STRATFORD NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 194, 30 August 1901, Page 2

STRATFORD NOTES.

(fuom our own cokrespondent). Th|S late fire at Hitchcock's was a vary Ipradical illustration qf tjhe advantages [of making brick walls aompulsory, j Had it not been for the briok walls of bo h the adjoining buildings, it is impossible to say to what extent the fire might have spread. Measles aw at presant very prevalent here. The school had to be closed for a week, and, though it has now re-opined, the attendance is sd small tbat a further week's closing has become nece-sary.

[ The last fe<v fine days have showo us what we will have to expect in summer. Dust was flying thickly in all directions A wator cart will be a riPcessity, while tree-plauting on tin principal streets should.be proceeded with as (juickly as p ssihle. Ganeral dis ippointimnt was express d at the leported decision that the Egmont tiamway scheme was tibe dropped. The plea that the scoria does not make good metal seems rather feeb'e in the face of the fact that the Auckland roads are metalled with scoria, with very g>cd effect. Bat whether it is good metal or not, one thing is clesr, that the question of metal for rotds is becoming morejimpoitant eve-y year, and that, failing the discovery of a large deposit of shell rock down the B ist-road, the mountain seams the ouly available source of supply,