Shannon News TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1928.

Shannon News, 18 September 1928, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1928.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Shannon Borough Council will bo held in the Council Chambers this evening, \vhen the question of improving the Council's system of street maintenance will be discussed.

Among the successful candidates at the recent examinations conducts in Palmerston North for the Trinity College of Music, London, by Mr E. Egerton Lowe, was Miss Vera Quarne, a pupil of Miss A. Aim.

Mr D. Wouldes notifies in this issue that he has resigned the secretaryship of the Shannon branch of the N.Z. Labour Party and the Manawatu L.K.C. and that he will take no further activity in Labour affairs.

The condition of Mr Jas. Aim, manager of" the Shannon Dairy Factory, not having shown satisfactory improvement, his medical adviser ordered his removal to the Palmerston North Hospital, which institution he entered on Friday.

His Worship the Mayor (Mr E. Butt), who entered Northcote Private Hospital at Palmerston , North last week, was operated upon yesterday morning and from advice received he is now doing as well as can be expected.

A mean theft was committed in the early hours of Saturday morning when a quantity of rope was stolen from Messrs Elwood and Hyde's ropeworks. Not satisfied with taking the rope the miscreants damaged a quantity of strands ready for finishing off by slashing them- with a knife. The matter has been reported to the police.

The fortnightly "500" tourney will be held in the Plunket rooms on Thursday evening next.at 8 p.m. The lady's prize will be a handpainted/ Duchess set presented by Mrs Thwaites and the gent's a cake donated by Mrs C. Jones. These evenings are proving very popular and the object is one that should be of interest to everyone.

Levin was favoured with a brief call yesterday by New Zealand's aspirant for world's boxing championship. Torn Heeney, who was accompanied by Mrs Heeney, {tyid a number of friends. They were en route to Wellington, in two cars, and the party, which numbered nine, stopped for dinner at the Levin Hotel, between twelve and one o'clock. The news spread quickly, and a crowd of about two hundred saw them off, and cheered heartily for Tom and his wife a 3 the cars departed.

What appeals to be a series of acts of vandalism has been committed at the Ashburton Public Library, nearly a dozen pages of Chambers' Encyeli> : paedia having been cut from one plac) alone. Though the articles .mutilated

do not refer to aviation, it is apparent that their removal was connected with ' <ecent aerial developments. The articles refer to the Arctic, the Antarctic, the Pacific and Eastern Australia. The books have now been placed in the personal custody of the librarian.

The medical superintendent (Dr. JF*. Ward) reported to the' Palmersto.n North Hospital Board last week that the tuberculosis dispensary in the towii was now open, and that he would be in attendance there on Monday afternoons between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. for interviews. The clinic, Dr. Ward stated, was intended for those persons who might suspect that they had tubercular infection of the lung 3, and also those people who had been in sanatoria elsewhere and desired to remain under medical supervision.

Asked whether there was any truth in the suggestion that it was intended to scrap the Southern Cross upon its arrival back in Australia, Squadron-

Leader Kingsford Smith replied in the negative. He said that the engine had done only 350 hours, and had a life of

1500 hours. There was over a thousand hours left in her. "There is too much good work in the Southern Cross for usto scrap her and get another," added Kingsford Smith. "There is nothingdefinite about what will be done with the machine, though we would like Australia to have her. She may end up in the War Museum over there." "We used 360 gallons of petrol on the trans: Tapman flight," added Squadron-leader Kingsford Smith. "At 2a a gallon this works out at a cost of £36. We took 625 gallons with us when we left Richmond Aerodrome, and we will carry about 700 gallons baek with'us when we return to Australia.'»

The Palmersfcoa Nwrfch Hospital Board at their meeting yesterday afternoon accepted a tender of £17,781 for the erection of a two-story block at the hospital. This will give accommodation for 50 additional patients. -

The chairman of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society reported with regard to an interview with the manager of the game farm at Paraparaumu, that it had been decided that a fixed number of pheasants should be produced each year. Matters with regard to the refitting of the farm were finalised.

An announcement of his intention not to proceed with his Local Summertime Bill was made by Mr. T. K. Sidey, M.P., in an interview on Wednesday. Mr. Sidey does not intend to go to the length of having the Bill removed from the order paper of the House of Representatives, but he has decided that, in view of the latest developments, he cannot ask the Government to provide the opportunity for bringing the measure before the House again.

Important widening proposals, involving a sxxm of £7.7,000, were plaeed before ithe Wellington City Council last night, dealing with properties between Rintoul Street and Adelaide Road, at Newtown, and providing for a new deviation from .. Rintoul Street across Luxford Street to Adelaide Road, at the junction with Britomart and Herald Street.

The executive of the Masonic Grand Lodge of New Zealand has decided to issue notices to Lodges that the 28th November has been provisionally selected as the date for the Annual Communication, to 'be held this year at Dunedin, but that the date is dependent upon that of the General Election, and-until that is announced it is not possible to make any definite arrangements. —Press Association.

