Shannon News TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1929.

Shannon News, 9 July 1929, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1929.

Mr F. llaley, who lias been an inmate of the Palmerston North Hospital for the past nine weeks, was able to leave the institution dn Saturday, but it. will be another two weeks before he will be able to take up his duties as borough foreman.

Mr Mark, the new headmaster at the local school, accompanied by Mrs Mark and family, arrived in Shannon on Friday. During the afternoon the chairman of the School Committee (Mr A. E. Hyde) and the teaching staff assembled in the teachers’ room when a hearty welcome was extended to the new-comers and the hope expressed that their residence in Shannon would be a happy one. Opportunity was also taken to bid farewell to Mr L. W. T. Swift who has been a relieving teacher since Mr White’s departure.

The attendance at the fortnightly social and dance held in the Parish Hall on Friday evening was not so large as usual, this being no doubt, due to the amount of sickness which is prevalent in the district, but despite the lack of a crowd a very enjoyable evening was spent by all. Mr P. Cole officiated as M.C. in a capable manner, whilst the music was supplied by Mrs Butler. A Monte Carlo dance was won by Miss Davis and Mr Brady. During the evening items were rendered by Misses A. Aim,. Jamieson and >S. Quarrie and Messrs Leng-Ward and Swift. The usual excellent supper was provided by the ladies of the church.

The male section of Ratana township is very busy. Fully 1000 acres arc being put down in wheat this season.

Los Angeles is a city in active competition with San Francisco. It has a population of 1,'250,000, against San Francisco’s 750,000 in the city itself.

“Every man in the service knows what is wroing with the railways today,” said an ex-railway man in Auckland, “It is the engines.” -tv 4’-' ■’ ■■ -.U T “ 'IF

No fewer than 44 tenders were received this week for various contracts by the Dannovirke County Council. “It’s good to see them,” remarked tli3 elm inn a n.

In future Queensland Civil Servnntts will not retire at 65^ years, if they are able satisfactorily to continue their duties. The age limit provision now is 70 vears.

The new valuations of the Woodville County show a reduction in value of £399,478 on the vn'mproved value and £205,725 on the capital value. The last valuation was made during the peak period, hence rim .’reduction

“The. modern habit of drinking 1 iquor' at dances is an intolerable nuisance, ” said Mr J. S. Barton, S.AL, in the Petone Magistrate’s Court recently, when fining Ethel Hey wood £l2 10s on each of two charges of sly-grog selling. The Magistrate pointed out the illicit opportunities to get liquor that sly-grog shops offered to men who had to drive cars home after a dance.

Air Samuel R. Rosoff, a New York contractor, who went to the United States 39 years ago as a Russian immigrant has recently returned to Russia on the the passage Mr Rosoff occupied the Prince of Wales suite. This was in contrast to his journey to America, when he peeled potatoes in the steerage to pay his passage as a bo’v of 12.

A trail of drunken fish, loitering in a stupefied condition in the waters of Jacob’s Creek led to .the discovery of a largq still near Trenton Junction, New Jersey, U.S.A. State policemen, Federal agents and a game warden were struck by the strange actions of the fjjsh, and on investigation su'ppe)pted them of being intoxicated. Ail fish were floundering up-stream, round a corner into Woolsey’s Creek, and on to where large barrels of mash were being decanted into the water. The police arrested two men and found a dozen vats containing 50,000 gallons of mash in a barn on Christian Hiller’s farm.

An apparently unavoidable accident on Saturday evening resulted in a compound fracture of the leg being sustained by Mr Stanley R. J. Small, son of Air Fred Small, of Shannon, and a member of the staff of Atessrs Carter Bros., butchers, Levin. About 7 o’clock Air and Airs Small were walking up Queen Street East on the way to their home in Bartholomew Road, Air Small wheeling a bicycle and Airs Small a perambulator, in which was their baby. They had left the end of the footpath which runs on the south side, and had crossed to the opposite side and were walking on the road surface between Quoenswood and Bartholomew Roads. At the same time Air G. D. Hamilton, in his car, was approaching them from the rear, but did not see them, owing to the dazzling lights of another car which was coming from the opposite direction and in the middle of the road. A few yards from where the two cars passed, Air Hamilton suddenly saw the pedestrians in front of him, and swerved to avoid them, but his right mudguard struck the bicyle, which fell on Air Small and, swinging round, knocked over Airs Small and the perambulator. Mr Hamilton immediately pulled up, and, after ascertaining what had happened, took the unfortunate people home with him and obtained medical assistance. Air Small was taken by the .ambulance to the Palmerston North hospital, where his progress is reported to be satisfactory. Airs Small and child suffered only from a shaking and small abrasions.

