Shannon News TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1929.

Shannon News, 19 November 1929, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1929.

Mr and Mrs W. H. Gunning, accompanied by Mr Eric Gunning, left Shannon yesterday for.Rotorua.

A great sale of drapery and Christmas Fair will open on Saturday next in premises in Plimmer Terrace, late ly occupied by Howard Andrew.

Mr Claude Hunt, of New Plymouth, who has been the guest of Mr and Mrs V. Pope, returned to his home yesterday.

Mr F. Thurston, of the Bank of New Zealand staff, Shannon, accompanied by Mrs Thurston, left on Saturday for Wellington on hobday.. {During Mr. Thurston’s absence, Mr E. K. Collier, who' has been relieving at the Petone branch, will carry out his duties.

A sale of work will be conducted in the Parish Hall on Friday and Saturdaly next by the Ladies’ Guild of Veil. Bede’s. The function will be opened at 2.30 on Friday afternoon by His Worship the Mayor, and will be continued in the evening and again on Saturday afternoon and at night a dance will be held, when Mrs Butler and Mr Mason will provide the music. A special attraction on Friday evening will be. music and games.

Last year 47,000 dozen eggs were exported on behalf of VI supplying members of the Oamaru Egg Circle.

A fifty-three acre farm near Masterton was sold at auction on Wednesday at £46 per acre.

» A verdict that death was due to the poison from cigarette smoking was returned at an inquest, at Hampton, Cheshire, on a licensed victualler. His widow said that he smoked between 50 and 60 cigarettes a day.

An Aucklander who has returned from Australia says, “You can form some idea of what it is like to live in Sydney when I tell you that potatoes cost 9s 6d a quarter, milk lOd a quart, mutton chops Is 2d a pound, and butter 2s 2d a pound. All clothes are at least 25 per cent, more expensive than they are in New Zealand,

Yesterday’s retail quotations in .Wellington city showed that green peas were slightly more plentiful, a good quality selling in most shops at about 6d per lb. New potatoes were also slightly lower in price, the best grades having fallen.ld to 3d per lb. Strawberries are on sale throughout the city, though, as yet, they are rather dear whole boxes of the best grade 'fetching from 2s 4d to 2s 6d.

Several changes in the higher offices of the Post and Telegraph Department are announced. Mr A. Dawson, Chief Postmaster at Palmerston North for the past years, has been transferred on promotion to be chief postmaster at Wanganui. A Wanganui Press wire states that Mr J. M. McLean, chief postmaster at Wanganui is to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Mr R. 11. Boyd, chief postmaster at Wellington.

It is really wonderful how trusting bank officials are in 'Christchurch (remarks the Sun). The other morning a large lorry was backed against the pavement outside -a bank in Hereford Street, and two nonchalant ' junior clerks were removing canvas bags, the contents of which jingled temptingly. The lorry carried seven dozen of these bags, and while the clerks were inside the bank the lorry was completely unattended, the driver being nowhere in sight.

The Foxton Sports Association report a credit balance from the recent motor racing meeting of £lßl. The receipts totalled £452, and the expenditure £271 (including £l4B in prize money). The Association decided io donate to the Foxton Racing Club a new grass mower in acknowledgment of the Club’s generosity in putting its track at the disposal of the Association. It was also decided to offer the Racing Club the acumulated funds totalling £250 on deposit at 5 per cent.

At the Customs House near Basle, Mr 11. W. Bullivant, of Christchurch, during his recent tour of Germany, found that the German officer in charge, w r ho was examining passports and baggage, had been for three years in the Emdon, and he w r as -in the ship round Australia in the war. Mr Bullivant asked: Did the Emden ever come into Cook Strait 1 ? There was a widespread rumour that she was. there. The German officer replied: “You cannot expect me to ans Aver that question.” He would not tell anything, but he was greatly interested in examining the New Zealander’s passports. Equally enigmatic and diplomatic was a Maori in Berlin. Mr Bullivant was surprised to see a Maori in one of the leading thoroughfares, so he naturally spoke asking: “How came you to get here? What are you doing here.” All'll could find oat was that the Maori was in Berlin studying the German language. He did not say who he was or how r long he had been there.