Shannon News FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1928.

Shannon News, 27 January 1928, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1928.

Miss Agnes Aim, A.T.C.L., L.T.C.L.j teacher of pianoforte,, singing and theory, notifies that she will resume teaching on February 6th.

Messrs Wilkinson and Hyde’s “motor wheel” is now being run at Luna Park, Auckland, the Coney Island of New Zealand.

At a special meeting of the Shannon Borough Council held on Tuesday even ing it .was decided to observe Wednesday as the weekly statutory half-holi day for the ensuing year.

Mr J. Garde Grimshaw, teacher of singing and elocution, will resume teaching at the Parish Hall to-morrow ('Saturday) at Ip.m. Mr Grimshaw has met with considerable success as a teacher, pupils of his haying Avon one scholarship, three championships and forty first prizes. He has vacancies for several pupils.

The need for some place for burning rubbish from business premises was stressed by Cr. Gunning at the Borough Council meeting on Tuesday evening. He thought the time had arrived when the Council should provide means for disposing of it. The dump had been suggested, but this was not safe. He favoured burning it on a bare piece of ground or on a disused road, After discussion Cr. Curran, sen., offered to give permission to burn on his property. The offer was accepted, and business people in the congested area and others are notified that if they get into comunieation with Cr. Curran sen., he will arrange for facilities for burning rubbish.

Thames has the distinction of pos sessing 13 hotels and 13 churches.

Rev. Mr Smyth, vicar of St. Peter’s Church, Onehunga, on returning home after a holiday,• found the house ransacked. Everything moveable that was of value had been stolen, including Mr and Mrs Smyth’s Avedding presents, a wireless set and the loud speaker.

A Black Hand letter addressed to a Avealthy American demanded £SOOO, or his wife would be kidnapped. Through error the missh r e Avas delivered to a poor labourer of the same name, who replied: “I ain’t got no money, but I’m interested in your proposition.”

The directors of the Te Iloro Cooperative Dairy Company, Ltd., passed the following resolution at a recent meeting:—“That Daylight Saving be abolished on the ground that it is detrimental to the dairy farmers’ operations, and likely to prove fatal to dairy farmers’ womanfolk. * •

As the position is now, ir is nothing less than a tragedy that there are tens cf thousands of acres of good land awaiting development, but owing to a laelc of initiative and resource in dealing with a problem that is becoming more acute every year, aie now nothing more than breeding grounds for noxious growth, rabbits and other pests which are a continual menace to those settlers who arc working night and day in an attempt to keep their lands free from contamination of these...kinds. — King Country Chronicle. <

It is understood that, a sum of approximately £I6OO was taken from Wanganui last week by the “Rose Marie’* theatrical company. -

Waipukurau can well be classed the healthy town of the Dominion (says a Napier paper). For the past 70 weeks no infectious cases have been reported within the borough.

Captain M. Buckley was originally selected co pilot the aeroplane m the Tasman flight, but could not be spared by the Defence Department owing to his services being required as one of the instructors in the Flying Cadet, Corps at W-igram Aerodrome,

Vegetables seem to be a glut on the Sydney market this year. A man who has a little farm outside ►Sydney said he sent seven bushels of beaus to the market recently, getting 5s 9d for them; for the came quantity last year he would have received £8 15s.

Th rce uniformed patrolmen to render service to moLorists will be appointed immed at ilv by the Auckland Automobile Association. One man will be chiefly engaged in erecting signposts in the country, another will be employed on motor cycle duty in the suburbs and country, and the third official will direct the patrol service and cover the popular routes near the city with a mo tor cycle outfit.

“I have a brother who predicts earthquakes and weather,” said Mr Field, M.P., in speaking at the Levin Show, “and in writing to-me, a day or two ago, he says he docs not think we will get any rain until February 12th.” Mr Field added that dry weather had its advantages as well as its disadvantages; but those farmers who had grown rape on sandy hills, as he had done, had every reason to growl. Still, it was not possible to please everybody, and the net result of the dry weather was an excellent one for the district.

One of the difficulties of the Presbyterian system is that congregations art ministered to by one man, year in and year out,” said the Rev. Hecior Maclean, when speaking at Ihe valedictory social tendered in Ins honour at Dunedin by the members of St. Andrew’s Church, reports the O'ago Daily Times. He added that in IPs opinion one man, however clever he might be, could uot possibly satisfy everyone. It was no*: right that he should minister to the same people indefinitely. There should be move frequent opportunities, for them to hear others and thus every need would be filled.

Visitors from Napier to Waikaremoana over the Christmas season expressed -themselves as amazed at the numbers of oppossums inhabiting the bush in the lake region (snvs the Telegraph), The little denizens of the bush" are comparatively lame and are easily seen about nightfall. They have bred very quickly in the region, and despite the amount of trapping that is done by licensed professionals during the open season, their numbers do not seem to decrease. The Public Works Department has protected the little animals against the danger of electrocution, all poles carrying nower Hues, in the lake area being fitted with zinc bands to prevent the opossums climbing on to the crossbars and coming into contact with the live wires. •

Reference to Daylight Saving was made by Mr Field, M.P., in his speech at the Levin Show. “It means,” he said, “that you have to get up an hour earlier in the morning and go to bed an hour earlier in the afternoon. (Laughter). I would advise you to send your children ro bed at 4 o’clock, when the sun is high in the heavens, and get them out at 2 o’clock. I hear that some of the fanners are satisfied with it. Mr Linklatcr and I kept the House alive for 24 hours, battling against this Bill, but wc were beaten by two to one. It is for you to say, in the very near future, whetl er you are going to have it continued or. not. My friends to-day are not well impressed with this freak change of legislation.” The member’s remarks were received with loud applause in the grandstand. Mr Llnklater, M.P., uho was also one of the speakers, said that he had found, in travelling through the country, that daylight saving had had a very mixed re'ecpLon. However, it was the will of Parliament that it should be passed into Jaw, and it, had been given a trial. Evidence was accumulating against the measme, and he felt sure that it would be repealed next session.