Shannon News TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1928.

Shannon News, 17 January 1928, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1928.

Three rinks from the Otaki Bowling Club will visit the local Club on Wednesday.

Tjhc week-end excursion trains to Wanganui and Paekakariki were poorly patronised by lpcal residents, only two persons making the trip 'to Wanganui and six to Paekakariki.

A number of local territorials left this morning for Marten, where they will go into camp for their annual training.

A special meeting, of the Borough Council will be held on Tuesday, the 24th January, at 7.30 p in. for the purpose of deciding what working day in the week shall be the statutory hallholiday for shops in the borough.

The Mayor (Mr ■E. Butt) has received an invitation to attend the Grey District Diamond Jubilee celebrations to-be held at Greymouth, commencing Saturday, February 25th, and ending on Saturday, March 3rd.

It has been brought under our notice that some residents are under the impression that, the Borough Council will prosecute persons using a hose to water their garden. This is not the case, so long as they do not wilfully waste, the water, such as allowing the taps to run water to waste.

On a charge of having disturbed a religious meeting at Shannon on December 11th, two youths, James Henderson Jamieson and Algar Roy Douglas Mason, appeared at the Police Court at Palmerston North yesterday before Messrs R. Edwards and W. F. Durward, J.P.’s. Both pleaded guilty. Sergeant Power stated that stones .had been thrown on the roof of the building by" some youths congregated outside and defendants, on being questioned, had admitted that they had been responsible. A fine of £2, with costs 10s, was imposed in each case.

A car driven by the Rev. W. S. Tremain, Anglican m'nister at Ron.gotea, was struck by a train on the Ron-gotea-Longburn road crossing at one o’clock, states a Press message from Palmerston.. Mr Tremain received in juries necessitating his admission to hospital. .The crossing was the scene of the recent fatal accident when. M: Guthrie, butcher, of Longburn, was killed. '■

A serious state of affairs on the West Coast ow'ng to the drought idescribed in a Press message rece'v'fl too ldte for publication in full. Bush fires are reported from Otira to South Westland, Molloy’s Creek sawmill, near Bell Hill, was destroyed by fire, ami the mill ai„Notuku was reported yesterday to bo menaced. .Water tanks are low, and many of the smaller streams and creeks are dry.

Some four hundred excursionists, including two from Shannon, made the trip to Wanganui and uo the river during the week-end and were delighted both with the charm of the out'ng and the cheapness of it. The second-class return fare from Levin, for rail and steamer, was 16s 3d, and,this included morning tea, luncheon and afternoon tea on the steamer. Tea, bed and breakfast during the break of journey at Wanganui cost 8s at a reputable lodging-house, so with refreshments en route the whole holiday could be undertaken for less than 30s. Three steamboats took the party up the river on Sunday morning, returning in the afternoon. The weather was excellent and all the excursionists had a happy time —except, perhaps, the imbiber who fell off one of the paddle-boxes into the river and emerged a soberer and wiser man.

There arc still a few men in Palmerston North out of work. Last week fifteen men. eight of w'hom are married with 27 dependent upon them, in,* .e application for jobs to the Departmental office. ' „

Backers have already filed a challenge for Major Goodsell with Barry, who won the championship from the former last month. The latter -wishes to row on the Thames in .June, though several offers have been received from other places.

l< They have proved to be a very smart lot," said CaptaijjJJ. L. Findlay, M.C., in commenting to a "Christchurch Sun" reporter‘on the progress of the flying cadets at the Wigram Airdrome. The cadets have been flying in dual control machines, but- very shortly now they will be taking -up solo machines. This year’s course finishes on 3rd March.

Palmerston’s water supply is feeling the strain of the dry weather. At 8 p.m. last evening it reached the year’s lowest pressure —1751 b. to the square inch, while the Public Hospital authorities reported that no water would flow from the taps at the institution, which is situated on a terrace, and the ■reserve supply had to be drawn from. The fire menace is causing much uneasiness.

A number of unemployed at Christchurch declared their hostility to the action of the North Canterbury Hospital and Charitable Aid Board in asking a man who received relief to work for it in return. A resolution carried that the demand be refused "as illegal and unconstitional." This attitude, however, represents the state of mind of a small x minority of those seeking work.

