STRATFORD DAY BY DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 49, 7 June 1910, Page 8

STRATFORD DAY BY DAY.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) Stratford, Last Night •Wednesday will be pay day on the railway works. At a committee meeting of the fe'tratford A. aad P. Association on Saturday it was decided to admit as members, at a subscription of 7s (kl, .persons under twenty years of age. The membership roll of the Stratford A. and P. Association continues to increase, and there is not the slightest doubt that when the Show is held the Association, from a numerican standpoint, will be able to well hold its own with neighboring institutions. Mr. J. Masters has been added to the committee of the Stratford A. and P. | Association,

At the Stratford Rifle Club's competition on Thursday, Rifleman W. Rogers headed the list of competitors for the second .stage of the Watson Cup and for Hallenstein Bros.' trophy. The rain of Saturday and yesterday must have caused many of the residents of Stratford to reflect on the necessity of lilter beds at the head works of the water supply. It seems that coincidence fated that the members of the Council i should have visited the intake durmg I iSie week to consider the solution of the problem. Whatever scheme may ne suggested, the public who use tlie water will be united in their wish: "Oh, let it be soon."

Constable Beasley, of the local police force, is on holiday leave. Mr. V. A. Warner, of Toko, who has been ill for some months past, was admitted to the local hospital on Saturday. It is remarkable that at this time of the year there should be so little snow on Mount Egmont. This accounts for the warm weather of the past few days, which Ims been more like spring than winter.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Stratford. Last Night. A meeting of the executive of the Chamber of Commerce was held to-night. It was resolved that the District Traffic Manager of Railways !><• written to in regard to the timetable of the Te Wera-Stra>tford section, requesting that on Saturday a train leave at about 9.30 a.m., returning from Stratford at 4.30, mid that on Tuesdays a train leave Te Wera about 0.40 a.ni., to enable settlers to catch the mail train to attend stock sales.

It was decided to approach the Xew Plymouth Chamber of Commerce, asking that body to co-operate for the purpose of securing an improved steamer service from Wellington. Mr. Ward reported the result of a deputation's interview with the Postmaster. The new system of weekly dockets in connection with telephone charges was being introduced. It was impossible to make a second letter delivery all over Stratford daily, but there were certain places where it could be effected, and lie would suggest to his Department the feasibility of this proposal. A Railway Committee was appointed to interview the Stationmaster with the object of securing a carriage on the goods train leaving Xew Plymouth at 11 o'clock, and as to the question of the possibility of accelerating the arrival of the present 12.45 train, Fifteen now members were elected.