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Shannon News FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1929.

Mr G. G. Mitchell is spending a holiday in the Marlborough district.

Messrs A. J. Paterson and F. Hempieman, engineers representing an asphalt company, will address the Borough Council at their meeting on Tuesday evening on the question of permanent surfacing of roads.

Another progressive euchre afternoon was held by the Committee of the Worhen’s Institute on Tuesday. The attendance was not as good as usual. Mrs Mabey proved the winner with nine games out of a possible ten, receiving the trophy presented by th 3 president (Mrs E. Butt).

The work of preparing the bowling and croquet greens for the coming season is now well in hand. The hedges and trees around the greens have been trimmed and already the grounds are looking bright, If the weather remains favourable the greens should be in splendid order on the opening day, Saturday, 12th October.

There passed away suddenly at Mo•tuiti yesterday afternoon Mrs Val Croon, the apparent cause of her death being’heart failure. The deceased lady' who was well-known in Shannon, where she resided for many years, was the wife of Mr Y. Croon, manager of the Motuiti Flaxmilling Co., Ltd., and in addition, a family of three sons and two daughters mourn their loss.

The play-off for the gold watches in connection with the Labour Party’s tuchre tourney took place in the Maoriland Theatre last evening. Of the 129 players who had qualified 104 took their seats, the wet night no doubt accounting for many of the absentees. The lady’s watch was won by Mrs L. Jones, the runner up being Mrs Ellwood, who received the box of handkerchiefs donated by Mr R. Buckman; the gent’s watch was won by Mr F. Buckman, Next Thursday evening another series will commence, the proceeds that evening being in aid of the: Shannon Athletic Club’s fund to permanent surface the cycle track in the Domain.

At a meeting of the Buckley Drainage Board yesterday morning, Mr Robinson, engineer of the Public Works Department, waited on the Board in regard to his Department’s position in respect to repairs to the floodgate on Mr Bryant’s property, pointing out that when his Department, finished constructing the floodgate, he understood the Government’s liability ceased. The chairman (Mr R. W. Taylor) pointed out that the Drainage Board had no legal obligation in the matter, but it was resolved to write to the Public Works Department, giving the Board’s reasons why the former should, effect the repairs. At the same meeting a resolution was passed making application to the Local Government Loans Board for their sanction of the borrowing of the sum of £2400 for the purpose of flood protection improvements in the Board’s area. This amount is being subsidised by .£2OOO by the Government.

“We always knew when they had chops for dinner, because the bone 3 came over the fence," said a witness in the Petone Court during the hearing of a case in which a woman alleged that her neighbour had thrown rubbish of every description over into her property.

Apart from its scenic attractions, Morere appears to have special attractions' for honeymoon couples. One evening recently (states the Napier Telegraph), there Y T ere fewer than seven newly weds staying at the Hot Springs Hotel, and the many guests in the house were not slow in giving them a rousing send-off amidst showers of rice and confetti when each couple left on continuation of their journey.

When the day-old calf trade was first started (says the Wanganui Chronicle) an enterprising youth hit upon the idea cf sorting out all the likely looking Jersey heifers at the gates of one freezing works, paying a sound price for them and then rearing the animals as a nucleus of a herd. “What a fine herd he has to-day," a Westmere farmer stated.

An unusual sight visible from the summit of Waiopehu on Sunday last, and one demonstrating the remarkably clear state of the atmosphere, was a glimpse of what is virtually the northern continuation of the Southern Alps, namely the Spenser Mountains and ’the St. Arnaud’s Range. On the occasion referred to, the South island stood out very distinctly: on the left hand could be seen the snow-clad Seaward and Inland Kaikouras (the latter crowned by the great pointed peak of Tapuaenuku, 9467 ft.); to the right, high hills of darker tint marked the position of the Mailborough Sounds area; in between lay other snowy ranges which from their position could be none other than the Spenser Mountains and the St. Arnaud's Range—mountain masses that rise to heights of 6000 ft. to 8000 ft. It is probably only rarely that these more distant ranges can be seen from this district.

The Rev. H. L. Blamires, of Stratford, intends to become a super-numer-ary at next conference. He is suffering from increased nervous strain, the result mainly of his long and strenuous war experience.

The British Home Secretary (Mr J R. Clynes) states that while paying tribute to the fallen, the Armistia Day ceremony at the Cenotaph tliL. year will assume a more civilian aspect, with less military display.

Natives who recently visited East Island at East Cape report that the graves on the southern side of the island have slipped down the hill. The craves were those of members of the crew of the Hinemoa who were drowned about 30 years ago while landing material for the lighthouse. The other grave was that of Captain Goomes of the ketch Sir Henry, which, was wrecked off East Island at the same time that the schooner Aotea was wrecked at Waipiro Bay.

