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Shannon News TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1929.

On Friday afternoon the Women’s Institute held a euchre tourney which drew a fair attendance. Mrs Terry won the most games and was presented with the cane tray donated by Mrs Waring Taylor.

Mr H. Greedy, of Martainborough, was a visitor to Shannon on Saturday. Mr and Mr 3 T. Moynihan left on Friday for Greymouth, where Mr Moynihan will attend the annual conference of members of the N.Z. Licensed Victuallers’ Association.

Yesterday morning Mr E. T. Moody received the sad news of the death of his sister at Dunedin. The deceased young Jady underwent an operation about three months ago and was believed to be well on the road to recovery. The news of her death came as a great shock to- Mr Moody as he was expecting her to visit him within the next few days. To him we extend our deepest sympathy in his bereavement. Mr Moody left for the South last evening.

Mr Thos. Dalzell, for the past 16 years manager of the Mukapai Flax Mill (Makerua), who is leaving to take up milling operations in the South Island, was entertained by the employees of the mill at a farewell dinner on Friday evening. He was made the- recipient of a handsome leather suit-case and travelling rug. About 70 guests were present and the evening was passed with musical items, songs, etc. All arrangements for the function were in the hands of Mrs A. Holdem, whose organising left nothing to be desired.

An estimate of the cost of permamently surfacing the cycle track at the Domain was considered at a meeting on Saturday evening by the committee set up by the Shannon Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club to deal with the work. The particulars and estimate before the meeting showed that approximately £l3O is required and as the Club have £9O in hand towards the work, ways and means were gone into for raising the balance of the money. It was decided to approach the Borough Council for a subsidy, also to hold a street stall on Saturday, 21st September, and the Labour Party is to be asked if they will give oire of their euchre evenings to assist the fund.

Out of 41 letters sent to residents in one Taranaki town soliciting contributions to the New Plymouth hospital radio funds the collector said the other day that only two replies had been received. One of these had been from the representative of a man stating his client would not be able to 'give any assistance as he was in prison.

The statement going the rounds that Mr W. S. Glenn has no desire to offer his services again to Rangitikei electors is given an emphatic denial by the Marton executive of the Reform Political League. Mr Glenn has made no such statement and no efforts are being made to find a new candidate for the next general election.

Alfred Hoy, aged 57, married, whose wife is a resident of Wellington, died {sudenly at Lyons station, at Glenalvon, on Saturday evening, states a Press message from Hastings. He was employed as gardener and cowman, and .after milking on Saturday, dropped dead while talking to another man. A verdict of death from heart disease was returned.

The tender of Messrs Brayshay and Brayshay, of Wellington, has been accepted on behalf of the Horowhenua Coujity Council for the construction of a bridge in concrete to- replace the old wooden structure over the Kuku Stream, on the Main Highway south of Levin. The contract price is £555 16s lid, and the lime for completion is three months. The work will probably be commenced at the beginning of next week.

A recent consignor of fat stock from Foxton to Lyttelton per the s.s. Himatangi speaks in high terms of the suitability of that vessel for stock carrying. He said that he had (shipped cattle from various ports over a number of years, but the cattle he shipped from Foxton on the Ilimatangi recently arrived in a far better condition than any previously. The beasts entered the pens at Addington as fresh as if they had just been taken out of his paddocks.

The death occurred at his residence, Wade3town, on Saturday of Mr Geo. Boutflower Davy, formerly Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, in his 94th year. The late Mr Davy was born in London and became a cadet on a plantation and cattle station in Jamaica, later qualifying for tho law on his return to England. He arrived in Auckland in 1862, and after practising his profession there and at Whangarei for some years, in partnership with Sir Maurice O’Roike, he was returned to the Auckland Provincial Council as a member for Marsden in 1867, and later he was a member of the Provincial Executive. Four years later, on the passing of the Lands Transfer Act, he was selected to inaugurate the scheme 'in Auckland, remaining there as District Land Registrar for a number of years, until he was appointed Registrar-General of Land, a position which he held until his retirement in 1904. Other offices which Mr Davy held were Judge of Wellington and Wairarapa District Courts, New Zealand Company’s Lands Claims Commissioner, and Chief Judge of the Native Land Court (until retiring). There ara five children surviving—Miss Harriet Davy,. Miss Margaret Davy, Mrs C. Prendergast-Knight, Mrs Cecil Palmer, aad Mr J. L. Davy.

The geophysical survey of the country in the coastal area eastward of Dannevirke by German scientists in the quest for oil-bearing strata _ is steadily proceeding, but it is considered unlikely that there will be any interesting developments from the public point of view for some time.

