Shannon News FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1928.

Shannon News, 14 December 1928, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1928.

The Kim Bacon Company notify that Monday next (afternoon) will be the last trucking date for the year.

The tender of Mr G. 0. France, of Levin, has been accepted by the Wellington Education Board for the work of making additions to and remodelling the Shannon School. Messrs Jenkins and Mack’s tender was accepted for the installation of heating.

A public meeting of citizens of Shannon and surrounding districts w L ill be held in the Maoriland Theatre this evening at eight o’clock to discuss matters in connection with a resident doctor. These are of interest to all residents, so it is hoped all who can, attend will.

The annual school concert will be held in the Maoriland Theatre on Tuesday evening commencing at eight o’clock. For seme time past the teachers have been preparing the children and from reports received everything points to the concert being up to the high standard of those _ presented in previous, years. A splendid programme with plenty of variety has been drawn up, so the public can look forward to an entertainment which should prove most enjoyable.

In connection with the deviation to the new bridge being thrown open for traffic, the Town O.erk on Wednesday received ' the following t elegram from Mr J. Linklater, M-P.,— I “The Public Works head office informed me this morning that owing to traffic interference it will not be possible to lay down half the bridge surface in bitumen at one time. Mr Furlcert assures me, however, that every effort will be made as soon as weather permits to finish the work as expeditiously as possible.”

At the Shannon Borough Council meeting on Tuesday evening, Mr J. Swindlehurst was appointed dog tax collector. While the matter was being discussed several, councillors voice 1 complaints of the number of dogs that are to be Seen runnin'g about the streets chasing vehicles and even worrying horses. With a view to having a general clean-up of a lot of these apparently useless canines, Mr Swindlehurst is "to be instructed to have all dogs without owmers and those were the owners refuse to register them, destroyed at once.

A business man went into a Stratford shop a few days ago to pay' an account of £1 9s, and tendered a £ I note anrf a half-sovereign. The assistant informed him that the money was short; belief being that the coin was a sixpence. The money’ was taken to the desk and 11s change was produced, the cashier believing the coin to be a sovereign. It was stated that neither of the young persons in the shop had ever sc-en -any gold coins previously.

It b often thought that the domestic cat will never wilfully ; ( go into water, or even wet its -feet, but cats living near the seashore soon acquire the habit, especially if they think they can surprise and claw a fish (states the “Auckland Star”). During the recent high tides, when some of the shallow beaches not usually covered with water were completely submerged lo a depth of about a foot, many young eels ventured in to get the food which they expected to find in new surroundings. At one place ,on the Nbith Shore an old cat followed by half a dozen kittens plunged into the water, and, grabbing by r the head an eel fully 18in. long, dragged it to the shore, where no doubt a little later her family’ would enjoy' a good feast.

A danger existing in a bridge at the extreme end of the Gladstone Boad was mentioned at the County Council meeting on Saturday by Cr. Gimblett, who stated that he had asked the County Clerk and the Engineer to ascertain whether the structure was on county or private property'. The structure had been used/years ago by tine Levin Sawmilling 'Company. It had been the practice of picknickers, for some years, to take their cars over this bridge, thinking that they' were on'a County road. He wished to know if it. was not the duty of the Council to let the public know that the bridge was not a County one, and that it was now .unsafe and was liable to collapse. The Chairman (Mr Monk) ■stated that the Council had no legal responsibility in regard to the bridge, but Cr. Gimblett had probably done the right thing in raising this point, and the publicity might serve to warn people that the bridge was a private one, on private property and that people using it did so at their own risk. The suggestion that the Council should assure itself that the’ bridge was not on a County road was worthy of consideration and the Engineer might go into it*, They could not put up a notice that the bridge was not a County one; they could probably display a notice that the road ended in that vicinty, but possibly the notice would disappear in a week.