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Shannon News TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1929.

Mr T. George, of Melbourne, was the guest of Mr and Mrs McCulloch, of Levin Road, last week.

Mrs J. Roach and her three daughters, Sybil, June and Betty, are spending a holiday at Plimmerton.

\Messrs Gordon Mitchell and Wm. Forbes, jun., who have been on a motor tour of the Gisborne district, returned .home on Thursday evening.

Mr Alf Hunt, and ex-resident of Shannon; who is pow residing in New Plymouth, was a visitor to Shannon during the week-end, renewing old acquaintanceship.

The friends of Mrs E. Exton, of Vance Street, will be sorry to hear that she was taken seriously ill on Sunday and had to be removed to the Palmerston North Hospital. Her condition last evening showed no improvement.

The. doubles tournament held by the Levin Tennis Club on Saturday in aid of the Women’s Rest funds, was very popular both among players and spetators, and a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon was spent. The ladies’ doubles were \von by Miss Neumann and Mrs Forster, from the Wellington schools camp, and the men’s doubles by Heremaia and V. Wehipeihana. The combined doubles were played into the third, round, but there was not time to complete them, the entries being heavy. A report of the matches will appear in to-morrow’s Chronicle.

A general meeting of members of the Shannon Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club will be held in the Council Chambers on Friday evening at 7.30 O'clock. A full attendance is requested, as after the balance sheet and report on the recent sports meeting has been received, it is proposed to' deal with the question of asphalting the cycle track at the Domain. The track is now in splendid order for -asphalting and as several of the committee are of the opinion that the work should be done without further delay, the best method of doing the work and the question of finance is to be discussed.

Over forty entries have been received for the Baby Carnival to be conducted by the proprietors of the Maoriland Theatre. A photo of each baby has been taker, by Mr Billens, of Levin, and these will be made into slide.? and screened at the theatre. Each slide will be numbered and adult patrons will receive a voting paper and after viewing the slides will mark on the ticket the number he cr' she desires to vote for. The votes will be counted after each screening and progress reports issued from time to time. It is hoped to have the first screening on Monday - evening.

The curiosities of ericket ’were added to on Saturday, when Phoenix, in their match against Otaki at Levin,« played two innings of 26 runs each. The visiting side made 84 on terms giving them-a three-point win, and theiv bowlers went home with high honours, Sievers having taken eight wickets for 13 runs and A. Flutey six for 15. In the match between Weraroa and Paraparaumu, played on the latter club’s ground, the visiting team missed a three-point win by a matter of four runs. The home side had compiled 31 and 77, a total of 108, and Weraroa’s strike had yielded 104. Paraparaumu’s second innings, however, was only finished a couple of minutes before the time limit, with the result that Weraroa had no opportunity to open their second innnings, and thus had to be content with a two-point win. The scores of both matches will be published to-morrow.

An invitation was received by the Horowhenua County Council on Saturday to attend a function to be held by the Manawatu-Oroua River Board at the opening of the electric waterlevel recorders at the - Fitzherbert Bridge, Palmerston North, on Thursday afternoon. Th,e {Board's chairman, Mr W. S. Carter, intimated in his letter that light refreshments would be provided in the Esplanade Gardens opposite. The invitation was accepted with thanks, on the motion of the County Chairman, who said he hoped that as many of the Councillors as possible would attend and partake of the light refreshments. Cr. Biarber said the purpose of the function was to show that the Board had not been idle. The installation had cost quite a lot of money, and another was to be erected at Feildiug. The flood levels would be recorded at the Palmerston North post. office. Cr. Gimblett wanted to know if anything in the way of light refreshments would be available at the opening of the Shannon .;Manawatu bridge, and the chairman hazarded a guess that there w r ould be some wine there.

Early in March,, the Reform Party will hold a conference in Palmerston North to discuss the organisation of the Party’s forces in the country electorates comprised in the Wellington province.

Representing himself as the agent of a large southern firm, a stranger opened a bank account at Hamilton and proceeded to issue cheques to the amount of £SO in excess •of the deposit.’ He then disappeared.

