Shannon News FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1925.

Shannon News, 6 November 1925, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1925.

Tenders for asphalting' the drilling ground at lire Shannon School will close with the secretary, Mr Watkins, on Monday next, Nov. 9th.

A wind-up dance will he held in tiie Parish Hiall on Tuesday evening by the Ladies’ Guild of Ven. Bede’s, the proceeds from which will go towards the bazaar fund.

A few minutes before the poll closed on Wednesday evening, Mr J. Riches, one of the scrutineers, was taken suddenly ill and had to be removed to his home where he received medical attention.

Owing to the Recreation Grounds having been 'ploughed up ihe Shannon Cricket Club will not be taking part in the .competitions this year, but hope to put a strong team in the field next season.

The small boys of Shannon celebrated ..Guy Fawkes’ Day in the oldfashioned way and many weird and wonderful guys were to be seen about the town. In the evening bonfires were dotted about the town.

Owing to the weather not being favourable on Wednesday afternoon, the committee of the Tennis Club, who had intended iq officially open their season that day, decided to postpone the opening day until Wednesday next at 2 p.m. The dance arranged for the evening was held, the Druids’ Hall being comfortably filled, the gathering .being a most enjoyable one as well as a. success financially: Mr E. T. Moody officiated as M.C., the music being provided by Miss Quarrie and Messrs Mason, H. Hook and W. Quarrie. An excellent sit-down supper was provided by the ladies.

The gross takings, at the rate of Is a heart, at the Prohibition v. Continuance debate in the Hamilton Town Hall recently amounted to £2B 3s. This will be handed over in its entirety to the Waikato Hospital, each side paying an equal share of the expenses. As.the donation will carry with it a £ for £ subsidy, the cause of charity will benefit considerably.

Included among the 19 public school hoys who came out from Liverpool by the Suffolk were sons of some wealthy Englishmen. The lads, who are of a fine stamp, intend gaining as much farming knowledge as possible during the next few years, and then take up sections of their own. When tins time comes they intend to send for their parents, and by this means much capital will be introduced into the Dominion (says the Auckland Star).

The minister who presided, at a Dunedin church last Sunday evening road a lengthy bulletin of intimation, which concluded as follows: “A retiring collection will be I a ken up in aid of —; during the week collectors will await on you. for subscriptions for the mission; an appeal is also made on behalf of the building fund, the finances of which are sadly depleted; your freewill offering will now he taken, after which the choir will render, ‘‘Let Not Your Hearts lie Troubled.”

Mr George Shirtcliffe, a well-known Wellington .business man. wlm recently contributed to the controversy over M. Spahliiiger’s consumption serum, states that it will take some £112,000 for M. Spaldinger to square off his indebtedness and provide funds for carying on bis estate, Carouge, at Geneva, for a further period of two years. “M. Spaldinger stales it costs carrying on his estate, Carouge, at dif'li'-idlies can he solved and he can he loti to carry on his work peacefully without any disturbing financial worry t cannot'but feel convinced that he will, before very long, say, within two years, complete the production of Ids sera and vaccines, and that he will then disclose his complete formula and method for the benefit of mankind.”

“Those people who are always i a Iking about a slump and bad times m me future,” exclaimed the Prime •Minister during his speech at Cainluiuge, “are never happy unless they are thoroughly miserable.” —(Laughter).. Two tons of whitebait were placed auuaid the urey mouth express l'or Christchurch on a recent morning, the line weather having produced a great “run” of the bait in the Coast rivers. So great was the consignment that tlie usual practice of using tins was discontinued, the waitbait being dumped into wooden boxes. 'ln the Journal of Agriculture Mr W. M. Singleton, Director of the Dairy Division, gives an interesting account of the development of dairy herd testing in New Zealand. This shows a great increase in the number of cows tested over last year, the figures being: 1923-34, 107,777; 1924-25, 151,875. The average yield of fat' per cow last" season was 2231 lbs, as against 2131bs in the previous year. The cows tested represent 12.7 per cent, of the total cows in milk, as against 9.1 per cent, in 1923-24. “New York :is to have a 65-storey hotel, of 5500 rooms, which will he Bft higher than the Woolworth Building. Ten per cent, of the profits of the hotel are, it is stated by the real estate people responsible, to be devoted to missionary work. The building, exclusive of the land, will cost £2,800,000, will contain a dining room seating 2000, an inter-denominational church, a hank, stores, hospital, and 12 roof gardens. No occupant of the hotel will be allowed to smoke or drink, and Sunday newspapers will not be permitted on the premises.

Certain persons have recently been calling on private houses, in Cambridge, says the Independent, selling suit lengths under misrepresentation. A case hag just been brought under notice where one of these persons, dressed in sailor's uniform, sold a piece of cloth to a. resident, declaring that it was the finest English serge manufactured, that there wa’s sufficient in the piece for a suit and an extra -pair of trousers, and that owing to special facilities lie enjoyed as a sailor, he could sell this at a very low price. As a matter ol fact the cloth, -on being measured, proved to be only 3J yards in lengths—not nearly sufficient for a suit, and the quality was poor,'* .not being worth nearly one-half of what-was paid for it.