IN THE NEWS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 436, 18 May 1937, Page 4

IN THE NEWS.

GEORGE V. MEMORIAL. A donation of £2O to the King George V. Memorial Fund was made by the Stratford Borough Council last night. BROADWAY PROPERTY SALE Appoval of the transfer of the Broadway property occupied by Mill. T. Cooper to J. R. McKenzie, Ltd., was given by the Stratford Borough Council last night. EGMONT NATIONAL PARK. After hearing a communication from the Egmont National Park Board the Stratford Borough Council resolved at last night's meeting to advise the Board that the usual annual grant of £2O would be made. SOIL FOR TREE PLANTING. Black soil secured in the excavation of the municipal baths site will be made available for the coronation commemoration tree planting in Broadway North as the result of a request by Mr Percy Thomson to the Borough Council last night. HOUSING SCHEME. The council was not in favour of a building scheme, said the Mayor, Mr J. W. McMillan, at last night’s council meeting when a letter was read from Mr J. A. Lee, under-secretary in charge of Housing. He added that the Government was inquiring regarding sections in Stratford and it would be advisable to wait and see what its intentions were.

, DOGS A NUISANCE. The Stratford Hospital Board decided at to-day’s meeting to request the Borough Ranger to take action to deal with dogs which were becoming a nuisance in the hospital garden. RUGBY TRIAL REFEREE. Mr R. Phillipson, of Stratford, will be the referee for the Rugby trial game between Taranaki Probables and Possibles at Eltham to-morrow. AWATEA MEMENTO. L n dy Bledisloe, who launched the Union Company’s liner Awatea, has i presented a silver rosebowl 17 inches across and 10J inches high, with an oak pedestal, as a memento of the launching, and yesterday the bowl was handed to the ship on behalf of Lady Bledisloe by Mrs C. G. White, wife of one of the directors of the company. 1 ROAD TO AERODROME. 1 Asking that when arranging work for unemployed during the coming ! year consideration should be given to the opening of Esk Road, Mr Percy Thomson waited upon the Borough Council at last night’s meeting. He 1 stressed the advantage of a round route giving access to the aerodrome ' and also pointed out that the com--1 pletion of the road would provide a stock route between the north of t Stratford and the east of Stratford. The council decided that it. could not 1 see-its way at the present, time to 4 consider undertaking the work.