Shannon News TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1927.

Shannon News, 30 August 1927, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1927.

During the school vacation Mr and Mrs A. T. White, accompanied by Miss White, are residing at Paraparauimi beach.

Miss E, Small, of Grey Street, announces in this issue that she is now taking orders for children’s dressmaking and plain sewing.

Miss Dulcie Spencer, who resumes her duties at the Wellington Hospital this week, was tendered an afternoon a.t the week end by her friends at the residence of her aunt, Mrs Brown, in Clapham Street.

We are asked to announce that parents wishing their children to participate in the reduced train fares for school children, may obtain certificates from Mr. J. V. Burns, Secretary of the School Committee.

A final reminder is given of the Maori concert to be held this evening in the Maoriland Theatre. The proceeds from the entertainment are in aid of the People’s Picniir'Pund. A first class programme has been drawn up. which includes hakas, poi dances, choruses, solos and instrumental items. Patrons are thus assured of an enjoyable entertainment.

A general meeting of members' of the Shannon Amateur Athletic Club will be held in the Council Chambers on Thursday evening at 7,30 p.m. for the purpose of electing a president, this position becoming vacant owing to Mr, A. T. White, through business reasons, being unable to .accept the position. There 'is also a considerable amount of general business to be. transacted. . .

At Palmerston North yesterday, before Mr J, L. Stout, S.M., a young man named Algar Mason was charged with having, at Shannon on August 7th, wilfully damaged a sun curtain valued at £3 10s, the property of Jhing Lee. Defendant did not appear, and after hearing police evidence in support of the charge, defendant being described as a larrikin, ITis Worship imposed a fine of £2 and ordered that defendant make good the damage, default being fixed at 14 days’ imprisonment.

At, the local Police Court on. Saturday morning before Messrs Gunning and Blackwood, J’sP., a man named* A. E. Whitcombe on a charge of being drunk and disorderly was- convicted and discharged and lined £2 , for using obscene language. At a sitting on Monday moining before Messrs Gunning and Taylor, J’s P., a female inebriate, a first offender, was convicted and fined ss. F. Wragg, on a charge of being drunk and disorderly, was con victed and discharged and for using obscene language he was fined £3.

Two starlings ha’ e built their ..nests on the s.s. Ngaio and are rearing their young ones on. the vessel, undisturbed by., fought trips across the • Straits (states an exchange).

. When the Taranaki Rugby team was leaving Christchurch for the North on Saturday, it was found that A. Petty, the full-back, was injured. He was taken to the Christchurch Hospital, where he was found to be suffering from slight concussion, and from injuries to the leg.

‘‘l was having a waltz at TJciku,” stated a witness in the Wanganui Supreme Court. ‘'Are waltzes still danced?” asked his Honour, Mr Justice Reed. “They dance them up there at Utiku —and the barn dance as well,” said counsel. “Much more sensible than some of the present-day dances,” was his Honour’s comment.

Last year followers of Ratana at the pa launched out in cultivating a fairly extensive area for potatoes and vegetables. This year it is the intention to add to this area and to grow wheat also. Some 400 acres will be sown, and already two tractors and two threehorse teams are busily engaged in ploughing operations. Some splendid crops of this cereal have been grown in the locality in past years.

“In the revised Prayer Book a great deal more of praise is manifested than in the case of the old version,” said Archbishop Julius, preaching on Sunday evening at the opening of the new chapel at Dunelm Preparatory School. “We have some miserable, whining, wailing hymns, and music which is enough, to send one’s soul into' the depths of dismality,” he said. “A lot of the tunes are not fit for a cow to sing! You must make your services as bright and full of praise as possible. . . Some of the hymns are soft, sentimental things, not fit for men and not fit for boys, and I hope that the services in the chapel will be of the strong, vigorous type, to make men, and not worms, of the boys.” added his Grace, quoting the titles of a few of the nine offending examples from the hymnal.

During 1926, 739 petitions for dissolution of marriage including five for ,nullity, wfere filed in New Zealand. This number was 16 more than in 19215, but has been exceeded in three previous years, namely 796 in 1921, 768 in 1921, ‘ and 748 in 1920.

America, it is claimed, is passing from a carnivorous to a can-ivorous era. The per capita consumption of beef in the United States last year was the smallest since 1921, whereas the consumption of both fresh and canned fruits and vegetables steadily increased. There was canned during 1926 the enormous total of £124,000,000 worth of fruit, vegetables, soups, and fish products.

