LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 81, 4 August 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Whitebait woo being caught in the Waitara river the other morning. The Midhirst Dairy Factory cream-

eries at Pembroke Road. Salisbury Road, and Waingongora Road to suppliers to-morrow, August sth.

The Stratford Junior High Si boo! yesterday defeated the New Plymouth Technical School .Juniors by 3-1 to 3. Mr Campbell Jackson refereed.

The Commonwealth Defence Department has acquired eight thousand acres, costing £IOO,OOO, for the purposes of a naval base at Cockburn Sound, Westralia,

Australia Day totals, according to a Sydney cablegram, were as follows: Victoria £IBO.OOO, Westralia £27,000, Tasmania £5.500, Northern Territory £BOO, South Australia £IOO,OOO. New South Wales £407.226.'

iThe Stratford Home Defence Corps and National Reserve will parade this evening at the school gymnasium to take part in the Anniversary Day celebrations in the Town Hall. A full muster is requested.

At n meeting of tlie School Committee hist night, the Chairman (Mr Skoglund) said that the measles epidemic was not serious, many children having heen running about within a fortnight of tlie commencement of the illness.

The Scottish Society has raised £834 7s 6d up to date for the Sick and Wounded Soldiers' Fund in connection with their recent bazaar, art union, gift auction and dance, and it is thought the total will be In the vicinity of £llOO.

The six-inch casing for the Huiroa oil-bore has arrived, and boring operations will he resumed shortly. The bore is now down 4095 feet, and with the arrival of the new casing it

is anticipated that steady progress will now he made, and further good results obtained.

The Kltham Axemen's Carnival will be held on only one day this year. Several speakers at a meeting of the Association held on Monday evening at Kltham stressed the fact that the public were losing interest in chopping, and a.s a result the. financial results of the meeting were not as they might be. Weather Forecast.—The indications are for variable and moderate hreezes, lnit northerly moderate to strong winds prevailing, increasing haze and cloudiness, and conditions threatening. Barometer unsteady with a falling tendency shortly.—Bates, Wellington.

"Cinderella" is being produced by the .Juveniles in the Town Hall tomorrow evening to assist the Sick and Wounded. Since the original performance in Stratford, the ConiP'tny have performed in Eltham and Inglewood, and their work was highly commented on by those who witnessed these performances. Little faults have been remedied, and the performers have gained more confiih'i and lost' the little stage-fright which i-- always the lot of amateurs. At to-morrow's performance, several vvw will be introduced, indue!" ' f ''When Irish eves are smiling" Ulid the old favorite "Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts for Soldiers." It is anticipated tint the public -will muster in large numbers to greef the, deserving juveniles and incidentally assist our men who are hammering at the gates of Constantinople

In the Victorian Assembly, speaking on the Supplementary Estimates, the Pi-.mi.iW said he anticipated a deficit of ■ .I'-'i.O'M).