LATE LOCALS.
A Press Association message from Dunedin to-day says : As the ‘result of a raid on a two-up “school” on the Town Belt, near Mornington, on Saturday, March 14th, twelve young men were to-day fined £lO and costs at the Police Court.
A new Cadet Company has been formed in Stratford, consisting of boys of the District High School over fourteen years of age. They paraded to-day, seventy strong, under Staff Sergeant-Major Dallinger, who states that the boys presented a fine appearance oh parade. The company will be drilled an hour every Friday afternoon during school hours.
At a meeting of creditors of the Misses Trent, engaged in a large tea room business, known as, “The Cadena,” in Christchurch, it was shown that unsecured creditors totalled £2208 3s • Bd, with a deficiency of £llO4 8s 9d. They attribute their failure ito strike affecting the business. ' The Official Assignee stated that the books were badly kept and too many irons in the fire prevented proper supervision. The estate was left in the hands of the Assignee to realise on the stock, says the Press Association.
Mr Northcroft, Resident Commissioner of the , Cook Islands, who arrived at. Wellington from Raratonga yesterday, chiefly for health reasons (states the. Press Association), stated in an interview with a “Wellington Post” representative that everything is proceeding satisfactorily at the Islands. The burning question with the Natives is a desire to have schools where their children can be taught English. A destructive hurricane struck the Islands on January 9th, when many native houses were blown down, and much damage was done to the orange and other crops. Immediate steps were taken to relieve distress. Regarding the published statement that there is general unrest, Dr. Pomare states that there is no foundation for such a statement.
- A Nelson P.A. wire states: Mr Hudson, president, qf the .Fruit-grow-ers’ Association, has received a telegram from Mr, Kirk to the effect that a cable received from San Francisco stated that the authorities refused to land peaches, the reason being an unidentified grub, and are forwarding them' to Vancouver. It is thought locally that this may be a grub which gets into the stem of certain varieties and is vei - y difficult to detect. The greatest care was exercised, with the shipment. As nothing was said regarding the pears, it is presumed that they were landed. The shipment was approximately five hundred cases of peaches and two hundred cases of pears.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 82, 27 March 1914, Page 6
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410LATE LOCALS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 82, 27 March 1914, Page 6
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