LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2, 31 August 1915, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Weather Forecast. —Westerly strong wiyils to gale with'a southern- tendency shortly. The weather will probably prove squally and changeable. Heavy rain is to be expected with rivers rising. Barometer unsteady with a rising tendency soon.

The annual meeting of the Munawatu .Racing Club last night (Mr M K. P. Strang, presiding), decided imnariintously by acclamation that the nett profits for the coming year bb devoted to the Sick /and Wounded, the nett profits to be Arrived at without allowing for depreciation arid increases, of stakes. Oil 'the basis'Of last year's turnover,' it is estimated that" the amount thus available as a donation from the Club would not be less than four thousand five hundred.—P.A.

Mr J. Lopdell, County Engineer, alighted from his motor car while proceeding down the •'■ Waiwera , Road, Toko, yesterday morning, and , was walking alongside : it, when i the ,clny bank gave way from underneath, .and thp car was pre6ipitated down an baiikineiit of about fifty feet. Mr Lppcleli and a member of Newton King's garage staff left for the of the accident this morning ,in th|) hope of getting the car back on to the road again. As far as can be ascertained, very little damage was done to the motor.