STRATFORD DAY BY DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 101, 6 August 1910, Page 8

STRATFORD DAY BY DAY.

(Frcrr. ' jivn Correspondent.) Stratford. Last, Xight. or several months past the larrikin element in this town has been getting out of control. Any night of the week and on 'Sunday afternoons gan«s of youths might be seen sitting on window /edges of the shops, smoking cigarettes niul expectorating on the footpaths. 1 Gradually they grew bolder, and commenced to damage the blinds. To-day four youths came before the Magistrate to answer the chaise of doing damage to a shop door. They pleaded guilty, and. after receiving a lecture from tfie Bench on the errors of their ways and an admonition to behave better in the future, were let off with the light penalty of 5s each, and ordered to make good the damage done. 1 There is another favorite place of these youths on 'buudays, and that is i King Edward's Park. On a-fine'after-noon gangs congregate there, and make themselves objectionable to .passers-by. If a few of these could bo caught, brought before the Magistrate, and ordered to receive several cuts of the birch, .applied by a stalwart constable, doubtless the P«rk would be more frequently patronised by the residents of this town. At a meeting of the United Friendly Societies Hospital Association yesterday, claims to the amount of £163 were received. The Tlawera Foresters and Stratford Druids have joined the Association. and the membership now totals over 1300. YV. O'Brien, for being in the possession of liquor during the cuvrencv of a prohibition order, was fined C2. or, in default, fourteen days in the Xew Plymouth gaol, by the Magistrate this morning. The Rev. A. H. Colville left Stratford this morning for Xew Plymouth, en route to Auckland. A match has been arranged between the Stratford and Waitara golf clubs, to be played on the local links for the lSth inst. The football match here yesterday between the Stratford and combined teams resulted in the Fayly Memorial Scholarship Fund being augmented by £l3. A local resident recently got three hundredweight of barbed wire. When he went to get it to put up some fencing, lie found that someone had stolen it. The Borough Council meet on Monday night, when the appointment of the custodian for the hall, ranger, etc., will De made.