LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 14, 19 April 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The “Stratford livening fPost” will not be published on Good Friday or Easter Monday,

The Tmlrapnra has arrived in London, states a cablegram to-day.

A special meeting of .the Stratford Borough Council was held last evening! to discuss matters appertaining to the electric light question. The agreement as arranged by the Borough Solicitor (Mr T. C.'Fookes) was approved/ and will be submitted to the Stratford Electrical Company for approval. j

At last night's meeting of the Bor-j ongh Council permission was gran red Mr F. Foley, of His Majesty’ to screen pictures on Good Friday night. A certain number of sacred pic-, tures have to he included in the programme. The star picture will he a filmisafiion of Hall Caine’s famous book “The Christian.” j

I ■ The first/ instance of a British-born or New Zealand-horn recruit possessing a. perfect set of teeth cam© under the notice of the Town Hall recruiting office on Friday last.. .The only, .other case met with a.s the office uas .that,,of. a Bengalee.. The. foot is. regaphy) asj worth noting, as it affords the .ipost, striking evidence of the great need fur dental examination and treatment. ,

At yfche . Wellington Magistrate’s Court yesterday, Charles , Huffy, aj milk .vendor,, was fined £5, on a charge of unlawfully purchasing milk from;,a dairy that was not registered in accord-; npce wiith .the regulations under the Hairy Industry Act, 190 S. Argument l centred on the interpretation of the regulations, and the Magistrate con-’ victcd defendant under Regulation 25/

Some misapprehension' may '"have, arisen owing to the wording of a paragraph in onr issue of Friday last in, connection with the shooting of native game, and it would be well to point' out that neither Paradise ducks noP| native pigeons may be shot in.any dis ; j trict. The number of cock pheasants that may he killed in one day is twelve, and of the native game showed to he shot 25 head in aIK • v.-

Madame Boeufve and Miss Beatrice Day, of the Anti-German League, ad-; dressed a meeting of seven hundred in the Municipal Theatre, Napier, on Sunday evening, Mr J. Vigor Brown, AI.P.,j presiding, and the following resolution 1 was enthusiastically carried: “That this meeting is of opinion that the Go-' vernment erred in allowing Grierson to wear the King’s uniform and return to camp after the disclosures ‘before the recent Commission/’ i

Last year, for the first time, iron work was allowed as a subject for Senior National Scholarship examinations, hut only five candidates ih New Zealand took it, and these all hailed from Stratford. The marks they gained were very satisfactory and are well ' worth quoting :—Burgess 179, Mundy 157, Henderson 142, Deen 142. Henry 119 (120 marks constitute aj pass). The hoys were trained hy Mi H. Skelton, of the Technical College, New Plymouth. i

A Wellington telegram says that up till noon on Monday seven more cases of infantile paralysis were reported m the Wellington health district, including tvto new cases in Wellington city. Other ftesh cases are: Manaia 1, Palmerston 1, Feilding 1. Tinni 1. and Rangitumau 1. Tinni and Rangitumau are in the Wairarapa district. It should be noted that the Wellington health district includes half of the North Island, and also Nelson and Marlborough provincial districts in the South Island.

The Wanganui Silver Band is noted for its fine rendition of old hymn tunes, and it may confidently he expected that on Good Friday night, a programme fully in accord with the sacredness of the day will be given. Ihe object of the Band visiting Stratford is one worthy of the assistance of all, namely, the building and acquiring of New Homes for the Children, of Fallen Soldiers. “The Bushman’s Revenge' 1 is an item full of pathos, and some very fine band and vocal items intersperse the reading.

A special feature in connection with the minstrel entertainment at Toko last evening was the procession of motor cars and cycles. No less than twenty-one cars and eight motor cycles were counted, the line reaching almost from the factory to the hall.

The Patriotic Fund will benefit to the extent of about £lB as the result of the Stratford Christy Minstrels’ efforts at Toko last night. An. important meeting of the Minstrels will be held this evening, at 7 o’clock in the Town Hall, to make all arrangements for Monday’s programme.

