STRATFORD NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 165, 12 January 1914, Page 3

STRATFORD NEWS.

I3A7LY iiEAiOHIAL SCHOLARSHIP. AT AX IXTERKSTJ.NTi STAGE. STRATFORD HOY LEADIXG. With the publication of the seolai'iliip | examination results, the Daily News' reI prcsrnt.:ilivi* at Stratford interviewed [ Mr. P. Sko!;luiul. secretary of tin; Taranaaki Rugby Vnion, with the itlou of learning the results of the llayly Memorial Scholarship. The athletic comptit ions ]n this connection took place some wocks'ago at Xew l'lymotith. The published lists in Saturday's Wan"!'-'"" !U,(l Taranaki D.iilv News' were taken for the educational figures; but no mention could be found of young Carmichaol, a Patea. boy, who was second in the athletic competition;. Until definite information is to hand concerning the. result of bis examination for scholarships at the Wanganui centre, the following figures must not be taken as showing the exact results of the Hayly Scholarship tests. The four top boys are: Charles Arnold Lawn,'of Stratford, a pupil of the Stratford District High School, with 452 points, in the scholarship examination, and 2(13 in athletic compeli:ions, a total CS7. Next comes Charles Cecil Yates. New PlvmoiiLh High School, 501 and !)2 1 / J -CBi)'/ 2 . llanlmry Hammond, of the llawora District High School, is third with (id!) points (3:12 and 1371..and there is a tic between Francis Crellin Kelly, of Xew Plymouth High School, and' Edward Bellamy Taylor, of Stratford District High School, for the next place on the list. Kelly's figures were 103 and 502, and Taylor's SO and 587. The figures are very close. Carmichael's chances may be considered good' if he is anything of a scholar at all, for lie has 200 points to his credit in the .athletic tests.

STRATFORD BOROUGH COUNCIL. OVERSEKR'S KEKffiT. The, overseer';! report for to-niglit\s meeting is as follows: The following work lias boon done. (luring the past month: forth work at ■Mr. S'penee'rf in Cordelia street has boon completed: concrete pipe culverts; have been put in at the junction of Warwiek road and Broadway, Komeo .street and Broadway near Federal store; trees in Miranda, street have been nit down and removed; patching has been done on Cloton road, Swansea road. Began street ami Pemlivoke. road; Cordelia street Ims .been watered and, rolled down; the watcT-tablos in Broadway, Pembroke •road mid Cordelia, street have been .cleaned out: grass has lieen nit nil' streets and edges of footpaths on various streets, also on old cemetery site: Victoria Bridge has been attended to: the crusher has been set up and the necessary bins erected at the ford site. ■ t'enton street. T took delivery of the ' screens on the Kth inst., and hope to have the crusher working on Weiljio.Mlav next; I would suggest that tenders he called for .■{,">«!> cubic yards of boulder stone, tenders to be returnable on IViiriinry iltli, which is the date of your next ordinary meeting; I would suggest that another horse and dray be procured; my reasons for recommendnig same are as follows:--(l) The water cart is in constant demand during the summer months and an extra lior.se is required to work it. ('!) Willi the extra ' horse the. ordinary works of (he Borough would not liave to he. delayed a* ■at at present when the streets roquire • watering. * . .*'

STRAY PARS. . The Works Committed of the lt<iro:i:tli 'Council recommends calling- rentiers for the supply of "."iOO cubic yards of lioul-

Mr William llanna had a very close shave on Friday, lie was driving down Broadway, near Pemhroke road, and started to turn round to go back. A motor-car wa.4 coming up behind him, but he had no knowledge of this. Only the great presence of mind of the motor■ist, Mr ihulfovd, jun., prevented a smash-up.

Drivers of vehicles continue to take at the level railway crossings in the Borough. A man who thought he knew all about it had to rein his horse back on to its haunches on Saturday to avoid an approaching engine. The warning boll was ringing, but he was looking at the engines in the railway yard not knowing of the approach of another • from the south.

Fourteen Stratford candidates qualified at the Xovember-Deeember examinations for .Tuition National scholarships, or through tho scholarship examination for junior free places in secondary ■district high or technical Schools. Some. ■of them occupied high places on the] Taranaki list, which was headed by Master L. M. Allan, son of the popular j headmaster of'the Toko school, to whom we olTer congratulations. 1

Don't leave it too long. Get your order in now for one of Dan Malone and Co.'s great value Christmas hampers. All liquors of the best brands. If delivery is required at flag station, please add freight.

It's time to have that long promised portrait taken. No need to wait for a fine day. Fast lenses and fast plates make showery weather as good as sunshine. Make the opportunity to-day. McAllister's Studios will give you faithful and pleasing results. Warmer weather makes neglige shirts more than ever desirable. "The Kash" has them in new patterns and various materials. Tennis shirts, light singlets and pants, new hosiery, new ties, new sox, new hats, are here: in fact, an entirely new stock of men's wearing apparel.—Mullen and Marshall, proprietors.