' A party of five Eurasian girls reached Auckland by the Sussex. They aic in the charge of Miss J. E. Earl, and are intending to take up domestic work in the Dominion. Paities of Eurasian girls have been coming to this country at intervals for the past three or fours years and have given every satisfaction. Last year eleven came and the year before about eleven. All told about thirty-six have taken up their homes in New Zealand since the war. The voile is a fine, attempt to deal with a delicate question in our great Indian Empire, for all those girls are the (laughters of either English, Irish or Scotch fathers and Indian mothers, and in many cases would be neglected'if they were not taken in hand and given a chance m

The following'is a reprint from the Lyttelton Times of January 7, 1878: A Turkish newspaper called the "Leiprir and Bassiret” has discovered that Mr. Gladstone is the son of a Bulgarian pig dealer named Trozadin, and that he himself was a pig dealer in early life, and ran away to Serbia at the age of lti, whence he was sent to London to sell pigs; that be stole the proceeds, changed his name from Trozadin to Gladstone, and became Prime Minister; finally, that he was offered £SOOO by the Ottoman Government to put their finances in order, and that the w ithdraval- of the offer vexed him so much as to embark his bad Bulgarian nature in his anti Turkish policy. And no doubt the Turks believe the legend, invented to gratify their fury.

The "N.Z. Radio Record" says:— "1 am now going to nominate three competitors for the gold medal for the best kiddy entertainers in this quarter of the globe—" Aunt Dot," "Uncle Sandv," and "Uncle Jasper," all of 2YA,‘ Wellington. I’ve heard all the leading New Zealand and Aussie bedtime session entertainers, and I think the above trio have the wood on the lot of them. /When you sum up the attributes of a perfect kiddy entertainer by radio, it seems that among the requisites are a mellow, well-attuned voice, clear diction, a trick in carrying one’s personality across the other, a ready wit, a breezy cheerfulness, an apt use of words and phrases calculated to be understandable to even the youngest juveniles, and, again, personality. ’ ’

‘'The dairy season now passing will probably be one of the best New Zealand has ever experienced/’ said Mr J. O’Dea, supervising dairy produce grader in addressing a meeting of factory managers and directors at Castelcliff yesterday. Mr. O’Dea further ventured the opinion that providing the present drought, did not continue too long it would be the best the country had known, and he would expect the output of butter to bring in about £20,000,000. Up to date this season the output showed an increase of about 20 per cent, in butter, and 7$ per cent, in cheese, or taking it on a butter-fat basis, an increase of about 17 per cent. This was very satisfactory, and it looked as though the season was going to be one which would put the farmer in the way of being able to spend the necessary money on improvements and run his farm as he would like to see it run.

All Police Court officials arc familiar with the individual who, with morbid curiosity, attends the sittings of the Court day in'and day out listening to the details of e'ven the most ordinaxy cases with unflagging interest (say* the Otago Daily Times). There arc one or two of this type in every town, and men whose business and duty it is to deal with the seamy side of life as it is recounted before the Bench learn to dislikij and despilse the constant watchers in the corners of the public benches. But one old man who for years haunted, the Dunedin Police Court as regularly as clockwork, whatever the case and however sordid the conditions, had at least a reason for his peculiar selection of amusement. “I am a retired farmer,” he told a Court official recently. “For years and years while living in the waybacks, my experience of life was gained solely from the columns of the newspapers I received. Now that I have retired I am determined to see the real, thing, and I make the Courts my place of study. ”

Feed in the Wairarapa is plentiful, and never has the district looked better at this time of the year than now. Even the Maungarnki hills, which at Christmas time usually present a brown and parched appearance, are a beautiful green. Theye has been luxuriant growth in the grass and the hay crops are particularly heavy.

Criminal offences in Otaki in 1927 showed a decided increase over those of the previous year, the number of cases coming before the Court being 99 as against 87 for 1926. Vagrancy charges were seven above those of 192(5 and ctrunkcness showed an increase of two. Failure to maintain also showed an increase but this has been general on this charge throughout the. Dominion.

"Charitable aid lias again been very heavy during the month in Palmerston North and things do riot seem to be improving. During the month I had to *dssue 219 rations at. a cost of £55 5s compared with 148 rations at a cost of £34 14s in December, 1926," reported Mr. F. Aisher, Charitable Aid Officer, to the Palmerston North Hospital Board yesterday. There is. still a number of men on the roads seeking work, etc. Thirty-five called on me during the month and of these I assisted 21 at a cost of £5 10s compared with 16 costing £3 10s in December, 1926." ____