Steps to erect a mooring tower for aerial transport in New Zealand will be taken with the arrival in the Dominion on August 30, of 'four officers, under Group-Captain Fellowes. The experts will visit various parts of the country to. inspect sites for a tower, upon which they will advise the Government. The officers will arrive in Auckland. Their recommendations to the Government will have regard to the prevailing winds and general weather conditions of the site decided upon.

In Wanganui was shown a tiki which was brought down from a river settlement by a Maori. The latter discovered the tiki while rooting out a stump for firewood. Adjacent to it were some pieces of whalebone, which indicated, by their crumbling appearance, that they had been deposited there a great, many years ago. The tiki,. from its size and appearance, is considered by the finder and other Maoris to be one of the finest ever discovered in New Zealand. It had evidently been placed there long ago for safety. The origin will now be veiy difficult to trace, owing to old Maoris having.passed away.

“Is there any necessity to continue paying out on three grades of cream, now that control has been abolished?” was a question asked at a meeting of dairy farmers at Maungaturoto. “As the law stands, it will be necessary,” answered the chairman. “Not a paying proposition,” said a voice. “Yes, it is,” said the chairman, “because there has been a marked improvement in the quality of the manufactured article all over N'ew Zealand since the differentiation in payments for quality was instituted. ” He recommended suppliers to send jn a good quality product and so reap the reward of the highest price.

A Whakatane telegram says a rather serious accident occurred at White Pmc bush during the filming of the To Kooti trail picture, resulting in Paoi Roia, a young rough liding film actor, being admitted to the hospital in an-uncon-scious condition through being thrown from his horse, which fell on him. With thirty other riders Paoi was negotiating V log-strewn piece of country when he collided with two other horsemen. - All three were thrown,* but the others escaped with minor injuries. The accident was probably the result of the natives taking a risk in an effort to. out-do the American rough riders. "

In regard to the. death at Nuhaka of George Nepia’s half-brother, Johnnie Nepia, it apnears that lie was refused admission to a dance in progress in the hall, but being determined to at least hear the music went round to the back of the hall and, mounting a staircase, gained access to a room over the stage. Prom here lie proceeded out on to one of the joists of the ceiling. Another lad who accompanied him, seeing ' the ceiling bulging downwards, tried to pull Nepia back, but Nepia took another step forward over the joist and fell through the ceiling, face downwards, striking the back of a seat, and crashing his chest badly. The height from which he fell was nearly 40 feet.

“Your manager had a remarkable experience last season,” remarked Mr P. 0. .Veale, scientist in charge of the Taranaki Federation laboratoiy, when addressing a dairy company meeting at *Hawera (reports the “Star”). “After a night’s heavy rain he received some 30001 b. extra milk, but actually made three cheeses less than the usual number.” Dealing at length with this subject, Mr Veale explained that every additional 1001 b of water in milk meant the loss of one pound of cheese to the factory, and it was therefore in the interests of suppliers themselves to guard against this danger by ensuring :hat milk was not exposed in any way which would allow the entiy of extra water.

The acerbity engendered by football to-day had its parallels in the good old davs. The following a paragraph from the Lyttelton Times of fifty years ago, a telegram frdin New Plymouth, dated Augusc 15th, 1877: “The Dunedin football team landed but refused to play, although the Taranaki team had made every preparation for the match, and players had come from Patea, Hawera, Waitara, and Inglewood to lake part in the game. On hearing the determination of the Dunedin men, the players expressed thmselves in no complimentary terms. One gentleman offered- to back Taranaki for £SO for two hours’ play, but the Dunedin men refused. A dinner had been arranged but the Taranakians abandoned the whole, affair There was considerable excitement over the action of the visitors. ”

A Christchurch listener-in (Mr B. A. Browne) reports having picked up the Russian mystery station last week.

He writes: “My set is rather a haywire outfit with detector and one-step ana a wobbly primary coil, but managed to get iiim at. weak loud-speaker strength. Listened until 10.59 p.m., during which time he was speaking English, but it.was so deep and guttural I could only understand words here and there. He frequently announced his call sign and at 10.59 p.m. announced: ‘ ’Hilo! ’Ullo! ’Ullo! Badio Station BFN, Ushwer (?) Siberia, on a wave-length of 50.12 (?) metres.’ The parts I am not sure of I have marked with a question mark.” Station BFN is known as the “mystery” station, as it is not a licensed station. The Kussian Soviet authorities have been at great pains to discover and suppress BFN, so far without success.

