LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 45, 23 February 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The School Committee meets tomorrow evening. A reminder is given-of the meeting to be 1 held in the Mid hirst Town Hall to-morrow afternoon to go into the question of toll-gates.

The picnic of New Plymouth School children, proposed to have been held in Stratford on March 12th, has been abandoned.

Evidence of the excellent state of the track to the East Mountain House is' supplied by the fact that on Friday afernoon a five-horse drag from the Empire Stables took the party of High School gills right up to the House in two hours, which is claimed to be a record for the trip. The return journey on Saturday evening was done in three-quarters of an hour.

’ i The Premier visited the Pukekohe "i Show on Saturday and received a mim- | her of deputations in the township. He I was entertained at luncheon by the 1 : show officials, and delivered a short . speech, in the course of which be dwelt ’I upon the splendid season farmers had ’ | experienced. He stated that the ex,l ports would prove a record. Mr MasI sey said the Government was doing its ' I duty to the settler by providing ac--1 ■ cess to holdings, giving railway facilities, and better roads. Referring to ’I the Board of Agriculture, Mr Massey '■mentioned the encouragement the ■ i Government was giving to scientific I farming. It was on his advice that j the Board had been set up, and he ex- ; pected it would prove of great advantage, not only to the Minister, but' j also to all engaged in farming pur--1 suits. Referring to condemned cattle, Mr Massey mentioned that ho had I asked Parliament to increase compensation from CS to £l2. I i The conference of the New Zealand Locomotive Engine-drivers, Firemen , and Cleaners’ Association was resumed ' at Christchurch on Saturday. A depu-) tatioa was appointed to wait on the 1 ; Minister for Railways and the Generali ! Manager, to lay before them the decisions arrived at by the conference.

i Comment was made upon t!io fact that i certain promises made hy the late Geujeral Manager (during the period that , Mr A. Myers was Minister for Rail- | ways') have not been given effect to. I Special reference was made to the fact 'that the promise made was that men called upon to prepare an engine which was afterwards not wanted should he allowed a minimum of four hours, has not been kept, and the opinion was generally represented that men in the loco, branch of the service are dissatisfied with the wages at present paid. The ten days’ sitting of the conference has now concluded. A simple, sensible, inexpensive remedy for Rheumatism, Gout, Sciatica, ami Lumbago awaits von in RHEFMtf I Ins wonderful medicine cures hy expelling the cause—excess uric acid in the blood. Has cured thousands. Txy it. 2s Gd and 4s 6d every where. GOj

A distinct and prolonged shock of earthquake was experienced in Stratlord at 7.1 S o’clock this morning. The town was in darkness for some time on Saturday evening, owing to the jamming of a valve on the Electrical Supply Co.’s Diesel engine. Sports in connection with the Stratford District High School are to be held in \ ictoria Park on Thursday, the •>tu March. One of the events on the programme is a championship race of 22(Jyds, open to all boys atiending a secondary school in Taranaki. For tliis race Hr J. B. Hine, M-P-, has generously donated the prize—a gold medal to he suitably inscribed with the winner's name.