LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 29, 9 May 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The monthly amount to be paid by the Stratford Borough Council for the ensuing year to the Stratford Hospital anchCharitable Aid Board is £l6 3s 2d, being the twelfth part of the total ot £193 18s. The aeroplane which is to be presented" to the Home authorities by the people of Otago will, take the form ot a 100 horse-power Gnome-Vickers gunmounted biplane. It is a superior type 1 of machine, costing £2250. i When the new wards were arranged ! for the enlarged Taranaki Education ! Board, Puniho was erroneously gazeti ted as being in the Sonth Ward, I whereas it should have been placed In | the North ward, which extends as far | as Warea. The necessary alteration 1 lias since been gazetted: : -. .1 .' ' V(I ,!. A. ....j : The Municipal Association ha s decided not to hold the biennial conference , this year, owing to the session being a short one; The executive meets in , Wellington on' the TSth inst., to deal 'with any remits received ; <md any { legislation affecting municipalities. ' "Our blockade is a real blockade," said Mr- Ashmead-Bartlett ■ in ■ ■ the course of his address at the New Zealand Club in Christclinrch. "I doubt if they are getting as much as a biscuit into Germany at the present time."

The Wellington' ToWn Hall recruiting committee is'now engaged sending out recruiting cards to all men of military age in the city and suburbs, making an appeal for a reply immediately as to their willingness to serve with the army, and- to give information as to experience, dependants, and j fitness.

A new paper has been published at Tuakau (36 miles from Auckland on the Main Trunk line, and five miles from Pukekohe), by Mr J. H. Glaridge, called "The Tuakau Press and District Gazette." Mr Claridge has started several small papers in the W&lkato district, the Huntly Press included. The "Tuakau Press" is a double demy weekly publication on Wednesdays. The local Salvation Army is celebrating the anniversary on Sunday next, and the anniversary social is announced for Tuesday, the 16th, at 8 p.m. A splendid programme is being arranged. Major Toomer will occupy the chair at the meeting, and Staff-Captain Ihurkettle will also be present. Ministers of other churches are to be invited, .ltd doubtless there will be a large attendance. The proceeds are in aid of the building fund, Adjutant Cook being desirous of securing a permanent dwelling for the Army officers. It has become known at the Defence headquarters that certain men who are wearing arm badges are mutilating them. This, the authorities puJnt out, is a grave offence, ar?d anyone found wearing a mutilated badge is liable to a heavy penalty. It appears that a number of men have cut the J crown out of their arm badge and 1 sewn it on to their sleeve. This is not in accordance with the spit it of

the regulation under which the arm i badges are issued. It is suggested that if it is considered that the frown is not prominent enough it could be worked in with gold thread and thus I made effective. ' According to the architect (Mr J. D. Healy) at the Borough Council meeting Last evening, the next meeting of the ; Council will be held in the new Muni- ' cipal Buildings. Mr Healy reported J thai, owing to the decision of the old ; Council the skirting in a few of the rooms had to be colored cement, but the Mayor felt that the work did not have a finished appearance, and he suggested that the. skirting lie painted a suitable color. The cost would be perhaps p.n additional £5, but in the architect's opinion it would be advisable to agree to the Mayor's suggestion. As to the occupation of the promises to let, those would be ready for tenants by the Is!, .June, if not before that.—The Council decided to leave the | matter of the alterations to the build--1 ings in the hands of the Mayor and ■ the architect.-—The architect also reported that according to instructions he had accepted the only tender for the furnishings of the library and reading room, viz., the Excelsior Co.. at £B3 10s 6d.—The action of the architect was confirmed. I

