Shannon News FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1928.

Shannon News, 19 October 1928, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1928.

The Shannon Fire Brigade desire to acknowledge the gift of a chair from Mr A. T. White, schoolmaster, of Shannon.

It is■ pleasing to state-'that Mr J. Aim continues to make satisfactory progress towards recovery, though ho will not be able to leave the hospital for a while.

The Borough Council decided on Tuesday evening to instruct the Ranger to resume duty during the daytime, it being considered that the grass on the roads had been fairly well cleaned up.

Owing to a large number of members not being able to attend the annual meeting of "the Shannon Tennis Club, 'called for last evening, the meeting has been postponed until Tuesday, 23rd at 7.30 p.m. A full attendance of members is requested.

The new timetable for the ShannonFoxton, (via Moutoa) motor servieo, appears in this issue. The proprietor, Mr T. A. Helms, also notifies that special' trips or parties' are arranged for. Orders can be left at A. and E. Hyde's shop, Shannon. '

The weekly euchre tourney held on Tuesday evening under the auspices of the Women's In.titute drew a good attendance and a pleasant time was spent by those present. Mrs Radford and Mr Thorn won the prizes for the most games won during the evening. Mrs El wood and Mr F. Buckman were awarded the consolation prizes.

Those who attended the five hundred card tourney in the Ballance Street Hall 7 ast evening spent a very enjoyable 1 time. Despite the wet weather there was a very fair attendance. Mrs Butler won the trophy donated by Mrs Taylor, and Mr F. Buckman won Mr G. Hook's trophy.

A euchre party and social evening will be held in the Ballance Street Hall on Wednesday, 24th October, at S p.m. Good prizes are to be awarded to the winners of the euchre. There will be competitions and a good supper provided. Patrons are assured of a pleasant evening's enjoyment.

The Commissioner of .Taxes draws the attention of taxpayers to the notification appearing in to-day's issue that the due date of payment of Land-tax for the current year is on Wednesday, the 7th day of November, 1928, and that the demands will be posted on* or about the 31st day of October.

This evening the Shannon Football Club's grand ball will be held in the Druids' Hall. The floor has been well prepared a-nd Gdorge's orchestra, of five instruments has been engaged to provide the music, so dancers can depend on an enjoyable time. An excellent supper will be .provided by thj ladies.

On Monday last the friends of Mr Jas. W. Walker assembled at the Shannon railway station to bid him farewell on his departure for the South Island, where in future he will reside Mr Walker, during his seVen years' re-, sidence in Makerua, took an active part in the social life of that district. As secretary of- the Makerua School Committee for some years he gave ungrudgingly of his time to'the interests of the children. His genial and kindly personality will be greatly missed by his friends in Makerua.

Among those candidates who passed the L.A.B. practical examination, but who have to complete the paper work before being awarded the Diploma, is Miss Winifred Pickles, of' Johnsonville, and late of Shannon. If successful she will then be entitled to a Performers' Diploma in Violin playing. •Since leaving Shannon Miss Pickles has spent two years as a student of the Violin and Pianoforte at the Conservator ium of Music, Sydney. During this year she is a pupil of a former teacher,. Mr Leon de Mauny, of Wellington.

At the Council meeting on Tuesday

evening Cr. Hyde stated he was still j dissatisfied with the progress made with- the metalling of the road to the new bridge. At last meeting of the Council, he said, they had a letter from the Department to the effect that the work would be finished in a month. He had been over the road during the past few days and he thought the reply was a long way from the mark. The inconvenience of the punt to Shannon was acute now that the bridge and road was finished but the opening was held up owing to delay in metalling. Other concillors were of opinion that the metalling would be finished in about three weeks. %

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

The friends of the Mayor (Mr E. Butt) will be pleased to hear that he has so far recovered from his recent serious illness to be able to return to his home at Shannon. He left the hospital about a week ago, but in the meantime has b?en convalescing at his daughter's residence in Palmerstoa North.

Recently the Shannon Borough Council advertised hr the leading city papers for a resident doctor for Shannon and district. Five enquiries Avere received and the necessary particulars have been forwarded by the Town Clerk, but up to Tuesday evening he had received nothing definite as to the likelihood of any of them filling the position.

Horowhenua district is well represented on the list of judges at the Hawkes Bay Show no less than three members of 'the local A. and P. Association officiating. These are Mr 11. V. Brown, Shorthorn cattle; Mr Ranald McDonald, pigs; and Mr R. L. Horn, Jerseys.

A Wanganui resident who was motoring in Taranaki witnessed the unusual spectacle of a school in flames (saj<s the Herald)l. "Although one shouldn't be mhthful on such occasions, I suppose, I eou'd not halp laughing at the delitbted unties of the children, especially the bov?," he said. "They made no attempt to restrain their glee, laughing and dancing as the old wood en building collapsed." The local resident said it reminded him of his own noyhood days, but his dream that the school would be destroyed by fire never came true.

Foreman Henry, of the Hawera Fire Brigade, who was at the re-union in Levin Wednesday, mentioned that his grandfather retired from the captaincy of the Temuka Brigade after 33 years' service. The family had contributed much service in the cause of fire-fight-ing, as nine members of it had been active in brigades, and between them they had 108 years' service. He believed that this record was beaten by the Wallace family, at Gore, and another family in the south, luit all three cases fairly close in point of service. At the same function reminiscences were given by Deputy-Supt. Matthew, of Ofcaki, who stated that his father, recently deceased, was responsible' for inaugurating the South Dune.diu Brigade, in whicti'the speaker commenced his service as a messenger.

Those who remember the Hon. Charles Hill-Trevor, when he was in New Zealand as private-secretary to Lord Ranfurly, may be interested to hear he has a son and heir. The bells of Chirk Parish Church pealed merrily, in honour of the event. He succeeded to the title of Lord Trevor of Bregnkinalt near Wrexham, North Wales, in 1923, when his half-brother George died, and'is the third of his line. The Barony was conferred upon their father iri "1880. Lord Trevor was a bachelor till he was sixty-three, when he married Miss Phyllis 'Sims, who had nursed him through a serious illness. She was twenty-three at the time and is the daughter of a- plumber of Kir-ton-in-Linclsey, a village in Lincolnshire.

"The prices of your houses fills one with horror," said Lord Lovat, when discussing the cost of settling on the land in New Zealand with the Immigration Committee of the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce. He said that in Scotland, where they built with stone and he could still built a wellappointed four-roomed farm labourer's ccttage, with water laid on, for £390, ivlile before 'the war he could have built it for £IBO. In Canada he found that the cost of a good • four-roomed ccttage with water-Avell, itself an'expensive work, hen-house and one and a-half acres fenced, was 1000 dollars (£200). Those, Lord Lovat said, were actual figures with which he had been dealing. :

A record of a singular kind stands to the credit of Mr F. Pink, of Levin, who, if he is ever awarded a title, should, be known as '' bell-ringer to the* Fire Brigade." Speaking at the reunion Wednesday, he said he believed that he had given the alarms for all the night fires, except two, that had occurred during his long residence in the town. The first fire he remember- i ed in Levin was a great blaze, and the town was saved by the efforts of a bucket brigade composed of about 200 men and women. Mr Pink, who is an old fireman and now a member of the Fire Police, does much unofficial watch duty. He referred to his custom of taking a walk round the block in the middle of the night, and stated that on that morning, at half two, he arose and made the round because a smell of smoke had been noticeable in the lane behind the business premises.