An unusual incident, which might easily have had serious consequences, occurred in Stratford a few days ago. In decorating his window, a Stratford chemist placed a qard of celluloid combs in it. On reproving them he found the top comb was a mass of charred remains and a large hole was burnt in the cardboard. The cans# of it catching alight was probably the sun shining through the window in the early'morning. Had it been the bottom comb instead of the top one that caught alight, a fire might have resulted.

gome electric power boards display a skull and cross-bones on power poles to impress passers-by and would-be meddlers that death lurks in the current above. From what Mr Purnell told the Wanganui-Rangitikei Board recently, it would seem that these signs not only serve their immediate purpose, but are money-savers as well. “Mr Morrison will recollect what an engineer told us,” Mr Purnell remarked. “Every man with a gun blazed away at the 3kull and cross-bones and left the insulators alone.”

An assistant in a Greymouth store received a shock when a customer handed over a. £lO note to pay for a J.os purchase and walked out of the shop without the change. The man was called back and advised of his mistake: The position became complicated, however, when he believed the note to be a 10s and that someone had really handed it to him in error. The bewildered customer was given the £9 10s change but no doubt had little difficulty in locating the real owner of the big note.

“No one wantls to shoot them,” said Mr G. D. Mcllraith (North Canterbury), when moving a recommendation that the white swan should be protected throughout the Dominion at the conference of acclimatisation societies in Wellington. “We have now got them well established,” he went on. “They are protected in Canterbury, but they are increasing in numbers, and spreading to other parts. We think that they should be protected throughout the Dominion.” The conference concurred.

Though parrots are rather loquacious, and dogs, and cats usually have a mutual antipathy, a fairly large company of animals and birds apparently live in perfect harmony in the Blue Cross Hospital at New Lynn (says the Auckland Star). Excellent results are being achieved. Since the hospital was opened last December, 81 cats, 216 dogs, one kangaroo, and a number of ducks have been, “boarders./* In the majority of instances they have been nursed back to a state of perfect health.

It was thought that the vigorous campaign against them last year had cleared the goats from the Kaitake Reserve, but Mr J. C. Bell, one of the Mount Egmont National Park Board’s honorary rangers, who was on the ranges recently, came across a mob of 15, they evidently having come across from the Pouakais, where they abound in hundreds. It was not difficult to find evidence of their destruction; they had cleaned up the young growth and saplings and'barked be bigger trees. In localities where there had been no goats for a year, said Mr Bell, young growth was showing, and regeneration would only be a matter of a fSw years if the goats could be kept out.

At a meeting of the executive of the New Zealand Ayrshire Cattle Breeders’ Association at Palmerston yesterday, the opportunity was taken to recognise the services rendered by Mr Tho's. Webb, of Awapuni, who has retired from the executive. Mr F. Mills, of Hawera, who presided, in presenting Mr Webb with a special gold medal and handing him a crystal bowl for Mrs'Webb, stated that they all realised the tremendous amount of work that he had done. He had been the best “booster” for the association that they had known. As treasurer, Mr Webb had looked after their interests for a number" of years. His interest in the association had not been a personal one as it was some years since he had ceased being a breeder of Ayrshires. But his love for the cattle was still alive. They regretted that he had found it necessary to retire from the executive as they valued his services highly, but he would always be a welcQme visitor at the executive’s deliberations, concluded Mr Mills.' Mr Webb, after thanking the executive, related some of the early history of the association and the vicissitudes through which it had passed. He would treasure their gifts as he had treasured the breed. He had not always agreed with the members of the executive, but they had always been the best of friends.

A business man who was present at [ a rocial gathering in Wellington on Saturday night said that he was vicepresident of 39 clubs, cricket, tennis, basketball, football, hockey, etc.

The Auckland Acclimatisation Society continues to wage war actively on hawks (says the Star), and it was reported to a recent meeting of the Society that since April 9500 of the pests had been destroyed. 'Royalties paid in this connection amounted to £237.

The Bay of Plenty Dairy Association, Te Puke, has disposed of between 25,000 to 26,000 boxes of butter, being the output to the end of December, at Is 5d per lb. This will allow of an ultimate payment of about Is per lb. and enable an advance of about Is b£d to the end of December.

No fewer than between • thirty and forty persons employed at WaipufcUrau Railway Station, including the refreshment room staff. The average amount of the- fortnightly pay-sheet is between £SOO and £6OO, and as ninetyfive per cent, ’of the staff are married men the circulation of money at regular intervals?ans a big asset te *,he town.

