Shannon News FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1929.

Shannon News, 19 April 1929, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1929.

Residents will be sorry to hear that Mr A. E; Hyde is indisposed and is compelled to keep to his room.

* Mr Arthur Birchall received worn on Tuesday morning that his mother, who resides in Dunedin, is seriously ill. Mr Birchall left for the South during the afternoon.

According to It3ie report .brought down by the Town Clerk at Tuesday's meeting of the Council there are 232 individual ratepayers in the borough of Shannon, 406 rating assessments and 276 shops a'nd dwellings.

'During the past year 1410 yards of metal have been put on the Shannon Borough roads and footpaths, as against 1034£ yards during the previous year.

In this issue Miss Diana Adams notifies that she intends commencing adult classes in Shannon for ballroom dancing. Intending pupiles can be interviewed at Maoriland Theatre on Saturday morning at 11.30.

In the Moutoa Hall on Tuesday evening a Citizens' Grand- Masked Ball will be held in aid of the Foxton Plunket Carnival. A free bus will leave the Shannon Post Office at 8.30 p,m., and. masks can be purchased on the bus at 6d each.

It was resolved at Tuesday night's meeting of the Shannon Borough Council that a letter be forwarded to Cr. W. II Gunning expressing the Council's appreciation of his services as a councillor and as member for Shannon on the Ilorowhemia Electric Power Board, and regretting the circumstances that prevents him offering his services again, with the hope that he will soon be restored to good health..

The householders' annual meeting will be held in.the Schoolroom on Monday evening at 8 p.m., when the chairman of the School Committee will present his report and the election of a committee for the ensuing year will take plane. Thirteen nominations have been received for the nine .seats of the committee, and of this number Messrs A. E. Hyde, T. H.' Hill, C. Ilansmann, G. Booker and A. H. Richards are members of the retiring committee.

The Bazaar to be held by the Ladies' Guild iii Ven. Bede's Church will open in the Druids' Hall this afternoon at 2.30 and will be continued agvui on Saturday afternoon and evening' A dance, one shilling admission, win be featured on Friday evening, the musk to be supplied by Mrs Pareell (piano) and Mr Pareell (violin). There w\ll; be plenty to interest patrons in the way of competitions, etc., while the well loaded stalls of produce, sweats, plain sewing and fancy work are sure to attract attention.

Last evening brought, to a close the first cf the series of weekly euehri.< •tourneys conducted by the Shainfoii. branch of the jST.Z. Labour Party, when 66 players took part. The winners were:—Laldies: (Mrs Holdsworth, 51b box of tea; Mr F. Wilson, 251 b bag of flour; Mis. Christian, lib tea. Gents: Mr E. Butt ; 51b box of tea; Mr Taylor, 251 b bag of flour; Mr H. Mitchell, lib of tea. Those who qualified to compete for the gold watch were: — Misses M. Butt and M. Gray and Mesdames Gray, Jeffries, L. Richardson, and Radford, Messrs C Sathcrley, G. Triggill, A. Mason, P. Pullman, Tremain, j. Curran, W. Terry, R. Buckman and C. Ellery. There is a total of 81 eligible to play off for the gold watch, which will be decided'" next Wednesday evening. The committee last evening decided to award a special prize, of a 701 b bag of sugar to the runnerup.

when the Council were discussing -the Health Officer's report on Tuesday evening Cr. Curran, sen., stated that the Health Officer had requested improvements to be carried out to a butcher's shop situated in Pliminer Ter"race before allowing it to be occupied for the purpose mentioned. This shop in th past, he stilted, had been used by five different persons as a butcher's shop. For some months it Mis been unoccupied, but now that a young man wanted to make a start, these suggested improvements were likely to prevent him from doing so. He asked if the Council had sny by-laws affecting this matter. The Town Clerk replied that, under the Health Act, the regulations override all by-laws, and the portion of the Act dealing with the matter in cpjestion stated that no person shall use, or permit, or suffer to be used for storage or offering for retail sale of meat any premises erected or reconstructed 'after the coming into force of these regulations. Cr. Curran wanted to know why other butchers' shops in the town were not brought into line with the regulations. The Town Clerk said that these regulations applied to any premises erected or reconstructed since' the Act came into force. But, if any shop operating at the time later came into a state of disrepair, he was sure the Health Officer would execute his authority. Sic said that if a shop became vacant, then the authorities .could compel the : owners to comply with the regulations before granting a permit. Finally, the Town Clerk was instructed to. get in touch with the Health Officer to see if some arrangement can be come to.

Mr A. M. Samuel,- M.P., for Thames, who has been indisposed for some time, has been ordered to Helensville for treatment, after which it will be decided whether an operation is necessary.

Ma no Nikora, a member of the Maori Concert Party, is a great grandson of Te Rauparaha, ft Maori warrior whose name was once feared from one end of iN T ew Zealand to the other in day 3 gone by (says ]thc Nelson Mail). After mentioning this martial ancestry, the Rev. Mr Scamer aroused laughter by announcing: "Nikora will now sing 'llush-a-bye. Baby.' "

A popular teacher, Mr \V. H. McLean, assistant master at Feilding school, has tendered his resignation owing to his approaching retirement. For 27 years, Mr McLean has been on the staff of the Manchester street school, and throughout that period, which was broken by 4£ years' war service, he has enjoyed a distinguished popularity.

For the first time in Canada, a flower has been patented. The rose Lady Canada, which won premier honours at the International Flower Show in New York, lias been g,ivr-n the protection of a registered trade mark, issued by the Commissioner of Patents at Ottawa. This trade mark grants to the patentee the exclusive use of the term Lady Canada in the sale of rose plants cuttings and roses of this variety.

