LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 288, 3 December 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To enable all members of the staff of the “Stratford Post” to attend the Show to-day the “Post” is issued in one edition only and printed at noon.

Mr W. PI. Hawkins, Liberal candidate, will again address the electors in the Town Hall, when there will surely bo a large attendance.

Before the Australian Electoral Commission, the editors of both the Argus and Age condemned signed newspaper articles, but tiie editor of the Herald favored the system.

An exhibitor at the Show yesterday took off bis coat near the cattle pens and placed bis gold watch lieside it,* but when, some time later, after putting on his coat again, he wanted to see the time, fie found he had lost his watch. As the watch ha? special value a reward is offered for its return.

Chemists’ early closing movement is making great headway in N.Z. Gisborne, Napier, Hawera, Hamilton, and Dunedin have so far adopted the movement with great success. Australia was the first to adopt early closing, and found it a great boon. Stratford has fallen into line, and from now on chemists’ shops are required to close at 6 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Only urgenv medicines prescribed by a medical man can be supplied after 6 o’clock.