A dance will be held in the Midhirst Town Hall to-morrow evening. The Sydney city council has adopted the principle of preference of employment to unionists. The Xcw South Wales Government's proposed scheme on the Snowy River is estimated to cost five million, states a Sydney cablegram to-day. At a special meeting of the Stratford Borough Council, held last evening, a resolution was carried approving of the g amended water works by-laws of the * Borough as carried last meeting. "Black eyes } " many will be interested to learn, are not always caused by a direct Hit. "A blow on the head," said a medical witness ih Court recent--I.V, "may cause black eyes, also pressure on the chest in a crowd." The following representatives of the Legislature have been selected by ."he New Zealand branch of the British Parliamentarian Association to visit England: The Hon. W. C. Carncross, of Eltham (representing the Legislative Council), Sir James Carroll (Gisbomj), Mr E. P. Lee (Oamaru), and'Mr C. J. Parr (Eden).—P.A. A sign of the times at the racing and trotting meeting at Hokitika was that young women have taken the plai ces of the men as receivers of investments in the silent totalisator. The I Westland Racing Club's meeting was : probably the first where the change has come into force. The West Coast has be-in to the fore for months in sending men to the front, hence the shortage of suitable male employees. i During the Soldiers Day celebrations at the Show Ground, a squad of boys from the Army Home Eltham, attracted a deal of attention and Adutant Cook has been approached by quite a number of people who have expressed a wish to visit the Home. The Adjutant has interviewed a number of residents in the town and several have already declared their intention to make the trip. It is announced that the cars and other conveyances will leave the Stratford Post Office at 2 p.m. on Thursday. Forty-nine '-hospital ships were employed in handling the casualties dui*ing the attack of the Allies upon the Dardanelles, according to' reports received at the Navy Departtneht. Some of the largest '' passenger lihers < were converted into hospital ships the work that they did exceeded that of former, rwars. . The [hospital shijp Rewa in two months handle*d 74241 patiefeits; :of these ;507 were submitted to major oparations. iAn instance j i ; was ngiven where' the* hospital ship Soudani ;took on board ' between ten a.m. and, eight p.m. 430 patients, i ■ ■ ,; m '<. i. An unusual phenomenon w,as seen in the western sky on Saturday evening ■about six o'clock, when the evening star, in all its beauty, was lying close to the new moon at the earthward end of the crescent —so close as to appear to he attached to it as a new arid incomparably lovelier portion of the moon itself. It was a rare and , wonderful sight, never before witnessed by those who observed it (states the • Hawera Star). The wonder was heightened, too, by what appearedjto some observers to be a partial ecljps£ r pf the crescent at its junction with ,the ?tar. The euchre party f ' held at Ackland School on Friday evening was a great success about forty players taking a hand. Among those present ,' (states our correspondent), 'were the Misses G. and S. Carsons, Miss Elsie Knox, and Miss E. Manning, who are on, a visit i from Christchurch, and Mr and Mrs ; Archer, of Featherston. The prizes were won by Mrs Christensen and Mr Oldridge, and' consolation prizes were presented to Miss S. Carsons and MiBishop. After the games were finished supper provided by the ladies was handed round. The fact that children attending public schools cannot be legally marked as present if they are over half-an-hour late does not appear to be generally known to parents. Two or three cases came before the Wanganui Court last week (states the Herald), where parents were charged with not having sent their boys to school on certain dates. In each instance the boys were engaged on a milk cart, and reached school at about 10 o'clock, but were marked absent, with the result that the parents were summoned. The Magistrate (Mr W. Kerr) pointed out that a breach of the Act had been committed, and in each case the parents were fined 2s and costs.

Referring to Mr Newton King's purchase of the Ohura saleyards and his decision to open a branch of his Lug business in that growing district (referred to elsewhere), the Taranaki ierald says:—"Mr King's advent o le district will, we feel sure, be of ia x>arial assistance to the settlers, and va are equally sure that he will have no cause to regret this enterprise. But it means more than this. The Ohura district is a part of Taranaki, hitherto cut off from this end commercially and physically. The physical difficulties are being slowly removed by construction of road and railway, and the entry of Mr King into the business of the Ohura will prove the beginning of a commercial connection which wi'J become closer and more important as the railway is pushed on. When that is completed New Plymouth will te r. i ch the nearest deep sea port to the 'ieart of the Ohura, and this fact will give New Plymouth a commanding position. We congratulate Mr King upon his enterprise and the Ohura farmers pen securing the assistance, and co-oper-ation of one who has been a very important factor during the last five and thirty years in the development of the older portion of Taranaki."

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