Perhaps no other girl has had the experience that befell jAlice Lean in 1876. This -it-tie girl of only nine was appointed organist to St. Melyd's Parish Church, Melidon, Flintshire. The Welsh are famed for their music, and so the child had a particularly critical congregation; tout she must have satisfied everyone, for _ she has held the appointment ever since, for 52 years. It is hoped she may live to equal the record of Mr Charles Bridgeman, who has been organist at All Saints' Church, Hertford, for 7\years. He played for morning and evening service on his ninetieth birthday.

"When the New Zealand Division > arrived in France in 1916,." writes a correspondent to an Australian newspaper, "Mr Downio .Stewart was a lieutenant with the Ist Otago Battalion. For the first three weeks there "was no pay issued and everyone was '.broke.' It was then that Mr Stewart got busy and arranged for an advance from his own private account of five francs to each man in the battalion. I remember him walking eight miles to Hazebrouck, in pouring rain, to complete the arrangement. There was great rejoicing the next day and we regained the confidence of the villagers, who had expected to find us millionaires and found only paupers."

Generosity is the very essence of the being of Squadron-Leader Kingsford Smith, Flight-Lieut. TJlm, and their two companions (says the Sydney Sun). Just before they completed arrangements for their projected flight to England, they possibly excelled themselves. They had defended an action by ,-Mr Keith Anderson in which he sought to establish his right to a share of their earnings as trans-Paeifie fliers. On practically every count Anderson ■ voluntarily withdrew his claim, and -Squadron-Leader Kingsford Smith and Flight-Lieut. TJlm emerged from the courts triumphant. But, having done ithis, they turned to their old colleague and asked him to accept a gift of £IOOO as evidence of the kindly feelings which they entertained for him, and as witness that they were not forgetful of the ill luck which prevented 'his being one of the crew to bridge the Pacific.

At Tuesday evening's meeting of the Borough Cbunciil, Cr. Thwaites took the opportunity to express the Council's gratitude at the smooth and harmonious work that had marked the term just ended and the amicable relations existing between the Mayor and councillors. He also paid a tribute of appreciation to the staff for the efficient manner in which they had carried out their duties. Addressing the retiring Mayor he said he understood that he was offering'his services for a further term. He hoped that he would be re-elected and if so, that he would enjoy as prosperous a term in the future as in the past. Other councillors at the table also paid individual tribute to the Mayor's tact and courtesy, and to the assistance given by members of the staff, who, they said, were always only too pleased to do all they could to assist. The Mayor, in thanking his fellow councillors, said that without the assistance of his councillors the Mayor could not do much. The members of the various committees had done their work well and he hoped that all councillors who offered their .services -would be elected.

The Prime Minister's residence in Tinakoii Road, Wellington, an historic edifice that has outlived its splendour and its utility, is at last to be turned to the definite service of the State. The new Transport Department, created by the present Government and sure to be a growing centre of administrative activity, is in need of a home for itself, and Sir Joseph Ward, and the Minister in Charge, the Hon. W. A. Veiteh, have decided that the big house and spacious grounds that have harboured many premiers and their families in the past shall be turned to the purposes of the new department. There is no accommodation for the department in the unfinished parliamentary buildings, which may '-not be enlarged for another decade, and the rent of suitable premises in any other part of the ciy would run into four figures, even if such premises could be discovered. The Tinakori block, on the other hand, is immediately available and can be easily shaped to meet the needs of the transport service. __■«—

There was a large supply of Angora rabbits on the Auckland city markets on Friday. ' The sale was the largest yet held, about 50 rabbits being offered. The consignment, which came from the Henderson district, sold at from 5s to 12s each. A smaller supply of about 30 Angora rabbits.is expected to be available this week.

"It is the worst bend on the road between here and Wellington," commented Mr J. Batchelar- (chairman of the Kairanga County Council) to the Highways Board, on Friday last, when mentioning the Linton corner on the Main South 'Road. "But we were told by somebody else that they had the worst bend in'New Zealand," replied a member of the board.

Mr J. W. Peak, of Roto-o-rangi, who has made a careful watch for years past on the depredations of ragwort, informs uj that he has had abundant evidence that a little salt sprinkled over the plants after pulling was most .efficacious in getting rid of ragwort. •Mr Peak endorses statements made by many other farmers that if ragwort is simply pulled, dozens of young -plauts 'come up next year, but his experience •has proved that the sprinkling of salt prevents any from growing. This opinion is supported by other observant farmers, and it would certainly seem wise for farmers to try the experiment for themselves.-—Waikato Independent.

The level of- the Waikato River, between Arapuni and Horahora, where the bed was raised by. the mass of pumice poured into it from, the erosion of the new course, has b,een falling about 4iu. a month for some time. This means that .a channel is being cut through the deposit. Beaches are again appearing, and it does not seem likely that, the Horahora station will again experience extreme difficulty from clogged screens unless a flood should cause the undermining of high banks. In future however, flood effects will be reduced down stream from Arapuni, where the lake created by the dam, will exercise a marked control in the discharge of abnormal water.

The Christchurch Star reprints the following paragraph from its columns of sixty years ago (1869): Some three year ago' Mr Long Wrey induced the 'Government of ■ Marlborough to advance him £IOOO with which to proceed to England, where he undertook to get paities within a year of his arrival to undertake to construct a railway between Picton and Blenheim, The terms of the arrangements were that should Mr Wrey succeed, the £IOOO was to be considered as a bonus to him for his labour, while if he failed, the money was to be returned, the Marlborough authorities taking a mortgage over sundry property of Mr Wrey's to secure itself against loss. Mr Wrey having from various causes failed in what he undertook to get done, and not having reimbursed the Marlborough Government, which stands greatly in need of funds, the latter foreclosed its mortgage, and the various properties were disposed of by auc tion on Thursday last, when the whole netted'only £135 15s.