LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 49, 29 October 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The AVaitara Freezing Works \\ ill open the season next Tuesday. Fanners will please note. Stratford and Denbigh Road cribhage teams will once again try cojij elusions on Friday evening, the match taking place at the Denbigh Hoard ; school. I j I here was no successful tenderer on Monday evening for the appropriation of £3OO by the Stratford Building Socity. It was therefore balloted for, Mr K. Kveriss being the winner. At Te Kuiti yesterday C. Lower was fined £SO and costs, and P. Lawler the same amount on a charge of keeping liquor for sale. The annual juvenile ball under the auspices of the Fire Brigade is to be held at an early date, but progress has been retarded recently owing to wet weather preventing the children practising. The Hrigade now desires to set up a ladies’ committee to manage* affairs, and all ladies desirous of helping in the matter are asked to meet at the lire station at 3.30 o’clock to-morrow afternoon.

The Stratford cricket team selected to play Inglewood to-morrow are requested to meet at the Post Office at 12.1 d o’clock. Fishing in the Opaiii River one day recently, a fishen-a.-: caught a Bib trout, which, on being opened, was . found to contain a mouse which had been swallowed whole. The Stratford Bowling Club open the season on Thursday afternoon. Weather permitting, play will commence at two o’doc tv. requested to “bring a plate.” The Inglewood Operatic Society last night produced Gilbert and Sullivan’s opera, “HALS. Pinafore” in the re-cently-opened Town Hall, before ak crowded audience. The piece was well presented and encores were numerous. At the. level railway crossings in New Zealand the authorities are content with the warning words, “Stop,” but in South Australia we read, “Stop! Look! Listen!” the words appearing on a St. Andrew’s cross. Some unusually high lambing percentages are reported from the Methven district (Canterbury). In on© case 126 per cent, is claimed, and in another 133, states a Press Association telegram. A splendid specimen of toi-toi bloom is now on view in the window of the New Zealand Clothing Factory premises in Broadway. It was procured 1 yesterday under the foot of the mountain by Mr J. W. Jones, of the Pub- ' lie Works Department. At a meeting of the Friendly So- ■ cieties hold at Eltham on Monday i night, it was decided to hold an amal--1 gamatecl Friendly Societies’ picnic and to hold another meeting in a fortnight t to appoint a committee to carry out ? the arrangements and fix a date, • 1 ? Members and friends of the Stratford j Operatic Society will spend a social*' . evening in the Parish Hall to-morrow . night, and in reference to invitations i tho secretary of the Society has-a . notification in another column. ] The average cow of the telT best j herds of one of the Agricultural Def partment’s illustration cow-testing associations produced last year 2711 b of (1 butter-fat, while the average cow of the association produced only 2101 b. The'difference in value, at Is a pound / for butter-fat, equals £3 10s per head. The census for.the year 1911 credits l a New Zealand with 633,733 cows. ; Could leach of these be increased in prodnej tivp capacity by the difference record- *. cd above; _ t say.s. . tho “Agricultural , Journal,” the ivalpe of,tho increased ’ yield .would exceed , the value of ,out annual export of either butter or cheese.