LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 97, 26 July 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A dance in aid of the .Wounded Soldiers’ Fund will ho held in the Tuna School Room on Friday evening next. At Foley’s Pictures to-night, an added attraction, which should prove of interest to Taranakians will be some" snapshots of tho recent lire in New Plymouth. A loeal resident remarks upon the .mildness of the season, and states ; that this week he noticed some child-j ren picking blackberries from a small patch on the river bank in the borough. The footpath giving access to the; northern end of the railway stationj from Broadway is practically eom-| ploted. Altogether, the. entrance is, now much more convenient. The, entrance to main door of the station and to the carriers’ stands has also, been improved. Ngaere cribbage players try conclusions with the Stratford Card Clu.>: this evening at Smith’s rooms, at i .<lO j o’clock sharp. All members .pf ’ the j Club are requested to he present, asj the visitors’ party will number twenty. . . I The following team will represent the Stratford Senior Cadets’ against, the S.D.H.S. on Thursday next om Victoria Park, play commencing at; 2.30 p.m. : —Forwards : Kivell; Vickers (2), Lehmann, James, Sharrock, McCullough and Chard. Backs: Crosson, Kivell (21, Clemow, McAloon, Collins and Shotter. Emergencies: Duddiug and Simmons.

The Prime Minister has invited ali Mayors of the Dominion to convene public meetings on the second aniversary of the war and submit the following motion: “That on the second aniversary of the declaration of a righteous war this meeting of the citizens of records its inflexible j determination to continue to a victorious end the struggle in the maintenance of those ideals of liberty and justice which are the common and sacred cause of tiie Allies.”

The poor landlord! The New Zealand Times states; One of the speakers at Monday night’s meeting of the property-owners to discuss he proposed legislation affecting the increase or rents during the war, made a great point by referring to the huge increases in the price of commodities. He instanced sugar and matches. Whereas he used to pay a penny for a box of vesta’s, he now paid threehalfpence. He was asked by one of his hearers in “get on to the rents,’ and soon got somewhat excited on the wrongs' of “the poor landlords—the pioneers of the. country.” He had lived in a tent at one time, and if the people of to-day wore not able to pay rent, hey should live in tents. (Cries of ’“Time.”) The chairman called him to order, but the speaker went on, and said the audience would ask him to stop if they thought he was talking nonsonce. He then proceeded to declare that he knew as much about politics as any man in the House. Then he demanded to know why the -landlord should not get a fair remuneration for his labour. He next waxed pathetic over the widow and the working man who owned houses, and finally subsided, amidst cheers’ which were largely ironical.