Shannon News FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1927.

Shannon News, 5 August 1927, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1927.

A special meeting of the Shannon Borough Council was held on Tuesday evening, when the resolution to raise the loan for the relief of unemployed was confirmed.

The Bowling Club's weekly crib tourney held last evening drew a good attendance of the public. The winners being Mrs J. Richardson and Mr A. Mason.

The weekly card party held by the Women's Institute is becoming increasingly popular and on Tuesday evening there was a very large attendance. Everyone spent a very enjoyable time and at the conclusion supper was handed round, after which the trophies won during the evening were presented, the winners being Mr. Allan and Mrs Franks. The cake competition was won by Mrs Conway.

A gift evening was tendered Miss Marjorie Richardson on Tuesday evening in the Parish Hall by the member.-: of Yen. Bedes' Ladies Guild. A pleasant time was spent, the evening being devoted to musical items, dancing and competition. Miss Richardson, who is to be married next week, was the recipient of many useful gifts accom panied by the best wishes of all for a happy married life.

On Tuesday evening last, at Mang, aore, Mr. W. H. Gregory, Assistant Electrical Engineer, delivered an interesting lecture on "The Meaning oi Polarity, Phase Rotation, and Angular Displacement of 3-Phase Connected Transformers." Among those of the technical branch present were Messrs J. A. Smith (Engineer to the Horowhenua Power Board) and W. A. Waters (Engineer to the Manawatu-Oroua Power Board.

A local lady received {wurpnso a dav or two ago.. Some tniio bncK a swagger called at the door and explained that he had been on a drinking bout-and was in need of money to quench a big thirst and provide him self with his train fare out of the town, promising that if she would acceib to his request he would post tho money to her later. Her husband being absent and she being very nervous, she gave him 7s 6d. saying goodbye to it. Much; to her surprise the promise ha? been fulfilled, the money coming to hand through the post.

A rumour has been freely circulated in Shannon during the p'ast few days that the Borough Council had turned down the application of ;-„ man with eight children dependent upon him, for work with the unemployed on U 1.3 .new cemetery road. On enquiry being made it was ascertained that the man in qycs-tion had never applied for -vork, and furthermore, it was found that he was in employment, and had been so for some time. For this kind of statsment to be broadcasted is not encouraging to the Council, who, everyone must admit, are trying to do all in their power to alleviate the position of the unemployed married man with dependants.

Last Tuesday morning a very pleasant function took place at .Roach's Tea-Rooms, when the Committee and Advisory Board of the Shannon PTuhket Society met to bid farewell to Mr and Mrs Hutton, prior to their departure to Whangarei, where Mr. Hutton has been transferred. Mr Brann, in a few well-chosen words, on behalf of the Society, presented Mr. and Mrs Hutton with a beautiful Doulton Bowl

I as a slight memento of the good work [ done whilst residing in this centre, wish-

ing them every success in their new surroundings. Mrs Clifford Jones (President) also spoke, expressing regret at losing such loyal supporters of the movement, wishing them the best of luck and a happy time in their new sphere of labour. Mr. Hutton, in

replying, said he appreciated very much their gift and the kindness shown Mrs Hutton and himself, and expressed the hope that the Society would continue its good work and success attend the efforts of all concerned in such a worthy cause. There was a very representative attendance of members present.

Whitebait have made their appearance in some of the Otaki and district streams.

According to the "Mail" all sorts and conditions of dogs, to the number of seventeen, collected in a certain street in Ashburton on Wednesday- and fought for hours.

The Pahiatua Chamber of Commerce considered the new Bankruptcy Act and passed a resolution that it was undesirable that reports of bankruptcy proceedings should bo stifled.

Tlie Wellington Education Board has decided to name the new school it is erecting at Eastern Petone. Wilford School, to mark its appreci .won of Mr T. M. Wilford *s long services to the district as a member of Parliament and in other capacities.—Press telegram.

