LOCAL AND GENERAL.
A euchre party and dance will be held in the Ngaere Hall on Thursday evening at 8 o’clock. The death is announced of Mr Samuel Poulter, of Tipapakuku, a wellknown farmer in Danncvirke, at the! age of 62 years, who passed away at. Danncvirke Hospital on Wednesday. ! I For the Methodist Ladies’ Guild social, a very choice programme has been provided, and a. most enjoyable evening may be expected. The Dunedin Star states that it has authority from the managing director of the Union Steamship Company to say that no negotiations with the P. and 0. Company have taken place.— Press Association. The suggestion that Stratford was likely to have two new Picture Theatres in a short time is not to be borne out, for although two sites are under consideration, negotiations, are, it is understood, almost completed by which an amalgamation of interests will take place, and one scheme onlywill be carried to completion.
“There are a great many wounded in England,” slated Dr. Ward at tliej annual dinner of the New South! Whiles Institute of Journalists, “but! you see no military funerals, because they are very rare. Our dead are buried in France. Because of that you cannot imagine that there will ever be. war between Britain and France again.”
At the meeting of the Midhirst Dairy Company yesterday, Messrs E. Jackson, 11. Masters, and A. D. Stanley, were in attendance, on behalf of fixe Stratford Agricultural and Pastoral Association, and the two firstnamed addressed the meeting by permission of the Directors. Mr Jackson made a good recruiting speech, and in the course of his remarks, said it was really a duty of the farmers and suppliers to become members of the Association, which body was in existence mainly for the purpose of improving the breeding of herds and otherwise working in the farmers’ interests. .Mr Jackson pointed out the other advantages of membership, such as admission to shows, and other rights and privileges of membership. —Mr R. Masters stressed the urgent need of membership from a financial point of view. New Plymouth had' over 1000 members, and he considered Stratford should not lag behind with only about 700, The Association was in urgent need of funds for necessary improvements and to carry on successfully, and surely the farmers could pay the nominal membership fees and help the show along.—The speakers received an excellent hearing, and at the close of the meeting a considerable number of those present handed in their names to the secretary as new members.
A funny man—who does not realise what a funny man he is—caused some jeering amusement at the Midhirst Dairy Company’s meeting yesterday during the “off” time or interlude while the scrutineers were counting votes in the poll for the directorate. He insisted on saying a few words on the “treatment” meted out to him as a County Councillor by the “Stratford Post,’ and amidst laughter, suggestions that he go to the front, take a bath, or otherwise obliterate himself, poured much invective on this paper fo.r its outspoken truthfulness regarding his attitude. Despite the Chairman’s laughing protest that the gathering “was not a Council meeting,” the spluttering irate speaker fairly bolted off the course and in reventilating his grievances against the County Engineer, the County Clerk, and the Editor of the Post, somehow got Council matters mixed up with the trial and sentence of Casement the Traitor, and where the latter was born. Finally, when nearly winded, the gasping orator solemnly expressed the view that the Editor of the “Stratford Post” • “ought to mind his own business—and do it in his own way.” This cryptic remark quite pleased the meeting, which greeted it with laugh-
ter and applause. Some one then isaid “And now, Mr Chairman, suppose we, get on with our own business?” The Chairman replied: “Well its an ‘off’ time while we’re waiting for the result of the poll.” The result was duly announced, and, to the evident joy of most of those present, the talking man was found to be left well out in the cold—and it was strange how silent and subdued he became. If only some undertaker pal had happened to be there ! aißiMiiina JMMMauatartaLva
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 96, 25 July 1916, Page 4
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703LOCAL AND GENERAL. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 96, 25 July 1916, Page 4
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