LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 81, 2 November 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Stratford Chamber of Commerce meet this evening at 8 o’clock.

A Church social takes place in the Parish Hall to-night at 8 o’clock.

A garden party will he held in the Ngaero Gardens in aid of the Fdtham Belgian Guild and Soldiers’ Comforts Fund on Thursday, 9th November,

A special meeting of the Borough Council will be held on Friday imxt at I o’clock to consider the settlement of the electric light question.

A though the Stipendiary Magistrate! will not be in attendance at the Court to-morrow at 1.30, the Justices will be present to deal with the cases down for hearing.

The amount received for building permits by the Borough Council for the half year ended September 3Uth last, amounted to. £2381. For the month of October, £565 was received.

Weather Forecast.—The indications are for easterly winds moderate tostrong and backing by east to north, increasing haze and cloudiness for change. The barometer has a falling tendency.—Bates, Wellington.

In the Hawera Magistrate’s Court to-day, five youths, railway enginecleaners, pleaded guilty to a charge breaking and entering the Hawera railway refreshment rooms and were committed for sentence. —Press Association.

Under Section 35 of The Military Service Act, where there are two or more brothers of military age in one •family, none of whom have enlisted or are at the front, if these names are given to the Defence Authorities, enquiries will be instituted, and if the. report is found to be correct, those men will be summoned without any further warning to appear before a Medical Board, and, if found fit, will be sent straight into camp. One thousand of these summonses have recently been distributed in the Domin-

The rainfall taken at Riversdale, Inglewood, by Miss N. Trimble, for Octobcy totals 13.49 inches.-. heaviest falls were on the with 3,14; on the 10th, 1.90; and on the 24th, 1.56. The other dates recorded are as follows;—lst, .66; 6th, .07; 7th, .14; Bth, .04; 9th, 1.39; 11th, .39; 15th, .99; 16th, .02; 18th, 1.66; 21st, .29; 25th, .35; 26th, .01; and 28th, .88.

Among the curios shown by Colonel the Hon. R. Heaton Rhodes at Leeston on Thursday evening was a beau-tifully-finished machine of German manufacture for exploding mines, captured on Gallipoli from the Turks. Colonel Rhodes asked Miss Myrtle Birdling to turn the key which set the machine in motion, laughingly promising her and the audience that, if there were one hundred Turks near by, they would go up skywards. .Miss Birdling turned the key, but evidently was not prepared for the blindish flash which followed. It' was, however, a splendid object-lesson .of the manner in which mines are exploded.

At last night’s parade of the Territorials, there was a good muster of 45 men under command of SergeantMajor Mahoney, when Captain Furhy, Assistant Adjiltant-General, inspected them. After parade, Captain Furhy addressed the men, urging them to pay particular interest to their work in view of the approaching visit of the Hon. J. Allen (the Minister of Defence) to Stratford, when he is to present the D.C.M. to Corporal Barker. Captain Furhy said that as Corporal Barker was one of his old hoys of the 11th Regiment, he was particularly interested in him, especially when ho recalled his bravery at Gallipoli. Captain Furhy Staten' he would use his host endeavours to sec that all the men were fitted out with proper uniforms on the occasion of the Minister’s visit, when lie trusted there would he a good muster of men.

The Ballistite Cup, for which members of the Stratford Gun Cluh hold on November 9 the first of four competitions, and for which entries close with the secretary on Saturday night, is a clay-bird (not live-bird) match.

which was instituted in 13x5. For some years groat interest was shown in the competition, which is held under sealed handicap conditions, with the best three scores to count for the holder for the year, and has to be won three times at intervals by one shooter to become his absolute property. Finality has not been reached, and the present executive decided to renew the competition, a decision which members will no doubt appreciate by nominating in large numbers. One shilling only is the entry money. The secretary requests publication of the foregoing details in view of the misconception that some people are under with regard to the cup.

A warning to employers of the risk of interference witli their employees in attending camp is reported Tom Dannevirke per Press Association. Charles Lawrence Neilsen, an employer, who, under stress of work prevented his employee from attending the annual or casual camp, was fined £lO and 12s costs. Mr W. G. Kendrick, S.M. presided. Defendant had applied for exemption, which was refused, but word only came to hand two days after the casual camp had started and then he considered it was too late for the employee to attend.