Mr. Pat Kenny, who lives at Greenwich, claims to "work in the smallest shot) in the world. He is a cobblor, and his shop, which is only 4ft square, is built into the massive stone masonry which supports a railway arch in Bermonusey. So small a shop may have its inconveniences, but it has one advantage. The roof never leaks. It is 50ft thick. '

Sixteen Australian schoolboys, accompanied by a master as manager, will arrive at Wellington on August 23rd, to commence an . Association football tour of New Zealand. The visitors will play in Wellington, Pahuerston N.. Hamilton, Auckland, Wanganui, Christchurch, and Dunedin, and will leave for Australia on September I6th. This will be the first team of schoolboy footballers to visit New Zealand.

A very curious accident happened to a little girl named Betty fries, daughter of Mr H. fries, necessitating treatment at the Dannevirke Hospital. She was going to school and dropped her sewing, which caught between her knees, the sowing needle entering both and breaking between. The part? of the needle were quite embedded and surgical aid was required to extract them.

An anonymous letter was received by ihc Horowhenua .Rugby District Council, last evening, suggesting that, in the absence of senior football games tliey s,hould arrange for n match between an A and a B team or a Maori-Pakeha o-ame, in Levin. The communication was signed "Still a. Player." "He had better pick a team then," remarked Mr M. Eyder. "if he had signed his name, we would have -given him authority to carry on." (LaughUr).

Mr Henry Ford, while c<-H.rating his 64th birthday at Detroit, announced that a new model Ford car would short ly take the place of the famous model "T," of which 15,000,000 have been constructed during the last nineteen vears. Salaries paid to his workers during this time totalled 1,970,000,000 dollars, and the materials purchased throughout the world for this const ructions totalled 4,868,000,000 dollars in value.

A Bain ess-} resident a year or so ago possessed a very intelligent sheep dog., Each'evening it used to meet the Palmerston Norch-Foxton train which passed not far from his master's residence and pick up the evening paper which was thrown off by the guard. ,On some occasions the dog would be given a "run for its money" but it never returned home without the paper. On one occasion the paper was omitted from the bundle and the dog followed the train for a good three miles and snatched up a neighbour's paper as soon as it was thrown out and made off home with it.

■Bide by side in the English newspapers the other day were the stories of two British boys who won success on opposite sides of the world. Joseph Maft went out steerage to New York at IS, one of a family of six. In four days he obtained work as a labourer, and lat*er started a factory for wonicn 's costumes with his brothers. Now, at little over forty, he has been visiting his old home in Manchester, and his school at Wrexham, a rich man. Henry Folland began life as a pit-boy and lost his arm in an accident at fourteen. He has died trader fifty, after being HighSheriff of Carmarthen, leaving a fortune of nearly half a million, made in the tinplate trade. Ho left £IO,OOO to the Swansea Hospital.

A neat piece of financing has been spoken about at New Plymouth lately. A farmer who had iuterest'payments to meet in two places in the course of a few days was in the position of not being able to meet his obligations with•out recourse to an overdraft at his bank, to obtain which there would apparently have been no difficulty, as the amount was quite small and the time lor which the accommodation would have been required was short. To avoid paying interest on a small amount for six days, however, he offered the solicitors concerned in one case, in payment of an amount of £5, a post-dated cheque for £B, and collected the £3 change. In effect he raised a loan of that amount for six days from the solicitors, without interest, instead of by overdraft from the bank.

Speaking at the meeting of the Wellington Hospital Board recently, Mrs. MeViear draw attention to the resignation of a nurse, who was leaving the hospital in order get midwifery training. In Mrs. McVicar's qpinion, some scheme should be evolved by means of which a hospital nurse should be able, during her four years' course, to get midwifery training without having to resign her position in the general hospital. Mr. W. Appleton said it would mean disorganising the nursing staff. He did not think the board should grant extended leave to a nurse in order that she might get higher qualifications, and then perhaps not return to the staff. The chairman (Mr. C. M. Luke) said there was a good deal in what Mrs. McVicar had said. The primary object of a hospital was, of course,' the most efficient care of the patients. The medical superintendent had pointed out the difficulty that would arise in providing for an efficient nurse who had been doing the work up to the time that the nurse on eave was ready to return.

