STRATFORD DAY BY DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 131, 12 September 1910, Page 8

STRATFORD DAY BY DAY.

j (From Our Own Correspondent.) ' r Stratford, Saturday Night. Mr. J Masters leaves on a trip to Australia next week. He will be noIcompamed bj his son Harold. ; ® redow ' Douglas, disoovered on his property the other day a very J fine specimen of a Maori axe. The cutting edge of the axe was about 14 inches m length and four inches wide. ' Huzziff, well-known in this district, died at Auckland this week! The remarns are being brought to Stratford for interment. The Old Boys defeated the TTiplt School by 11 points to 3 yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Plitsch, formerly of the Commercial Hotel, are leaving on Monday for Melbourne. The laying of the rails and ballasting on the section of the railway past Pohokura is proceeding rapidly, and it is expected that in a few days the rails will be laid as far as the Whan/ramomfona saddle. Mr. J. Robson's sawmill at Pohokura is in full swing. On account of the number of orders he has received, he has found it necessary to instal a larger engine. Last night a special train was loaded up at the mill to bring timber into Stratford. A meeting of settlers who are opposed to the proposal of the County Council to levy a special rate on the properties fronting East road was held this I afternoon in the Borough Council Chambers. Thirty-five settlers were (present, and Mr. G, Sangster was voted jto the chair. The following resolution i was passed: "That this meeting desires to emphatically protest against the proposal of the County Council to levy a .special rate of y s d in the £ of unimproved value on all the property in the Stratford County facing the East road for the purpose of maintaining same, on the following grounds: (1) that as a re-' valuation of the county was recently tnade } resulting in an increased valuation in some cases of 50 per cent, over j the previous valuation, the ordinary . rate allocated to that road should more [than suffice for the upkeep of that ! road; (2) that as the East road is not used exclusively by those ratepayers ; over whose properties it is proposed to strike the special rate, but is also used to a very large extent by the settlers in the north and south ridings, it is manifestly inequitable and unreasonable that the settlers whose properties happen tq front the road referred to should bear more than their proportionate share. This meeting thereiore, in o:i!i . to bring about a more equitable state oi trails with regard to the maintenance of the East road, desires to respectfully request the Stratford County Council to allow the boundaries of the north and south ridings to be altered so as to include in the east riding those portions of the ridings which tire most benefited by the East road." It was decided to circulate this as a petition and that a deputation, which includes Mr. J. Mackay, a former County Council chairman, should wait on the Council at the next meeting.