STRATFORD NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 235, 22 February 1913, Page 3

STRATFORD NEWS.

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W'i:.!; a Mjlk; ! ill; i. ,s win .1 the price of bread or milk is raised. A rise in Higar, or meat, or timber, or horseshoeing, ur motor-cars, is taken almost as a mutter of course. Hut for the milk i.-ndor to iMi'jc;i.re tlic price of the. morni in™ jugful i- deemed a dreadful iniposiilimi. Yet any milkman who knows his business can prove to you in a very lew minute, liuil tbei-i' i- mighty liltle proiil ill selling milk at threepence a quart, dilivei-ed at your dour daily. Fifteen years ago. when eows could be bought for t.4 or Co. farm laborers and helpers would work for a pound a week and found. rents were Ids or ifis an acre, liic price may have been a fair one. Ihe milk vendor purchasing milk from a farmer could ret it at .">d or (id a galloll. To-day hi.-, supplies obtained in this way cost eightpciice a gallon, or thereabout-, if lie grazes his own farm, he n.u-t reckon lik cows as worlli £lO or .11 o. his rent at 2"is to lias an acre, and labor is almost unobtainable at: a couple of pound* a week. Koiighly, it can be estimated '.hat it costs twice as much to load Hie milk-float as it did fifteen years ayo. Taking ilicse factors into consideration, housewives need not he surprised to be asked fourpeuee a quart for milk all the year round. A reliable man estimates that in a town like Stratford delivery costs threepence a gallon. This! is .largely the outcome of keen compcti- l lion, which takes every milkman into l every street. One milk cart has been known to run a mile out to catch a daily | sale of u pint of milk. A man, horse and cart running a mile for a penny-half- j prnny! !

STRATFORD' GUN CLUB

The scores at the Stratford flun Club's shoot on Thursday were as follows: R-dlisfire flip.--.'.'. Hunter J? 7. If. Marr ■2<K T. A. f.ineham 28. 11. Campbell 20. 0. D. McKetuie 20. F. .kins 23. TT. Vovle 22. A. Scott 18. •). Carter IS. A. C. Bublirz V>. W. J. llamblyn U A. Stewaa't 11. \\~. Cannon retired.

Six-bird Sweepstake—T. -Curtor (Oi. ■2l. IT. Marsh f.Ti 21. fl. Hunter CD IS. A. Stewart ('.)). 17. T. A. Lineham (3). 17. X. F. Dim lop (Ci) 17. TT. Yovlo f(i) 111. V. .Ton- fii) Hi. C. McKonzie CD 15. TT. Ashton (scr.) 15. S. YVl,i(,. (d) 14. A 0. r.nblH./ M) 12. n". Woo] von (ser.l 12. V.. Kirk wood f(i) 1::. V''. .T. Iktml.lvn (4> leiired. A. Sent Ci'' reiirort.

Sweep-take (first lilies out).—Xo. 1: W. "Woolven 1. 0. T). MoKeu/ie 2. \'o. 2: 0. TTunlor 1. 0. D. MeKonzic '2. Xo. ": (;. Munlcr 1. foi.r tied for sreond place. Xo. !: X. Aslii;in 1. ('.. Hunter 2.

The final -hoot foi the Thillistita Cup takes place on' Mar,:ii 0.

At a committee of the Cub on Thursday evening it was decided to hold the liic handicap clay bird match on March 20 for tile TSoswoll •»un, valued at 25 guineas, with good prize-motley for (lie next foa'j places. This will be a 21-bird match. Sweepstakes will follow, if time permits.

STRAY PARAGRAPHS ) Didn't if rain yesterday. J Kvorvono should know ol' the tup i yraiie work done at th- Stratford job printing ol!!ee of the Dailr Xcws. 'Phone | 11:1. ' ;

T'.a-ior bookings the ureal- Cvmkliana at Stratford.

A local business nrii) is not worryinjj about -Cot Rich Quiek" i Co. p;\>'sin':.' Slrait'ord. He reckons the town is better off without the eon-taut drain of ioui-intr theatrical-, who take away a. lot of loose im-Ii (hat '- bctier k.ept in circulation. That's lode. A mu-i-al treat i- i':ir"i lied each evening a'. ';':• Majesty'- Th. a! re. Tile orchestra ]■:■> been anumo'iled. and now there " v e -ix pi '■former's on ha--, 'ci'lo. Ilute. vioh'e. irouilnme. cofin'l end piano, wiiii tie u-nal ed'eels from drums ami evmhals. On Thin-day eveninjr Mr. Sid. IVrnard. leader of the oveho.-tva. plaved a t ror.tlioii - -010. and