In the Methodist schoolroom, Regan Street, on Thursday, 20th inst., a .Welcome Social will be given to Revs. R. B. Tinsley and G. H. Bridgman. His Worship the Mayor (Mr J. W. Boon) will occupy the chair. A good musical programme recitations, and addresses will he given and light refreshments provided.

The Chairman of the Stratford School Committee will be glad if the members of the committee can- make it convenient to be present at the school at 11.30 a.m. to-morrow to witness the Anzac celebration hv the

children and to meet the Chairman and members of the Education Board.

J Members of the Masonic Craft s ill bo gratified to know that the Prince of Wales has followed in the footsteps of his grandfather and father, and been initiated in the mysteries of Masonry. The announcement was made lecently by the Duke of Richmond and Gordon. ?<■', ? meeting of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution in Loudon.

A Christchurch lady collecting funds for the New Zealand War Contingent Association in Bristol, England, which Association makes arrangements for the visitation of New Zealand soldiers in England, and also for the providing of small comforts for the men, acknowledges the receipt of £1 4s, sent to her by Miss Hogg from the children of the Second Standard in the Stratford High *

School. The amount is being sent forward to the New Zealand War Contingent Association in Bristol by the outgoing mail; : ,

The children at the! Stratford.- '.District High School have had jan “Anzac” week, and do-morrow they ,oppose to commemorate! the piornorabl© landing of our boys at Gallipoli by/giving in the school groupds atf. H.SP a.m. an exhibition of massed drill. . After the,drill, appropriate addresses will be given by the’chair man and other .members of the Education Board, and til?© children, preceded by th<?iri banc]*_ T .\’ill then’march' up Juliet Street.and down Broadway. All parents are -invite,d to see the exhibition of drill.'

At a meeting of .the - Railway Patriotic Committee held in New Plymouth last night it was decided to take part in the Soldiers Hay function at Stratford, which, will he visited by a special concert party, which will include ..some Anzacs who are musicians of cider. The committee, haye t als6 ,beeh fortunate in securing f the assistance of two of .the smallest in the world. Their ep.ntrilpi.tiqn to?, the'pro* gramme will be, a star, item of the day. In this connection the Committee desire it to.,be known that the' Art Union drawing wiff , definitely, take place on the advertised date.

An outbreak of fire was discovered in the kitchen of the factory bach at, Cardiff at about 10.30 o’clock on Monday night. The occupants of the house were in an adjoining room, and having the door closed, did not notice the fire till it had a good hold. A bucket brigade was quickly organised and the outbreak was solely confined to the kitchen. The cause of the fire was a defective chimney. Had the outbreak noii been observed at such an early period it would have, in all probability, caught the fence and then Air H. Crawford’s store. The “brigade” are to be complimented on their wbrk in extinguishing the fire.

It was decided at last* night’s meeting of the Stratford Borough Council to adopt;* the suggestion in regard to Anzac Day celebrations as published in last night’s edition of the Stratford Evening Post, The Mayor (Air J. W. Boon) in introducing the matter, said he had seen an article in the Post, which appeared to him to be an excellent suggestion. * It was . decided to ask the different churches to ring their bells, the Fire Brigade to ring its bell, and for the business people to fly their flags. The celebrations will be held at 12.30 and will last- for five minutes. Anzac Day, Tuesday next, has been proclaimed a half-holiday, and the business premises will also close at 12.30.

The executive of the Soldiers ay fete on the Showgrounds, Stratford, report that they have received promises of support from many parts of the pro- " vinco. From the Salvation Army Boys’ Home, Fit ham, a gang of thirty youngsters will give exhibitions of Swedish drill and physical culture, and these should be well worth seeing, as the hoys have just returned form a trip to ' Wellington, where their work was most favorably commented upon. The principal of the New Plymouth Boys’ High School will send 45 boys from the School 'to go through in physical drill; these boys, also, are very highly spoken of by the press and public. In connection with the Highland events, a complete programme is now being arranged. There will be dances for adults and hoys and girls, and other items, the frill programme of which will he published to-morrow. A final meeting of all men’s commit-: tees will be hold this evening in the Patriotic Rooms at eight o’clock.