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Shannon News TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1929.

j • Word was received by Mrs C. C. Butters, of Grand Street, on Saturday morning of the serious illness of her mother who resides at Pongaroa, for which place Mrs Butters left for later ,in the day.

Prior to commencing business at the annual meeting of shareholders of the Shannon Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., the chairman referred to the loss by death of one of their largest suppliers—Mr Wbi. Boss, Boston. A vote of sympathy with the relatives was carried by all standing in silence.

Mr and Mrs Pettit, of Grey Street, who left some weeks ago on a few days’ holiday in Wellington, both contracted influenza while there and as a result they will not be able to return home until Mr Pettit is sufficiently ■well. Their many friends will wish them both a speedy recovery.

The erection of a shelter box for the ticket seller at the Domain gate is ly needed. It is most unfair to ex-, peet any person to stand at this gate in the biting cold wind that has prevailed on Saturday afternoons during the past few weeks, and it is about time the Bugby Union, or whoever the official is acting for, took some steps to provide him with shelter from the wind and rain.

Mr Geo. Nahkies, who for the past four years has been on the clerical staff at the local railway station, has received notice that he is to be transferred. During his term in Shannon he has by his courteous and obliging manner proved himself to be a very popular officer with the business people and travelling public, who will regret his departure. He is to be succeeded by Mr J. A. Marriott, of the maintenance branch at Shannon, who has recently qualified for transference to the clerical branch of the service.

The death occurred at Hawcra hospital on Sunday morning of George Washington Tayler, aged 72, h resident of # Eltham for forty years, during which he was closely identified with local and provincial affairs, and was first Mayor of the Borough, a position ,which he held at times for over ten years. He was Eltham’s representative on the' Hawera Hospital Board for 20 years, also representative on the New Plymouth Harbour Board for many .years. He is survived by a widow two sons and a daughter. The eldest son was killed at 'Gallipoli. The late Mr Tayler is father of Mr B. G. Tayler,, of Shannon, who will have the sincere sympathy of his numerous friends in his loss.

The British Broadcasting Corporation is arranging for a world-wide broadcast description of the Schneider Cup air race over the Solent on September 7th. ■ I

Owing to the fact that the French cruiser Tourville leaves for Brisbane on Friday, the proposed flight of the Amphibian plane to Christchurch has been cancelled, states a Press telegram from Wellington.*

The cost of naval defence this year is estimated at £504,967, against £463,496 last year. Wages, etc., in connection with the Dunedin, Diomede. Philomel and Nucula are estimated at £226,100, in comparison with an expenditure of £232,304 last year.

“A very plain word for the Ward Government" is the title of an article in the current issue of the New Zealand Baptist, protesting against the reinstatement of art unions and the proposals to give racing clubs enlarged privileges.

A Sun cable from Toronto (Canada) says:—The heaviest patient ever to enter a Toronto hospital is Gertrude Restoule, aged 16, weighing 32st 21b. / She is 5 feet 8 inches in height. Increasing obesity has rendered her helpless. Tw® others in the family share the affliction, though the .parents are normal. A sister, aged 13, weighs 26st. 1111)1. and an infant brother of a prodigious size will be brought to hospital for treatment. A Sydney specialist said that, such heaviness was an abnormal condition due to a missing gland or glands. It meant that some internal, secretion was missing.

A bombshell was exploded at the amiual meeting of the Ohura Valley Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd., held at Ohura on Saturday. Mr F. Pleasants claimed that a rumour was going the rounds to the effect that the factory at Matiere was being used as a storehouse for sly-grog! “Is that rumour correct?" he asked. The factory manager, Mr 11. Gibson, said that as far as he was concerned he rvas unaware that the factory had been used to store liquor in, and offered to donate £5 to the earthquake fund for every bottle of whisky purchased at the factory.

Recent references to Switzerland and

the tourist traffic were commented upon by Dr. Leon Bossard, a Swiss geologist visiting the Dominion (states a Press message from Wellington). Switzerland, he said, rvas essentially an industrial and agricultural country, and the proportion of people directly dependent on tourist traffic did not exceed five per cent. It was a good example illustrating that a country could welcome and he courteous to tourists without losing its independence or national characteristics. The times were over* when nations could shut themselves off and thrive, and the sooner New Zealand realised that, the sooner it would grow to be the prosperous and generally important country that every true New Zealander sincerely wished it to become.

