LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 95, 28 March 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The steamer Tndrabarah, which left Wellington on February t, reached London last week. Work at the State sawmill has been resumed on conditions favorable to the men (states a Press Association telegram from Greymouth). The State mine truckers demand an increase, and negotiations are proceeding. To meet the requirements of the Agricultural Department the dates of the South Taranaki Winter Show have been altered to July 4, o. 6, 7 f aud 8. This is being done to give the Department more time to get their exhibits from Palmerston North to Hawera. Adjutant Cook desires to gratefully acknowledge receipt of a cheque for £Q 8s 3d from the secretary of the Cardiff Dairy Factory Company, the money to he used for the purposes of the Salvation Army organisation with the New Zealand Forces. The Stratford Borough Council is fit receipt of a letter from the Electrical Supply Company stating that they have agreed to the modified legal terms as carried at last Council meeting, so that the arbitrators will now meet and submit the cost of the undertaking for the Council’s approval. The ladies of Stratford and surrounding districts have undertaken to do all the catering for the • Soldiers’ Day Fete on the Showgrounds on “Easter Monday. About fifty mg j ladies dressed as nurses Will take j part in the procession through Broadway. Young ladies willing to act as waitresses and take a two-hour shift as required are wanted at once, and these should leave their names with Mrs Crawshaw, who will supply all the information necessary.

The Hamilton correspondent of the Auckland Star states that on Friday Sergeant Cassels and Constable Itbbett arrested an Austrian at Ngahineponri on a charge of trading with the enemy. Accused was handed over to the military authorities and taken to Wellington, enroute for Somes Island. The arrested man had been in the habit of sending money to an address in America, with requestes that goous should bo forwarded to a certain address in Austria.

Various excuses have been made by dairymen from time to time as to how their milk happens to contain an undue proportion of water f but for nov - elty it would be difficult to excel that made recently by a milkman boioie the Health Committee of the City Council (states the Wellington Post). When asked for an explanation ol a complaint he said the water m the milk was only noticeable on wet days. The rain collected round the rim ol his hat, and when he bent down it ran off into the can. He was perfectly sincere, said Councillor V right, in relating the story. /

A new principle in regard to season tickets which has been adopted by the Railway Department will be brought into effect next' The currency of all season tickets issued after next Friday will commence on the first day, and will expire on the last day of a calendar month. All quarterly school season tickets will expire on the last day of June, September, December, or March. In the past, season tickets have been issued for the particular period from the date of application, and the new system is designed to simplify book-keeping, and to facilitate the official supervision of the use of such tickets, of which between 15,000 and 20,000 are issued in the Auckland suburban area every year. A similar regulation applies to season tickets for distances up to 100 miles on the New South Wales system.

A serious accident betel Mr W. 'L. .Tones, of the Simplex Garage, when motor-cycling from Wellington to Stratford last week! He was climbing a hill about 35 miles from Palmerston, and owing to the gale that wasblowing, ho found it necessary to balance himself by removing bis leg from the vert. W hen near the summit, the motor over-balanced and fell on Mr .Tones’ log, breaking his ankle. After waiting on the roadside for about hah an hour, another ihotoiist arrived - on the scene, and helped the unfortunate man to mount his machine and start the engine. Mr Jones rode into Palmerston, ana being very anxious to return to (Stratford, would have his leg only temporarily set, saying that he would have it attended to a soon as he arrived home. On r.rriv.d in Stratford by the mail train next day, he was conveyed to the Hospital, of which lie is now an inmate.

A farewell social will be tendered to a number of Toko boys, who are lea ring the district to join the Reinforcements, in the Coronation Hall, on Friday evening. Air Newton King has (purchased the old-established auctioneering business of Messrs Matthews, Gamlin and Co. t and will enter into possession on Saturday next, April Ist. Weather Forecast.—The indications are for westerly strong winds to gale with a southerly tendency. The weather will probably prove squally and changeable. Barometer unsteady.—. Bates, Wellington. Invitations are being issued by the Patriotic Committee to the Taranaki M.P.’s, veterans, and chairmen of all local bodies to attend the sports on “Soldiers’ Day.” At a meeting of the Patriotic Committee last evening, it was decided to accept with thanks, Mr F. Foley’s offer of screening special pictures in the Town Hall on the evening of “Soldiers’ Day.” Fifty per cent of the money collected at the doors will go to the committee. The management of HD Majesty’s Theatre has just completed arrangements for the screening ot the John-son-Willard fight film, depicting sixteen rounds of this famous contest, when the “white A.-pA' v. on decisively. The well-known advance, Mr Billy Low, is ahead of the picture, and he may he expected in Stratford shortly to arrange for the picture being shown c.i Aiesdav Aoril 11.

The executive committee in connection with the Soldiers’ Day Fete in Stratford on Easter Monday met last evening, when the procession and side-show committees transacted routine business. It has been decided to hold a Boxing Competition, and the side-show committee will be glad of assistance from any boxing enthusiasts who will give their help towards running this portion of the day’s programme. The Y/.C.T.TJ. at Wanganui considered the social evil and diseases resulting therefrom. The union was strongly against compulsory notification and compulsory detention of persons suffering from such disease, because, firstly, at the Royal Commission on venereal disease, appointed by the British House of Commons, all expert medical evidence was against compulsory detention; and secondly, because wherever C.D. Acts had been in force they had been declared by exerts, both in England and on the Continent, to have resulted in an increase of the disease; third, because, “as a society of women, we protest against the person and honour of women lieing placed in the hands of the police.” The union urged the Government to establish free clinics for the treatment of people suffering from venereal disease who voluntarily present themselves for treatment.