Military Service Act

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 42, 16 September 1916, Page 4

Military Service Act

WHAT MEN MUST DO. Men already registered—!.—Mum notify any change of address. 2.—Must apply on form provided for certificate of enrolment. j Men not enrolled—--I.—Musi fill in an enrolment card. 2,—Must apply on form provided for a certificate of enrolment. This must be done before Saturday, September ltit-h. j All forms obtainable at anj atii every Post Oilice..

The monthly cheques to he paid to the suppliers of tho Lowgarth Factory on Septemhcr 20, amount to £782. The Dominion Meteorologist telegraphs: The indications are for \resterly moderate to strong winds prevailing and freshening. There is a prospect of fair to cloudy weather, with increasing haze and cloudiness. Barometer little movement, but has a falling tendency.—Pombcrton. The Stratford quota ol the 21st Reinforcements will leave for camp by the mail train on Monday morning. The men will assemble at the school at 8.15, and bo marched to the railway station at about 8.30. In connection with the exhibition of spring flowers to he held in the St. Andrew's Hall on Wednesday (afternoon and evening) next, there are to bo competitions for bowls and baskets of spring flowers. Messrs Duncan and Davies, the well-known nurserymen of New Plymouth, are sending a quantity of flowers and nursery stock for exhibition. The evening train to Hawera ran into a motor-car owned by the A.W.R. Milking Machine Company, at the Beaconsfield Road crossing,' just be yond' the Midhirst station, yesterday evening. The train, which had just left the station, had not developed great speed, but the impact was sufficient to carry the car, a two-seater Ford, across the cattle stops. Tho occupants of the car escaped injury. The car, was badly damaged by the impact.

An engineer belonging to the Tongariro secured work at a Napier iron foundry within a few hours of landing from the wreck (says the Hawke's Bay Herald). Within the last twelve months he. had been on board a submarine hunter in the North Sea, and had shared in a distribution of a bonus for destroying a German vessel before his own steamer was shelled and sunk. He had also been employed on the Clan M'Tavish when that vessel put up her fine fight against the Moewe. Shipping to New Zealand in the Tougariro, he shared in Ae excitement of the wreck. He liked New Zealand, and resolved to stay in Napier, and obtained his new position straight away.

The follfflpng new books have been added to fthe Stratford Public Library:—"fty Crimson Gardenia" (Bex BeacnV, "The West Wind" (Katherine Tynan), "The Night Born" (Jack London), "The Man Who Wrought" (Ridgewell Cullum). "The Island of Surprise" (Cyrus Brady), "lornmouth" (C. Stantion and H. Hosken), "Tho World Mender" (Maxwell Grey), "The Rise of Raymond" (Fft. Moore), "Two Generations" (F. Nfven), "The Long Divorce" (G. Chamberlain), "Irreconeilables" (E. Heart)", "Blackwate.r" (D. Richardson), "Love's Inferno" (Dr. Stilgebauer), "Mr Wildridge, of the Bank" (L. Doyle), "The Queen of the Secret City" (Joseph Doke), "The Story of a Great Sin" (Marie Leighton), "Purple and Fine Linen" (L. Davidson), "The Scratch Pach" (Dorothea. Conyers);