Shannon News TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1929.

Shannon News, 5 November 1929, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1929.

At a meeting of Ohe Shannon Volunteer Eire Brigade last evening, Mr A. H. Hill tendered his 'resignation as Superintendent and also as a member •of thie Brigalde. Hiis resignation as Superintendent avUs accepted, but he was asked to reconsider his decision to resign from membership. Mr H. Hiook was appointed acting-superin-tendenn until next meeting and Mr V . Guy, deputy superintendent.

The proceeds from the weekly euchre tourney to be held on Thursday evening are being do halted, by the Labour Party to the newly-formed S'halrnnOn Cricket Club. As this will be the last night this season that patrons will have the opportunity of qualifying to compete for the gold w'atch and the fact that they will (also be able to assist the Cricket Club, it is expected that there will be a record attendance.

Benzine consumption is becoming a heavy item with the Hawke’s Bay County Council, and when members learned that it Avas colsting approximately £4OOO a year for the benzine they realised that the time had come for the matter to be looked into and economies effected.

With the object of arranging for a larger sale of British Columbian lumber in Ncav Zealand and Australia a delegation of mill oAvners and operators Avill leave Vancouver on December 11th by the Aorangi. The Provincial GoA'ernment is aiding the mission Avith a grant.

For some time past (says the Foxton Herald) residemts have befen startled b/ the noise of periodical explosions coming from the direction of the ftaxmilts. The explosions have been caused by the use of explosives to break up discarded fliaxmilling machinery. The AVork is in charge of an expert avlio has reduced the plant which originally cost hundreds of pounds, to scrap iron.

There is no sign 'of diminishing building activities in Rotorua (remarks the Chronicle). , Every week sees new houses spring uj) and stacks of timber ready for the builder are the visible signs of progress. A remarkable development is taking place outside the borough, which should cause the authorities to' think. From the Utuhina bridge on the main road, a large suburban residential and business district has sprung into being.

A statement received by the ManaAvatu executive of the Farmers’ Union on Saturday showed that the advances made by the Rural Intermediate Credits Board numbered 858, representing a total sum of £1,515,510. Mr H. Denton stated that the advances through the HoroAvhenua Association had reached £IO,OOO. The President of the Executive (Mr O. P. Lynch) remarked that the limit of an advance had been raised from £IOOO to £2OOO.

Worker bee cells, containing first the egg and then the grub of the honey m'aker of the hive, measure four to the inch. Drone cells measure five to the inch. No matter'how many thousands olive measured, the proportions remained the same, said Mr D. C. Robinson at Saturday’s bee-keeping demonstration, as 'evidence of the remiarkable instiuct of the bee. Another interesting fact mentioned was the power of the workers to develop queen bees from worker colls 'simply by feeding, at an early Stage in, their development, a richer food known as “royal jelly.'’

Since the inauguration in 1921 of the Flock House fund by New Zealand Shecpowners, £57,548 15s 4d has been disbursed in cash grants to beneficiaries in New Zealand and London, while £45,555 8s l.ld has been spent on immigration, training and settlement in New Zealand of boy and girl dependents of British seamen who lost their lives during the Great War. During the past year grants were made to disabled sailors and to the dependents of sailors who Avere incapacitated or Avho had died as the results of injuries received during the Avar as folloAVs: — New Zealand, £779 17s sd; London, £843 9s Id, total, £1,623 6s 6d.

With an impudence that almost surpasses his disregard for the law, au apparently youthful motor enthusiast abandoned a stolen machine in Gisborne on a recent evening after decorating the interior Avith messages to the owner. The machine was taken from a private car stand (says the Poverty Bay Herald), and Avhen found Avas undamaged, but the oAvner’s eye caught chalked on the moquette upholstery inside three separate messages. “Please have a ful tank of benzine the next time,’’ Avas the first; “Please see that there is food, etc.,’’ was the second; and “Please fix the leak in the radiator,’ > Avas the final piece of impudence. StraAvberries are now selling freely in the Auckland markets, realising from 1/6 to 2/11 a chip, according to quality.

No fewer than 29 hoys and 93 girls, having completed their initial ing at Flock House Station and Curls Flock House, have been placed in employment in various parts of the Dominion.

Rev. F. W. Wilkes, Vicar of Morrinsville, has resigned from that position, and accepted a call to the incumbency of Northcote, Auckland. In making this announcement Rev. Wilkes stated that he had been in a delicate position for so'me time, as he did not see eye to eye with Bishop Cherrington.

