Shannon News FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1928.

Shannon News, 24 February 1928, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1928.

In this .issue tenders are invited by Miranui, Ltd., for felling about 30 acres of second growth scrub.

The Kiwi Bacon Company, Ltd., will be trucking pigs at Shannon on Monday next. , Particulars are advertised in another column ,of this issue.

Mr. and Mrs Lind intend taking up their residence in Shannon. Mr. Lind is the contractor for the new road on the Foxton side of the new bridge across the Manawatu river.

Recently the Shannon Borough Council instructed the Town Clerk to get in touch with a firm who undertook the worlc of permanent surfacing main highways through boroughs. On Thursday morning Messrs F. and J. Duncan, of Wellington, visited Shannon and after a conference with the Mayor and councillors inspected the main highway and.a further communication from them on the matter is expected at the next meeting of the Council.

Owing to the Flaxworkcrs ’ Union having decided to hold their animal picnic on Saturday, March 3rd, the date of the Shannon Athletic Club’s coming sports fixture, a special meeting of the committee of the Athletic Club was held on Wednesday evening to discuss the situation. The matter was thoroughly gone into and as the Club have already circularised their posters, advertise# and received entries, * the majority of the meeting favoured going on with the meeting, particularly as it would mean postponing the fixture for three or four weeks, owing to earlier dates not being available. A list of officials to conduct the meeting were drawn up and other preliminary matters dealt with. One tender was received for the catering, but this was not accepted, the committee deciding to do their own catering.

Last week the friends of Mr. Ben Bashford gathered at the residence of Mr. and Mrs C. Osborne, Moutoa, to bid him farewell on the eve of his departure for the Old Country, which he left eighteen months ago. Although Mr. Bashford has only been in New Zealand for such a short time, the esteem in which he is held was evidenced by the fact that friends were present from Feilding, Rongotea, Oroua Downs, and Moutoa., During the evening Mr. Osborne, his late employer, after a few words, in which he ( expressed his regret at losing such a firm friend and good worker, presented the guest with a handsome silver shaving outfit. Dancing was indulged in until midnight, a happy, evening being brought to a close by the singing of “He's a Jolly Good Fellow” and “Auld Lang Syne.”

“An Apology” appears on page 2 to the ladies of Shannon, and this being leap year the ladies will no doubt read--1 ily accept the explanation, especially when they see that Howard Andrew, Ltd., are offering ladies' shoes, to the number of 100 pairs, for half price. Ladies shoes have already advanced 4s per pair wholesale, but to advertise their stock this firm are selling at half price. There are also 40 pairs of ladies’ shoes to be sacrificed at 7s lid. Heels can be altered to suit the purchaser. Last week this firm offered men's boots at these prices and sold 40 pairs. We mean to break this re--1 cord with the ladies.*

“A veritable death trap” was the description given the Pahautanui bridge by a member of the Wellington Automoble Club in a letter received at a meeting of the club's executive. The bridge is approximately one mile north of Pahautanui Post Office.

The building permits issued during January by the Lower Hutt Borough Council again constitute a record, the value of the buildings to be erected reaching the total of £57,504. This brings the Lower Hutt borough into third place for permits issued in any city or borough in the Dominion. .

Oyer seven hundredweight of schnapper were landed by one fishing firm at the Manawatu Bar on Thursday morning. The fish are usually plentiful at this month of the year.

.Several violet patches in Olaki are looking well, and .it is predicted that violets will be picked in the course of a couple of weeks. Many thousands of plants are under cultivation this season.

Dr. Elizabeth Gunn reported to the meeting of the Wanganui Board of Education that tooth-brush drill in schools -was not being maintained as it should be, and that organised lunch hours were not the rule in some schools as they might be. The board decided to send out circulars to schools regarding the matters.

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

During the hearing of a maintenance claim at the Magistrate’s Court at Wanganui, it was stated by counsel for defendant that his client had had his hand blown off since the order was made. The Magistrate: Perhaps it would Ihave beien (betfe'.r if he had blown his head off and his wife would then have received the widow’s pension.

The death occurred in the Wellington Hospital last week after a brief illness, of Mr Janies W. Boulton, of Manakau. The deceased, who was in his 58th year, was an old and highly respected 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 be reavement. *

An echo of-the Bolton v. Bolton and Hewitt divorce proceedings was heard in the Supremo Court in Palmerston North, when the Hon. Mr. Justice Ostler mentioned that he had inquired into the question of whether he could make co-respondent pay all the costs. He could find no authority for such a procedure. All he could do was to make Hewitt pay his own costs.

