SHANNON NEWS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 January 1922, Page 3

SHANNON NEWS.

{From the Shannon News.) Mrs Hallain, who has been visiting England and Africa, is expected to arrive in Shannon on Monday next. The Patea people did well as the result ol their carnival effort, having raised £IBOO for Domain, improvement.

“We have just got enough money to keep ourselves going till the end of the financial year; after that things will be alright,” said the Mayor at Tuesday’s Borough Council meeting, when the question of finance was ieferred to.

Messrs Roach and Spencer, who are attending the Bowling Tournament in Dunedin, In a recent letter, say that the weather lias been far from favourable and the greehs are very heavy.. but otherwise they are having a very enjoyable tim*. It was stated at the Borough Council meeting on Tuesday evening that Mr James Dalzicl, borough roadman, was now out of hospital alter his recent severe illness, hut was not strong enough to get about yet. A large gang of men are at present erecting a sawmill on Mr McDonald's properly over the hill. Messrs Harvey and Co., of Levin have secured the timber rights. When the mill is in full swing a good many men will be employed. -

“ Tire ladies of Shannon raised more money for patriotic purposes than was done by any 'other place in Horowlienua,” said the Mayor (Mr Murdoch) at the Borough council meeting on Tuesday evefiing, when reference was made to the local Soldiers’ Memorial.

Mr W. .H. Gunning, of Shannon, has received a letter from his brother, who lives in Bath, England, in which it is stated that the last English summed, was very dry, and as a consequence the greater part of the crops were affected. Whilst the wheat crop was up .to about usual, barley and oats only gave a quarter of the average return. The straw from these cereals was short and in bulk would only produce about 5c wt per acre, as compared with the average weight per acre of about one and a-ha!f to two lons. Turnips had failed under the dry conditions, hut mangels had done well, bearing out the New Zealand experience that this root does well in dry as well as wet seasons.