STRATFORD DAY BY DAY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 218, 23 December 1910, Page 8

STRATFORD DAY BY DAY

(From Our Own Correspondent.) Stratford, Last Night,

Three business sites in Broadway, portion of the railway reserves, were offered by auction to-day, and in only one case was there an increased bidding on the upset rental. The following are the details: —Section occupied by Mr. Brayshaw, upset rental £57 10s, Mr. Brayshaw, £57 10s; section at present leased by Mr. Cole, upset rental £BS, Mr. F. W. Wake, £115.; section occupied- by Newton King, upset rental £lO5, Mr. King, £lO5. The length of leases was for 21 years. DBeing unable to raise a team to visit Manaia to-day, the local cricketers forfeited their match, '

The chairman of the County Council is to wait on the Government and ask financial assistance towards repairing the damage done by the recent storm in the Puniwhakau district. At the meeting of the Stratford County Council an application from the caretaker of the Stratford Mountain House that the upper end of Pembroke road be put in order was refused, an amendment by the chairman that £lO be voted not finding a seconder. The applicant mentioned that if the road was repaired he would keep it in order, and, as an argument of the necessity for the work, stated that only recently his trap had been capsized. The importance of the Mountain House to the district ,as a popular resort for the residents of this district and visitors was apparently never considered.