Shannon News TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1928.
The Shannon Dairy Company are advancing Is 61d per lb of butterfat .supplied during September.
Mr A. E. 11. George, who was in business in Shannon for some years, has taken up dairy farming at Waione, in the Hawke’s Bay district.
The annual meeting of members of the Shannon Tennis Club will be held in the Council- Chambers on Thursday evening at 7.30. 'lntending members are invited to attend.
Among the passengers by the s.s. Maheno which left Wellington for Sydney on Friday, was Mr G. G. Mitchell, of* Shannon,' who intends spending a few months holiday in Australia,
The-Mayor of Shannon (Mr E. Butt) has recovered from his illness sufficiently to lie able to leave the hospital. He is now convalescing at the residence of his daughter, Mrs Shaw, Palmerston North.
The fortnightly five hundred card tourney will be held in the Bailance Street * hall on Thursday evening commencing at 7.30. As usual very useful prizes will bo awarded the winners and a good supper will be provided. These tourneys are growing- in popularity and another largo attendance is anticipated.
The “Joy Night” dance held in the Parish Hall on Friday evening under auspices of the Yestrv of Von. Bede’s Church was well attended, patrons having an enjoyable time. Mr Morgan acted as M.C., the music being supplied by an orchestra from Foxton.
At the conference of representatives from the branch of the Women’s Institute, held in Palmerston North last week, which had been by Miss A. E. Jerome Spencer, chief organiser, Mrs Waring-Taylor, .of Shannon, was elected vice-president and also to the executive committee of the Wellington Provincial Federation of Women’s Institutes.
A very enthusiastic meeting of the Shannon branch of the Labour Party was held on Thursday night in the Council Chambers. x The definite date of the election has aroused the party to active work. The meeting opened at 7.30 and the business was not completed until well after ten o’clock. In the course of the evening the powers of local Labour were harnessc'd to the work of the immediate four weeks and every endeavour is to be made to carry the banner of Labour to victory. Mr Taylor is assured, as far'as this meeting is concerned of strong support. The meetings will now be held weekly in Mr Laurvig’s- shop in Bailance Street every Thursday at 7.30.
Mr Wm. Coats, the cotton manufacturer, left £1,305,000 on which the duty amounts to £409,000, states' a Press
cable from London. He was the ninth member of his family to die a millionaire.
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.* •
That a good character Avas worth a great deal more than good clothes was the fact impressed by Mr A. W. Mowlem, S.M., in the Napier Police Court, upon a young dental nurse, aged 21, Avho appeared before him to answer a serious charge of theft.
The District Health Inspector, in his report to the Horow.henua County Council on Saturday, stated that he made five visits to the County during September. The infectious diseases notified comprised two cases of scarletfever. The folloAA-ing sanitary inspections were made:—Habitations, 9j foodsellers’ premises, 2; plumbing and drainage, 1.
At a Avelcome social gathering folloAving the induction of the Rev. D. Mclntyre, formerly of Southland, to the Presbyterian charge of He wick, Auckland, last Aveelc the Rev. Canon 11. Mason, vicar of All Saints, Howick, and Father Downie, resident priest of the Roman Catholic Church, Avere present-, and both made happy reference to the pleasant relationship betAveon rh,* various denominations in the district.
Messrs J. Joseph and W. Bryant, of Foxton, had an unenviable experience on Thursday night. They went down to ManaAvatu Heads about 7 o'clock for the purpose of toAving Mr Joseph’s launch up to, the wharf, Mr Bryant’s boat being requisitioned for the purpose. The beach was left after dark but neither vessel had a light and before long tli<e leading launch ran aground and it was found impossible to shift it until daylight. The men had neither coats nor blankets, and put in a very miserable night, arriving at the wharf about 8 o ’clock the next morn-ig.—-Herald, k
Employees at the Forestry, Department have recently been engaged in planting 7000 trees on the Thames Valley Electric Power Board's section at Waitakururu. The trees are intended to provide power poles in future years.
An unusual position faced the Waitemata Power Board at its last meeting when it was revealed in an account from the Public! Works Department that the Board owed £1935 for material supplied, although this amount had been overlooked by the Board in the compilation of last year’s balance sheet.
“The whole cost of education in New Zealand to-day is excessive,” declared Sir Robert Stout when the New Zealand University Amendment Bill was before the Legislative Council;' He considered that the _ overhead charges of university education were being gravely increased, and that four or five boards were administering the different colleges, where one* could do the work quite as well.
