LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 76, 1 April 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

“The Stratford Evening Post” will not be published to-morrow (Good Friday) . The average attendance at the Stratford District High School for the quarter ended yesterday was 697. There are 756 names j»n the roll. A copy of the April railway timetable reaches the “Stratford Evening Post” office from the station master at Stratford. A large number of travellers were on board this morning’s mail train, which consisted of nine carriages. The exodus by rail from Stratford since the. issue of the Easter excursion tickets has not been very great, the average number leaving per day being about thirty. Much interest is being taken in the doll on view in Mr Lamason’s window, which is to be auctioned on Saturday for the Belgian Fund. The doll was presented by Mrs T. Young, and is prettily dressed. There should be keen competition for this unique child's toy. The party of representatives of the Stratford Borough Council has returned from Feilding after inspecting thp municipal electric light works. Some notes on the trip will be published in Saturday’s issue of the “Post.” - Lots of people who are ii/ communication with relatives and friends in the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces report that they have received complaints about non-delivery of the mails. “I have written every week to Egypt,” remarked a proud father of one soldier, “but Arthur writes to say he has not received a letter for a long time.” The date on the postcard announcing this was 21st February, but just where the Force was camped it was not easy to’decide with any degree of certainty. The “mailed fist” of the military, in the shape of the heavy hand of the censor, is in evidence on all the correspondence, and beyond saying “all’s well!” “Nothing to report!” or some other shorter phrase, the soldier-writer dumps the missive into *fie Field Mail Bag. In the course of time, the words “Indian Expeditionary Force” are stamped upon the envelope, all of which only adds further to father’s perplexity as to the whereabouts of The Boy, while it makes mother heave a heavier sigh for her absent darling! During the quarter ended 31sfc March there were 25 sittings of the Magistrate’s Court, Stratford, eleven of which were presided over by the Stipendiary Magistrate, and fourteen by Justices of the Peace. The number of cases heard by the Magistrate was 56, the agregate amount sued for was £1502 3s 9d, and the aggregate amount recovered was £IO7O 17s Id. Applications heard in Court or chambers totalled nine, and the number of orders made other than judgment sumomnses was also nine. Points entered totalled 101, five distress warrants were issued, 16 judgment summonses issued, and three orders were made on judgment summonses. The number of summonses and other processes served by the bailiff and his assistants within two miles was 70; the number served over two miles was 35. Distress warrants executed by the bailiff and assistants within two miles totalled seven, those over two miles amounting to two. Civil fees paid in stamps amounted to £BO 10s, and licensing fees paid in stamps 11s. There were 50 criminal cases, 47 of which were males and three females. The amount of criminal fees paid in stamps was £7 6s, while fines amounted to £3O 10s.

Obituary: Lord Rothschild, aged 69. ■ The vital statistics iCor Stratford for the month of March are: Births •25, marriages 3, deaths 2, | sof ■ • ■ I A meeting of the A. and P. executive will he held this evening at 7.30, to make final arrangements for Monday’s Gymkhana. The scout trek from £sew Plymouth to Stratford has been abandoned, owing to the small number of Boy Scouts entering for the trek. The Scouts will arrive by train oh Easter Monday, returning the same day. To-morrow will be a busy day on the Stratford bowling green. Five rinks from Fitzroy will spend the whole day, and three rinks from Manaia will play a match in the afternoon. In all, sixtyfour players will be engaged. As the Manaia visitors are spending F riday night in town, the President (.Mr George Smart) has arranged for a team to “shoot” them at the miniature rifle range in the evening. The numerous attractions to be offered at the A. and P. Association’s ■ Gymkhana on Easter Monday, should, given fine weather, draw a record crowd to the Show Grounds. The growing popularity of the meeting is shown by the large number of entries . for t)ie trotting events, which are such that these will probably be run in heats. A special raised platform has been provided for the orchestra. Six teams are to take part in the events for boy scouts, three of which are coining from New Plymouth and one from Waitara. These events are unique, | and include bridge-building, semaphore signalling, and ambulance work. Catalogues will be on sale on Saturday morning. Nothing like the Gymkhana could be found as an entertainment ‘ at which to spend Easter,Monday,