LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 11, 11 August 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

\t the Stratford Magistrate's Court this 'afternoon; Percy Collnis, "wftV pleaded guilty to allowing a horse to I wander, was lined 10s and costs ;&. 1 R Hignett, who pleaded guilty to a similar charge, was fined 5s and wsts 7 s. The fortnightly sitting of the Swatford Magistrate's Court this afternoon lasted less than a quarter of an Hour, and durifg time time, the Magm-rite 1 (Mr Wv r ß. : Haseldon) dismissed k-r I gave JiWgm'e'nt in twenty civil cases, j heard ''it ; judgmVnt summons case, and 1 fined two pertdns for allowing horses 1 to wander! J Judgment hy default was given in 3 the following civil cases at the Str.it3'• ford Magistrate's Court this after--1 I noon:—Stratford Borough Council v. | Henry William Mudford £l3 18s 2d; 1 W. Cannon and Co. v. H. J. Robert--1 son £4 17s; W. Cannon and Co. v. * A. E. Clifford £3 5s Id; William ißienry Bennett v. Alfred J. Hill £2; Waipa Railways and Colliers Ltd. v. E. C. Croot £2o 3s sd. [n accordance with arrangements, Trentham Camp will be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected before the 20th Reinforcements enter. To lit in with this, the lOth's are being moved a week or so before time to Featherston, and will be accommodated in the old Tauherinikau Camp. TThe engineers, the N.C.O.'s, and the staff, totalling HKJO, will remain at Trentham.—Press Association. In an editorial on' the Taranaki Education Hoard, the Hawera Star says:—We are afraid that, the Taranaki Education Board cannot be congratulated on making a very happy staii in its wider career by so pointedly passing over Mr Trimble in respect of the chairmanship. No man is entitled to expect re-election to an office year after year, but common gratitude for long service l is a virtue, it may be hoped, even on local bodies, and there are tactful and untactfut ways of doing things. One would have thought that if the newly-con-stituted Board considered the office should go round the members at their first gathering, while setting forth the principle, would have paid the old chairman the compliment of asking him to accept office for the first term. It would probably have been of advantage, too, in the public interest, for pending the changes that have to be made the services of a chairman, who for some time has held the reins of administration, might be expected to be of special value. We have no doubt Mr Masters will make a good chairman. The mover and seconder of the motion were both new members who had no experience of the Taranaki Board, and the mover rather rubbed it ill when, in response to Mr Trimble's expression of regret at the loss of the Board's confidence, he paid him a eulogy which he had not considered necessary at an earlier stage in the meeting. It reminds us of the old couplet "It was all very •veil to dissemble your love, but why did you kick me downstairs?"'