Shannon

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 184, 6 August 1938, Page 3

Shannon

From Our Own Correspondent. Personal. Miss Weils, Rai Valley, Marlborough, is holidaying with her aunt. Mrs D. Murray, East road. t Miss Mary Ketter, of the Porirua Mental Hospital staff, has returned to her duties after spending a month’s holiday with her mother, Airs Retter. Mr and Mrs L,. H. Best have returned from a motor tour of the South Auckland and Hawke s Bay districts.

Mr and Mrs Nelson Macaulay are back from a holiday visit to Christchurch. Mr T. Hem-man, Grey street, who fell and broke his wrist some weeks ago, is in indifferent health and confined to his bed. Mr H. Hensman, of Hastings, is staying in Shannon, and Mrs F. Powell, of Auckland, is still assisting to nurse her father whom all will wish a speedy ro oovery. Winners at the weekly "300" party at Mangaore were Mrs Smith and Air Stern Junr., the consolation prizes going to Miss M. Astwood and Mr A. Blackwood. The hostesses were Alesdames Greenhow and Cameron. Mr J. Alexander was the winner at the weekly' cribbage tournament at Mangaore on Tuesday night. btas* Houses. Notification nas been received from Mr . L- G. Lowry, M.P., indicating the Government’s intention to bund live State houses in Shannon shortly’. Negotiations are proceeding for the acquiring of suitable land on which to erect, the houses. Arbor Day. The holding of Aroor Bay. which Is an American idea, was introduced to New Zealand by the late Mr W. C. Nation, at Greymouth. Mr Nation was at that time on the staff of the Wairarapa Standard, and a few years later he came to Shannon where he started the Shannon Advocate, which was printed in Shannon. Road Improvements. Improvements are going steadily forward in Stafford street, which has recently been reformed and metalled. The hedge has been cut back from the south entrance to the Dairy Company’s proper ty to provide better visibility, and the road has been considerably widened. At the factory store a certain amount of levelling up has been done to provide better access to the bowser and for parking Golf. Last week-end a team of Levin golfers travelled to Shannon and met Buckley Club in a pleasant series of games. At the end of the day's play the visitors had won by 13 games to 9. The one-club match last Saturday at the Mangaore Club was won by J. Ostler The ladies' section was won by Mrs Murlow. To-day (Saturday), a stableford handicap will be played, the draw being as follows: Ostler and Murray; Crawford ami Edwards; Blackwood and Singleto*; Campbell and Clayton; Massie and Smith; Joy and Cameron; Murrow and Read; Bason and Jameson; Wilson and Cronquest; Elvlnes and Collins; Bovis and Graham; Thurston and K&rena; Siines and Whyte; Maclean and Brann. Ladies' section: Mrs Murrow and Mrs Murray; Mrs Eivines and Mrs Massie; Mrs Whyte and Airs Mitchell; Miss Clayton and Mrs Campbell; Mrs Singleton and Mrs Hook; Mrs Graham and Airs Ostler; Airs Collins and Airs Owen; Mrs Smith and Airs Greenhow; Mrs Simes and Mrs Edwards. Play will commence at 1.15 p.m. sharp. Obituary. The death occurred at Thornton’s Bay, rear Thames, of Mr Charles Frederic Johnston, a one-time resident of the Manawatu district, whom all early settlers will remember. He first came to Shannon about 1892 and took up virgin bush land .'rom the Wellington-Alanawatu Railway Company In the Tokomaru Valley, which is now owned and occupied by Air 8. Roberts. He felled the bush and grassed the land for sheep farming, and ajTer several years left there to run the stage coach between Shannon and Foxton with th mails. He enlisted for service in South Africa and was in the Bth. Contingent, tie did not see active service as the troopship arrived at the port of disembarkation the day after hostilities ceased. Returning from South Africa he took uo the running of the stage coach and mail service between Levin and Foxton for about 13 years without missing a day. He then left this district and started flax- * milling at Waipukurau, later selling out and going to Te Aroha where he again went into the flaxmilling business. About April, 1928, he retired from active business and went to live at Thornton’s Bay, where he passed away suddenly on Wednesday, July 27, and was interred at the Thames cemetery’. The late Mr Johnston was a son of the late Hon. Johnston, a member of the Legislative Council, ana besides a brother (Air C. VV. Johnston, oi ' Wellington), leaves two sisters. Afternoon Party.

Arranged by Alesdames D. F. Jenkins and R. Roberts, an afternoon party’ was held last Wednesday. Each of the twenty four guests brought an article suitable for the hostesses’ jumble stall at the forthcoming Japanese fair. Competitions were won by Mrs A. McSweeney and Mrs Goodwill.