Shannon News TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1929.

Shannon News, 6 August 1929, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1929.

Miss D. Jones and Miss M. Todd, of the local Girl Guides, who have been in Wellington, attending the Scouts' i jamboree, returned to Shannon on Sun- ! day evening.

The annual meeting of members of the Shannon Croquet Club will be held in Laurvig's Hall on Thursday. August Bth, at 3 p.m. All members and intending members are requested to attend.

The engagement is announced of Marjorie Elizabeth (Moi), only daughter of Mrs and the late Mr W. J. Leslie, of ' Wellington, to Heruert Edward, only son of Mr and Mrs H. W. Knowles, "The Pines," Vance Street, Shannon.

Messrs W. Goodfellow, managing director of the N.Z. Dairy Company, and A H Honeyfield, local agent for Amalgamated Dairies, met the directors of the Shannon Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., on Saturday morning, when Mr Goodfellow addressed them on the marketing scheme.

The local school- children's fancy dress ball, which had to be postponed owing to so much sickness, will be held in the Druids' Hall on Friday evening next. The ball has been organised by the teaching staff to assist in raising funds towards installing a septic tank at the school.

The Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) gives ai-. emphatic denial to rumours that Major-General E. Young, G.O.C. New Zealand Forces, is to retire this year to become Commissioner of Police and that Brigadier-General M. M. Gardner, O.C. Southern Command, is to be General Young's successor.

Reports from Waipukurau say that a large shot on the excavation work on the Sun Hill disclosed a cave 30ft. by 15ft. in the hill. It has attracted considerable attention, and the general opinion is that it was constructed by the Maoris during their tribal,war-days, although some hold it is the work of old prospectors who were known to have worked round the district many years ago.

Whilst chopping some wood at his residence on Sunday afternoon. Constable Grainger, of Levin, met with a nasty accident. The axe dipped and struck a glancing blow across the back of his left hand, inflicting a deep gash and severing the bone and tendon of the middle finger. Medical aid was summoned, and Mr Grainger was taken to the Levin private hospital, where an operation was performed by Drs. Hunter and Thompson. It is hoped, as a result of this, that, the finger will be saved. The patient returned home this morning, but will probably be incapacitated for a month.

Can an association called the Australian Performing Rights Association legally levy a yearly fee upon music and hall societies for using music, it /claims-to control? Giving notice of the above question in the House of Representatives yesterday, Mr' J. Linklater (Manawatu) said that during the last two years many hall and music societies in New Zealand had received a demand for an annual fee. The demand seemed unjust, because the music had been purchased by those societies, and their members were under the impression that no further payment was required by them.

A Berlin cable states that the Viennese, Robert Kronfeld, during competitions in the Rhoen mountains, glided 94 miles, which is claimed to be a world's record. On May 16 last, he glided 62 miles, equalling the previous record. These flights are accomplished in a plane without propellors or engine. The machine is given, a start from rising ground by several assistants who jerk it into the air with ropes. Thereafter, the plane takes advantage of air currents to accomplish its flight. (Gliding hais made great progress in Germany and almost incredible altitudes have been attained by daring aviators.

"You have infinite capacity fov beauty in New Zealand," said Mr H. Morse, the English rosarian, addressing members of the Institute of Horticulture at Auckland, "but there is one respect in which England is your superior." He said that at Home the garden of the country house was a thing of beauty. There was nothing like it in New Zealand. With the land mostly level, gardens and lawns could be laid out to the best advantage, and the environs were often enhanced with stately trees. He stressed the point that architecture should go hand in hand with the beauty of nature, and said that a beautiful garden was an incentive to beauty of thought.

Stating that in bis opinion New Zealand's gardens, both public and private, were well worthy of comparison with those of any other country in the world, Mr Henry Morse, an English authority on roses and an eminent horticulturist, now in Auckland, was emphatic that the Dominion was well abreast of all the latest developments in rose culture. Mr Morse stated that while all the newest varieties had already reached here, at the same time the older kinds had been brought to a pitch of growth "fully as good as the best in England." "I will say this for the New Zealand igardpnk: I have never seen better roses anywhere," declared Mr Morse. " I have seen some varieties of roses which are growing better than they have ever been grown in England out here. You are not far behind the times and most of the new varieties of roses seem to do well."

It is claimed that in 15 years the Auckland Commercial Travellers' Association has raised £130,000 for publie charities.

