Shannon News

Shannon News, 3 November 1925, Page 2

Shannon News

A special holiday at the office of the Bank of New Zealand, shannon, will Joe observed on Friday next—- " People's Day" at the Manawatu A. ; and P. Show. }\ • As advertised a general meeting ol the Shannon Choral Society will be held .on Thursday night after the practice, when important matters have tu be decided and all members are asked lo attend. The. committee will meet the same night at 7 o'clock. The proprietors of the Maori land Picture Theatre have made arrangements to screen the election results at their theatre on Wednesday evening, immediately they come to hand. No extra charge will be made and patrons can thus learn the results in comfort and see a good picture. The official opening of the Shannon Tennis Club's season will take place at the Club's courts, Vance. Street, tomorrow afternoon at 2 p.m., and a cordially invitation is extended to the public to attend. The courts have just, been top-dressed and should be in excellent condition for tennis. In the evening a dance will be held in the Druids'" Hall.

A large number of Shannon residents journeyed to Mangaorc on Saturday afternoon to attend the opening of the Mangaore Tennis Club's season, which took place, under ideal weather conditions. The president (Mr Blackwood), in an appropriate, speech, welcomed the visitors, and after Mrs Blackwood "had played the first ball, declared the season open. Afternoon tea was provided by the ladies and, the visitors and members spent a mosti pleasant afternoon. .In the evening a social and dance was held, which proved a fitting finale to the afternoon's sport. Musical and vocal items were 1 rendered by Mrs Bovis and Miss flackett, Dr. Mackereth, Messrs Cronquest, Henry and .T. T. Bovis. An impromptu speech competition was held, Mr Cronquest being the winner. A delightful supper was served Ivy the ladies. The social being brought to a close shortly before midnight.

•'Good News" is the title of Howard Andrew. Ltd.'s advertisement on page 2. it- being that the great sale is being continued this week. They advise customers to do their shopping on the way to vote in the morning, when special bargains will be offered and also for theocoming show." The Directors' of the Shipping Companies at Auckland have decided not to ask for any remission of the sentences now being served by the striking seamen. The Auckland Racing Club has decided on a life size statue in bronze as the best means of commemorating the services of the president, Sir Edwin Mitehelson. It will be placed in Ihe Ellerslie racecourse enclosure. Mr Manning, secretary of the Dominion Bowling Association, lias received a cable staling that, owing to shipping alterations, the British bowlers are now leaving Sydney lor Auckland by the Aorangi on December 17, leaving Wellington for Home by the Arawa on February 17. Electors who will be away from their own districts on polling day will not reumio to obtain absent voters' permits. They can vote in any (own they may happen to be in by going into any booth and asking for their ballot papers. They must, of course, vote for their own electorate, and will have to sign for the receipt of their papers.

Three young women regularly stand on the kerb in an Auckland suburb waiting for the tram which lakes them to work, and, while waiting, smoke cigarettes and read the morning paper. In recording, this (he Star' remarks that most women do thnir smoking more or less under ■:;over, even now.

Some of Miss Melville's audience in Auckland on a recent evening tired OJ asking questions winch the candidate easily answered. A man, who probably thought he was making a .. ijing snot by asking the candidate if she was in favour of the Singapore base, got the shock of his life. "Yes, I am in favour of the Singapore base," jjiuiupiJv said Miss Melville. "As a matter 'of fact, I visited Singapore last year; and made some personal observations."

A Wanganui resident who had the misfortune to have his light cur smashed at a railway crossing through it corning in contact with a locomotive states that he received an account from the. Railway Department for damage to the locomotive. lie says he considers that it is particularly fortunate that lie was notdriving' a high-ipowered car at the time, otherwise the department might have asked him' to present them with a new 40-ton locomotive (states an exchange), A recent cable to the Sydney Sun from London stated that H.M.S. liepulse, conveying the Prince of Wales to Southampton, was steaming at toll speed in an effort to reach, spithead. in time to enable Wireless Operator Bramley, a son of Mr Fred Bramley, die Labour leader,'secretary of the Trades Congress, who died at Amsterdam, to attend his father's funeral. Young Bramley picked up in midAtlantic the broadcast news of his father's death, and the Prince of Wales ordered the commander to increase the Repulse's speed.

Mr Mick Boyle, who gave an openair address at the Fountain, Cambridge, on. Saturday, proved more than a match for those who interrupted him (says the Independent). One of the audience persisted in making interruptions. At last the speaker- turned and said that when he was a boy his father gave him a donkey. He '"'rode the tail off" that animal, and was so- hard on it that when it died his father told him that the ghost of the donkey would, pursue him all his life. '"'And," added the speaker, pointing dramatically in the direction of his interrupter, "there's the. d thing now!" There were no further interruptions from that quarter.