LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 9, 12 January 1915, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

m Ohura Show has been postponed 1 25th February. lenders are ,invited by the Borough uncil for the lease of sections in lando and Portia Streets. A. public meeting will be held on ursday, January 14th, in the readI room at the lufe~~station to ar;»ge committees for the Brigade’s eond Annual; Garden Fete and Carpal. All who are willing to assist e Brigade in their effort to obtain up-to-date motor fire engine are in■ed to attend. . h I A. great surprise was in store for e of Messrs Williams and Bruce’s ckers this week, states the Ohura Ivocate. It appears they imported mi America four bales of wall-paper, id. when the packer was opening the ies he found a small alligator. It ensures 13£ inches from tip to tip. DW it got there is a mystery, but e supposition. is that it was placed bte by a packer in America..

At the Dunedin Police Court this orning, Alfred John Croft, master the Victoria, was lined £2 and tsts for a breach of the Shipping id Seamen’s Act, 1908, he having dried a seaman on board without lying . entered' into an agreement Ith him in accordance! with the Act. ie Press Association states that deadant admitted the breach under itigating circumstances, and stated |at arrangements had been made for seaman to sigFToirat the Company’s Bees, but the man failed to put in % appearance, and when he came joard, it was just on. sailing time. %ter, when asked to, sign articles, he (fused. Mr' Burton, S.M., cemented. generally on the case, and knitted that when the seaman didn’t gn , 0 n ashore he would refuse to do Ulater.

It is not often that a bowling club an ex-member,, but a case was ar( ] in the Reefton Magistrate's rart recently, in which the Reefton owling Club claimed r£4 4s from an :-rnember for ,two years'' fees alleged ,be due. The secretary of the club ated that defendant had given notice (at he wished to discontinue his memcship. Since that time he had not ken part in the club games, ift the ne of his resignation defendant was t in arrears. Witness looked upon b .verbal resignation received from ifendant as sufficient, for many oths had left the‘club without written tice. Names of members who had signed were often left on the club’s oks, the idea being, that they might i induced to reconsider their decision id become active members’ once more, fie only day that he remembered seeig defendant-on.the ground after his isignatiori was on the opening day! efendaht, in his, evidence, admitted ;ing ,on the ground on the opening *y. He attributed the case to jietty )ite. He bad not been on speaking >ms with one of the members of the üb, and rather than play im he had resigned from the club two Jasons ago. He (defendant) had“tftltm to the president of the club offerig to meet the committee with a view > settling the matter. He had mainlined that no question could be seted that was not settled morally right. ‘did not object to defeat on any feld of sport, and’lie""considered that lere was no need to resort to law in le present case. The presiding Jusees gave judgment for £2-Us, stating iat the resignation should have-been writing. A re-hearing will probably for.