Shannon News TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1929.

Shannon News, 16 July 1929, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1929.

The fortnightly Parish dance to be held on Friday evening in the Parish Hall will be conducted this week by £he young people. Previous dances •have been very popular and enjoyable functions, but this week the young people have set themselves out to eclipse the successful efforts of their elders and to this end they have spared no pains to attain their object.

At a committee meeting of the Women's Institute held on Wednesday, the monthly programme for the year was drawn up and arrangements are to be made for a demonstrator to attend at each monthly meeting of members. Amongst the demonstrations to be given arj cheesemaking, rug making, fruit bottling, millinery and dres3 making- %

Eev. Geo. A. Young, recently Vicar of Baglan, has been appointed to succeed Bev. A. J. Farnell, as Vicar of Shannon Eev. Mr Young, who is unmarried, was at one time a master at Huntly School, Marton," and after serving in the war was ordained by the Bishop of London for the Bishop of Auckland, to which Diocese he cams in 1920. He will take up his duties in Shannon immediately after the departure of the Bev. Mr Farnell for Opunake.

With a view to helping the Shannon School Committee to raise funds for the purpose of installing a septic tank at the local school, the Shannon branch of the New Zealand Labour Party have very generously offered s the total proceeds from their weekly euchre tourney, which will be held m Laurvig's Hall on Thursday evening. The prizes this week are being .donated by the School Committee. We are asked to remind players that watch numbers will count as usual, and, that for this series two gold watches are being awarded, one for gents and one for ladies. As the effort is a most worthy one it is hoped the public will attend in large numbers.

A meeting of great interest to dairy factory suppliers is one which is being held at Palmerston North, at which Mr Goodfellow, managing director of the N.Z. Co-operative Dairy Co., and Mr Grounds, chairman of the Dairy Control Board, will give an outline of the new co-operative scheme of marketing butter, which is known as th<; Empire Marketing Association, and is a combination of New Zealand and Australian butter interests. This meeting will be held in the" Soldiers' Club rooms, Cuba Sfreet, Palmerston North, at 3 p.m. on Thursday, 18th July. All farmers, who possibly can do so, should make a point of attending the meeting.

Reference was made, at the County -. Council meeting on Saturday, to dam- ' age having been caused to the bitumen 1 road surface on Manakau Hill by,fire. ,-: The Chairman stated that the matte.V.'had been reported to the Highways ■-.Board ; - ■ The Works Committee reported to ?" the County Council on Saturday that jT they "had no recommendation to make 'i. in respeet to the application by Messrs feA. E. Bapley and othera for a light Queen. Street West, Levin. s}( On the recommendation of the Works the County Council on Saturday instructed the Engineer to prefpare plans, specifications and an estimate for a new bridge over the Mani&gaore Stream, just to the north of on the Palmerston Highway. k Shock Absorbers! An elderly lady |was shocked at the language used by |*wo men repairing telegraph wires close So" her house. She wrote to the defepaitment on the matter, and the foreKan was asked" to report. This he did Ipa'the following way:—"Me and Bill Ipere on this job. I was up the tele■lraph pole, and accidentally let the ■lot lead fall on Bill's neck. Then he Hlaa'id, 'You really.must be more care■|ul, Harry.' "

It was reported ta the Horowhenua County Council on Saturday that the Banger (Mr G. Watson) had dealt with 51 head of stock during the month oil June. Up to July 3rd the Banger had registered 683 dogs for the current year.

The road between Foxton and Levin, though under water on the north side of the Wirokino bridge, was negotiated by the mail ear this morning. How long it will continue to be usaiilo will depend on the extent of country affected by the present wet weather, and motorists in general will probably prefer the longer but comparatively safe Shannon-Foxton route.

The Hon. A. J. Stallworthy said in the House last night that the Palmerston deviation would probably have cost the country £1,500,000 before it had been finished on the basis of other districts under which the public works had been undertaken. What the Government had to be credited with aiso in regard to the Taupo railway was saving the country, over £50,000.

