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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7, 7 September 1915, Page 4

A Band nf Hope meeting is to !>f> held in Ihe .Methodist Schoolroom, St rat lord, oil Wednesday evening, when a good musical programme* will be presented.

Mr F. Norcross has taken over the A.W.R. .Milking Machine Co's. late premises, and intends converting them into a first-class garage. Mr Norcross ■ has been lately employed in Mr Donald's garage, and is well known to the public.

A New Plymouth Press Association telegram states that Keith and White, the two men arrested in connection with the sensational burglaries at Eltham, were brought before the Court this morning and remanded to Eltham next Tuesday.

Some of ilie stations in Central Queensland which benefited by the ra-n of a fortnight ago only recorded In the vicinity of a total of six niches o' rain in the previous twenty-eight months. ".Notwithstanding this dreadful condition," says one report, "there were still a lot of cattle left alive."

The weather forecast :—The indications are for variable and moderate breezes but northerly moderate to strong winds prevailing. There is a prospect of fair to cloudy weather. The night "ill probably be. very cold with frosts inland. Barometer little movement but falling after about 16 hours.--Rates. Wellington.

A patriotic entertainment is to be held on September 29, under the auspices of the Ladies' Patriotic Committee, to start a nucleus of a fund to purchase a section of .land to be raffled at the bazaar to be held in December. Mr Fred Foley, of His Majesty's Tho■■Va'tre.. will occupy the whole of the second half of the programme with his magical ventriloqual and shadowgraph entertainment as conducted by him throughout Australia, China, and ln«Ji«. The Town Hall, where the entertainment is to be held, is being given free of charge by Mr Foley.

The New Zealand daily scale of ra-

tions issued at the training camps is as follows:—Bread, l.' ( lb. Flour (for thickening, etc), lose. Fresh meat, lilb. Cheese. 2oz. Coffee, Joz (none in British regulations). Pepper, 1-32 w.. Salt, },<)■/.. Tea, | ok ifoz in British regulations). Potatoes, lib (Jib if now potatoes or other vegetables ayfli;lnby>). jl^P l "'. | ;loz. Butter. ;ioz none issued in British army under active service). Coal Krioru-ooker), 2ewt and more if required. Oatmeal, ttfoz. Onions, jjtJlbn

Wood (for outside fires). 21b. and ;noio if required. Candles! 'one per tent.,o,!,' %]j\ vof hut. ScVap for cookhouse).: I'i bar, and more if required. Milk, i pint or J tin condensed. Rice, 20/.; '.(weekly).' Cui'raMs, ■%£^}MW "' hi M V