"I was amazed at the enterprise )f the> Government in building' such a road over the mountains/’ said Mr. W. Bennett, M.P., of New South Wales, at Otaki when referring to the fine scenic drive over, the Akatarawa, which is noted for the abrupt twists it is necessary to give the steering wheel to keep the car on the road at many points. ■

At last night’s meeting of the Wellington Harbour Board, the chairman said a letter had been •received from the Railway Department notifying a redue tion in freight rates from Wellington to Palmerston North of front 64s 2d to 42s Gd per ton for consignments of three tons and over, and to 52s Gd for consignments of lcss v than three tons. The Department also stated it had withdrawn the restrictions formerly imposed on carrying companies preventing consigning on one note parcels of goods for different consignees. The Board decided to send a letter cf appreciation and thanks to the Railway Department. The reductions are designed to meet the motor transport competition.

Mr D. Miller, who has been appointed Chief Entomologist at the Cawthron Institute, Nelson, and who is at present Government Entomologist, studied Zoology at Otago University under Professor W. B. Benham. Later, he attended Victoria University College under Professor 11. Kirk. He won a senior university scholarship in zoology and took the M.Sc. degree with firstclass honours in that subject. Since he was seventeen years of age lie has specialised in entomology, and has published more than 100 original works on systematic, morphologic and economic entomology, these apeparing in New Zealand and overseas scientific journals. He has done much to benefit orchardists. By ascertaining that the turnip-fly is no other than the grass grub beetle and so leading to an alteration in the time of sowing the xrops, he greatly benefited the farmer. He conferred untold benefit on live-stock breeders by helping them to combat the sheep maggot fly. In forestry, he has proved himself a potent enemy of timber pests, such as the gum-tree weevil and the steel-blue horntail.

The method of ensuring secrecy in the preparation and printing of University examination papers was reported to the New Zealand University Council at its meeting in Christchurch. The Committee set up to investigate the matter stated that the mistake in issuing papers in New Plymouth previous to the examination in 1925 was due probably to the fact that in the final rush some papers were taken from the wrong pile. The report stated that, as arranged some ypars ago, the confidential printer had a room of his own in which he set up the papers. The printing of the “proof” and of the examination papers was carried out under his direct supervision. The packing of the papers was done in his room by specially-selected girls under the direct supervision of the printer. It must be remembered that the number of papers now printed in New Zealand was much larger than it used to be, and new conditions were necessary if the work were to be done with a minimum of mistakes. The committee recommended that, if possible, arrangements be made so that the whole of the printing of the papers and the packing of them in sets for the different examination centres be done by the printers, the sets for each supervisor to be checked and posted by the office.

The Presbyterian Church at Prebbleton, a country township near Christchurch, recently installed a wireless receiving set, gift of a member of the church, for the purpose of listening-in to services broadcasted from Christchurch station when no preacher was available for Prebbleton. To the dismay of members, the Post and Telegraph Department lias demanded a fee of £5 for a license the same fee as is charged halls, hotels and places of business.

The heir to Lord Oxford is his grandson, Viscount Julian Asquith, son of Raymond Asquith, who was killed near Amiens in 1916, the year the boy was born. The new Earl of Oxford, the 11-vear-old schoolboy, is descended, on his mother’s side, from Little Jack Horner of the nursery rhyme. He eventually inherits Molls Manor, Somerset, where, according to legend, the pie incident happened. His mother was converted to Roman Catholicism, and the new peer is being educated at Catholic- schools. There are now 30 minors in the peerage, their ages ranging from four to 16 vears. \

While the festivities at the home of a prospective bride were in full swing at Wanganui on a. recent Monday night several members of the party saw a man’s head and shoulders disappearing through an open window. The uninvited guest had got away with a 'handbag containing over £3, the property of the bride to be. Dancing stopped and. the guests gave chase doAvn Campbell Street, but unfortunately all the electric lights in the streets were, cut off owing to the conservation of power and the delinquent escaped in the darkness. During his sprint, however, lie dropped a new shirt, as to the ownership of which the police are now making enquiries. The theft was a very daring one in view of the large number of guests in the house at the time.