LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 81, 9 August 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual meeting of the Stratfor Horticultural Society will be held o: Wednesday evening.

An interesting cribbago turnament lasting through the winter, has jus been concluded at Ngaere. The i'e suit was in doubt until the last night when Messrs. J. Thomas, sen., ant T. Orr, with 106 games, unexpected ly won from Messrs. Morrison anc Willis, who won 103 games. The attendance was very good throughout, averaging close on twenty eacli night.

It has been decided by the settlers of Whangamomona to entertain the Hon. M . Fraser, Minister for Public Works, at a complimentary banquet on Friday evening next in the Town Hall, Whangamomona. Mr Fraser "ill arrive on Thursday evening and will spend Friday inspecting roads and railways and receiving deputations. Mr .1. B. Hine, M.P., will accompany the Minister on his trip.

By a majority of ninety-nine in a poll of five hundred votes, the ratepayers of Whangarei borough decided upon adopting unimproved values as a basis of local rating. A\ hat appeared to he a deposit of sulphur which lay upon the ground alter last Tuesday’s storm (says the Patea Press) turns out to ho merely a deposit from pinus insignis trees in the district. Visions of there having been another Tarawera eruption have consequently been dispelled. At the Provincial Conference of the W.C.T.U. at Hawcra on Wednesday, Mackay, of 1 read a paper on “The Maternity Nurse in the Home,” and it was resolved that the convention realize the desirability of bringing before the New Zealand W.C.T.U. annual convention in March the question of better provision for maternity nurses to attend to mothers I in their homes, more especially in | country places, and thus relieve them | from considerable expense and worry.

A series of resolutions on the protection of giids and young women,also of youths to the ago of 18, forwarded by Lady Stout, were unanimously supported by the Provincial Convention of the W.C.T.U at Hawera on Wednesday. Resolutions were also passed in favor of the hare majority, and that hotel bars should he closed on the weekly half-holiday tire same as the shops.

The caligraphy of a sign which greets the traveller on bis arrival at the local railway station is one of the marvels of hieroglyphics adorning the entrance to Stratford, and the sooner it is removed the better for our reputation for being up-to-date. The absence of two letters representing the indefinite article in the English language, or, in lieu thereof, a simple apostrophe, makes for a queer adjective. How long will “Inspector Ferment Way” bo good enough for the recognised centre of Taranaki’s rich dairying hinterland!

Writes the Whanga correspondent of the Taranaki Herald: —A large number of workers on the railway constructions were disappointed beyond measure when they were handed 6jgl per hour for the last month’s toil. One man in one of the parties is the father of a large family, who are living with him under canvas. Ho stated that for 15 years lie Juts been working on different works' for the Public Works Department, and things such as these 'will not help even a man like Job to 1 lead an honest life. He ‘ said that tea, bread and butter alone for the maintenance of his family Will cost ak much as 5d per hour of His toil.

1 lie rubber of cribbage matches between Stratford and Ngaero Wjls coni- i eluded last night, when the visitors' 1 won handsomely by 52 games to 37, this making their second win out of the three matches. 'The scores at the different ■ tables were as follows 'Stratford players being named first in each instance); —Harston and Ryan 6 v. E. Scannell and R. Savely 5, W. Collins and A. H. Trotter 6 v. T. Orr and J. Thomas, sen. 6, T. Colson and J. I*ancett 6 v.. H. Taylor and D. Tecofgky 6, ,W. Cliftop and, H. Jones, 6. v. R. Orr and B. .Orr, 8,. Kelly, and Lawson 6 v, Morrison and Willis 9, Jones and Mills 5 v. •J. Thomas, jnn,. and J. Wisnowski 9, C. Jackson and A. E. Speck 2 v. P. Wisnowski and A. V. Sims 9.