Shannon News FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1928.

Shannon News, 5 October 1928, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1928.

The Shannon Bowling and Croquet Clubs intend to officially open their season on Saturday, October 20th.

It was decided at the Shannon Borough Council meeting on Tuesday evening to relieve the Ranger ot his duties from sunrise until sunset till further notice.

At a meeting of the committee of the Shannon Football Club last evening it was decided to hold the Ball on Friday, 19th October. George’s orchestra of five instruments is being engaged to provide the music.

We have been asked to state that.the 'Shannon Volunteer Fire Brigade require a number of chairs to complete the furnishing of their new fire station. The Brigade will be grateful to citizens who can donate'any chairs that thev do not need.

Messes E. Butt and Jas. Aim, who are both in hospital in Palmerston North, are reported to be making steady progress towards recovery. It is expected the former will be able to return to his home in about a week’s time.

Tire Shannon Women’s Institute held theirk usual weekly euchre tournament on Tuesday evening last, a large number of players taking part. The ladies’ prize went to Mrs L. Richardson, Mr Stan. Burchall winning the gentlemen’s. The consolation prizes were won by Mrs Elwood and Mr Huzzard.

The fortnightly .500 card, tourney in aid of the Plunket funds, held last evening, Avas as usual \ r ery enjoyable, a large number attending. The ladies’ prize, presented by Mr C. Spiers (a very nice pair of bedroom towels), Avas Avon by Mrs J. Hennessey, Mr Jones’s trophy going to Mr S. Hook, who most generously handed it in to be played ■for at the next tourney.

In our advertising columns, Messrs A. and E. Hyde announce their usual Spring Sale. The prices quoted are certainly startling. Ladies’ otic-bar shoes at 2 S fid per pair gives those lucky enough'to get them a great opportunity to save money. Mr Hyde informed us that these English Shoes cost 19s fid to land in Wellington, but they are being sacrificed to make room for shipments arriving.*

A benefit football match Avill be played at the Shannon Domain, tomorroAV afternoon, commencing at three o’clock, between the .Shannon aiid Foxton seniors, the proceeds being in aid of the Foxton player, G. WcstAvood, who was injured in the game between Mauawhenua and Wellington played at Levin. As the price of admission is only one shilling and it- is a deserving case, it is hoped there Avill be a large attendance of football enthusiasts present.

We are now booking orders for Christmas numbers of Auckland Weekly and Free Lance, to arrive in time for Home mailing. Book your orders now to save disappointment. —Baxters, where the new books are.* "

Mr W. G. Vickers, of Levin, has been appointed to judge the fat stock at the Royal Slioav at Palmerston at the end of the month.

Captain Plunkett -Cole, who was wounded when the steamer Anking was attacked in the Gulf of Tonking, by Chinese pirates a few dcys ago, is a son of the late Mr Plunkett Cole, who was for many years a schoolmaster both in the Levin district and in Wellington and "who died some fifteen years ago.' After being headmaster, at To Aro School, the late Mr Plunkett Cole acted in the same capacity at the school which was situated at the Central Development Farm, and afterwards on the Beach Road, and -which was closed when the Central School -was shifted from Weraroa into Levin. The late Mr Cqlc, senr., was an old-time trainper of considerable stamina, and a favourite exercise of his on a Saturday was to walk to Hokio, thence along the beach to the Manawatu Heads, and back again in the same day. Captain Cole served his apprenticeship on the New Zealand Shipjpjng Company’s sailing vessels.

The body of the child Jimmy Morgan, aged five, drowned in the Mauawatu River at Wirokino on September sth, was found by a fisherman a short distance from the. scene of the fatality this morning, says a Foxton telegram. The body of the native Kemp, drowned at Manawatu Heads on Saturday, is still missing.

A Loudon cable dated September 24th says: “The longest and most expensive. trans-Atlantic .’phone call since the service was inaugurated was made by Mr F. B. Odum, director of a group of New York electrical companies, who is staying at the Savoy Hotel. He rang up a business associate in New York, and spoke for 95 minutes, the cost being £285.”

There is a text in the Good Book to cover everything (says a _ Sydney journal), even trans-oeeanic flights in aeroplanes. When Kingsford jSmith started for Maoriland he carried a Bible a dressed to the Governor-General of the Dominion, from the Australian branch of the British' and Foreign Bible Society. Underlined in it (Psalm cxxxix, 9-10) was: “If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in' the uttermost parts of the sea, even there, shall T-hy hand lead me.”

The Wanganui destructor has never been a success. It was supposed to have been constructed some six years ago in the latest design to digest any class of refuse, but, when tried out, it did not function properly and was given a period of some months for the bricks and mortar to dry out. Eveu then it took a lot of coaxing and the Council staff had. to be very careful regarding the material with which it was fed. In later months it commenced to scatter showers of businessmen’s correspondence and cheques broadcast and was generally in a bad-way. Now it has ceased to function and Wanganui refuse will be. deposited in the Balgowie swamp.

“The milk coming to this factory this winter has been so uad that the employees have been using condensed milk,” said a shareholder at a dairy company meeting in Taranaki... He was urging strongly that the feeding of swedes to milking cows should be prohibited. A small proportion of the suppliers who used swedes should not be allowed to spoil the' whole product, when others refrained from the practice. “The trouble with the swede flavour is that the longer you keep the butter the stronger it will get, and if you keep the butter long enough the leaves will grow out of it,” he added. Other flavours disappeared as the product matured, but this was not the case with swedes.