The engine and carriages, derailed on Monday last at Otaki railway, were to have been taken to the Petone workshops on Sunday to undergo repairs, but on account of' the other mishap near Wellington were not removed.

A unique feature of the Devonport Methodist Church services on Sunday was that in the morning the youngest son of Mrs Joseph Martin took the service, while that in the evening it was taken bv her eldest son. They are respectively Rev. J. E. Martin and Mr Samuel Martin. Their mother celebrated her yOth birthday on Saturday by a family re-union.

It is understood that a Taranaki dairy company has sold 300 tons of cheese at S*d*per lb., to be shipped at the end of November, which means that the shipment will include the make up to the end of October. The buyer was anxious to secure a further 200 tons (says the Stratford Post). _ Another Taranaki cheese factory is said to have refused an offer of B§d for its output,

General Capello, one of-Italy's great war leaders, who w ? as sentenced to 30 years' solitary confinement for complicity in the Zaniboni plot to assassinate Signor Mussolini, is now convict No. 273 S in the penal settlement of San Gimignano, a. little town in Tuscany. Zaniboni, the ex-member of the Italian Parliament who organised the plot, has been removed to the penitentiary at Vcntotont, to serve his sentence, which was also thirty years' imprisonment.

Each succeeding British sovereign "looks the opposite way" to his predecessor on our coinage. This has been observed since the Restoration of Charles 11., Avho expressed a strong desire not to look the same way as Oliver Cromwell. It was in the re'ign of Charles 11. that Britannia first appeared on the English coinage, the original model being taken from a portrait of beautiful Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond, and a famous court favourite.

A sudden and unaccountable lapse of memory on the part of a Timaru business man led him to buy a railway ticket, for Christehurch, and to go there, by express, without realising what he had done. His first realisation of the fact that he was not in Timaru came when he was struck by unfamiliar sights in Christehurch. He immediately went to a telephone bureau to allay any anxiety which his wife might be feeling on" account of his absence. Having done- this, lie returned by the next express to Timaru.

Much public "nt-rest will undoubtediv l)e awakened by the second lecture in Levin this reason by Mr Johannes Anuersen, who is widely known on account of his studies in natural history and ethnology. The lecture will be given in the Century Hall to-morrow evening, and the subject will be "Maori Mythology and String Figures." A heartv invitation is extended to members "of the Native race; and school children will be delighted with Mr Andersen's manner of treating tivi subject.

A certain errand-boy of Christehurch is all in favour of motor cars carrying their spare tyres on the back, states an exchange. He was converted to this strange belief at about 4 o'clock on a recent afternoon, with the assistance of the traffic inspector at the crossing of Colombo and Cashel Streets. The iad was having a fine motor-paced race with a rival office-boy when, unfortunately, just at the crossing, his pacer stepped dead to avoid a wayward pedestrian. With no time to stop, the boy dashed into the back of the car, only to be bounced off neatly by the spare tyres. He landed about six feet behind the car, intensely surprised that no one had been killed.

A resident of the Opawa (Christchurch) district received a mild shock on a recent evening, while digging in his garden. He had just commenced operations on a plot which had been cleared of flax and trees, when he unearthed a skull. The site is on the banks of the Heathcote River, in a section on what was formerly Johnston's Gardens, where picnic parties foregathered in the past. This picturesque area of terraced lands has recently been cleared and divided into housed sections. The owner, Mr B. Rocs, a carpenter, usually works on his section in spare time at dusk, with the'assistance of an electric light. Further digging revealed bones, all of which are obviously the remains of a Maori. The skull, except for a distinct scar at the back of the head and a slight cut on the top, was in good order, with a beautiful set of upper teeth. The bottom row was missing, but a stray tooth was found later. A small piece of greenstone, apparently a token worn round the neck, was also unearthed. Mr Rees stated that Mr C. Morris, the former owner of Johnston's Gardens, told him he had unearthed a Maori skeleton, which, according to Mr Morris's description of the spot, Avas quite close to Mr Rees's discovery.