STRATFORD DAY BY DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 348, 26 March 1910, Page 8

STRATFORD DAY BY DAY.

(From Our , Resident Correspondent.) i Stratford, March 25. Mr R. Cox, of the staff of the li*;al Post Office, was presented with a handsome cut glass cruet yesterday by his fellow employees as a wedding present. I regret to have to record the death of the infant son of Mr and Mrs' W.! Johnston, of the Bank of Australasia. The little fellow, who was two years cf | age, was taken ill with laryngitis .11 Tuesday even.ng" and despite the att;ntion of Drs Paget and Carbery passed away at an early hour this morninw. The Salisbury Road School held their annual picnic to-day. Favoured uy perfect weather there was a large aitendance of settlers, and the sports were from every point a great success. In the evening a concert and dance was held in the schoolroom, during the course of which the presentation of prizes took place. The Ngaere Cheese Factory have commenced the manufacture of the .< »rfton cheese for the Palmerston Winter Show. Fifteen pounds in various' coins will be distributed through the cheese.

It has been rumoured that officials from one of the- Government departments have been surveying the a'ection at the corner of Juliet street, and East road, opposite the Trocadero, »*u' th« construction placed upon the n J ion is that it is to be acquired for a 11--it \ Post Off'ce. How far report is correct j is difficult to say, but it is known I'ttat the Department have been in negotia- ( tion for a new site and that the present building, lacking the accommodation for the business passing through, is to be replaced sometime by a more I up-to-date building. The question of | site is a matter of the greatest importance to the business' people and residents of the town, and any proposal to place the new building across the railway line should be strongly upposed by the business section of the community. This' is another matter in which a Chamber of Commerce could do good -work. To wait till the Department makes up its mind what it is going to do and then finding that the suction is not to the town's interest if not going to the full extent of shutting the stable door after the horse has got out, is calculated to lead to delay and possibly a great amount of trouble and bother. First of all if Ts desirable to bring under the Government's notice on every possible occasion the necessity for a new Post Office, and then to take care that it is placed somewhere in the principal business thoroughfare.