STRATFORD DAY BY DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 354, 4 April 1910, Page 8

STRATFORD DAY BY DAY.

(From i';:r l'"-i ,-m Correspondent.) Saturday It is rather remarkable that after "the cold snap of the earlier part of the week there should be so little snow on fclt. Egmont. Why? Parents of children residing north of SI vat for,!, the » r !.ool authorities and the Inspect or of the Education Hoard are asking llii- question, llither,to Stratford has been remarkably fo*tmiate in the train arrangements for the school. It therefore eame as a bolt from the blue when the guards announced (hat in future children would not be allowed to travel on the mad train. The result, of this action ,s that instead of arrivintr at a quarter to nine they do not get to school till af*er 10 o'clock. Over fifty children 'ars affecte! by this. The local school committee and the Hoard aro requesting the Department to revert to the obi syteni. Tt does seem peculiar that -ift'r the system being in f"' '■•' for min- years it should be eh'uigod, witho it a moment's notice. !t h Department, had found it necesasrv {'. cut out *ome stopping places on ace nint of speed of the train i: would b,> different.

Mr. John Paul, of Pembroke roil, was recently kicked iv ;' young norse, sustaining a broken .rm. Mr. and Mrs. S. (i. TSurgess were farewelled Inst mgnt .i.t the Fire Brigade, cf vhich hody Mr. Turgess was lieuten»nt. During the evening Mr Barge's ••vas presented with a silve'-mounlerl butter dish, the presentation b".iiß; rar.de by Fireman Kivell. One of the people whose holiday arrangements were in'o' ,,,- f..' -~\*\\ bv the gale was the Clerk of the Court. Going vi'th on a holiday, l,e has be <\ un.i'olj to return, and the Court business is grHing behind, 'here has "i;>c tu»n a court day in Stratford for three \ree\'«, and next TV,i,, v w ;q ne heavy jtrears of business to make up.