Shannon News FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1928.

Shannon News, 17 February 1928, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1928.

.In this issue the Shannon Athletic Club invite tenders for a refreshment booth at their Sports Meeting to be held on March 3rd. Tenders close with Air J. T. Bovis, assistant secretary, on Tuesday next.

Attention is drawn to the advertisement appearing elsewhere in this issue of the "News," of a "Prophetic Lecture," to be delivered in the Plunket Room, Shannon, en Sunday evening next, February ,19th, at 8 o'clock, by Pastor C. A. Paap.

A man named Charles Lane was arrested for drunkenness on the evening train from. Palmerston North on Monday. He was charged before Mr E. J. S. 'Spencer, J.P., on Tuesday morning and was convicted and fined 10s, in default 24 hours' imprisonment.

The death occurred in the Wellington Hospital on Tuesday after a brief i?l----ness, of Mr James W. Boulton, of Manakau. The deceased, who was ::n his 58th year, was an old and highly inspected resident of the Manawatu district He was a brother of the Mayoress of Shannon (Mrs E. Butt) to whom will be extended the'deepest sympathy of a wide circle of friends in her bereavement.

Word was received in Shannon yesterday afternoon of the death in l he Dannovirke Hospital of Mrs Sarah Sophia Dusehenski, wife of Mr J. Dusehenski, wife of Mr J. Dusehenski, niter a long illness. The deceased lady, who was 38 years of age, was wellknown in Shannon, where sh-j and her husband resided for some years, and her demise will be regretted by a wide Circle of friends, who extend their deepest sympathy to the bereaved husband and little daughter in their bereavement. ' ,

At a meeting of the directors of the Tokomaru and Shannon Dairy Companies held on Monday the following motion was carried: "That the abomination, the Daylight Saving Bill, be abolished." Copies of the motion arc to be forwarded to the Premier and to the Secretary of the Manawatu and West Coast Dairy Association. The •latter is to be asked to circularise the dairy companies in the Association, so that a combined protest can be made against the future enactment of the Bill, as in their opinion it was not in the interests of farmers and their' dependants.

The usual monthly meeting of members of the Shannon Women's Inslitute was held on Wednesday afternoon. In the absence of the president (Mrs Butt) owing to a bereavement, the vicepresident, Mrs Waring Taylor, presided over a good gathering of members, when a number of matters to come before the annual meeting to be held next month were dealt with. Several nominations for the committee were received." It was decided to hold a" picnic at Mangaore on March 10th, and arrangements are to be made for a bus to convey members out. At the conclusion of the usual business a roundtable talk followed to draw up the monthly programme -and some good ideas were put forward. A tray cloth competition had been arranged, but owing to a number of the cloths entered being supper cloths, they were divided into two classes, there being fifteen entries in all. Mrs J. T. Bo vis won the trophy for best tray cloth, and Mrs J. Sinclair that for supper cloth.

The uniform worn by many of the choirs in the Waikafo Diocese was adversely criticised recently by Bishop Cherrington, who said that the ohoir at Paeroa was a pleasing exception, because of the tasteful and becoming choice made. He added that surplices and square caps were not an ecclesiastical adornment for women, and that the black vesture reminded him of mutes at a funeral in Mauritius. In Auckland the choir ladies in most of the churches wear surplices, which is described as quite wrong, as. this is a malo 5; ecclesiastical garment. At tlu Epiphany Church, a grey-coloured uniform is worn, similar to that adopted in Xew South Wales, and probably very like the one used at Paeroa. At St. Paul's and All Saints' the gowns are black. It is considered difficult to make a change of uniform immediately where another type has found favour, and at present there are • numerous styles in regular use, says an Auckland paper in commenting on the bishop's remarks.

At a conference of the South Island School Committees held in Ohristchurch speakers condemned ""script writing on the grounds that it was of no value and led to an easy method of forgery.

The Finance Committee of the Auckland City Council has decided to send all the correspondence in regard to allegations of waste brought by Mr W. 11. Murray (a member of the Council) to the Government, urging that a commission of inquiry be set up soon.