“At one time I used to supply six lons of parsnip seed to the merchants in New Zealand,” said Mr John Bilkey, of Pukekohe, at a meeting of the Whangarei Chamber of Commerce, “but Belgium now supplies the market at 8d per lb. I could not do it under Is fid per lb. During the war period I got a few spasmodic orders, but. the trade has again reverted to Belgium.”

“There’s a live wire down. Can you send a man please,” was the purport of a message received by the elecIrical department from Hamilton East last Thursday night. A linesman went out at 10 p.m., and spent some time in the rain without result. When his investigations were reported to the lady who had given the message she remarked: “Oh, I’m sorry, it must have been been a shadow.”

A cable advises that as the Army and Navy -efused them, the British authorities decreed the destruction of ten million cigarettes warehoused in 1918. The cigarettes -would probably have been issued to troops had the war continued. They were burnt in the King’s Pipe at Liverpool Building, in which all unwanted tobacco is destroyed in the presence of a Customs officer. The process of destruction occupied several days, constituting a record smoke.

The Cambridge Rugby Union were unfortunate in striking a wet day for the Manawhenua-Waikato football match on Wednesday, but despite the fact that rain fell right to within an hour of the match, there was close up to 2000 present from all parts of the Waikato, and from as far away as Te Aroha and Te Kuiti. The gate takings amounted to the respectable sum of £65 Is 3d. Had it been a fine day the officials are confident they would have taken over £IOO.

The proverbial harbinger of good fortune favoured the Hawera lailway staff recently, when, after- the removal of the covering of a goods truck from Wellington, a plaintive meow signalled the arrival of a well-gnvwn black eat. Apparently an habitue of goods sheds puss soon recovered from the rigours of her prolonged journey beneath the tarnaulin, and was,quite at home in the Ilawera depot, where she is being well cared for, and, in .return for delicacies provided, gives efficient service in affording protection against undesirable members of lie rodent tribe.

A new regulation states that bluegum poles must not be used as electric light polc-s unless a certificate has been obtained from the Forestry Department, before the trees are cut, to the effect that they are suitable for the purpose. When reporting upon this to the Mana-watu-Oroua Power Board recently, the engineer, Mr W. A. Waters, said the regulation amounted almost to a total prohibition. “Out of 92 poles broken in New Zealand last year,” said Mr Waters, “twenty-three of themjjwere bluegums. The percentage nufst be very high when the small number of bluegums in use is compared witih the hundreds of thousands of other poles.”

Wilford, of Christchurch, is conducting an Anglican mission at Lyall Bay, Wellington. A notable feature of the mission is a large, procession of witnesses, which proceeds each night along the principal streets before the services. The choir, in their surplices and black and red cassocks, followed by a large contingent of C.E.M.S men from all parts of the city, and Boy Scouts and other organisations ing torches and lanterns, banners and crosses, have made quite clear to the public that an effort is being made to reach the masses. Each evening: two stations are made in the most public wlaces of the march, and the members of the procession form a semi-circle from the middle of which a short address is given to the people who gather round. The procession then re-fonns and returns to the..church, chanting the Litany.

A week’s trip which must surely create a record for seeing the maximum amount in the minimum time has recently been completed by Mr and Mrs H. E. Barham, of Kereone (says the Morrinsville Star). The first stage of the •trip, which was made by car, was to Levin. Mr and Mrs Barham, in company with Mrs Young and another passenger, left at 4 a.m. and reached the southern town, a distance of 350 miles, at 9.30 p.m. on the same day. From Levin trigs were made to Feilding and other adjacent towns, after which the journey was continued to Wellington. After a short stay at the capital city the party returned by car to Morrinsville, after covering approximately 1000 miles in under seven days. The trip was accomplished without a single puncture and without engine trouble. Good roads were encountered on most of the journey, the worst stretches being at the Waikato end and through the King Country.

The London correspondent of a Sydney paper -writes: One of the curious incidents in connection with the return of the Yorks was t-lie absence of Princess Mary. On the day of the return the Court Circular announced. “Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles left Chesterfield House to-day for Egerton House, Newmarket, where they will spend a few days before goirg on to Goldsborougli Hall.” That Princess Mary should go out of London for a holiday jaunt to one of her country houses, where she was not entertaining, without waiting to welcome her brother on his return from a long and trying official voyage, has set all the town asking “What is the matter?” It may be that even the most philosophical of mothers could not take calmly the idiotic gush over the York baby, while her own equally attractive children were to a great extent ignored. -■*