Issue of a.new pictorial set of postage stamps for New Zealand has been suggested, and the Postmaster-General (the Hon. J. B. Donald) is looking into the matter.(states the “Lyttelton Times”). He stated on Sunday that nothing had been decided upon yet, •

In'the" December Trinity’ College theory examinations held at Welling ton, the tvvo pupils presented by Miss Oreti Stallard were both successful iri passing, Kathleen Jarvis obtaining 93 marks and Marie Falloon 74 marks in the preparatory division.

A Carterton telegram says that the dead body of Mr C. H. Olson, assistant master at the Carterton District High School, was found by the cleaner at the school this morning. An inquest is to be held.' He was married, / but had no family.

In the Supreme Court at Hamilton a jury awarded damages of £277 13s to Albert Hargraves, o| Pateroa, for injuries sustained when a motor cycle he was riding collided with a car driven by Mrs Eva Grace Bell. Mrs Bell’s father, Percy Henry Saxon, a farmer, and owner of the car, was joined as the defendant. The accident occurred on the Te Aroha-Morrinsvilb road. Hargraves’ leg was broken.

, The Darg|aville Chamber of Commerce has decided to request the Government to reduce the stamp duties and .transfer jjees, in <|rder to btimularte land settlement. “It is an iniquitous thing,” said .the president, Mr A. E. Harding, “that a man Who buys land is mulcted in all sorts of stamp duty and transfer fees. They are so great as to become a deterrent to acquiring land. ’’

The Christchurch- “Star” of March Bth, 1869, has the following:—The Maoris at Otaki accuse a settler named Goodison of having stolen their cattle and Idlriven them to 4 ‘Wanganui. therefore seized a mob of Goodison’s horses as utu, and surrounding his house, desired Goodison not to leave until the case had been heard and decided by the Maori Court, but Goodison managed to escape and get into town. The affair is not of any particular * significance; and will no doubt be investigated and settled satisfactorily.

•Speaking at a meeting to' consider publicity matters in Napier the other night, business men urged the value of newspaper advertisement '(reporcs the Napier Daily Telegraph). Mr. J. Harris said the newspaper advertisements caught the reader in a receptive frame of mind, after he' had had his tea and was finished his day’s work, and was more impressive to its readers than poster propaganda. Mr. A. Hobson agreed. Newspaper advertising had a psychological effect upon its readers not given by any other form of publicity. .

One case of scarlet fever arid two of diphtheria were reported to the Horowhenua County Council on Saturday by the Health Inspector, Mr J. W. Huggins, of Palmerston North, as having been investigated in the Coun-, ty during the two months ended January 31st. In the same period 15 visits to habitations were made and one requisition served, also three visits to food-sellers’ premises and two in connection with plumbing and drainage. The Inspector stated in his report: “Besides routine matters attended to, I have satisfactorily settled a complaint re pig-keeping at Manakau, and also investigated and reported to you separately on a complaint re a nuisance from ccws and pigs in Tokomaru. ’ ’

An interesting loading (experiment is being made by the Public Works Department beyond Mourea, in the direction of Okere, Rotorua (says the Auckland Herald). It consists of forming the roads and then ’ spraying them with crude oil and spreading a light coat of pumice over the oil. This is allowed to be used by the traffic and the grader used frequently for atime. The top sets and forms a smooth running surface. If itiie experiment prove 3 a success it will solve a big problem of roading for the County of Rotorua. A portion of the RotoruaTaupo Road was treated in this way about five weeks ago, and so far promises well. A stretch of road towards Napier has been done also for a longer period. The effect of the oil is to kehp out the moisture and by combining with the fine pumice making a waterproof jacket on the running surface. ’>

11l some cases considerable damage t has been done to standing crops in the Nelson district by that unique native bird, the pukeko. The “Nelson Mail’s” Waimea correspondent saw a five-acre field of wheat in which great destruction had been wrought. When living in their native haunt these birds form look-out stations by bending over the tops of the raupo or rushes and# weaving them into a platform where one bird will remain on watch for hours at a time. In this wheat paddock the same thing h&d been done and hundreds of these platforms had been constrficted, with results that can be well imagined, though the amount of grain actually eaten did not appear to be very great. It is understood that the coming shooting season will be an open oiie fbr pukeko, and farmers affected hope that their numbers will be considerably lessened.

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Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Shannon News, 12 March 1929, Page 2

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Tapeke kupu
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Shannon News TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1929. Shannon News, 12 March 1929, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1929. Shannon News, 12 March 1929, Page 2

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