LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9, 8 May 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. C. A. Wilkinson, and his daughter, of E Ith am, leave on Thursday next for a trip to the Old Country. If the weather holds line the Fouling Green will be one a lor play to-mor-row afternoon. Negotiations are pending for the sale of Wilkinson’s cinematograph business, Elthara, to Mr. Baker, of Hawora. A special meeting of the Elthara Borough Council to consider the new Local Government Bill decided to leave the matter in the hands of their delegate. The first of a series of euchre par-; ties will he held in M’dhirst to-morrow evening.. They are to he held fortnightly, and during the long winter evenings should be well attended, i“lt’s misnamed. /It should have been called the Government Confiscation Bill,” said Mr Hathaway, the chairman of the Stratford County Council at the conference hold yesterday over the Local Government Bill. The Hon. Geo. Lauren son will speak at the Town Hall, Toko, to-morrow evening, and will discuss various political questions, and deal chiefly with the “Opposition misrepresentations.” The fire hell rang last night, and the brigade turned out promptly, but the casus belli proved to be a nnere chimney which was cleaning itself out. The locality was Ariel street,. , An unfortunate accident occurred last night shortly before eight, which -‘resulted in a ear owned by Mr. A. Davison being damaged' by a shunting truck. The ear was being towed over the Fenton Street railway crossing by another car, and tile driver of the latter apparently did not hear the signal hell ringing. At all events, he drove on, with the result aforementioned.

The third Dominion Dairy Slimy, at Haw or a, a very popular Taranaki -fixture, is to be opened by the Premier, the Hon. Thomas Mackenz’e, at noon on Wednesday, June 12th. Entries close on Saturday, June Ist, with the Show Secretary, Sir A. M. Conroy, at Hawera. Full will bo found in another column of this issue.

The first of a series of dances organised by the members of the Holy Trinity Church, Stratford, was hot in the Parish Hall last evening. The evening proved a most enjoyable one. and the series promises to be a great success. . Mr Arthur Staples made an efficient M.C., and music was supplied by the Messrs. O’Leary, Middleton, Black, MacDonald, llo&ms (2) and Mr. and Mrs. Penn. Supper was kindly supplied by the ladies. A reminder is given • f the puli Leal address to bo delivered in the lown Hall to-night by the Hon. George Laurenson. The Minister will arrive here by the mail train this evening, and to-morrow will leave for Toko, where he addresses a meeting in the evening; lleturning to Stratford, he will leave on Friday morning in company with the Hon. W. D. S. MacDonald,'for Whangamomona, to attend the banquet tendered by the Liberal supporters there to Mr. Joseph McCluggage.

■ The Lowgartli Dairy Company suppliers held a meeting recently and decided to instal a plant for the making of whey butter, the plant to cost somewhere about a thousand pounds. Taking last year’s figures as a basis, it is expected that it will bo possible to make annually 15,4881 b of whey' butter, valued at £617, and 26951 bof starter butter, valued at £lO5. The plant will include a pasteuriser, and it is. held that the pasteurised residue from whey butter is as good pig food as unpasteurised full whey. At a meeting of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union on Thursday last, at the request of a number of mothers who are desirous of more knowledge in regard to the feeding and training of their infants, the secretary was instructed to write the Phinket' Nurse in New Plymouth in regard to the matter.' A reply came to hand this morning stating that Miss Morgan, New Plymouth Phinket Nurse, would be very pleased to gum a demonstration in Stratford on Wednesday, lot]i hist., in the afternoon, open to all mothers and those interested in children.