Statford News.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 109, 16 January 1912, Page 3

Statford News.

* From Our Resident Reporter. * *' > * *************'******************

LAWN TENNIS. On Thursday a match will be played between the Stratford and W.Y.M.I. clubs, the Stratford A team of ladies and B team of men meeting the W.Y.M.I. team on the Stratford courts. The W.Y.M.I. team will be as follows: Dud Cameron, J. H. Thompson, G. Hunter, Dunlop, A. King, G. Byrne- Misses H. Wilson, E. Mackay, R. Everiss and E. King. BOWLING. Our bowling representatives returned on Saturday night from Wellington. | Whilst they secured no trophies they ', still had lots of fun, and gained some experience which may make them doughty exponents of the art of bowling in the not distant future. CRl^ax The Manaia A team will play Stratford on the Stratford ground on Wednes- J day afternoon jiexfc. This is inconveni- ' ent for the local mejiy who observe the half-holiday on Thursday, but Manaia has Wednesday, and the travelling team has the greatest claim for consideration. The wicket on the A. & P. ground is' not what it should be, but the outfield is good. The match will be played on matting. Stratford will be represented by. the following: Dunlop, Pre'bble, C. Jackson, E. Jackson, George, Boyes, Hartley, Colin, Richmond, Twohill and Jennings. PERSONAL Mr. G. W. Mills intends taking a short rest from business, and will spend a holiday at Mangaweka and along the Main Trunk line, leaving here next Saturday. Mrs. J. Fortune, of Napier,-who'has been staying with her sister," Mrs. W. H. Robinson, returns to-morrow (Tuesday). Mr. T. C. Fookes leaves to-morrow < morning for Wellington on Masonic' Grand Lodge business. He will return at the end of the week. Mr. Harold Jones, teller in the Stratford branch of the National Bank, has received notice of transfer to Wellington, and leaves ort Wednesday morning. , Mr. F. C. Styles, of the Finnerty road, Ngaere, has purchased five acres of Mr. H. S. Sanders' Warwick road property,, and will erect a home there. GENERAL NEWS. .The annual meeting of the Stratford Gun Club will be held on Thursday evening. The executive of the A. & P. Association will v meet the same' evening. The matter of providing' Government - offices in Stratford has apparently been' lost sight of, although'a site was secured some time t ago. < At present the Government officials are. scattered all over the place.:. Ehe 'Public Works Office Is in a away >up in Broadway North. The Stock 'Department's officers arer housed in Broadway South. Then there are the Territorial offices still further awayj and going still further soon. And : the Crowri fjalnds officers resident here have no "office accommodation at all. ; TheßaHßvays'Departmeht is resuming work at' the''iM«unt Egmont railway' line, 4 and will 'be bringing out more stone 1 front the riverbed. About' twenty men are at'present engaged oV the new formation to- v extend the line to" -Up This is through \(?aSy country, abut the: grade will be one in: Ift oa a rope-incline;: Some day the local ■Doilies of Taranaki.may'ihave abundant, supplies of good-and cheap stone fromthis source.'* Birt!"hape deferred maketh' the heart siok.": 1 ': •:..!: __ '- !A local resident received by this morning's post a' letter.fwfdressed in' a "childish ,Jt tuj%odj, A (uit,.tp be-a bill sent: in hviiis'ownrjittlebpy for work dcftie,. It runs. ltke"..this£ "Stratford, .< J&n, 15j 1912—Owing t6ihe accounts I/- I wouldlike to get it in strait'away Working'Gd ;... .. ,-. Yours tfulyV_ Here_ follows the !sgnatiirtf. -The account hasbeen "referreioback" 'with a'memb,-1&' : the effect that Wlfen sent in in proper; form the rim'o'unt will-be'paid; 'There's an inborn commercial itistitiei in that boy. Ifancygi'jtjfusiiig to rtfust hjs' own father for more'thaiii 'a'boft! "•• '* e~ I notice-'that Mr. 'MoKeiffiie; ".Public" Works resident erigpieery with_ his' hea'd-T quarters in "Stratford, i's'ttdvertisiftg for tenders forthe eiecffbn of Departmental" buildings in New iPlyirVoiif IK ' This is the' long-pVomised and' 'mi'ich-'heeded Beeds Office. iV'will bc^Yememb'ere^"' tha|'ihjb tenders' previously bbtaiifeflj Avjre.'.co'nsht-' oral too high:- Th'e" "Building'' has "now' been shorn of most tfF'Ml'e "provision -lorthe Agiiieulteifiil sDeparMijsnt's "rofficers;' .suul the'iCG'st will therefofevbe less."The.

building is to be erected on the corner of Robe and Courtenay streets, where Sergeant Haddrell's house now stands, and this house will be moved on to the adjoining section. Glorious weather reigns once more. Saturday's showers were insufficient to. do much harm to the 3iay that was down, and the wind yesterday dried it fairly well. The young crops benefited from the rains, and altogether it was good for us. To-day the mowing machines can be heard rattling across the fields, and every available man, horse and dray is busy saving hay for winter.