LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 84, 30 July 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-day’s Post pages: Report of meeting of the Whangamomoua County Council on tho second, Whangamomoua Notes on the third, report of Kennedy’s concert party on the seventh, and Parliament on the eighth.

A notification appears in our advertising columns that electoral rolls and defaulters’ list for County of Whangamomona are open for insepction at the office l of the Council, Whangamomonaj up to the 15th August. Tho Riding rolls and lists are also open for inspection as notified.

A meeting of members of the Stratford Co-op. Building Society will he held on Monday evening next, at 7.30 for the purpose of appropriating the sum. of £3OO in the first group by ballot. Shareholders should note that all subscription's must be paid up to tho 25th July.

The executive committee of the A. and P. Association meets this evening. The expert who is to advise on the site for the proposed freezing works in north Taranaki has paid a visit to the district, and it is expected that his report will be available in a feu days, when a meeting of the provisional directors will bo called.

Tho New Plymouth police reported to the News last night that William Forbes, well-known for some years in New Plymouth and /Taranaki as an agent for the A.M.P. Society, and a candidate for Taranaki at tho last general election, had been arrested in Wanganui yesterday on a charge of forgery. The warrant was issued in Wellington.

At tho annual meeting of the Tatu Settlers’ Association, members wore if the opinion (states the Ohura Advocate) that communication with Stratford and New Plymouth is of the greatest importance to settlers in the Southern Ohura, and every effort is to be put forward by the Association to get connected by telephone and mail service, ajid to urge that a sufficient sum bo placed on tho Estimates to msuro a vigorous prosecution of the •ailway from the Stratford end.

The plans for the first section of the i'e Roti-Opunake railway have nov. been prepared, and tenders will be invited in tho course of the next few lays, says the “Patea Press,” The elans provide for no less than ten stations between the main line and Opumke, including the Te Roti and Opulake stations. This should allow setters throughout the whole length of die line to have easy access to the •ailway and should .enable no one to be at any great distance from a staion. Owing to tho easy nature of the ■ormation work it is expected that the irst section will be completed in record time,, and tk» line should be in nsa before the end of fha smminr.

A meeting of the A. and P. general committee will be held on Saturday, to confirm the selection of judges as recommended by the executive committee.

The Fire Brigade was called out » little after half past seven last night, but their services were not required, a burning chimney in the south part of the town being the cause of the alarm.

A Wellington Press Association telegram says;—Judgment was delivered in the Appeal Court in the case of the King v. William Thomas Young. At last Wellington criminal sessions Prisoner was convicted of sedition. The Court unanimously affirmed the conviction.

The following will represent Stratford in a game of cribbage against Denbigh Road at Pivac’s Rooms on Friday night:—G. Lowe and F. Stewart, A. Nelson and G. Baker-Green, J. Y T andle and P. Speck, W. Collins and W. Ykirdley, J. Sharrock and L. Sharrock, C. Kelly and G. Kelly, J. Harston and C. Kivell, F. Cdllins and J. Jones, W. Hawke and B. Callagher. Denbigh Road will be represented by the following:—F. Mills, J. Mills, G. Mills, J. Kelly, C. Frost, A. Askew, F. Askew, F. Pederson, H. Huckstep, W. Walker, L. Lyford, G. Kilpin, G. Prince, G. Andeflson, A. Meads, T. Douglas, C. Keigbtley and G. S. Ferguson.

A well-attended meeting of householders in the Denbigh Road school district was held on Monday evening, when the following resolution was 'passed :—“That this meeting emphatically protests against the abolition of the Taranaki Education District as proposed in the Bill now before the House, and is of opinion that such a step is detrimental to the best interests of education in Taranaki; and that the district as proposed in the Bill is unworkable ; and that the schools in this district can be best worked from New Plymouth, the present education centre for Taranaki.” Meetings at Warea on Monday and Okato on Wednesday passed similar resolutions, and at its meeting on Tuesday the Whangamomona County Council decided to support the protest.