LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 53, 3 November 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

()u Friday last the directors of the Five Mile Beach Goldmining Company let a contract to Messrs John McGregor and Co., of the Otago Foundry, for the construction of an up-to-date suction dredge with auxiliary bucket attachment designed to cope with all sorts of river-bottom difficul-

ties. The machine will deal with 100 cubic yards (or 150 tons per hour), which i« a very large capacity. A considerable proportion of the scrip of this Company is held in Taranaki, and Mr Joseph McCluggage is on the Board of Directors, Last week Mr McCluggage visited Dunedin on this

Company’s business and is well satisfied with the progress made and the general outlook.

lu connection with the Midhirst Minstrels Grand Concert and Dance which takes place on Thursday evening in the Town Hall, it has been arranged that a vehicle will leave Mr Donald’s Crown Stables, Stratford, at 7.d0 p.m. for the convenience of those desiring to attend the function. As before intimated, several Si rat ford amateurs will render assistance, and the Stratford orchestra will be present. The function promises to he one of the best Midhirst has seen for a long time. Particulars supplies by Mr T. H. Penn show that during October 7.02 in. of rain fell on fifteen days. The heaviest falls were:—7th. .olin; 9th, .50in.; 16th, I.,'lbin ; 17th, 1.36 in. ; 18th, 1.37 in. ; 24th, ,56in. Miss N. Trimble supplies particulars of the fall at Inglewood, 9.11 in. falling on seventeen days, the highest falls being:— 16th, 1.37 in.; 17th, 1.83 in.; 22nd, 1.01 in.; 23rd, l.Glin.; 25th, ,97in.; 31st, .ooiu. Though, having the bigger aggregate fall, Inglewood experienced the lightest individual falls. Both towns had four days of rain nndei ten points—Stratford two of nine and one each of seven and six, and Inglewood one of eight and three of one. I his afternoon, under the direction of Mr P. W. Sandford, tin? raranaki High Schools’ exhibition of woodwork and metal work, which is to be shown j at tiie Auckland Exhibition by the instruction of the Education Department "as packed ready for forwarding to the northern city. The work of the j Sti at lord students is a fine and varied

assortment, and made a splendid show, 3 he exhibit is to show the actual work of young boys from the farms round about, who are working in the rural division of the High School. The course of work has its great value to the lads in the fact that it is entirela utilitarian and tends to better fit them for the actual everyday work of life which must take place on their own farms, when time and circumstances do not permit running off to the blacksmith or carpenter as the townsman so readily can. S. 1 ■ —.