It was stated at a meeting of the Hamilton Borough Council that during December there was a decline of £2OO in the electricity revenue, due directly to daylight saving, comparing the figures with those for the corresponding

There is every prospect that at an early date a new moth will be liberated, in the Dominion to attack the noxious weed ragwort. TJns insect, •which is named tyria jacobaeae, has been subjected to rigid tests at the Cawthron institute, but according to a recent decision of the Noxious Weeds Committee of the Scientific and Industrial Research Council, there, will be further tests before liberation is agreed to.

The difficulty experienced on Wednesday in unloading phosphates from the steamer Indianola at Auckland has been overcome, says the Herald. The cargo is the first consignment of phosphates from Morocco to reach Auckland, and is in the form of a fine powder, so fine that' it ran out of the ordinary grabs and skips and also leaked from the trucks into which it was discharged. The skips had to be lined with sacks, and with more solidly-built trucks the work of discharging proceeded fairly rapidly.

One of the most disturbing features of the landscape at the present time, in the opinion of many farmers, is the prevalence of the weed known as blue borage, which is more in evidence this season than over before (says the Marlborough Express). This plant appears to be spreading at a dangerous rate, and its blue flowers have painted whole paddocks, roadsides, and riverbeds. A leading pasfcoralist remarked that he was becoming deeply concerned over the spread of borage, as it certainly was not wanted on the low country, at any rate. In the high country, where stock often had no option but to eat it, it was regarded as a useful fedder plant: but on the lower levels it could not be eaten off except by hopelessly overstocking. Blue borage is not on the schedule of noxious weeds in. either Marlborough or Awatere.

While bathing in the surf at Napier the other afternoon one of a party of picnickers who had come from Dannevirke to spend the day by the seaside, a girl about 15 years of age, had the misfortune to be severely stung on the neck by a jellyfish (reports the Telegraph).' Her first intimation that anything Avas wrong was when she felt something soft and clammy cunging to her neck. The jellyfish then .began to sting, whereupon the girl seized it with her hand and tore it away, and in doing so her hand suffered from stings. The girl, who was in extreme pain, was conveyed into the baths and Dr. Waterworth was summoned. The effect of the stings was to raise the skin in large lumps all round the throat. After an injection, however, the pain eased and the girl was able to undertake the return journey to Dannevirke.

The perils of reckless motoring illustrated one evening last week when the driver of a northward-bound car endeavoured to beat a lorry, going in the same direction, to the small bridge near Mr Broadbelt's residence at Ihakara. The lorry crossed a little ahead of the car, but the latter collided with the side of the bridge, completely demolishing it and reaching the other side with the rails entangled in the under-earriage. How the car did this without falling into the stream seven or eight feet below remains a mystery to those who viewed the damage and saw the plight of the car. The axle was badly bent and a tyre burst, but the driver found that he could get steering way, and after removing the ruins of the bridge, went on his way slowly but without much apparent concern at the close call he Kid had.

A monster bi>nch jf grapes far exceeding in weight anything of which there are records was presented by Messrs Mash and Austin, Ltd., of Covent Garden, London, to the Lady Maoress for the bazaar on behalf of St. Bartholomew's Hospital week. The bunch weighed 374 lbs and measured three feet two inches in length, without the stalks, and was fourteen inches across the shoulders. The berries were beautifully formed of black colour and carried a fine bloom —the bunch was perfect in eveiy lespeet. This bunch of grapes was grown in Belgium and was sent to England by aeroplane, where it was sold to Mr H. Mash for £37. The largest recorded bunch of grapes ever grown in England was 26 Jbs and was shown at Edinburgh, and it is a remarkable coincidence that the next heaviest.was shown at the same time and weighed 19 lbs. If any one wishes to estimate the size of this remarkable bunch, make a drawing on a wall and then you will lealise what an immense size this bunch had attained.

The difficulty of a borough council to compel an absentee Maori owner of a section to clear noxious weeds, was emphasised at a meeting of -the Te Awamutu-Borough Council, when the clerk said that, as the law stood, the section in question could not be sold for rates or the cost of clearing noxious weeds, which latter were a menace to the neighbouring sections. The council instructed its clerk to lay the facts before the Public Trustee, who was understood to be administering the estate of the Maori owner.