' ( There is a sinister aspect about this case, upon which I will not comment further. There is a big doubt, the benefit of which must go to the defendant." This comment was madj by Mr Levvy S.M., at Christchurch today, in dismissing two charges againnst Alexander MacDonald Smith, aged 39, a well-known electrician, of being disorderly while drunk and using obscene language. The police evidence was warmly and indignantly denied by tha defence.

Prior to the'- commencement of the Horowhenua County Council meeting jon Saturday, the members assembled under the leadership of Cr. Ryder, chairman of the Works Committee, and passed a vote of sympathy with Mr G. A. Monk, County Chairman, and Mrs Monk and family in connection with the death of their four-year-old son, John Bryan, which had occurred since the last meeting of the Council. The County Clerk (Mr F. H. Hudson) was asked to convey the resolution by letter to the Chairman.

A suggestion was made by Cr. Jensen, at the meeting of the Horowhenua County. Council on Saturday, in favou-r of a depreciation fund for its motor vehicles. He understood that, as legislation stood at present, this could not be done, and he asked the Chairman ;(Mr Monk) if he could discuss . the subject with some of the other local bodies likely to be interested in it. The Chairman stated, in reply, that the executive of the Counties Association, would meet on Friday, and he would take an opportunity of bringing the matter up.

Cr. Barber asked the Chairman (Mr G. A. Monk), at the meeting of the Horowhenua County Council on Saturday, if he was making any move in th? direction of the appointment of a traffic inspector. The Chairman replied that circumstances had prevented him from giving the matter any consideration in readinness for that meeting. Cr. Barber: "I hope you are not shelving it altogether." The Chairman: "No, it is not my intention to do that. There is no reason why the Council should not discuss it if they care to." The Council, however, did not take 'up the question, and the next business was proceeded with.

The recent surprising disappearance of wekas from Teviotdalc, North Canterbury, bring 3 to mind the fact that in spite of the large army of able birdobservers, scattered over the wide world, hardly anything is known of birds' mental processes. Their structure is examined minutely; their organs are known as intimately as the organs of human beings; their place in the zoological scale is fixed; the development and the function of their 'feathers, a form of covering possessed by no other creatures, has been traced: their origin from reptiles is one of the soundest planks in the platform of evolution; their geological range certainly extends for many millenniums to the Jurassic Period; their amazing migrations noted year in and year out, are one of the wonders of natural history; yet nobody knows what is behind their powerful impulses and instincts.

A Te Kuiti motorist had an experience the other day which evidenced the severity of the King Country fiesta. When he went to his garage he discovered that the water in a jug used to fill the radiator was still frozen into a solid of Iqc—Taranaki Daily; News.

When two Chinese market gardeners were fined £lO each at Wellington, today, for topping off sacks of cauliflowers, the Department of Agriculture's Inspector stated that publicity given to many cases,by the Court last year had effected much improvement in regard to the packing of market produce.

Since the destruction by fire of the Horsham Downs cheese factory the company's affairs have been somewhat confused. The "dry" shareholders have been- endeavouring to get their money out of the concern, and the plying shareholders have sought to carry on and erect a new factory. At a meeting held a few days ago, it was decided that the best way out of the difficulty would be for the company tp go into liquidation and r?-organise. This course was decided on.

One of the most impudent thefts on record took place one night last week, the victims being George's Orchestra, of Manakau, who had stopped at an , hotel in Petone for tea while on their way to Lower Hutt to play for a dance. On returning to their car they found that the side drum and effects, together, with various personal belongings, hard disappeared. Probably their losses would have been greater but, for the fact that the banjo was covered by a rug and violins were locked up in a box at the back of the car. The incident was reported to the police, and the orchestra fulfilled their contract with the aid of a side-drum borrowed from a band.