One of the minor dangers of highspeed motoring is the throwing-up of stones on metal roads. An instance of this occurred yesterday between the Wirokino Bridge and Fqxton, when the wind-screen on a car from Levin was struck by a stone which shot out from under a wheel of another car. The result was that the bevelled edge of the screen Avas shattered and splinters of glass were projected over the occupants, fortunately without causing them any injuries.

The konini, the New Zealand fuchsia tree, and the only deciduous native tree of the North Island, is now in full bloom, and is throwing out its young leaves. Hundreds of these trees grow along the banks of the Ohau river, and owing to the honey contained in the flower* they are a favourite haunt of the mako mako bird. The bush daisy (senecio Kirkii), a shrub about three feet in height, is- also in full bloom, and many fine specimens may be seen near the bush tracks on the Waiopehu ridge and the Ohau river.

The upper reaches of the Ohau river contain some magnificent scenery and at its confluence with the Blackwater, about four miles from the entrance to the bush, the river in its flooded stat? presented a striking sight yesterday. From the mist-crowned summits of the high gorges many small waterfalls | drooped into the river, which foamed down over the huge boulders in its bed. Both sides of the river are clothed with luxuriant ' native bush and through the openings at the side of the high-level track some beautiful vistas can be seen.

Speaking at the annual meeting of the Presbyterian Church at Leeston, the Rev. J. C. Young, 8.A., said that too many people were concerned about what their Christianity was going to cost them. A man who was enthusiastic about racing was always prepared to back his fancy, often with largo sums, even a hundred pounds or more, yet many folk in comfortable circumstances who professed to be Christians, backed the church with threepenny pieces. The way in which some people the church was a joke throughout the world.

Reporting to the Palmerston' Hospital Board, the Charitable Aid Officer (Mf. F. Aisher) stated 'that charitable aid had shown a marked decrease during the past month. He assisted 33 families at a cost of £7O with 280 rations, compared with 47 families at a co3t of £BO Is (318 rations) in July. There had also been a. big falling-off of men travelling on the roads. Nineteen called on him and he helped 13 with meals and beds at a cost of £2 12s, compared with 19 at a cost of £6 4s in July. In August, 1927, he assisted 40 at a cost of £lO 17s. Charitable aid outside Palmerston- North was almost normal.

Men of the Eoyal Navy do not often avaiT~fhemselves nowadays of their privilege of growing beards, but an attempt to revive the fashion seemed to be indicated by the magnificent growths to be seen on the faces of several bluejackets of H.M.S. Dunedin when the warship berthed at Auckland on Monday. About a idozen men allowed their beards to grow during the Pacific cruise, and were the .objects of much good natured chaff. Some of them thought better of it and shaved before reaching port, and there is said to be some speculation whether the others will appear with beards in public.

After asking his hearers to think of i any other insect or bird in terms of :• the bee, Mr D..S. Robinson, Govern- : ment Apiary Instructor, in his lecture ;• in Levin this week, said a queen bee would la ybetween 2000 and 3000 eggs in the course of a day. She would, in fact, produce twice,] her own weight in eggs and .would carry that on for six or seven weeks. Placed end to end the eggs would stretch over a length of a mile and a-half. She only con- •': sunied one food—honey—while engaged in this tremendous feat of fecundity. It was evident that the food-value of honey was far greater than- the average person thought. _: . ■!■■—iramm—————■

■ Xhe Palmerston North Hospital Board yesterday accepted a tender of £17,781 for the erection of a two-stor-eyed block at the hospital for the accommodation of 50 extra patients. A tender of £B7 was accepted for the erection of a glass house.

During the flight across the Tasman, the airmen experienced bitterly coM weather. The plane was covered with sleet and ice, and it is estimated, that at one stage of the flight the sleet and ice on top of-the wings weighed about one ton.

An eighf-year-old Shorthorn bullock, bred and fattened by Mr N. Glotworthy of Pukehuia, Northern Wairoa, was sold at Westfield yesterday for £37. The buyers were Messrs Stone Brothers, who propose to send him to the Royal Show at Palmerston North.- His live weight is 27001 b, and would produce a carcase of about 20001 b.

Magpies are generally thought to be harmless birds, but nevertheless- they often have a mischievous turn of mind. They came in for discussion at a meeting of the Manawatu Rafcbit Board. Trustee McKelvie said that apart from doing considerable damage to gardens they were the earliest birds on the wing in the mornings and their ehat'erings eouli be heard at 5. a.m., while they were the latest of the feathered flock to retire at night. , It was considered bad luek to shoot a magpie. Trustee Boswell said he had felt verymuch like shooting a magpie on his property. It consistently pulled up or ate all his peas and even when some sweetpeas had been grown on the verandah of his house, for protection it had ventured right on to the verandah and destroyed the lot. They were originally imported into New Zealand to kill hawks, he said.