Shannon News FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1928.

Shannon News, 4 May 1928, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1928.

Parliament will probably meet on June 28th.

Mails which left Wellington on March 27th Via San Francisco, arrived in London on April 26th,

The freight on motor ears from Atlantic ports to Australia by the Canadian National Steamships is six dollars a ton measurement.

A' bankrupt at Wanganui told his creditors on Friday that he and his wife were living on thirty shillings a week, excluding rent.

To minister to the spiritual needs of the growing Yugoslav community of the Dominion, a priest of their native country, Rev. Father Milan Pavlinovich, has arrivjed in Auckland.

The work of electrifying the Christ-church-Lyttelton railway line is progressing steadily, and there ■is every probability of the new system being in working order by next Christmas.

The rates to be struck by the Wa|rarapa South County Council will be the same as last year, with the exception of the hospital rate, which will be slightly lo||or.

A Press message from Dunedin states that the directors of the New Zealand Paper Mills have recommended a dividend of three per cent., making six per cent, for the year.

It is not generally known that in the safe of the Hastings Borough Council there is what is known as Tutanekai’s flute, states an exchange. This has iiever been exhibited, but it is probable that it will be placed on exhibition with the Maori curios in the library if a suitable museum house is erected.

It is reported (says the Stratford Post) that a fair number of Cardiff farms have changed hands this year, and that many more, could be sold if they were on the market, land agents from Hawera having made numerous inquiries roeently. It is stated that the demand for land in this particular district arises from the fact that it came through the recent drought very creditably.

The officials o$ the Tej Awamutu Presbyterian Church recently decided to have the church at Te Kawa painted and engaged a well-known Te Awamutu painter to do the work". It is now stated that on arriving at Te Kawa the painter’s staff was directed to the church and went on their way toward it fully armed with their pots and brushes. The feelings of the Te Kawa congregation may be imagined when at the end of the day it was found that the painters had made a splendid job—not of the church but of a neighbouring building, the office of the Te Kawa Drainage Board.

A collision occurred on Sunday evening in Khyber Pass Road, Auckland, between a two-seater motor-car, driven by Leonard'Manson, jockey, of Remuera, and a tramcar, driven by Motorman Percival, of Mount Eden. It was raining heavily at the time. The tram car was proceeding down Khyber Pass Road, and was near the foot of the hill when the motor-car, which was travelling in the opposite direction, suddenly swerved on to the tram track. The motor car was struck by the tramear, thrown completely round, shot in front of the tram again, and struck a second time. Manson was taken to the hospital, suffering from eoncussion. His companion, seeing that Manson was not seriously hurt, made off and ha# not been qeen since.

The Wairoa (H. 8.) freezing works have closed down for the season.

The schools in the Wellington Education Board’s district bfeak up today for the term holidays. The;, will re-open again on May 21st.

A resolution was carried by the Borough Council to strike the rate for the coming year, which will be the same as last year. This will be confirmed at a meeting to be held on May 29th.

The film “Ben Hur’’ was shown at Tokomaru on Wednesday evening to a packed house. This picture is being screened at the Maoriland Theatre this evening, the charge for admission being 1/0 and 2/-, children half price.

In the list of transfers and promotions of police officers, Sergt. J. T. McGregor, who for some years was stationed in Shannon, but who has been for the past two years stationed in Christchurch, is being transferred to New Plymouth.

The first practice of the Shannon Choral Society will be held in the Parish Hall on Thursday next at 7.30 p.m., and a full attendance of members and intending members is requested, as something interesting for the first concert will be discussed. .

Of course we will get it! What? Winter—cold blustering winter—an old friend that does us all good and kills all germs and microbes. He makes us look around for winter clothing, and a good place to look is at Howard Andrew’s Store, which is well stocked with winter goods, A new lot of felt hats just arrived; also velour coats. This firm invites inspection.

The heavy gale which raged on Monday evening struck Mr W. Swindlehurst’s property at Buckley, with full force, causing several maeroearpa trees to snap off at #ie barrel, also levelling his motor car shed and another small shed. Although the gale was so strong, with the exception of some old fences being blown down and one or two sheds being unroofed, no serious damage has been reported.

A telegram has been received by .Hi* Worship the Mayor from Mr J. Linklater, M.P., stating that Hon. A. D. McLeod, Minister for Lands, will visit Shannon and district to-day, arriving at noon, and that, he will be pleased to meet the Mayor and councillors and receive any deputations. The Council will meet the Ministery and several matters of importance to the district will be placed before him.

Messrs Stevenson and Cook, of Port Chalmers, have secured the contract to execute the -whaling ship C. A. Larson ’s repairs at £IO,OOO. Most of the work will be temporary, the only permanent part being to repair extensive holes at the bow; work to be completed in three weeks. Some 150 men are working day and night in shifts. The vessel then goes to Norway, for permanent repairs. *

“He should rightly be iu heaven by now, ” was the terse remark of Mr 11. Knight, engineer of the Dannevirke Power Board, when reporting upon some one having cut down a tree over a live wire and then removed it (says the Evening News). The engineer said he did not know whether the act was intentional or not, but he remarked that some people did some very foolish things.

“Men in the olden days did not win their wives by kindly courtship, love arid affection, as they do now,” declared the Rev. G. T. Brown, M.A., preaching at St. Andrew’s Church, Masterton, on Sunday. “It was not a ease of entertainments, chocolates and soulful sighings. They took a spear or a club and went-out and ’seized a wife by force. But, with the march of progress, these methods have given way to more peaceful ones.”

The divorce petition of William George Bright against Maria Catherine Bright on the ground of mutual separation (details of which were telegraphed last week) was dismissed by Justice Blair in the Supreme Court at Auckland yesterday. The Judge said the fact was established that the separation had been brought about by the wrongful conduct of petitioner himself, and, that being so, it seemed to him the petition should be dismissed.

That he was optimistic enough to believe that unemployment relief would be carried on in a national way in' future instead of in a “£in pot” local way, w r as the statement made by Mr M. J. Savage, M;P., at a meeting of the Auckland Hospital Board. The actual payment by way of relief in Auckland totalled £33,379 during the financial year ended March 31. The estimated payments for that period had been £22,000. The Board estimated that at least £30,000 would have to be expended in relief during current year. Provision was made accordingly. “It is a wonder to me that local bodies don’t combine and insist upon the Government carrying a burden which rightly belongs to the State,” said Mr Savage. He-was optimistic enough to believe that the people would insist on a national insurance scheme. Ablebodied men did not come before the relief committee of the Board because they liked it. They hated it. But they had wives and children to feed and the wolf had to be kept from the door.