LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 53, 24 June 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Another of the series of socials under the auspices of the Foresters’ Lodge will be held this evening.

A Melbourne cablegram states that Con the Shaughrauu lias been scratched for the National Hurdles.

The Sydney City Council has approved of the plans of J. C. Williamson’s large new theatre in Bathurst Street, states a cablegram to-day.

Mr C. Fi. James has presented to the Municipal Band a handsome gold medal, which is to be awarded to the best attender for the next twelve months. The medal will be on view in Messrs Mullen and Marshall 1 s premises next week.

A meeting of the original subscribers to the old Whangamomona Doctor Fund is to be held on Saturday, July 4th, to discuss the handing over of the Fund to the Whangamomona Medical Association, which latter body has superseded the old institution.

An enthusiastic meeting of the Masonic ball committee was held last evening, when the different sub committees reported that everything was well forward for the function to be held on Thursday, July 16th. The catering is being entrusted to Mr# Brooking.

A Wellington Press Association telegram to-day says:—The Hon. Mr Massey stated that the cost of the building for the New Zealand section at the Panama Exhibition will be £3500. Owing to the high price of building materials at San Francisco, the amount is £IOOO in excess o* the original estimate.

Mr C. A. Wilkinson, M.P., «t Eltham on Monday night; “Taranaki was one of the most progressive provinces in the Dominion, and to develop it work had to be done. He was going to push forward the work on the Stratford-Toko line and the Opunake line. New Plymouth was now a deep-sea port, and that would prove a great thing for the province. They wanted also to develop the country to the eastward —country which would carry two sheep to the acre.

Mr C. A. Wilkinson, M.P. for Egmont, at his meeting at Eltham on Monday night, said that he had made a mistake in stating that the first contract in connection with the Opunake railway would be started within a fortnight. The telegram from the Minister of Public Works read: “Tenders for first contract will be advertised in about a fortnight’s time. Survey work still proceeding. As soon as these preliminaries are completed work will be pushed on.”

There was a well attended and representative gathering of members and others interested in the work of the Society for the Protection of tho Health of Women and Children in the Borough Council Chambers yesterday. Amongst others present wero the Mayor (Mr W. P. Kirkwood), Rev. Howard, Dr. Johnson, Father Maples, Mr s Hine, Mrs Kendrick and Plunket Nurse Gulley (Hawera) and other Stratford residents. The following officers were elected: President, Mrs A. W. Budge; vice-presi-dent, Mrs H. E. Abraham; hon. secretary, Mrs Stronach; hon. treasurer, Mrs Prentice. Committee, Mesdames Grant, Copping, Howard, Steven. Uniacke, Riera, Thompson, Crawshaw, Coleman, Glasgow, Pattison, Leveridge; Executive Committee, The President and Vice-president, the hon. secretary and treasurer and Mrs Pattison; Advisory Board, Father Maples, Rev. Howard, Mr S. Spence, Dr. Steven, and Mr Kendrick.

About twenty members of the Scottish Society met in Messrs C. and E. Jackson’s office last night. Mr Grant was voted to the chair. The secretary presented a statement showing that the receipts to date for the social were £SO 7s, with several items still to come in. The expenses totalled £32 3s 6d, which will leave the surplus well over £2O. This was considered particularly satisfactory, considering the very wet, cold night. Hearty votes of thanks to the ladies for the way they had managed their part of the work, to the performers and other workers for their assistance, and to the secretary, were carried unanimously. It was decided to arrange a concert and social for Thursday, July 9th. Messrs Wade, Cameron, Mathis. Douglas and Patrick were appointed a dance and musical committee to make the necessary arrangements for the entertainment, while Mesdames Reid, Petrie and Smith and Miss Wylie, with power to add, were appointed to attend to the catering. The committee meet again next Tuesday.