LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 15, 20 April 1916, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

VA case of infantile paralysis has been notified at Kohuratahi, and the school at Marco Road has been closed in consequence. /.The committee are taking the necessary precautions by having a thorough disinfection.

Weather Forecast.—Easterly winds, hacking by east to north, then freshening. There is a .prospect of fair to cloudy weather. The night will prob-ably'-he very cold. Barometer little movement, with a falling tendency.

Speaking to a “Post” reporter this morning the Mayor (Mr J. W. Boon) said he .wished it to he generally known that the Council requested the townspeople to display hunting on Easter Monday. Mr Boon said all the large flags around town would be- flown on that day.

A Press Association telegram from Auckland this afternoon states: William Slade. Methodist Minister, aged 57 on leave for nervous breakdown, was fouxid in his bedroom by his wife suffering from a gunshot wound in his head. He died on reaching the hospital. ,

The Plitnaroa arrives at Lyttelton at 2 p m. to-morrow with returned soldiers from Egypt. A Press Association message to-day says that the Wellington men will leave by to-morrow’s ferry steamer; the Otago and’South Caqter*bury men leave for their homes by the early train on Saturday. No cot cases are expected.

The Dark Town Band in connection with the Soldiers Dax Fete, journeyed to Kaponga, per motor cars, this morning, and as the result ol a scratch entertainment, £ll 15s 3d was obtained. The band, after leaving Kaponga, went to Manaia, and touched at Hawera and wayside towns on the return trip.