The 'Manawatu Co-operative Herdtesting Association, which is now commencing the season's operations, is affiliated with the Dominion Group Herdtosting Federation, and thus gives its members the power to tattoo their calves from proved producing dams. The qualifications for this class of animal are not over-exacting, as the Federi-i tion has set them down at 250 lbs but-ter-fat for a two-year-old heifer, 275 lbs for a three-year-old, 300 for armature cow. The only other stipulation is that a registered sire with sufficient butter-fat backing must be used. Farmers who wish to have their herds tested this season should communicate with Mr A. ■ Hamilton, Victoria Street.

Information as to the progress' of Main Highway works in the Wirokino riding was supplied in tne County Engineer's report to the Council on Saturday as follows: —"Grading has been carried out on the Main Highways and on Queen Street West. Three miles of formation work on the Levin-Foxton Main Highway has been completed. To date 560 cubic yards of pavement metal, 144 cubic yards of coarse chips and 148 cubic yards of fine chips, have been delivered on to the Main Highway from the crusher at Muhunoa East. This metal is being placed in dumps on the side of the Main Highway. The Austin crusher is being set up in the Tararua pit in readiness for crushing foundation metal for the Le-vin-Foxton Main Highway."

A tender has been accepted for the erection of a bridge to replace the old structure over the Waikawa Stream, on the Main Highway between Levin and Otaki. The Works Committee reported to the County Council on Saturday that the Engineer (Mr Brewster), had been authorised to interview Messrs Christian! and Nielsen and Messrs Bird and Codling, who submitted the two lowest tenders for the bridge, the same amounting to £2256 and £2293 respectively, and that he had been empowered to accept such tender as he might considei advisable. The Engineer the Council that ha had inquired into the two tenders and had decide to accept the lower one—that of Messrs Christian! and Nielsen. The report was adopted.

Following its advocacy of recognition by the Highways Board of the claim for subsidy on permanent highways work within boroughs, the Feilding Borough Council last night received acknowledgment of its representations from the Prime Minister, the Minister of Public Works, and the Minister of Marine, and intimations of support from the following Borough Councils: LeVin, Hawera, Marton,, Taumarunui, Eastbourne, Birkenhead, Northeote, Rotorua, Stratford, Te Archa, Morrinsville and Otahuhu. All these. local bodies stated that it was their intention to make representations on lines similar to those made by Feilding, as they were in entire sympathy with the objects.

to erect a traffic bridge alongside the railway bridge at Paremata appears to be accumulating. During the recent heavy rain there wore no fewer than thir'ty-one slips on the Paekakariki Hill Road, and from the aspect of certain parts of that recently-widened and much-improved highway there are likely to be more before the winter is over. Further than this, during spring tides the low-lying Plimmerton Road—between the main road and the township, was for twenty-four hours under water to a depth of 18 inches or more. During that period Plimmerton was practically isolated so far as road access was concerned. Such a state of things could not obtain were the proposed bridge built and a more direct road formed. The matter is not being allowed to sleep in the district, and the hope is being expressed that the Minister of Public Works will favourably recommend the erection of a bridge for the eurrent financial year-

The injury sustained by Mr Stanley B. J. Small, of Levin, through being accidentally run into by a car last Saturday night, necessitating his' removal to the Palmerston Hospital, with a compound fracture of the leg, has proved to be more serious than wai at first expected. The limb was rather badly crushed,' necessitating a second operation, which was performed to-day, for the insertion of a silve'r plate.

The sudden death took place following a heart seizure, on Tuesday afternoon, at his residence, Foxton Beach, of Wiremu Eparaima, aged 59 years. The deceased was born at Papakari at a pah situated on the banks of the Manawatu river at Moutoa. He was a rangitira of the Ngati-Turanga, a subtribe of Ngati-Baukawa. He married -the only daughtetr of the well-known Ngati-Baukawa * chief Ihakara. The only child of the marriage died at an early age. In his younger days deceased was a well-known athlete and | boxer. He is survived by his widow. 1 A tangi is being held at Poutu pah J nea-r the Shannon bridge, where the interment will take place on Sunday.