LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 58, 30 June 1914, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the Court this morning a man was convicted on a charge of drunkenness and ordered to pay os damages. Mr O. D. Sole was on the bench. Dining the past week the Labour Department has been authorised by the Public Works Department to send 100 men to road aiid railway construction works in various parts of the Dominion, the quotas to lie sent from the different centres being: Wellington 50, Auckland 60, Christchurch 20, Dunedin 20, Wanganui 15. The efforts of Mr R. Masters, memher of the Taranaki Education Board, to secure a bigger playground lor the pupils of the Stratford District High School, have at last been crowned with success, as the Board have receii ed instructions from the Education Depaitment to sell the headmaster’s residence for removal and add the ground to the present playing area. It should bo mentioned that since Mr Masters became a member of the Board he has let pass .no opportunity of pressing his views of the position of a restricted playground upon the authorities by interviews with travelling Cabinet Ministers and in other ways. It will be gratifying to all concerned, therefore, to hear that Mr Masters has been successful in this matter.