Stratford News

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 78, 19 August 1912, Page 3

Stratford News

| Kroru our Resident Reporter. T.'IE IfIODEL DAIRY FARM. PRIME MINISTER APPROVES THE I SUGGESTION. Mr. \V. I*. Kirk wood, president of the Stratford A. and P. Association, has telegraphed to 31r. W. B. Fearon, the secretary of the association, as follow*: "Prime Minister approves model dairy farm. Every probability will be established."

This refers, of course, to the movement initiated by the A. and P. Association, which voiced the complaint of dairymen of Taranaki that the State Experimental Farm at Moumahaki is not doing what a State experimental farm should be able to do for the Taranaki fanners, owing to its different climatic conditions, its scheme of working, and its distance from the greater part of the province. The scheme put before the Prime Minister by Mr. Kirkwood. representing the A. and P. Association. Mr. A. Morton, president of the National Dairy Association, and Mr, R. Dingle, chairman of directors of the Stratford Farmer*' Co-operative Association, is to have a model dairy farm established in the vicinity of Stratford.

CARDS. The following team has been selected to play for Egmont Club against Ngaere at Ngaere on Thursdav. August 22: J. Masters. J. W. Reeve, T. D. Sullivan, C. D. Sole, T. Coisos., T. Bowditeh, ,T. Hareton, D. Butcuart, ('. Speck, A, E. Specie, C. Jackson, J. Butcher, J. McMahon, 11. Wilson, J. Brake, J. Bonner. H. Masters, R. Handley, T. Lawson. J. Jones. STRAY PARAGRAPHS. Mr. Newton King"s Stratford office is advised that the firm has secured the Government contract for the supply of explosives until March 31, 1913, for the whole of the Taranaki district.

Captain Lumpen, Adjutant of the 11th Regiment, who sat recently ,at Palmerston North for the practical portion of his examination, has been advised of his Buoces.*.

Mrs. Dean, of Wlmngaiuomona, left by mail train on Saturday morning for Eltham, taking with her the two pug dogs wjhich secured the champion award at the last Wanganui show. She will go on to-day to Wellington, where the dogs have been entered for the champion classes at the show there, to be held on Wednesday and Thursday next. Captain Stevens, late staff officer of the Senior Cadets, Wellington, has been transferred to Taranaki, and •will arrive to-night. The Ngaere Co-operative Dairy Factory is paying out a bonus at the rate of y z d per lb., amounting to the sum, of £BB3. This makes the pay-out for fchc past season at 15y a d per lb. The Cardiff Dairy Company is also making a bonus payment amounting to £917. Messrs. H. S. and C. S. Sanders have returned from an extensive tour through the United States of America and Dominion of Canada.

Sergeant McNeely; who has been spending a fortnight's holiday in Christ church, returned on Saturday. Constable Bleasel has been in charge during his absence.

'• The Domain Board has granted the use of Victoria Park to the Taranaki Northern Union Football League for a match io be played on Thursday next, August 22. The Domain Board has also agreed to allow the Methodist Church the use of portion of the park as an enclosure for horses and traps. Stratford was full of dairy produce buyers on Saturday. Up to 6y x d has been offered, I am told, for cheese. The Lowgarth Co-operative Cheese Company decided on Saturday to consign its* season's output through Bamford Bros., an English firm, operating here this season for the first time. The news of the football match in Auckland was received here with great disappointment. The Daily News local branch had its "extras" up and down. Broadway in two minutes from the receipt of "the message, a departure that was appreciated.

BERNARD'S PICTURES. To-night Mme. Bernard will present an entirely new series of films. The new programme comprises the usual well chosen selection of subjects, all tastes being catered for. A remarkable dramatic subject from the Edison studios is entitled ''A Romance of the Cliff Dwellers." The securing of this film necessitated much thought., time, and expense. A whole company of actors and actresses, together with camera men, etc., journeyed to Manitou (Colorado), and in the "actual "Cliff Dwellers' Canyon." amid all the wild and rugged surroundings, enacted the many intense scenes of this thrilling story. Selig presents "The Brotherhood of Man." the gripping story of a young athlete's devotion 1o his old trainer. "His Secretary" is another Edison story, most beautifully told, and "The Engagement Ring" is an A.B. life portrayal of great merit and power, intensely dramatic in thought and acting. Other interesting subjects are "Oaumont (Trap-hie," "A Visito Senegal" (French Soudan), and "Mountain Torrents" (the Coulomp. Lower Alps). In lighter vein come "Lulu's Anarchist," or "The Dime Novel Fiend" (Vikgraph). "The Bo'sun's Watch" (Edison). "The Author," and "Those Ilicksville. Boys" (A.8.).