STRATFORD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81888, 15 November 1906, Page 2

STRATFORD.

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. To-day our technical schiol grounds piescntcd quite an animated appearance on account of the lesson in practical farming that is being Curried out under the direction of Mr K McK. Morrison, liven to-day, with all our boasted education, tanning is not earned out as one would expect, and many farmers wili persist in putting in oat and turnip crops without manures. The experiment that is now being carried out will prove conclusively that scieutjfic fanning must and will pay. The results will be watched with much inn-rest, and, a , an object lessjn, will no doubt prove thai, with rising values in .and, fanning can be made to payMr P. J. \\une, mail contractor fur the Stratlord-W nanganit'mona mail, is taking up his residence in this town. lie finds it more continent and more suitable ior his business, which iJ"Tapidly increasing. It is wonderful how soon the trade ot our buekblock country extends ami makes fresh demands for means of transit. Only a snort time back the whole of the mai: couid be carried easily on horseback, njwit amounts to nearly thrcequarteis of a iun, and this summer I am informed a new line of coaches will run between Suatlord 'and Whangamomona. So piugicsses our backblucks, and if the listimates sj caiefuliy framed by our legislators would only expand like, or were even commensurate with die energy and business of our settlors, the outer Gael; would not be such a bad placu to be in. Now that the question of rival lines lo Opunake from somewhere has eased otf, another question has conic to light in me shape of "A Dairy School Site.' 1 Stratford has advocated this institution for years, 1 was going to say, but certainty tor along time, and as an initial step our technical sclio.'l was built, and many dairying experiments have been earned "11 tiieie. Stratford, which is the true centre of the dairying industry in Taranaki, will, when ilie railway is built lo Opunake, be the gieat junction of Taianaki, and is the right and proper place for the dairy school. Mr Blackett, so long in business as ironmonger and general hardwaie merchant, has disposed of his business and intends visiting the Old Country early in the new year.