LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 43, 26 June 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-day's "Post": Several special reports appear on our outside pages. On the third page will be found reference to the local exhibits at the Dominion Dairy Show. Page 7 contains the report of the WellingtonTaranaki football match, and on pages 5 and 8 appear.? the full text of the remarks of the chairman of the Bank of New Zealand at the annual meeting held in Wellington at noon to- • day. A particularly sharp frost was experienced in the Stratford district last night. | : /It has been suggested that a group ~ of Mastertoii natives be organised to •.-■■' take part in the. historical pageant to : be held in Wellington in.O.ci.ober next. ■„',' The Winter Show "and Gymkhana at llawera to-day attracted k big , crowd of Stratford residents'. Special ,' train* were well' patronised. l A recent visitor to the Otira tunnel }' ! states that tho work is going oh at each end, and that fair progress is being made. The chief difficulty now )s. tho tapping of much water in the neighbourhood of the Devil's Puncli- ' bowl. " ■

. It is stated that Miss Eleanor Wilson, the daughter of the United States President, takes copious notes at all the functions which she attends in |\ ashington. Her idea, it is be-i •lioved. is, to write a book dissecting society. , , -. ■,. .■>■.

A AVairarapa paper reports ''that ohe of its district branches of'the Farmers' Union will shortly close down owing to lack of support." This' is nothing, new, as there are some around Manawatu and Feilding districts who have given up the ghost owing to the same reason. .It was only at the last meeting of Palmerston Branch that the lack of interest question was discussed, and a committee set up to try and devise some means of b-inging the small farmer into the fold, even if he had to be admitted for nothing, remarks the "Manawatu Daily Times."

An action arising out of the heavy storm experienced in Wellington on February 25, 1911, was heard at the Supreme Court on Tuesday, when Luigi Cerchi, a mechanic, ' claimed from the Wellington City Council the sum of £450 as damages sustained to his property at Bosenoath, through being inundated with water as a re-' suit of the blockage of one of the defendant corporation's culverts. The jury awarded £l5O damages, and the Court reserved its decision on a nonsuit point raised by the defence concerning differences'of the statements of claim put in by the plaintiffs' solicitor.

During the past fortnight a winter school attended by some 160 teachers was held at Napier. The principal object of the school was to inaugurate in Hawkes Bay the new system of physical culture which is being substituted for the old school Cadet training. Mr Boyd Garlick, with Messrs Just and Johnston and Misses Heritage and Larsen as assistants, was in charge, and the teachers assembled were given a systematic course of instruction in the Swedish exercises. Advantage was taken of the big assembly of teachers to discuss matters of professional interest, and a number of lectures on various subjects were delivered on different evenings. Social entertainments were also arranged, and the gathering proved both profitable and enjoyable. The permit of the Hawkes Bay teachers attending the usual school midwinter holidays was extended to three weeks, the first fortnight of whi°h was devoted to the instruction in physical training. Formal proceedings began with a civic welcome. It was proposed to introduce the Swedish exercises in the Hawkes Bay schools immediately on resuming after the holidays.