The amoiUi. of rates to be collected bv ;he Palmerston North Borough Council this year amounts to £79,000.

The first whitebait of the season were caught at the Manawatu Heads on Friday and found a ready sale in Foxton at 0s per lb.

The steamer Himatangi, which arrived in Foxtfon on Thursday morning, and left again on the evening tide, made a record run to Wellington in 9 hours. The vessel is now ltfading in Lyttelton and leaves there for Foxton to-day. On her last trip she brought 300 tons of cargo for Foxton.

Last month came very close to being a record one as far as the issue of building permits in Auckland is concerned, authority being given for build mg of various kinds to be put in hand to the value of £302,708. This figure is nearly three times as great as that of Alay, and is in similar ratio to the figure for June of last year.

“The Mormisville district is now producing more gedd than the Waihi goldfield in its palmy days,” said Mr J. E Leeson, chan man *>f directors of the Alorrinsvcille. Dairy Company, in an address to'favmers at a social function at Morrinsville “The average monthly cash distribution for butterfat is £60,000, and in the flush, it reaches a considerably higher figure. ”

A mental patient who killed a Chinaman in Australia has been repatriated to New Zealand, as he is a New’ Zealander. In this connection it may be mentioned that Lionel Terry, who killed a Chinaman in Wellington, many years ago, is still an in mate of _a mental hospital in the South Island. He spends most of his time painting and writing poetry. Some of his work is highly spoken of.

“It is a long time since I heard the words ‘so long’ used,” remarked a veteran carrier to a Wanganui Herald reporter. He went on to state that in his youthful days this was a common t6rm of farewell when a person was going away for a brief interval, but it seemed to have dropped out of use in these modern times, and “Cheerio” was more appropriate now. The other day he took some luggage to the station for an old lady, and after she had paid him she remarked: “»So long.”

At a \neeting of the Foxton Chamber of Commerce, the Secretary brought up the matter of proper flood notices at Fox foil and Levin to warn the travelling public that- the highways were blocked to traffic during floods. He said that such signs had already been erected but they always reported the roads “all clear.” Alany ears had continued on towards Foxton from Levin during flood time as. a result of these signs, only to find the road impassable at Whirokino. It was decided Mo place the matter before the AutoniQbile Association. The road is still blocked.

An impudent masquerade was carried off in a suburb of Auckland last week when a man stripped a dwelling of (lie electric light fittings under pretext of an authorised inspection (says the New Zealand Herald). His bona tides were taken for granted by the resident, but when an . inquiry was made for the return of the equipment from the Auckland Electric Power Board it was learned that no instructions had been given to any official to inspect the Installation. The board has issued a warning drawing attention to the fact that employees carry badges and letters of authority.

A lady called in to see a Feilding shopkeeper the other day, regarding a position for hc-r daughter. The shopkeeper, knowing the lady as one who bought most of her goods in another town, and who was not. above boasting about it, thought that this was his chance. “Oh, dear,” exclaimed the lady, “How is it that your-can-not my daughter a position?” “Wellf madam,” replied the shopkeeper, “It’s like this. There are too many women who take their business out of the town. If you bought more of your goods here, we should be able to employ your daughters,” A simple story, but it has its moral. —Star.

An unfortunate affair happened at a Christchurch dentistry lately, _ states the “Press.” Consecutive ’ appointments had been booked by two ladies, one to have all her teeth extracted, and the other to have two teeth pulled out. The second lady arrived 'before her time ,and before the first lady appeared, and it was assumed that she was the first lady for the operator had not made the appointment himself, and had not seen either of the ladies before. She was duly installed in the chair and the gas applied, and when she awoke she was horrified t j find that instead of losing only the two teeth, she had parted with the entire natural set. The operator was equally horrified to learn that lie had performed the major extraction upon the wrong lady.

A Christchurch housewife is congratulating herself on having got the better of the cocllin moth by very simple means. Acting on the chance remark of an acquaintance, she took for each of her apple and pear trees a strip of brown paper lOin. or a foot wide and spread it with ordinaly household dripping, just as she would spread butter on a slice of bread. Each of these greased papers was wrapped round the trunk of a tree, near the ground, and held in place by a covering of sfrim and sacking. This was done early last winter after the last of the leaves were off the trees. Both apples (Delicious and Irish Peach) and pears had been very bad with codlin moth last year, the fruit in many cases dropping off before it had ripened. This year not cne of the tree ■ showed any sign of moth.