In the Dominion there are 742 local governing bodies, comprising 127 county councils, 119 borough councils, 68 town boards, 65 drainage boards, 50 fire boards, 45 harbour boards, 43 electric power boards, 47 hospital boards, 42 river boards, 48 rabbit boards, 19 road boards, 71 tramway boards, and 18 district councils of the Main Highways Board.

A disagreement among members of the Feilding Plunket Society necessitated a visit from an official of the parent body to investigate allegations concerning unbusinesslike methods. A full meeting of members was held and after a lengthy discusion, the atmosphere was cleared by the withdrawal of the president’s resignation arid the secretary tendering her resignation.

A woman who petitioned in the Auckland Supreme Court for the restitution of conjugal rights did not mince matters in referring to her mother-in-law. “My husband’s atitude is due to my mother-in-law’s snobbishness,” said Ethel Moore, who petitioned against Leonard Wallis Moore. “His mother did not think the marriage was good enough. She thought he should have married money arid she thinks I have not got enough. ” An order was granted.

There are wedding presents and wedding presents, aind the majority of people bent on making purchases, to suit the purpose' visit ,shops and all manner of trading houses, but there have been notable exceptions. A Wanganui farmer considered that 500 fencing posts was as good a present as he could make to the son of a neighbour who was setting out to carve a home in the bush. Another farmer made a gift of a cord of neatly-cut manuka blocks to a young couple residing .in the city.

For the running of a regular steamer service ‘between Dunedin, Bluff and Melbourne, the Government has accepted the tender of the Union Steamship Company, according to an announcement by the Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward, on Saturday, who added that there had been some variation from the original conditions under which the revival of the service was proposed. The .arranfgements effected will enable a service to be provided by two steamers during the busy season of the summer months, and by one' steamer during a shorter period of winter.

The typewriter is surely ousting the pen as a means of conveying thoughts to paper, but the record of the pen has survived for 70 years where typescript of many years later in beginning badly to fade in a document preserved in the New Plymouth Museum and mentioned in connection with the life story of the late Mrs Arthur Standish. Side by side in a frame are the original Maori document written in 1860 and a type translation of a later date (says the Taranaki News), but the contrast between the two is remarkable, the one being just legible and the other appearing to be, for ever fadeless.

The Prince of Wales Cup was left in Levin last week by members of the Taihauaura (Maori Western District) Rugby football team, the present holders. It was mentioned at the Horowhenua Bugby District Council meeting Tuesday, by the Beferees Association delegate (Mr W. G. Phillips) that the team had intended handing the trophy to Mr H. McMillan, a member of the Maori Bugby Council, but had not time to get in touch with him, otherwise the cup would have been displayed at the meeting. It is now on view in fhe window of Mr W. Wiilkiifson’s shop, together with the 1930 Cup recently presented by Mr G. Ramsbotham, of Levin, for competition among the senior teams under the Horowhenua District Council. The Prince of Wales presented the first-named cup for competition among the Maori football clubs; it is a handsome and heavy trophy, much coveted as an honour by the Native teams. It was recently contested at Auckland, and will be competed for again at Wellington on Wednesday, September 11th.

The little mirror which juts out from the wind-screen of a motor vehicle is a very useful appliance; it saves the driver dislocating his neck in an endeavour to ascertain what may be following behind him, and it enables him to keep one eye on the road. So far fo good; but if a face occupies the glass and continues to stay there, the (Iriver may be excused if he begins to doubt the evidence of his senses. Such an experience occurred yesterday, on a grocer's van. Just after it had passed over the railway crossing to proceed into Mako Mako Boad, the face of a boy was reflected, and the motorist, thinking that a cyclist was riding behind him, increased his speed. The apparition, continued even though the van travelled at a pace beyond the powers of all but a champion cyclist. To solve the mystery, the , driver pulled up, and on going round to the back of the van found a boy on the road, who had fallen from the car- j rier at the rear of the vehicle, sustain- 1 ing a few bruises. The lad had been playing the old and dangerous game known in the days of horse-drawn vans as “whip behind”; he had jumped on the carrier when the turn-out was travelling over the railway crossing at a comparatively slow pace, clung on during the spin down Mako Mako Road,, and eventually had to let go his pre* J carious hold.

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Shannon News, 3 September 1929, Page 2

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Shannon News TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1929. Shannon News, 3 September 1929, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1929. Shannon News, 3 September 1929, Page 2

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