LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 38, 12 September 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

“Franco, July 1(5. 191 G. All Well. Chas. Stuart Kelly,”—lnformation on post card just to hand at the “Stratford Evening Post.” j At a special meeting of the Stratford Borough Council ' last evening prior to the ordinary meeting, the balance-sheet for the year ending March 31, 191(5, with certain exceptions was adopted. This evening in the Midhirst Town Hall, the local soldiers’ farewell and reception committee are holding aeoncert and dance as a send-off to Pri-, rates Robert Read, Carl Ustallo and Allan Signal. The Stratford Hospital Board, having learned that some men who are anxious to volunteer for the front are suffering from minor ailments which require operating on, desire to state that they are still prepared to havej these operations performed free of| charge in the Stratford Hospital. The following team will represent the Stratford Senior Cadets against the Manaia-Okaiawa Senior Cadets at Hawera on Thursday next: Crosson, James, McCullough, Kivell (3), Lehmann, Chard, Sharrock, Vickers (‘J), Shotter, Collins, Xeal, and Clemow. Eemegencies: Duddihg and Simmons. The team will travel per the 10 ann. train. Players are requested to notify the secretary if they are unable to make the journey.

The seamen of the Tongariro felt tile anti-shouting regulations rather severely on their arrival in Napier (says the Hawke’s Hay Herald). They would have liked to he treated, and have been treated in all directions, but they had in cases only one or two drinks. Nevertheless they were quite satisfied to be entertained in other directions. Out of the 40 or 50 seamen who boarded the Westralia for the journey to Wellington only one was a bit merry. This is surely a record for seamen.

A London Sunday pictorial paper 01fered Australian Prime Minister Hughes a shilling a word for a scries of ten articles. The bait .was £7OO. Sunday papers have short columns. Two of them would hold about 1400 words, which gives the golden average mentioned. It is a higher rate than Budyard Kipling or H : G. Wells or Arnold Bennett or Marie Corelli can command. The Sydney Daily Telegraph used to pay Mr Hughes 30s a column for his “Case for Labour.” Times have changed (says Punch).

The Wanganui Herald records that a well-known local firm of plateglass importers received a bombshell on Wednesday when they were called upon to pay coastal shipping charges on a consignment of two cases of plateglass, transhipped from a direct liner at Wellington. The freight from Home to Wellington was £25, and from Wellington to Wanganui £25 16s! Before the war the Home freights were 69s per ton and coastal freights 15s. To-day the former are 102 s, and the latter 635, being an increase of about 50 per cent, on the voyage from Home and 450 per cent, increase between there aiid ellington! The matter affords fine scope for reflection upon the ways of commercial monopoly.

The tar sprayer ordered from Mr J. Hopkirk, Hawera, by the Stratford County Council some five months ago for tliis season’s work arrived m Stratford yesterday. The sprayer has a capacity of about 600 gallons. In several respects the sprayer is an improvement on the machines made by the same firm for other ■ local bodies in Taranaki. It lias heavier plates and 6-inch wheels, 2-inch wider than usual. The tar boiler made by the same firm arrived about two months ago and will be built in on the Council’s property on the Mountain Road near the Climie Road. The boiler has a capacity of 1000 gallons. The l> lant is capable of tar-sealing about hall a mile of road a day.

A correspondent at Hutroa repoits the discovery of a sulphur spiing somewhere on the IV aiwiri Road, the qualities of which he likens to a dose of the old home remedy of sulphur and treacle. He lives in hope that the health of the people in the vicinity will be much improved after the judicious use of this new-found mineral water! The writer also states that the sale of the farm of Mr Ceo. Lorimoro was a very successful one, the property, which is alongside the oil wells, fetching £l6 per acre, while the herd of cows in which the pin prietor took a great interest, niei aged £l6. Mr Lormore was highly respected in the district and his do parture will be much regretted by the whole community.

' Regarding the Electrical Suppb Co.’s undertaking and its acquisition by the Borough Council, some information was elicited at the Council meeting last evening. The I nderSecretary for Public 'Works (Mr WS. Short) wrote asking to he informed when the transaction would he completed, pointing out that no license had yet been issued to the Compan,-., and ii would he necessary for the Council to apply for a license authorising it to construct and maintain the lines.—Cr Hunter asked for particulars in regard to the matter. The .Mayor said it was going on alright. The Council had to send notices to ho gazetted. The Town Clerk said that taking everything into s onsideration the Council would I he lucky if it could take over the business as from November 1.

Weather Forecast. The indications are for southerly moderate to strong winds prevailing. Weather probably cool and changeable, with scattered showers. Barometer rising temporarily.—Pemberton, Wellington. Unpleasant interviews with the police ary in store for men who neglect to accept the advice given in regard to enrolment or reporting a change of address under the Military Service Act. For their own protection, Reservists should apply promptly to the Government Statistician for certificates of enrolment, for which forms are obtainable at any post-office. These certificates will only be issued on application. Employers will have an interest in such certificates, be- ,* cause the employment of non-enrollecl men or deserters is prohibited. The production of a certificate is a guarantee to an employer that the Reservist has a right to work. At last night’s meeting of the Stratford Borough Council, a letter was read from the secretary of the Stratford A. and P. Association informing the Conned that for a considerable time past the Association had been using its best endeavors with the Government in the direction of getting a model dairy farm established in the district. The principle upon which the farm was proposed to be worked had 1 appealed to the Prime Minister,'to the Agricultural Department and to the M'nister for Agriculture (Hon. M r MacDonald) all of whom had expressed themselves as favourable to the object. To further the proposal, it was decided at a meeting of the executive on Thursday to invite representatives of the local bodies and dairy companies in the district to meet and discuss the matter in the A. and P. office on Saturday, October 7, at 1 o’clock. The executive asked if the Council would appoint a delegate.—The Mayor was appointed to attend the meeting.