IN THE NEWS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 444, 27 May 1937, Page 4

IN THE NEWS.

MOUNTAIN CLUB MEETING. The annual meeting of the Stratford Mountain Club will be held tonight in the Municipal buildings at 8 o’clock. QUESTIONING OF NURSES. j A resolution protesting against the j interrogation by the Auckland police { of Nurses Shadbolt, Sharpies and I Dodds before their departure for j Spain to join the ambulance service of the Loyalist troops, and demand- 1 ing an inquiry into the matter was carried at a meeting of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of New Zealand (Otahuhu branch) last night. FARMER AND UNIONISM. is the day of unionism,” "aid Mr R. Seivers (Makara-Hutt dis- i trict) in his presidential address' to ‘ the annual interprovincial confer- , nnc3 of the New Zealand Farmers’ ■ Union at Dannevirke. “It is more es- ! f'ential than ever before that primary i producers should take steps to see that the individual farmers in this country have their views put forward as strongly as any other section of the community.” CANARY AND BIRD SHOW. At the New Plymouth Canary and Cage Bird Club’s fifth annual show yesterday, in the novice section, Mr W. A. Clements (Stratford) was second with his yellow hen, any variety, and also his buff hen. Mr A. G. Beal i (Stratford) judged the novice section of the budgerigars, in which Mr Dixon (Stratford) was first for white cock, darkly suffused. Mr Dixon was second in the class for goldfinch cock, I bouse moulted, and won in the clear ; or lightly marked class of mules. ELECTRIC LINE DANGERS. An appeal to schoolmasters and i parents to regularly warn children of ! the grave danger of interference with ' electrical lines and the avoidance of broken wires was made by the chairman of the Franklin Electric-Power Board, Mr J. Dean, at the annual meeting at Pukekohe. Mr Dean said that in country districts, where children going to and from school were without supervision, constant remind- I ing of the dangers was necessary.

RUGBY FIXTURE. I A senior Rugby fixture between . Stratford and Inglewood will be playI ed at Stratford on June 9, the King’s Birthday, the use of the ground having been granted to the Taranaki ■ Rugby Union by a special meeting of . the Stratford Borough Council.