Following on a decision of the Gisborne Harbour Board to curtail its works, Mr Campbell, engineer to the Board, has resigned. A tally taken by the traffic inspector at Hamilton shows that no fewer, than 142 service cars and buses pass through Hamilton daily. Ratana prefers women to wear their skirts short from a health point of view, but he places no restrictions upon them in this respect, or in the matter of dress. While making sausages on Tuesday, Mr A. Lydiard, of Te Poi, had the top of one of his fingers severed by the machine. Te Poi sausages were not in demand that day, says the Waikato Independent. <■■

At, a meeting of the Christ church Fire Boaijl it was decided that as the Mayor, the Rev. J. K. Archer, had been absent from two consecutive meetings without leave, he had lost his seat. Steps will now be taken to fill the vacancy, the Government having, power to do eo.

An English tourist who came to Duiiedin ihis week, having been shown round and asked what he thought of cur beautiful city,, replied that he at once saw evidence of its Scottishness, since the street tarring in the hot weather gave the. residents an opportunity of getting their boots soled for nothing,

It is not generally known that a very line kauri tree is growing on the Mission grounds at Otaki. The tree, which is about 20 feet high, is considered to be some 35 years old. Another fine kauri may be seen at Waikanae.

Jackie Coogan, America's boy film star, is a millionaire —as American values go. He is the owner of much real estate. His latest transaction, in which he paid £20,000 for fourteen "lots"-has been followed by the dis closure that his real estate holdings in Los Angeles and Hollywood and hi» two ranches• are valued at £300,000 Jackie's agent estimates that the boy-',-reak estate holding alone, at their pre sent rate of increase in. value, wil. make him a multi-millionaire before he is twenty-one.

For the fourth time in succession the ratepayers of Palmerston North have rejecled a proposal to raise a loan of £55,7<J0 for improving the Borough water supply by duplicating mains, and. filters and building another dam. The Jast poll was taken yesterday and was lost by eleven votes—ll 76 to 1165. The opponents of the scheme urge either that a new source of supply be found or that artesian wells be put down. In the meantime the town supply is very short and houses on elevated ground find it impossible to get water and the hospital would have been water-less had the Board not put down large underground storage tanks. The ratepayers" sanctioned a sewerage extension loan yesterday of £16,000.

The Rev. D. Calder, 8.A., -.general secretary in New Zealand for the British and Foreign Bible Society, accompanied by Mrs. Calder, left Wellington on Friday by the Ulimaroa for Sydney and will "there connect with the Orviets for Port Said. Mr. Calder will act as representative of the National- Missionary'Council of New Zealand, a very important council meetings to take place in Palestine from March 24th to Bth April. Mr. Calder hopes to spend Easter about the Sacred City before proceeding to Englanu where he will pay an important business visit to the London Bible House. It is interesting to note that the International Missionary Council which Mr. Calder is attending, is limited to 200 world selected delegates, of whom Now Zealand sent two and Australia three. The Rev. P. B. Redgrave will act as secretary during Mr. Calder >s absence, lady on the back.

Latterly there has sprung up at Lytleiton a new industry in the exportation of empty benzine cases. Hitherto they were considered of so little commercial value that there was no difficulty in picking up a few for lirewood, and very often launch owners dumped them into the sea. A few years ago a Lyttcllon man procured a.-, a gift 100 cases, or sufficient to provide him with kindling wood for two years. When the supply became exhausted he sought again Jus libera) friend, but was told that empty cases could not then be obtained less than 9d each. A Union Company steamer arrived at Lyttelton yesterday to load several thousand cases consigned to jam manufacturers at Nelson, who will probably use them as receptacles for fruit. A large quantity was also taken by another steamer which left for Nelson via Wellington a few days ago. On her previous trip to Sydney the Karetu carried between 5000 and 6000 cases. As an indication of their present value the shipping freight on empty cases from Dunedin to Nelson is Is a case.