TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 299, 2 December 1936, Page 4

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

j STRATFORD YOUTHS PUNISHED. j Two Stratford youths who took a ' car belonging to Mr Russell Klrkj wood from outside the Plaza Theatre I and left it across the railway line at I the Cordelia Street intersection 1 were dealt 'with in the Stratford I children’s court to-day.

HOTEL LICENSE. The transfer of the license of the Club Hotel, Stratford, from Angus Donald Jury to John Pennington Bates was granted by Mr. W. H. Woodward, S'.M., at a sitting of the Licensing Committee to-day. NEW PLYMOUTH RACES. A decision to increase the stakes for the Taranaki Jockey Club’s February meeting by £550 was made at a meeting of ’the committee last night. The distance of the Taranaki Cup was increased from one a-quarter to one mile and three furlongs. RABBIT Rabbits have made their appearance in 'the Tari,ki district, it. was stated at the meeting of the Inglewood County Council yesterday’. Cr Williams remarked that a settler on Tariki Road had already killed six or ■seven rabbits on his property and had enjoyed the luxury of three rabbit pies.

STRATFORD BOWLING. Stratford B team to play Stra'tford A on Saturday is: Beal, Bailey, Smart. P. Coe; Butchart, C. Brown, Turnbull, Curtis; Rowell, Carrington, Summerfield, Davis; Finnerty, Annis, Hillock, S. Ewing; C. Franklin, Earles, Pellowe, Marsh; Carman, Malone, McMillan, Harris; Nowell, Cutfield, Butcher, Williams; Young, L. H. McDonald, Porritt, Boyd. STRATFORD A TEAM. Stratford A team is: Aitken, Brown, Douglas, Clark; Bates, Buckley, Ewing, Allan; Gatton, Bellringer, Lawson, Amess; Bake, Fleming, Sullivan, McDonald; Hugo, Irving, Rudkin, Pope; Hickey, Ward, Healy, Liddell; Burgess, Thompson, Morris; Franklin, Hill, Furrie, Smith. STRATFORD PANTOMIME. Miss Norma Spearman and her dancing pupils scored a distinct sue cess at Stratford last night in the presentation of a Christmas pantomime' in which more than 60 performers took part. - The town hall was filled. Details will be published in The Press to-morrow.