Shannon News TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1929.

Shannon News, 10 December 1929, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1929.

Miss Rita Roach, who is taking up nursing as a profession, left last week to commence her training at the Dannevirke public hospital.

Owing to the wet state of the ground at the Domain the Shannon school sports, which were to have been held on Saturday afternoon, were postponed.

With a view to taking up the nursing profession Miss Rita Christofferson left Shannon yesterday for Napi-sr where she will join the public hospital staff. '

For the purpose of raising funds for their library the committee of the Shannon Women's Institute are holding a big euchre tourney in Laurvig's Hall on Thursday evening, commencing at eight o’clock. As a valuable gold watch is being awarded to the winner of the ladies section and another to the gents, a large crowd should be attracted.

Some weeks ago the Shannon Athletic Club decided to permanent surface the cycle track in the Domain and on Saturday evening a meeting was held to go into the question of how the work should be carried out. A method submitted by Mr Channings, of Levin, was dealt with, but as there were one or two points the meeting was not clear on, it was decided to ask Mr Channings to meet the members at a meeting to be arranged, when his method will be fully gone into.'

At a meeting of the Foxton Chamber of Commerce Mr G. F. Smith brought up the advisability of arranging for a Saturday afternoon char-a-banc service from Moutoa to Foxton to enable mil] employees to get to Foxton. He suggested that the business people of Foxton subsidise, if necessary, a service to Foxton leaving Whitanui at about 1.30 p.m. He jointed out that during the time the bridge was down Foxton had benefitted from the Moutoa trade, but since the completion of the bridge this trade was going back to Shannon. Members considered that such a service would benefit Foxton business people to a large extent and a committee was set up to interview business people with the object of arranging for a subsidy, if necessary for the inducement of a regular Saturday afternoon service as outlined.

A sweet pea stem with nine blooms was to be seen in a shop window in Thames Street, Oamaru, last week.

A train perhaps unique in New Zealand railway annals passed through Feilding the other day consisting of 46 goods trucks from Wellington (says the Star). The entire freight consisted of motor-cars, each railway truck having one assembled car.

When the question of permitting the sanitary inspector to attend the annual refresher course was under discussion by the Woodville County Council, Cr. Galloway remarked, “I was going to suggest that councillors, as well as the sanitary inspector, have a refresher course.” (Laughter).

“The radium department at the public hospital has treated about 2000 cancer patients during the past five years, and I can say in all good - faith that there are people walking about our streets to-day -who but for the treatment would not be with us.” This statement was made by Dr. P. Clennell Fenwick.

In the course of a general knowledge paper set at a Napier school recently, one of the questions asked was as to what the letter “G.R. ” on a letter box stood for. The question was one which had quite a number of the younger pupils guessing, but one bright soul had a brain wave and made answer to the effect that the letters stood for “gathered regularly.”

Dr. Derrick, Director of the Plunket Society, speaking at Foxton, said the Society's aim at present was to extend its pre-natal clinics to fill the gap between the infant and the school child. At present the child was lost sight of after it had passed out of the hands of the Plunket Nurse and this was not desirable as in many cases it was found that the child at school age was requiring attention. The Society had

commenced the work of bridging the gap last year and by March last 52,000 ehildron between the infant and school age had visited various clinics so the work was rapidly developing. It entailed, however, considerable additions to the sthff but the need was there and he did not think the people, of New Zealand would desire the work not to be done.

The roadway, at the top of Law’s Hill, on the highway between Levin and Shannon, constitutes a corner which does not meet the needs of modern traffic, as numerous accidents have testified. Together with other unsatisfactory bends on the same route, it has been the sugject of representations by the County Council to the Highways Board, and now that the Public WorksDepartment has commenced to carry out formation and straightening work on the highway south of Shannon, hopes are entertained that the operations of the unemployment relief scheme will extend so far as to include Law’s Hill. Fate was ironical yesterday afternoon when a motor car had to be run into

the bank in order to avoid a mob of cattle. The car contained Crs. Catlev and Ryder and the County Engineer but the incident would, perhaps, have been more to the point if the motorists had been Government representatives.

A shipment of New Zealand stock has "been made to Patagonia. It includes several milking Shorthorn heifers.

Mr J. Linklater, M.P., who is a member of the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society left on Saturday for the Royal Show at Invercargill. Mrs Linklater is accompanying him.

Eel competitions have resulted in surprising records in |some districts. A lady at Tiratu, however, claims to have established a new record, by capturing 2000 slugs in a week.

A blue shark seven feet in length was washed on to the beach outside the New Plymouth , municipal baths last week. It was thought that the shark, which was bruised, had been hurt on the reef and stranded as the tide went out.

A fire at Shannon at 4.30 this morning totally destroyed a five-roomed dwelling and four rooms and a washhouse detached. The building was owned by Mr J. Holden and had only been occupied by Mrs Holden and a young son for the past week. At the time of the fire the occupiers were in Palmerston North. The building and its contents were insured in the State Office.

Mr Alf. Hulston has secured the New Zealand rights of the film of the great passion play at Omer Ammergau and was in Levin this morning finalising arrangements for its screening on

Christmas Night. Surely no picture could be more suitable for the occasion and Mr Surrell is to be congratulated on his foresight in securing it for Levin.

Mr Dickie, a former Reform M.P., and member of the South Taranaki executive of the Fanners’ Union, describes the Meat Board as simply ‘‘an octopus feeding upon the farmers.” He declared that the Board was run by a few Canterbury farmers, and the Canterbury A. and P. Association, and that “its constitution seems only a good opportunity for a few to draw big salaries and fees out of the £35,000 it received in levies.”

Opportunity was taken by members of the Manawatu provincial executive of the Farmers’ Union on Saturday to reply to a criticism from the Pig Breederg’ Association that the union was composed chiefly of sheep men. “Such is not the case,” stated Mr A. Gr. Dean, “and I told them that. ” The chairman (Mr O. P. Lynch) stated that in ...s district the union’s members were 75 per cent, dairy farmers and members from Levin and Oliau reported similarly.

“We can’t expect our country police officers to do their duty properly if their houses are not connected by ’phone,” stated Mr H. McLeavey (Ohau) at the Farmers’ Union meeting bn Saturday. He instanced the case of Levin where one constable was on the ‘phone but the other was not. There was an occasion recently when the officer on the telephone was out of town and the other could not be reached unless some one went for him. Such a state of affairs should not be, said the speaker. The matter is to be brought before the Police Commissioner.

The Government’s decision to drop the bonus on pork was before the Manawatu executive of the Farmers’ Union on Saturday, when the opinion was expressed that the union should co-operate with the Pi g Breeders’ Association in any move that was made to get the subsidy reinstated, until one member pointed out that when the subsidy on wheat was suggested, the union fought against it. “Our policy is that there should be no subsidies,”, stated Mr 11. Denton. The executive finally decided to express its willingness to co-operate with the pig breeders in any move made to fpi-ther the industrv.