STRATFORD DAY BY DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 365, 16 April 1910, Page 8

STRATFORD DAY BY DAY.

(From Our Resident Correspondent.) j Swat:' yesterday. A deputation froi;' Central Sctiool Committee took ad\outage of the visit of .Mr. Ronayne, General Manager of Railways, to Stratford to bring under his notice the inconvenience and injury ; that was -being done to scholars and the school through the decision of the. Department not to allow school children! to travel by the mail train. Mr C. D.| Sole, chairman of the committee, placed| the facts of the case before Mr. Ro-i riavne. pointing out the effect it would have on children who were going up for examinations. The "committee only asked that the secondary pupils from Waitara and lnglewood should be al \ lowed to travel. Mr. Tyrer, the headmaster of the school, also spoke. Mr. I Ronayne, i;i replying, said he had to. consider the question of whether the children caused overcrowding on the' I train. He was having a report on thej whole matter made, and whilst declm-l ing to -give any definite reply at tlie I present .moment, promised an answer i by Tuesday.

A violent gale, accompanied by heavy! rain, visited Stratford to-day. One of the plate glass windows of the corner, shop of the Coronation Buildings, was blown in. ■ This' week several of the residents en-\ tered into agreements, backed by forfeits, to moderate their indulgence inj the use of the fragrant weed. To-day a couple of residents agreed not to do any betting except at race meetings, and in' proof of their intention to adhere su - ict-| ly to their new principles, placed a, river each in the hands of a third party, to be forfeited in the event of the agreement being broken. The reason of this act is not given. One person, speaking probably from personal experi- 1 ence. considered that they had been put on to a couple of good things—'"which can't help 'Winning"—which did not come off, find t'heir chagrin or disgus't took the form of partial repentance. Another critic advanced the theory that it was to avoid any risk of losing new hats on the result of the Mayoral election. But anyhow there would have been a great deal more in the voluntary abnegation i f the race course had not been excepted and the time of year had been the spring instead of the autumn. Tlie Stratford Bowling Club defeated Hawera yesterday by 00 points to 00.

In the' first of the Stratford Bowling Club tournament, Bett's rink defeated Smart's by 18 to 13.