=< clll'ivl ;i ilnlilii" encore. ■Vliat :i dilieren.-.. i- made l.y :1 new wall pap.-r. !■';:;•'.;■.• ;s room for "* fid. Seven ro!N of really ijood paper, in pretl v pan em-. :iinl .-niv tint or shade, ran l.r i,ouH:t ;ii (1.1 ;i roll from Mr. R. Beckett. p;i])iT!iaiiL.'iT and liou-e dceora (or. oppo-ife the i';:v lil'ii!;lde station. Stratford. Mr. !V,ke[i has from SOdO 1., Ifi.iinn roll- i.f i'']irr in Mock, and «'v. n a ea-ual "!a:;rr tvveah its .ureal vnrii'i; . Tlm'Ti' are --.-ores of cheap papers, and score-; of uior . oxpen-ivo om-.-. 1,;, i all a'-e pnced as low a = is compatible with -ound frndiny. The stock also includes Friezes, paints ready for u=i'. oils, vanishes, brushes, artists' eidors and piotiiiv-l'ramc mouldings.

Mr. TV. Tr. 11. Youne; was yesterday -ranted his land ar.'tii"- license by the Stipendiary Maoist rate For borrowing two railwav tarpaulins a fanner named K. S. Death was fined <:■.> and c.-ts a! ve-t ot'da v's -Itiitiir of tlie's.M. Court. T!u--i- was no iioi;. ii ajipearcd. ~f in'' ml to Meal. Mr. Spenee appear":! for ill-' borrower. In Hi.> 's.M. I ear; ;■,< -tei-dav there were fwo judL'inents l.v default: X.Z. Loan ,\- Mercantile A-em-v Cn. v. J. J. Fitz;;c M«l. cla-m (\:'.l ;\ |,l. and costs Ll li-: and ("'■ :■" .■■".:■> ■ <>; t'o-r v. W. Sadler, claim /J Hi S- and CI ~>> fid costs. A pnrad'- „f Quean Alexandra's Own 2nd Mounted Hill ■■= on Thnr 'av. under l.icui. Wilson, was very w. " attended. The dac Wit- spent in musk. ' training al the' ride raim'e. and 11,■ '"it made r ; ood .-c a-e- in iinvt fiM-s '"• Stratf. ■■■; ir. n- have a hour half I'm' ' ' their r--kct: .' Irainia. <'atd '.in >"• of (ipnnakr. olTicer e,u onandim.' > "» par ; „l,.. Lien;, mm! .la.ne- v <o TnUlewood for the lil'-t uarad- the TnC'lewood troop. Tie -peaks K 'v of the fine -tamn of men and hor-e- id seems weM piea-ed with the ! roop i ■ d under

;i! l !„.:..i(ii'nl!v- Liv-ii. ■•':.■ >h--:\\nz in lVtlvln'ri'v Fr-''-. - wile.low. In n<lv,■"!!-.■ 11n- mini::" Moi-;'v,il!iiral Show. Mr,.'. rr.-:i.?•■»-. ;Mhl' >!e~''<. .Tinned mill CVo eontrilinled in Hip ~,,U<-i-(ion. wliiel" ,|lr,,rled iU full -limiv of iidir.irnhon ~,,,,.,,k( , -. (in ,!:,■ n-..,.,-ilr -ide of the -treei Mr. !•'. Ivlv.nvil-' window i> filloil uill, ,n;i-iiili.M.ii( .iMlili.-t Monnis. from Mr. F. Favw colled ion. Tlio rival (lis|)lrtV> -lionl.l uo MiMcll (o popularly tlie uillnrp of (ln-p finp cowers, for there nro -onip perfect lilooms. The coinlHioii of lli-oiolwiiv *otilli. rerenilv rp-niplallpd. nml-'-s iiintnri-t-* dad. T1,f.,-.. ; ,iv -iiini' oooil-tiir,e.i»'rfoniiiiv.('i-on tliat >1 retell jil-t now. BERNARD'S PICTURES TO-NIGHT Picture pa(rnn= have talker! «o mneli ■ind <o ciitlui-ia-ticallv of ilie l>rospnt ..,•,.;, 1 programme lliat tlipre is'not. tlie sli-lid-st donli! (lial lliere will be a lmmppv "hou.=p" to-ni.alit. A uiwei'iiiii" pnMic t* not rii*ily deceived, nml p<'"!>]'< :up not ken 1" recommend without due p,in-p. A liis programme, arid a full "■■ elie-tra. VHint!