LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 89, 17 April 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tlio following amounts will be paid on the 20th inst. by local dairy facteories: Cardiff £1702, Ngaire £4024, Lowgarth £1750, Stratford £7070.

The Public Service Stores Tender Board call for tenders for the supply of all stores required by the Government in the Taranaki district. Forms and conditions of tender may be seen at the local Public Works office.

The following men will leave Stratford by the mail train for Trentham Camp on Monday morning to join the 6th reinforcements:—Messrs Maurice and Brian Malone (Stratford), Allen (Ngaere), and Winiki (Midhirst).

A Napier telegram per Press Association says: The tram service continues to show a good profit on the working. The credit balance for last year was £IOB2, after allowing £llOO for depreciation and sinking fund proposals now under consideration -or extending the service.

At the Domain Board meeting yesterday, Mr W. P. Kirkwood referred to the sheep in Victoria Bark eating the flax, and said that if the Board was going to continue keeping sheep there it would be hotter to take out die flax bushes.—Mr 11. McK.Monson said not much damage had been done. As a sheep-proof fence was objected to by members, the matter dropped.

Something unique in the way of a Dramatic Company’s tour lias noon arranged by the management ■ f the ‘Within the Law” company. The enterprise bids fair to be the biggest of Its kind yet undertaken in these pans. The company leave the main line next Monday by motor ears and appear at Manaia that evening; the following night (Tuesday 20th) Opunake will he visited. The“ Holiday Jaunt” ' such is the description one member of the company gave the trip) will termhiate on Wednesday, 21st at Kaponga. The fortunes of Mary Turner, Joe Carson, Aggie Lynch and the remainder 'of Bayard Veiller’s American crooks in “Within the Law” will ho keenly fallowed hy country playgoers.

Referring to the proposed High School to be built on the Domain Board’s property. Mr R. McK. Munson, at the meeting of the Board yesterday, said members ought to favorably consider this, provided that the Board’s interests were considered.— Mr Penn; I should be in favor of the erection of the High School. Wo cannot afford to lose any revenue.—Mr Morison; You don’t suggest that we lease the ground at the present rental?—Tho Chairman: It seems to me it will have to be on the Glasgow lease system.—Mr Kirkwood moved that a special committee, consisting of Messrs Curtis, Morison and Kirkwood, confer with the Stratford School Committee on tire question of the site. —Ca rried.

At the monthly meeting of the l)o----maiu Board, heid yesterday, tliere wore present: Messrs G. X. Curtis (ohairniau), \V. B. Kirkwood, T. H. Bonn, R. .\IeK. Jlofison, and G. Hunter (secretary).-—The clerk of the Stratford Borough Council wrote asking leave lor the Council to cart stone over one of the Board’s tracks.—lawns decided, provided that no stone was taken out of the domain, that leave he granted to the Council.'-—A letter from the Land and Survey office concerning the area of the domain was left in the clerk’s hands.—Air Kirkwood referred to the unsightliness of the posts and wire around the running course in Victoria Park.—Mr Penn moved, and Mr Kirkwood seconded, that the posts around the running track ho pulled down and the wire be used for repairing the boundary fences. This was carried.—lt was decided that the secretary write to the captain of the Fire Brigade to remove the stand from tire hockey ground before the end of the month. —Accounts (of:;Ming L 3 13s 3d were passed for payment.

Weather Forecast.—The indications are for strong winds to gale. The weather appears likely to be cloudy and unsettled with rain following. Hie barometer has a falling tendency. The treasurer of the local Patriotic Fund (Ml P. Skoglund) acknowledges receipt from an anonymous don PI of a postal note for three shillings tor the Belgian Fund. A New York cablegram states that one hundred thousand trade unionists have struck at Chicago, as the outcome of the failure of . thousand carpenters to secure increases in wages. The entire building and construction work in Chicago is at a standstill.

Meetings in connection with the proposed Farmers’ Co-operative Freezing Works were held at the Awakino sale on Thursday’, and at the Okau sale yesterday. Mr A. A\ , Budge addressed the gathering at each place, and satisfactory support was accorded the project. Messrs Newton King and 1). Tweedie were appointed delegates to the central meeting from Awakino, and Messrs Jones and Scotet from Okau.

For the year ended March 31st tho working expenses in connection with the Napier municipal tramways totalled £7078 11s Bd, and the revenue was £9OBO, leaving a balance of receipts over working expenses of £2OOI. Passengers carried numbered 1,401,137.

The survey of ' the roa railway route, which has been proceeding during the past few months will be completed in a few days-(states the News). The survey party' will then proceed to survey the route of the Kapuui-MauViia branch of the Te lloti-Opunake line.

A proportion of Auckland residents have never become reconciled to tbe Saturday half-holiday now in operation, and a petition bearing over ten thousand names was recently presented to the City Council asking for another poll on the question. As only 5600 names were required to secure the granting of the request, it looked as if (the poll would take place, but tlie municipal officers have now discovered that a;i astonishing proportion of the names on the petition are on no official roll, while a large number, written in the same handwriting, are regarded with considerable suspicion. It is now thought probable that no poll will be ordered.

A dispersal sale of the well-known Te Ante herd of Shorthorns, one oP the largest and best of its kind in the Dominion, was held on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday (states the Press Association at Napier). Nearly 400 head of pedigree cows and bulls were catalogued, and the sale realised over £15,000, which is believed to be a record for the Dominion for one sale. Buyers were represented from all parts of the Dominion and Australia. The highest prices realised were 310 guineas, 210 guineas, 200 guineas, 105 guineas, and 1,50 guineas for bulls, and 270 guineas, 265 guineas, 240 guineas, 160 guineas, and 150 guineas for cows. The principal buyers were; Messrs H, B. and A. B. Williams, who were buying for their Queensland property; Sir Walter Buchanan, of Masterton; Messrs Arch. McLean, GreenhiU, Hawke’s Bay; G. A. Turner, Eltham; W. F. . Jacobs, Kiwitea; C. Gray. Gisborne; f J. MeMaster and A. D. McMaster, of Featherston; and H. C. Murphy and R. K. Murphy, of Gisborne.