In order to lessen the number of accidents occurring t Into ugh Children handling explosives, especially detonators, the Education Department has recently sent to schools a warning placard to be exhibited in a piominent position. At the top of the placard are examples of copper and aluminium detonators, and the letterpress underneath conveys a warning of the danger of handling such articles. A useful piece of advice cautions the children, on finding a detonator, to call the nearest responsible adult, so that it may be removed to a safe place.
“We have lived dangerously; but although we have lived dangerously I see signs growing clearer and clearer that not the qualities of the governing class but the energy, the patience,, the generosity and vitality of the British people as a whole are going to carry this country through to that goal to which we "are entitled by our exertions in the war. Once again it will be as true as it was when it was said by a great statesman in - the moment of hi,s mortal agony, ‘England has saved Europe by her example, and herself by her own exertions.’ ” —The Earl of Birkenhead. 1
A most unusual occurrence took place at Eketahuna the other day, when an erstwhile “hard-up” called at the Borough office and asked fhg Clerk if lie remembered allowing him a lied and breakfast some months previously. On an answer in the affirmative being given, the traveller forthwith proceeded to make a refund. On being asked how much cash he possessed, he stated it was 15s and that he was then on his way to a fresh job. -“Well you had better keep that 15s, you may want it vet,” remarked the clerk, as he refunded the refund. The spirit animating the offer, however, can be fully appreciated. —Express.
A Dargaville sporting man who has been connected with the sport, of racing, both jgts. an owner and official for nearly a quarter of a century and who returned from the Auckland meeting this morning, expresses his sympathy for the starter, Mr C. O’Connor, and says had the jockeys in the Mitchelson Cup taken notice of Mr O’Connor and not the few irrespousilAes istai filing near the starting post that the start would have been quite all right and all the subsequent trouble been prevented. In the sportsman’s opinion the start was a legitimate one and the fault was more with the jockeys than the starter.
The advancing of the clocks by half an hour on Sunday in accordance with the new Summer Time Act, was facilitated in certain domestic instances by the fact that the people affected were still out of bed at 2 a.m., listening to broadcast reports of the Southern Cross flight. The readjustment of timepieces this year (we cannot speak of'summer yet) has not apparently had any drastic results, as the affairs’of the'community seem to be proceeding on the new time basis as though no alteration had taken place. Probably the compromise which the half-hour represents will be of a more lasting nature than the experiment of the first Summer Time Act, which involved an hour’s difference on the time previously kept-.
The Public' Trustee notified the Palmerston North Hospital Board yesterday, that under the will of the late Mr W. Morris, of Campbell Street. Palmerston North, the whole of his estate had been bequeathed to the Old Peope’s Home, Pamerston North, subject to the payment of his just debts, etc. Deceased had also made a recommendation that the bequest should be expended in liquidation of the general expenses of the Home. The assets in the estate were approximately £ll4l 10s, while liabilities to be met were approximately £4OO. The chairman of the Board (Sir J. G. Wilson) remarked that deceased had no relations that were known of. The hospital would benefit to the extent of about £BOO by the gift which would carry a Government .subsidy of £ for £.
Fer.r that the low stipend paid to many clergy was likely to interfere seriously with the spiritual value of their work, was expressed by Archbishop Averill, in his charge to the Auckland Diocesan Syndd yesterday. His Grace said the question was of vital importance to ,thc Diocese, as the standard of stipends was below that in other dioceses in New Zealand. The inevitable result was that they could not hope to secure and retain the services of a really efficient body of clergy when a more adequate living could be obtained elesewhere. The assistance now offered by the Central fund rvas .saving the Diocese from disgrace and many of the clergy from semi-starvation. An amending Bill was later introduced, providing for- a minimum ->G,..rd of £350, with free house and 1r oiling expenses. After discussion, it nas decided that minimum stipcn t should be raised from £250 to £3OO and the Bill, as amended,
Uncollectable accounts of three dr four years standing amounting to £6509 19s 6d were written off. by the Palmersto'n North Hospital Board yesterday. The chairman (Sir J. G. Wilson) stated that careful investigations had been made by the. Board’s officers before hope of. collecting these patients’ fees was given up.
A nice little souvenir card, suitably adorned with blue ribbon and containing some statistics, has been circulated amongst the shareholders by Cricket, Ltd., the company that was formed to finance the tour of the New Zealand cricket team in England. “Shareholders,”' it says, “will be reminded 'of their part of a venture which will always be remembered in tlfe annals of New Zealand cricket. ” The Auckland Rugby League has 25 £1 shares in.the great adventure, and received out of the “wash-up” of the company a ehe-. que for £3 8s 9d. They have sonic solace in the fact that they were not expecting a dividend, and made, the investment solely with the view of helping a sister sport, says a northern exchange; - ■ -
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