LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 64, 21 February 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-day, the Kaupokonui Co-opera-tive Dairy Factory Co., Fid., pay out to suppliers the sum of .1:30,182 11s 93, being payment for January milk, to gether with a further payment of 3d per lb of fat over the period ending December 31, 1915.

A children’s fancy dress dance, organised by the Stratford Plunket Society, will he held in the Town Hail on -March 3rd in aid of the Plunket Nurse Fund. The children’s performance will he held between 6.30 and 9 p.m., and adults will have the floor between 9 and 12.

Tile annua) training camp for Territorials opened at Bangiotu to-day, and a large number of men left Stratford by the mail train this morning. Lieutenant Gray, of the local Defence Office, who was in charge of the men from No. 30 area, will ho absent from Stratford for about a fortnight; and in tlie meantime Trooper T. Malone will be in attendance at the Defence Office to answer inquiries, etc.

A Wanganui message says that a letter-card, received via Switzerland, from Corporal Fades, of the Wellington Battalion, a prisoner at Constantinople, who was one of the few who survived the great attack on Sari Bair in August and was wounded and captured by the Turks, intimates that he is well and having a fairly comfortable time, and says; “The New Zealand lads would like some money sent from Mr Massey or Mr Allen.”

Some exceptional prices have been realised for fat bullocks in Australia j within the past few months, but in Argentina all records have been eclipsed. For instance, the champion Hereford, at the Palmero fat stock show, Buenos Ayres, was sold for something like £920 in British money. The owners were .Messrs Duggan Hermanns, and the purchasers La Plata Cold Storage Company. From a fat stock point of view this sale is recognised as the most important ever effected in the Argentine. A Shorthorn went out at £B-10, and another of the same breed at £7OO. A very successful social was held in the Pohokura School on Friday night 1 in aid of the Wounded Soldiers’ Fund.j There was a full attendance, and during the evening about four sets of dancers occupied the floor at intervals, Mr •). Dodunski making an obliging M.O. Songs were contributed byl Messrs T. Speck and \V. .Noble, both! of whom gave two items. The music (violin or accordeon). was capably played by Mr J, McGiilivray. “There was heaps of supper,” a correspondent states, so imHi in fact, that a picnic was held on Saturday when the remnants were sufficient to feed the gathering. The committee who had con-j trol of tin l arrangements were; Messrs W. Noble tsecretary), R. Dodunski, P. Roguski, and L. Payin', who are to he complimented upon the success ot the social. The amount by which the Fund will benefit has not yet. been ascertained, but the sum will ho published in these columns later. The attention of readers is called to the sale advertised on account ol Mrs W. G. Malone, which is to he held at her residence. Opvmake Road, Stratford, on Thursday next. Full particulars. which will be published in tomorrow’s issue, show some really good oak furniture, and everything flint |S

Mr H. Elliott, manager of the St rat lord Mountain House, reports that the track is in good order. The mile ol metal having been laid, and cars have been over the route of later A good number of visitors were at the House yesterday. Weather Forecast.—The indications are for moderate to strong northerly winds prevailing. The weather will probably be occasionally dull and overcast. The barometer shows little movement, but has a falling tendency. —Bates. Wellington. A special meeting of the Stratford Borough Council will he held this evening at 7.30 o’clock, to discuss the question of leases in the Municipal Buildings, electric light proposals,, and the Mayor’s notice of motion regarding the water works by-laws. The Salvation Army announce their Harvest Festival dates as March 19, 20 and 21, and solicit gifts in cash or kind. This is the annual effort for local work, and Adjutant Cook says he will he glad to receive anything “from a needle to an anchor, or from a tomato to a haystack!” A Press Association message from Dannevirke states that the branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants unanimously supported the Timaru resolution that the. Government should take immediate steps to cope with the cost of living, else that nothing less than 2s per day of an increase be demanded. A Press Association message states that the Taihape Borough Council unanimously adopted the following resolution : “This Council sympathises with the Recruiting Board’s efforts to give voluntarism a further trial, and offers to do what it can to carry out any suggestion that is made having for its object the continuance of voluntary recruiting, till that system is proved inadequate.

The Opimake Times says;—The deceased Maori prophet i so it is said, predicted that the natives would become possessors of the lands in this district. The natives expected at that time it would eventuate by the influence of Te Whiti in the process of some mystery. That they are becoming possessed of their lands is the signs of the times, but it is not by influence, but by planking down the liard cash. Rumor has it that the intivos have bought out the interests if the pakeha in two or three farms :his week. The price paid has been very satisfactory to the owner. The Maori is a good buyer. The natives ire now on their trial as citizens as veil as producers. Time will give the mswer that sets some of us thinking —if the district will progress by the dianges taking place. A good standard in steady plugging methods in linking the land produce and the close ittention to dairying, has been set )y the outgoing tenants. Will the Halves continue the good work?

The Ladies’ Patriotic Committee w ishes to acknowledge receipt of the following goods (which were forwarded to headquarters on Friday), from: Midhirst School girls, twelve pillow' slips and six face cloths; Toko School girs, eight khaki handkerchiefs, three knitted balaclavas, one knitted scarf, ten pairs mittens ; Mrs A. E. Copping, six pairs knitted sox, one balaclava; Mrs W. Robinson, two balaclavas; Whangamoxnona School, fourteen handkerchiefs; Pohokura Sewing Bee, live dozen handkerchiefs; Stratford School, sixteen pillow slips, thirty white handkerchiefs, nineteen khaki handkerchiefs, twelve face cloths; Raupuha School, Toko, three dozen handkerchiefs; Ngaere ladies, per Mrs Coleman, twelve flannel shirts, twelve flannel undershirts, one knitted scarf, two knitted balaclavas, four pair handknitted sox. The Committee also wish to acknowledge a chair from Mrs Fal'der for the patriotic tea rooms. A bale of sand bags was also forwarded, to Wellington on Friday. The members of the Ladies’ Committee are ever at their patriotic work, for each month fifty holdalls and fifty housewives are made. The following letter, signed “A Worker,” appears in Friday’s Dominion : “Tile incident 1 here relate needs no introduction. it happened in a country district not 20 miles away from Wellington—a district unique, f venture to think, in that it can boast no single enlistment since war was declared in August, 1914. What a boast! Among the inhabitants there lives a sturdy young New Zealander, the proud owner of broad acres, sheep, prime bullocks, and the inevitable car, who has now, in all his manly strength, decided to take unto himself a wife who can share the luxury of bis car and listen to the tales he weaves of his sheep, his bullocks, the taxes he has not yet begun to pay. Concerning his marriage, his latest remark is said to be: ‘Oh well, it’s come, to either that or going to the war these days.’ This from a New Zealander, whose countrymen, for a broken treaty and the honor of our race have given their lives on far Gallipoli, that he. forgetful of his manhood, may flourish and prosper in complacent security, the owner still of his broad acres, his bullocks, and his calves.” As a proof of the genuine bargains at R. H. White and Co.’s sale, the takings at White’s Corner constitute a record on Saturday, oven over-top-ping any previous Chrif tanas eve. White’s end-of-season sales are short and sharp, and for the express purpose of making a clearance of seasonable goods. Space is limited, tug shipments are expected, room must be made. Get at White’s Corner one of {heir sale circulars, copies of which went through this paper on Thursday last. *