STRATFORD DAY BY DAY.
(From Our Resident Corre«ponJeut.l Stratford, April 4. There are a considerable number of unemployed about Stratford at the present time. Most of tliein are elderly men. The railway works absorbs all the young and ablebodied men.
Stories' drift into Stratford of tiie price that is paid for liquor on the railway works. One of the men who had been employed on the line told tne writer on Saturday that a bottle of whisky, and of a brand unknown co the general public, would fetch as much as from 12s fid to 15s. T);- Pacret opens the Msvoral campaign on Friday night, when he addresses' the electors. At the annua! meeting of the Stratford Association Football Club, Mr D. Rule-hard was elected secretary. Several Stratford residents' had cause to bless or otherwise the vagaries of a motor car yesterday. When near Inglewood tTio car went out on strike, ,and in spite of all the efforts of the party, remained immovable, the services of a horse having eventually to bo obtained to tow the car to a repair short. Th° rainfall for the past month in Stratford w>» (137 inches.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 355, 5 April 1910, Page 8
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192STRATFORD DAY BY DAY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 355, 5 April 1910, Page 8
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