wellington this week elected Mr Watt to the executive and Mr Cable to represent the supply authorities.

Commenting on the decisions exonerating Brownlie and Q. Donald, a football writer on the Christchurch Star remarks: “It seems that next time a referee buts into a private quarrel on the football field he should be ordered to leave the ground.”

“A man who drives a ear and takes even one glass of liquor is a fool to himself and a fool to the public,” said Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court. “If there is any accident, the smell of liquor hangs on to tlie driver, putting him under suspicion immediately. ”

A return of rates paid by 11 cities and towns in New Zealand, which was supplied to the Works Committee of the New Plymouth Borough Council, showed that the average amount of rates paid per head of the population wa3 lower in New Plymouth than in any of the other towns cited. 1 The amount in New Plymouth is £2 14s lOd per head of the population. Auckland was highest on the list with an average rate of £4 11s B^d.

An Auckland resident who called or. his Chinese launderer found that since the occasion of his previous visit a number of alterations had been carried out at the shop, the principal one being the erection of a wire grille for the full length of the counter, with a small opening for the reception and handing out of parcels. “Making -it like a cage?” hazarded the visitor. “Plenty thief, Auckland,” said John sadly. “Someone takem four lots starched collar off counter. Alice same bank now.”

The heavy fall of snow last week in the vicinity ofi the National Park has been greatly appreciated by alpinists, but the millions of rabbits on the tableland were nonplussed by the changed c-rdtr of things, for. they were unable to run, and could only progress slowly by hopping like a kangaroo (says an exchange). When one of the trains was at- Rangataua, a Maori passenger saw a forlorn rabbit trying to hop, and he immediately gave chase.. andcaptured ■t amid cheers from: the ether train passengers. “Kapail” said a muclipleased Maori as he struggled back through the snow to; the train.

A fox terrier pup. and a cord conveying current to an -electric radiator were the elements in'a little comedy enacted in a Wellington suburb a few evenings ago. Left alone in a room where' the electric heater was radiating its welcome heat, the pup looked around for something to gnaw. ' The green cord attracted his eye,- aiid his sharp teeth soon made short work of the insulating material. Before long the live wire was reached, and the shock of his brief life. With one bound lie was out through the window, and he never stopped until lie had placed a quarter of a mile between him and the nasty cord. It was not until some hours later that the owner was able to find and take home a very disconsolate pup, which since then has given all rope and cord a wide berth. One has now only to display an innocent piece of line cord and off goes the pup “for his life. ”

Can Roger Blunt perform the feat of scoring over 2000 rims and taking over 100 wickets during the tour of the New Zealand cricketers in the Old Country? This is a question that many followers of the game in. this country are now asking themselves. If Blunt can accomplish this it will be a most noteworthy feat of all-round cricket. Up to the end of the match against the 1 Civil Service, Blunt had scored a total of 1138 runs (862 short of 2000) in sixteen matches and had taken 65 wickets The tourists then had sixteen matches to play. Even if Blunt plays in all the remaining matches, he will have to bat jcohsistently well to reach a total of 2000. He will have to score an average of nearly 54 runs a match, and there is, of course, always danger of matches being interfered with by rain. Warwick Armstrong is the only Australian who has accomplished the feat of, scoring over 2000 runs and taking over IQO wickets while on tour in the Old Country. This was in 1905, when he made 2002 runs and captured 130 wickets. This double feat has not often been accomplished by English crieketers in first-class matches during a season. W. G. Grace in 1873 and again in 1876. scored over 2000 runs and obtained more than 100 wickets, at that time an unprecedented performance. The feat has since been accomplished by F. E. Woolley (four times), G. H. Hirst and J. W. Ilcarne (three times), W. Rhodes (twice), C. L. Townsend, G. L. Jessop. V. W. C, Jupp and F. A. Tarrant.