LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 81, 11 March 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The weekly Patriotic Market and Tea-rooms was held by the members of the Ladies’ Patriotic Committee today. The shop was well slocked, and throughout the day good business was reported.

The secretary of the Ladies’ Patriotic Committee wishes to acknowledge, the receipt of £6 19s fro mthe High School boys, being the proceeds of the swimming sports field on Thursday. The donation is in aid of the Red Cross Fund,

The monthly meeting of the Stratford Domain Board, which was to have been held yesterday afternoon, lapsed for want of a quorum. Readers are asked to specially note that the box plan for the Fete of Nations Patriotic performance (to take place in Stratford on Wednesday night) will ho open at Grubb’s music warehouse at 8 a.m. on Monday morning. The Hawera- Star says: There is a good deal of sickness in the district just. now. Within the last six weeks seven cases of diptheria. eight cases of typhoid and four cases of scarlet fever have been notified to the health .authorities. Two of the scarletina cases are in the hospital fever ward.

; j. Referring to the demand of railway servants for increased wages, the Prime Minister stated that a communication from tlie Government to the President of the A.S.P.S. had gone forward. He would not be in a position to make any statement on tlie subject until a reply had been .received.

At tlie meeting convened by Ladies’ Patriotic Committee, held last' night to consider the advisability of* holding a garden fete, the Stratford Patriotic Committee was represented, and it,was decided to amalgamate with' thq [gentlemen’s committee on the question of holding a fete.

“I hops that I shall live long enough,” Dr. Waddell told a meeting of ministers and Sunday school superintendents in Dunedin on Tuesday night (reports the Otago Daily Times), “to see a chair of pedagogy established at Knox College.” The wish there expressed met with the hearty approval of his audience. It had been said, continued Dr. Waddell, that the eighteenth century was the age of man, the nineteenth century the age of woman. and the twentieth century the age of the child. The child was everywhere in evidence. When they saw wlyat the State was doing for mere secular education, when they saw the study that, was necessary before a man could etmip himself for a tesy Jfc- »i' there, that ought to he a leading to the churches as to what was absolutely essential in the Sunday school in these days. He thought it was absolutely essential for the efficient discharge of the ministry that there should he a systematic course of training in pedagogy included in the divinity course.

Letters received in Pahiatna from Adolph Johnson, laic of Mahoe and Ivoluiratahi, member of the Third Battalion of the Now Zealand Hide {lrigade (Earl of Liverpool’s Own) state that the voyage to Albany was a pleasant one, and the men were being well treated on board. A route march took place at Albany and subsequently several hours’ leave was granted. As a good deal of reading was being done on the voyage, the first thing the writer did was to spend five shillings on literature.

At New Plymouth yesterday a temporary tram service between Fitzroy and the town railway station was Commenced, at mid-day and throughout the afternoon and evening the traffic

was very brisk. After the last car had arrived at the shed, the manager reported that the total number of travellers was 2497. It had been decided to open the new system on Thursday, but it was not until yesterday morning that permission was received from the Public Works Department to run the cars from Fltzroy to town, a distance of three miles.

The following new books have been added to the Stratford Public Library:] —“The Fortunes of Garino” (Mary Johnston), “The Great "Unrest” (F. E. Mills Young), “Gossamer” (George A. Birmingham), “The Rainbow! Trail” (Zane Grey), “His Unknown "Wife” (Louis Tracey), “Blind Understanding” (M. Annesley),, “Broken Stowage” (David Bone), “The Rear- | guard” (Sydney Grier), “The Ivory} Child” (Rider Haggard), “The Rebel Lady” (John Barnett), “Upsidonia” (Archibald Marshall), “Master of the Oaks” (Stanley), “The Diary of a Beauty” (M. E. Seawell). ( I The lowest price ever paid for a horse in the State of Delaware (says the Philadelphia North American) was recently received at a public sale at Georgetown of the property of Mr Delaware Burton, when Mr D. Warrington bought one for 2-. pl. When it was offered for sale the bidding was very slack, in fact, there was no one to start it. Mr Warrington bid 2id, just for fun, and was dumbfounded a moment later when it was knocked down to him at that price. The horse put in a full day afterwards hauling wood, and although rather thin, will develop with proper care, horsemen say, into an animal worth £2O. {

Speaking at the meeting of the Women’s National Reserve at Mornington on Tuesday evening (states the Times), Miss Stewart said: “One sometimes hears women exclaim, ‘I wish I were a man; then I’d "go to the war.’ As far as enlisting conics into the question, surely women have just as great opportunities as the men for proving ourselves ready to serve our King and country. Our responsibilities are just as great, though to do our share we must be contend to do the less romantic. the less spectacular part in such service as lies to our hand. After all, the woman’s real social value lies in her power of sympathy and service.”

At the Stratford Patriotic Com- 1 mittee’s meeting on Tuesday, the advisability of holding a fete, or other function, to augment the committee’s fund was discussed, and the matter was deferred to the meeting to he hold on Monday at 2,30 p.m. The date of the function was not decided upon, but Easter Monday was, thought to be a suitable day on which to hold it. The committee voted £IOO to the Y.M.C.A. fund, and it was decided to ■start a Y.M.C.A, fund with the object of repaving to the committee's hinds the amount donated. It was thought 1 advisable to donate the Cloo immediately, and open a fund later to repay 1 the money. Subscriptions to the now l fund may be paid to Mr J. McMillan, , honorary secretary, or to any member j of tin* committee. Correspondence was read from the Defence .Department with regard to the pay of certain returned soldiers. It was stated that in some cases the payment to soldiers was unsatisfactory, as the money was paid irregularly and long deferred. The War Relief Association, when it is incorporated, which it is intended to do at the meeting on March 21, will review cases not adequately dealt with under the Pensions Act. At the present time it appears that returned men who are discharged as medically unfit for military service are not as promptly recompensed by The, Pensions Hoard {is Tp ,thel