LATE LOCALS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 31, 19 January 1912, Page 6

LATE LOCALS.

The following amounts are being mid out by the factories this month :or butter-fat: —Stratford £8509, Mid-

;irst £9OOO, Ngaire £3318, Cardiff >1952, Lowgarth £2014, Eltham 112,165. “You’re working on the co-operative ivstem,” enquired Mr. Kcnrick, S.M., :i a debtor appearing in a judgment iummons ease. “Two good men and ine bad, eh?” “Yes, that’s right, your Honour; can’t push his way out of a paper hag!” T 1 le -defendant in a civil action at die Magistrate’s Court yesterday kep + .eferring to the debts lie had paid. '■•‘Debtors!” exclaimed Mr. Kenrick, 8.M., “A man living in a tent and aiming three pounds a week should

;ave no debts.” The engine belonging to the Pubic Works Department which recently eft the line near Toko station, was jacked back on to the track on Saturday. The engine was only slightly lain aged. Mr. J. F. Anderson, of the Stratiord staff of the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., has rcceivjd notice that he has passed the first section of his examination as Associate of the New Zealand Society of Accountants.

The case McCluggage Bros. v. Clias. Hilton was concluded this aftornoon. Defendant was unable to satisfy His Worship that ho was unable to pay rhe amount, and ho was ordered to pay Cl -I 11s 7d forthwith, in default fourteen days in New Plymouth gaol. Die warrant was suspended so long as defendant pavs £-1 a month.

Mr. T. Ronayno (General Manager of Railways), Mr. H. Buxton (Chief traffic Manager), Mr. .1. Rurnett (Chief Engineer for Working Railways), Mr. A. L. Beattie (Chief Meehanieal Engineer), Mr. J. E. Armstrong (District Traffic (Manager), and Mr. E. .1. Jones (District Engineer), arrived in Stratford yesterday morning on a tour of inspection. They wont up the line as far as To Wera in the afternoon, and left for New Plymouth this morning.

We must again congratulate the Stratford School on getting ten pup Is in the first hundred on the credit list in the .Junior Civil Service examination. As there are somewhere about six or seven thousand pupils or more entered for this examination throughout the Dominion, it is all the more creditable to the scholars, as close on 1000 have qualified, hut the first 150 have to exceed GO per cent, of the marks to be on the credit list.