LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 307, 28 December 1914, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

That Stratford people were not slowto take advantage of the fine weather on Boxing Day and to-day is shown by the numbers who travelled by rail on the two days. Over GOO went to New Plymouth, and 200 odd took train for Eltham.

The rabbit industry is evidently a payable one in South Australia. Conip* ton Rabbit Preserving ' Company at Mount Gambler reports that there is such a demand for tinned rabbits that the factory output, which is 6000 rabbits daily, could be profitably doubled if the rabbits .were available. The difficulty is in getting supplies in the hot summer weather. For some time there was a prejudice against tinned rabbits, but it seems to have passed away { and the company finds no difficulty in disposing of every tin prepai - ed; indeed, the orders are much in excess of supplies. The company not only preserves the rabbits, but makes the tins and boxes in which they are packed.

Following is an extract from a private letter received from a Stratford man at Trentham : On Thursday, (Christmas Evo) No. II Platoon, 3rd Wellington Infantry Co. was paraded and a presentation of a pipe was made to Lieutenant Munro, the plhiodn commander. The compliment vM.s the more pointed from the fact that the platoon is largely composed ofi men from east Taranaki—from stations on the Main Trunk line, Taumarunui and southward. Lieutenant Minim replied feelingly to the short speech accompanying the presentation, but was plainly overwhelmed with its suddenness. The platoon finished the business off with a cheer, and had to be warned by the Lieutenant not to do it again, the same being an unsoldierly proceeding, £ and the platoon was warned that if they did it in Colonel Mai one's presence he would' probably fall dead from shock, he being particularly opposed to cheering in the ranks. The following mounted men concentrated at Stratford are now .in ._. camp: Reynolds, Davis, Lance, Durston, Glendenning, Watkins, Foley, '-.Tames, Richmond, Carter, and Stronach. There is nothing particular to report of them, or, for that-matter,''of the "futties."