LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 100, 3 April 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual meeting of the Stratford Golf Club will be held in Mr Newton King's office, on Wednesday, 12th April. 4

Mr Harold Lincoln Slyflied, of the Postal Department, Otahuhu, and Mr A. Mill, Supervisor of Telegraphs, Auckland, were elected to represent respective departments on the Appeal Board.—P.A.

The Land and Income Tax Department has a notification in this issue with relerence to annual returns, which are to be forwarded to the Commissioner of Taxes, AVellington, on or before Ist May. •

Owing to the Ea'ster holidays, the Rarawa will leave Onehunga for New Plymouth on April 19, instead of April 18. She will sail on the return voyage on arrival of the express from Wellington on April 20 instead of on April 21.

The winning number in the sheepguessing competition at the Methodist Church harvest festival was 951b5., but the holder, failed to attach his name to the ticket. Mr R. F. Harkness, of Newton King's staff, will be pleased to hear from the successful competitor.

During the month of March 3.11 inches of rain were registered at Riversdale, Inglewood. The heaviest fall was on the 6th, when .93 inch was recorded. Rain fell on other days as follows:—sth, .04; 7th, .41; 13th .04; loth, .09; 17th; .38; 18th, .02; 20th, .40; 21st, .14; 24th, .37; 25th, .15; 27th, .01, and 28th, .13.

A Wellington message says that the art union for 4000 shares in the McMaster Estate in the Waikato was drawn on Friday night. The land is stated to be worth £BOOO, and the sale of tickets in the art union realised £13,000. The winner was S. Bolton, of Pahiatua. The proceeds of the sale go to the patriotic funds. Mr Bolton is a big landed proprietor.

The Waimate Plains Trotting Club will hold their second annual totalisator meeting on the Hawera racecourse on Easter Monday next. Nominations arc coining in freely, and the meeting promises to be a very successful one. The handicaps will be declared on 13th April, and all acceptances close on Tuesday, ,18th April, at 9 p.m. Any information may be obtained from MiErnest Nalder. the Club's secretary, P.O. box 153, Hawera.

Further proof that lucerne can be grown to advantage in the immediate vicinity of Stratford is given by Mr J. Paul, who has on view at Mr Newton King's office, a sample of lucerne, eight weeks old, taken from the second cutting. Mr Paul states that he ploughed the laud on November 1, 1915 giving a dressing of one ton of lime per acre, a"nd sowed the seed on November 19, no inoculated s :il being used. The first cutting was made on January 31, when it was eighteen inches high. He then top dressed the land with a mixture of blood and bone and basic slag, which was worked in with the tine harrows, and the second cutting was made on April 1, when it was two feet in height.

A Press Association telegram from Roto ra states that at eleven o'clock last night Trooper W. D. Anderson, Otago Mounted Rifles, fell into a scalding pool at Ohinemutu, and diod this morning. He was 33 years of age. He joined the Main Body, and was wounded in the abdomen in the attack on Sari Bair on August 7th. Ho returned to New Zealand in the Willochra on October 29, and was admitted to hospital on March 21st.

On Saturday afternoon the members of the Stratford branch of the Young Helpers' League, in connection with Dr. Barnardo's Homes, were entertained in the Parish Hall by the President, Mrs Budge, on the occasion of their first "box opening." Each member has a box with which to collect, and these are opened twice a year by the local officials. The, amount contained in the boxes opened on Saturday totalled over £2O, being the collections of 112 cliiiuren for six months. This money will be sent to headquarters in England, where it will be devoted to the maintenance if some crip-, pled child. Children wirhing to have boxes should apply to the secretaries, Jliss Falder <Kahouri Bridge) or !Miss Crawshaw (Bank of No Zeiland).