LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 8, 11 January 1915, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

a.. . .. . c •, _ . . Weather Forecast.—-The indications are for variable and moderate breezes, but northerly moderate to strong winds prevailing and freshening after about “24 hours. There is a prospect of fair to cloudy: weather with increasing liaze ' and cloudiness. ’ The'barometer Tias «* rising tendency, but falling after : about 24* to 36 hours.—Pemberton.

A Qisbome Press Association tele- ' gram to-day states: A record price was

p established for town property in the business ayea torday, when a 21- :: years’ lease'of an education reserve of one rood, with a frontage of 66 fest J to Gladstone Road, was .sold by the | Land Office at an annual rental of, | £7OO. The section was originally let in April, 1894, at £75 rental. To-day’s t price, capitalised at five per cent.; represents £2ll per foot or £14,000 •capital value. The highest previous price in this locality was £l6O per foot, v ,' r Some interesting particulars of the work of the Legion of Frontiersman / were contained in a letter from Captain D’Esterre, and read at the Wanganui Squadron’s dinner on Friday night. Since July, 1912, over 1300 members have joined in New Zealand, and the badges, which have ar-t-rived from Lbndon, show that the 11,000 mark has been passed, the increase being bvbr 5000 in two years and a-half. In the North Island nine squadrons have been established, also ‘ three troops in the North Island and ’ one in the pouth Island. There is a feeling amongst the Legion of Fron. tiersraen .'that they were badly treated by the-authorities when the first call was ‘made for an Expeditionary Force from the Dominion. The Legion offered to fill a transport with 1000 mounted men, and man the vessel from the bridge to the stokehold if necessary, a feat which would pro* bably have, been outside the ability of any territorial organisation. The authorities stuck to their quota sjv , ' tem and refused the Legion, It was surmised that the quota system would break down, and it did.