Mr J. G. Coates, Leader of the Opposition, ridicules a report that the Reform Party is to be reformed, with Sir James Parr as the leader.

A nunißer of birds believed to be kookaburras have recently made a home in a small plantation of native trees which exist in Thompson Road, Napier.

The loss of two radium needles, valued at £6O, from the Christchurch hospital has been reported to the Board. Probably the needles were mislaid and thrown out. _ „_.L__

* Mr A. S. Faire," at present District Public Trustee at Palmerston North, has received notice of his transfer to Auckland in succession to Mr R. F. Ward, who is leaving the service. Mr Fiiiv will take up his new position in about a fortnight's time.

Though pillion-riding has been sanctioned by law the chief traffic inspector at Christchurch, Mr H. Macintosh, does not favour it. He told members of the Pioneer Sports Club motor-cyclists with pillion riders had been killed during the past year in Canterbury, while nearly as many, more had been maimed.

'.'l received a great surprise to learn that there are 32,000. ex-New Zealanders in New South Wales." said Sir Truby King, who returned to New Zealand by the Aorangi.' He said that those were .the official figures given at the opening of the New Zealanders' Club in Sydney. "It made me wonder," he added, "and I am still wondering. "

A use for which electric ranges were never intended was disclosed at the conference of Power Boards and supply authorities at Wellington. It was stated that where ironing plugs were installed in. ranges some of the women used the 'top of the range as a small but convenient ironing table. As the ranges were earthed, a fault in the iron rendered shocks very likely.

"How you could persuade a lady to ride in such a fashion I don't know," commented the Magistrate, Mr A. M. Mowlem, S.M., in the Napier Police Court, in convicting a defendant charged with riding a motor cycle without adequate footrests, who told him that a lady passenger sat on the saddle with her feet on the footrests, while he sat half on the saddle and half on the tank.

"We should like to win the Kaufurly Shield, but we are not buying men to win it, as some of the teams have done" said Mr C. H. Warden, president of the Wanganui Rugby Union, when replying to a toast at a dinner in Taihape. "Hawke's Bay and Wairarapa have built up their grandstand and grounds by buying men to retain the Shield. If we win it we want to win and retain it in a strictly amateur way."

In the cour.se of his review of the past season's operations at the annual meeting of the Cambridge Dairy Company, the chairman, Mr F. H. Anderson, said he was particularly pleased to congratulate the suppliers and shareholders that the joint and several guarantee at the Bank had now/been lifted. Mr Anderson smilingly remarked that he thought instead of burning the document, it should be framed and hung up as a warning to future boards, (Voices: Hear! Hear!)

The Fox ton United Sports Club had a successful season last year. The last sports meeting had been particularly successful, the gate takings being over £250 which was a record for almost any Club in the Dominion. The bal-ance-sheet disclosed a credit balance of £77 i)s Bd. During the year the following donations were made: £lO to Lowe, the rider who was injured at a previous local meeting; £lO to the Foxton Silver Band; £2O to the Foxton Eacing Club; and £5 to the racecourse caretaker. Gate takings last year amounted to £2BB 18s. Mr W. T. Jewell was re-elected President at the annual meeting.

The stranding of a large shoal of herring in Calliope Dock the other day has caused some speculation regarding the movements of this rather rare species in Auckland wtetersj (stages tie Herald). In the absence of samples, experts are not satisfied that the fish were true herring, although shoals may be encountered in these waters. A small species of mullet, which occasionally moves in large shoals about the Ilauraki Gulf, is often misnamed herring by amateur fishermen. True herring might come north from Pelorus South and Queen Charlotte Sound,, Avhere they winter in large numbers. These fish are smoked and sold in Wellington as "Picton herring."

"I believe in the advertising value of football tours," said the Minister of Internal Affairs (Hon. P. A. de la Perrelle) in giving an official welcome on behalf of the New Zealand Government, at Auckland to the Australian Rugby League football team, which is on the way to England. The Minister said that he was very pleased to welcome the visitors, and if he was any judge of physique they were a solid team which would uphold the prestige of Australia, New Zealand and the Homeland. It .was curious how people judged footballers on and off the field, and" formed their own im'pressions of the country that they came from. He therefore hoped that the Australians, besides doing a great deal for Australia, would also do much for New Zealand. The Minister wished the Australian League team every success on the tour.