SHANNON NEWS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 January 1927, Page 2

SHANNON NEWS

(From “Shannon Nows.”) Mr and Mrs A. E. Hyde and their two children left Shannon on Tuesday on a motor trip to Auckland via New Plymouth. It is their intention to make the return trip by way of Napier. . We understand that it is the intention of the Railway Department, at an early date, to run Sunday excursion trains from Palmerston North and intermediate stations to Paekakariki. The work of ploughing, levelling and putting down in grass the eastern portion .of the school grounds has now been completed This area will be used as a football and cricket ground and will be a great improvement, as this portion of the playing area was in a very rough state. The work has been carried out under the supervision of Mr R. L. Tippler (chairman) and at the committee meeting held on Wednesday evening he was accorded a hearty vote of thgnks for the time he has devoted to the work and the trouble he had gone to to ensure a good job..

It was reported at the Shannon School Committee meeting that some thoughtless and irresponsible person or persons on New Year’s Eve and on another occasion, had removed the school gates from off their hinges. This is a senseless trick as had any wandering stock got into the grounds all the good work that the committee, teachers and scholars have done would have been spoilt. All right-thinking people will agree that a prank of this kind is not a joke and the eommitt.ee strongly resent this kind of thing. The grounds are a credit to all concerned and it behoves everyone to see that they are protected.