Commodore* Blake, the new Commodore of the New -Zealand Naval Division, ha 3 announced that there would be a temporary halt in recruiting for the Navy in New Zealand, owing to impending extensive fittings of the cruisers Diomede and Dunedin. The Diomede leaves for England on October 1, and will not be back for about 12 months, when the Dunedin will go Home.

Inquiries among the Maoris of several districts from Otaki to. Taranaki by a Palmerston North resident who desired to purchase sets of poi balls for friends abroad, have so far failed to produce results. Yesterday he received a letter in Maori to this effeet: “The summer bloom on the raupo leaf from which to make the poi is not yet. My effort will endure long after the patience of your spirit fails. Hope while I seek, oh my friend.”

When discussing the question of fir? losses at the meeting of the Eire Board in Wellington, Mr S. S. Dean instanced a provision made in a building in Victoria Street, which he believed was the only one of its kind in Wellington. 1 The floors dropped slightly from the centre to the isides of the wall, and any water which went in ran to the sides and escaped through holes made for the purpose instead of leaking through the floor into the rooms below. This, would save a lot of da mag 3 by water.

“The Government bonus or. exported pigs stick in my gullet,” said Mr S. H. Judd, chairman of the directors of the New Zealand Pig-Marketing Association, in addressing a meeting of farmers at MorrinsvillQ. Mr Judd said the farmers had no wish to be bolstered up. If they were put in a position to buy at world’s parity they would be quite satisfied. The reference was to the preferential duties ou pig foods, which the speaker stated were holding the industry back. The Danes paid half the price for meals and grains that New Zealand farmers did and if the Dcminion fa'rmer?. were put on the same footing the bonus of per lb would not be worth worrying about.

When the slump period for sheep farmers developed some few years ago there was a general trend toAvards dairying as a means 1o stave off financial stagnation. In a short space of time the dairying industry in NeAV Zealand assumed tremendous proportions, and, though it does not shoAv any signs of lessening now, many of those who u,sed the cow as a standby in times of stress have cast her aside and gone oaclt to sheep entirely. In one block, in the Main Trunk area, some eight or nine farmers, each with holdings of roughly 1000 acres, milked during slump. This year one man only is sending cream to the factory. Op one farm an eight-coAV milking plant is lying idle.

Where are the police horses of yesterday • This question Avas asked in the House of Representatives during the discussion on the police estimates. Emphasis was laid on the need of a good, and sufficient supply of horses being provided for the police. The Minister of Justice, the Hon. T. M. Wilford, replied that up to 1910 the police had a fine lot of horses. He kneAV that in street trouble it was absolutely necessary to have horses. The difficulty was to get .the horses and the horsemen. He himself was a lover of a good horse, as members luicaat, but things were different now from when he and others were boys and learned to ride at seven years of age.; The ordinary men coming along now were not • good ho’rsemen, some of them were very poor. Men went in ears and motor cycles now.

A successful experiment in the use of carrier pigeons for communication between aircraft, in flight and their home aerodromes was made by the • Marlborough Aero Club last week. One of the Blenheim pigeons liberated from a Moth in flight over Paekakariki arrived home promptly, before dark. The other, which was liberated ever Palmerston North, was evidently overtaken by darkness, but it returned to its loft the following morning. The pigeons are the property of Mr K. Patchett, Avho is co-operating with the Marlborough Aero Club in its experiments. It is proposed to train the birds in picking up bearings from the air by taking them up in flights over Blenheim from time to time and releasing them at varying altitudes. When the system is perfected one or two pigeons will be placed aboard all aircraft taking off on cross-country flights from the Blenheim aerodrome.

“To' show my ignorance, 1 what is : kilowatt ?’ ’ asked a member at thi last meeting of the South Canterbury Power Board. The engineeV-secretar replied that it was 1000 watts burnm; tor an hour. The first speaker: “Thor are so many technical terms that on is liable to get a bit mixed up. Th engineer said a kilowatt could be r« presented by k.v.a., multiplied by th power factor.” Another membei “Simple, isn’t it?” (Laughter).

It is estimated that there are no some 1000 acres devoted to' tobac< growing dn the Dominion. Of fchj total, approximately 150 acres are the Auckland district, 30 acres in Mai borough, and the balance in the Nelsc and Motueka districts. The bulk the crop at the present time is und contract to tobacco manufacturers New Zealand. The future of the i dustry in this country, says a Depai mental report, depends very largely, a satisfactory overseas market beii available for the surplus not needed £ New Zealand requirements, and un this h definitely assured the plant! of tobacco on an extensive scale i quires to be carefully considered.

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Shannon News, 27 September 1929, Page 2

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Tapeke kupu
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Shannon News FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1929. Shannon News, 27 September 1929, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1929. Shannon News, 27 September 1929, Page 2

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