How easy it is to make a mistake was instanced in Morrinsville on Monday, when a certain well-known iesident was commenting with horror that the wife of a Cabinet Minister could sit in public smoking a cigarette, and “in a long cigarette holder at that. I-lis listener commented that in these days it was not unladylike for women to smoke, and there was no reason, if the Hon. H. Atmore’s wife wished to smoke that she should not. However, a few minutes later it was found that the lady was not Mrs Atmore. Later in the 'day the statement was turned into a good joke, for one of the hearers met the Minister and recited the story.. “Well/’ the Minister said, “fortunately or unfortunately, it cannot be true, for I have not yet met Mrs Atmore.*' The Minister is a bachelor.

It requires the foraging efforts of five worker bees to provide food for one drone, and their contributions to the honey store of the hive are in consequence negligible. In mentioning this fact at file demonstration at Mr Bleakh ora’s tapiary on Saturday, Mr'Robinsen, the District Instructor, stressed the importance of eliminating the drones. In a hive of 40,000 bees, the effects of a preponderance of drones could easily be imagined. Mr Robinlson pointed out a number of drone cells in the hive he was working on and showed how, by mutilating the Caps of the cells, the grub inside was killed. The workers would then remove the grub and cleanse the cell. A type of box drone excluder was also shown, which, placed in front of the hive allowed the workers to leave and enter it, but trapped the larger drones.

Feeling reference to the death of Mr J. M. Johnston, of Palmerston North, was made by the Manawatu president of the Fanners’ Union (Mr 0. P. Lynch), at the meeting of that body, in Levin on Saturday. He said that for many years they had known what a useful member of the community Mr Johnston had been. There was nothing which lie had not been ready to undertake if the need arose, and everything which he had essayed to do he had carried through. It was very unfortunate, just at this time, to lose the services of such an able aiid highly spirited public man. A motion of regret at the death of Mr Johnston, and of sympathy with his family, was carried in silence, the members standing.

The fact that some woolgrowers are reported to be sheaving on days of heavy rains ha? caused some comment in Hawke’s Bay, says a Napier telegram. Wet shorn wool naturally is heavier, than when dry and it is stated authoritatively that buyers in the past have [suffered teqfnsddjerablie losses through sheep being shorn when the wool was wet. One buyer is said to have lost £BOO on one purchase. In consequence of complaints from buyers, growers whose wool shows loss of weight will have to meet debit notes from the brokers. It is also stated that some of last season’s clips, when opened up in England and the Continent, have been found to be falsely packed by rougher wool 3 being placed in the centre of the bales. This is another matter concerning which buyers are said to be determined to protect themselves.

Referring, at the meeting of the Manawatu executive of the Farmers’ Union, to the visit of the Tasmanian party of farmers, and to the dinner given to them in Wellington,, the provincial president (Mr 0. P. Lynch) said that some of the visitors had spoken in terms sympathetic to a suggesti. :: for reciprocity in the tariffs as betwevn New Zealand and Australia. They had mentioned, as an instance of the anomalous position existing, that potatoes were £6 a ton in the South Island when they were £3O a ton in Australia. The Tasmanian crop had suffered heavily owing to the floods. He thought it likely that those farmers would go back and work towards easing the tariff restrictions tjiat were operating against the Dominion. They would also be pleased to show the resources of Tasmania to any party of farmers from New Zealand who might visit that country.

Peter Pihaloff, a Russian, employed als a flaxcutter in Metes its Ro'ss, Rough and Co. ’s PoroutawhaO swamp, narrow - ly escaped losing his life as the result of an accidentally inflicted wound, in the right kniee oln Friday morning. Pihaloff was using a ihook to cut flax ' when the blade slipped land inflicted a deep galsh in his knee severing an artery and cutting the muscle. After tying a piece of paper around the wound Pilhaloff mounted his bike and was making his way into Levin for medical attention when he whls met by Mr A. Stevenlson on the flax lorry aaid he immediately took him to Foxtom By the time he had arrived there Pihaloff had lost a, considerable quantity of blood and was in a very weak state. Medical attention soon stopped the flow of blood, however, and the injured man is now reported to be making good recovery from his accident. Pihaloff had only resumed work a few days ago after an absence of some weeks recovering from a similar accident. —Herald. •