A young man named Prank Lucas, of Hanmer Springs, died in hospital (says a Christchurch telegram), as the result of burns reecived when his camp caught lire at Montrose station.

Fullers are negotiating for a visit to Australia and New Zealand by the comedian George Robey, and his company. He is said to be asking £9OO a week for himself and a small company, exclusive of transportation costs.

There are two engineering shops in Auckland working two shifts daily turning out movietone plants, the patents of two local inventors, to compete with the expensive American plants for reproducing talkie pictures.

Work on the Palmerston North railway deviation will be finished definitely in three weeks, by which time all the rails will be taken up and gear cleared away. At present the gang left to pull up the rails has reached the Rongotea Road.

A change must be made in the policy of automatic early retirement nowoperating in the public service, remarks Sir Joseph Ward in the Financial Statement, after referring to the fact that there is a shortage of £2,000,000 in the superannuation funds.

If a person is killed or injured by a motorist who remains undiscovered, no insurance can be claimed by the injured party or his relatives, as the regulations governing third party risk under the compulsory motor vehicle insurance schemes stands at present.

“Search out a successful farmer and you will find a tip-top, first-class farmer’s wife,” declared the Minister of Lands (the Hon. G. W. Forbes), in opening the conference of the Dominion Executive of the Farmers’ Union on a recent date. Mr Forbes was referring to the value the women’s branches were to the union.

A farmer in the Hastings district estimates that he lost altogether 150 lambs in the season from the attacks of rooks, and thinks that farmers who at present blame seagulls solely for the deaths should keep a watchful eye on any rooks which may have taken up their abode in the neighbourhood.

An Auckland message says all the ingredients of an omelette on a gigantic scale, with the yolks of eggs hopelessly mixed, were assembled on the concrete surface of Manakau Road on Thursday, .when, as a result of two motor-cars colliding, fourteen dozen eggs, en route to the market, were smashed, and. the contents poured on to the roadway.

An increasing number ,of farmers of the Cambridge district have gone in for sheep this year (says the New Zealand Herald), and so far the season has been a good one, the lambing returns being excellent. The lambs are coming in earlier than usual, and on several farms a. large! percentage of ewes have already lambed. The mortality also is low. On four leading sheep farms in the district there are already nearly 5000 lambs.

The roll during July at the Foxton District High 'School was: Primary 401* secondary 40, side school 50,-to-tal 491. The attendances at the side school and in the secondary department have been slightly below normal, but in the primary department, there has been for the past five weeks an abnormal drop. For that period the roll number has averaged 400, while the average daily attendance has been 326—a percentage of 81.5. This represents absentees as averaging 72 daily for the whole five weeks. The reason has been the prevalence of influenza.

It is often believed that the kauri tree will not grow in Dunedin. About 35 or 40 years ago the late Bishop Nevill took a kauri seedling home with him from Auckland arid planted it in the grounds of his residence at Woodhaugh, Dunedin. The bishop’s kauri has increased in bulk and stature, and to-day it stands 40ft high, and is an almost perfect specimen - of its kind. Instead of having the typical high crown of foliage, it has now sent out two leaders. But it is an eloquent demonstration of the fact that the rarest of native trees ca;i be made to grow and flourish in the southern part of the Dominion. There are other specimens of the kauri to found in Dunedin, in at least 12/private gardens in the city and suburbs, and also at Waironga, 13 miles south of Dunedin.

Recently a notification was published that the Imperial Government were issuing Memorial Plaques and Scrolls together with a letter from His Majesty, on account of those members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force who have died since being discharged from the Forces provided the death took place on or before August 31st, 1928, and that it was the result of war service'. The Government has now received a despatch stating that the , Memorial Plaque factory will be closed so soon as the outstanding demands have been dealt with. In the circumstances, the Defence Department is forwarding to the United Kingdom a final list of applications, and this will include all those received by the Department on or before August 26th, therefore the relatives of the deceased soldiers should not delay communicating with Base Records Office, Wellington, relative to their claim to receive Memorials. Subsequent to August 26th, all applications of this kind will be declined, and the relatives of ex-soldiers will not have cause to blame the New Zealand Defence Department if their npglect means to them the loss of the beautiful Memorials.

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Shannon News, 13 August 1929, Page 2

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Shannon News TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1929. Shannon News, 13 August 1929, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1929. Shannon News, 13 August 1929, Page 2

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