Give him a nine. But let it l,e a good pipe. Handsome is as handsome docs, and our handsome pipes provi-'e a delightful smoke. Fill the nine with Stan. Sharp's special mixture, or any of the regular brands, all of which are stocked' here, as well as ci»ars, cigarettes, ci"ar and cigarette holders, case?, pouches. I and so on. Stan. Sharp's, next to BellI ringer's.

FROM OUK RESIDENT REPORTER. Office and Job Printing Works: York Chambers (upstairs) XdephoftA No. 113.

EGMONT COUNTY COUNCIL.

.MONTHLY AIKimXC Tin: ordinary monthly meeting of the Egniout County Council was held lit Opunake on Friday, when there were present: Crs. \V. C. Dudle.- (chairman), JC. Maxwell, S. Campbell. C. 11. Hirst, 11. .1. I'arquhar. -I. Burgess. T. Harvey and I>. Willcox. KXI.'INKKR'S REPORT. The engineer (Mr. C. A'Court Opie) reported as follows: Oeo Riding, .Northern—The heavy wenther during the early part of the ■month necessitated patching, repairs being effected to the Auroa',' Stratford and Eltham roads. 0(-o Riding, Soitllicrn—Shortage of men .during (he holiday season has interfered with the. commencement of contracts in this riding, but a start will be -made early next month. Patching repairs have bait to be done to the Patiki. vYatino. £kect and Nopora roads. Owing to the scouring out of one of the wings, repairs have had to be ell'ected to * the Skeet .road bridge across the. Oeo ■ stream. Several old wooden culverts along the Main South road have been < renewed with concrete pipes. ' Raholu Southern and Opunake— Hiekey's contract, on the Eltham road has been in progress during the month, ' and to date 521 cubic yards have been put out. Pipe-making is also progressii.g very satisfactorily.

Kahoiii Northern—Cenerat maintenance and repair* hare constituted the work in this riding. NOXIOUS WEEDS. The, matter of the unchecked spread of noxious weeds, particularly, blackberry, on the county roads was discussed. Councillors were of opinion that something should be done in the matter immediately. It was pointed out thai it was the duty of the Noxious Weeds Inspector.-, to attend to this, and not that of the Council's overseer. The clerk st.vled that lie had written to both Noxious Weeds Inspectors on the matter. A reply bad lieen received from Mr. A. •!. Classon, Inspector at Unworn. sl;iti!!j£ that be was aware that a good dial of blackberry was in evidence at To Kiri, and ho bad notified the owners of the property to clear it, so us to prevent dowering and seeding, lie did not insist on the work being done before Christmas, us if cut earlier it required further attention before the seeding season was over. Mr. Hurge.-s referred in strong terms to the blackberry which was nourishing between I'uniho and Pungarchu. Jt was resolved to write the'lnspector of Noxious Weed:' at New Plymouth again on the matter. ' A biter wa-> received from -Messrs; John Chambers and Son, Ltd., stating that the road roller was shipped ex Waimann, which was due in Wellington on January 2ii. Councillor-; were of opinion that il >Vould not, be of iniieh use this season, unless there was a very dry autumn. i OIM'N'AKK RAILWAY. | The Prune Minister, Minister of I'ubi lie. Works and Mr. C. A. Wilkinson, Ml'., wrote iwk now lodging receipt of the Council's vote of thanks for their ell'orts in having a. vote placed on the Kstimates for the Opunake railway. Mr. Wilkinson added Unit it would be. bis constant endeavor to facilitate the. construction of the line until they had the opportunity of reaching Opunake direct by rail. This, he fully would be a tremendous step in advance for the town anil district of Opunake, [and he was glad to say that practically I every member of the House was convinced that there should be no delay in pushing forward the line to completion.

LOANS. The State Guaranteed Advances Department forwarded a. debenture for £ 50, being an additional 10 per cent, on the Oeo road loan of £535.

The chairman and clerk were appoint- I od to sign ami peal the debenture. The A.M.)'. Society notified that the Council's loan of .C(iOOI), over a period of /our year.-, would not suit tho .Society. Their rate of iiitcrestl for loans of this description, was f> per cent., and the interest would have to be paid in Sydney free of exchange, as also would the. loan on maturity. Tin) Government Insurance Department wrote ashing for further particulars of the loan of .tfiOOO, on receipt of which the application would be considered. —Particulars forwarded. IHSSATISTI Kl) COXTRACTOR. Mr. Hector Monro waited on (be (,'oun■cil in) connect bin with his contract. He I stated that after obtaining 120 yard.* of pit metal for his ilftilyds contract tlio I pit petered out and the foreman stopped bin contract. lie. had ol r civd'> the engineer to obtain boulder stone instead, but the engineer wanted him to go to another pit. This bad caused ihim considerable delay, besides loss of men. He pointed out also that the specifications had not been signed, as the copies were different, lie olfered to provide fiOVlyd* of boulders at 4s per yd, or to cancel the contract, the Council to pay for what, has already been got out aud| to refund him his deposit. He also relied, on the Council's fairness to recoup him U>v bis loss of time. The engineer pointed out that ihe 1 metal could be obtained from a pit three chains away, to which a service, ncid .could be constructed for £7. (After discussion, it was resolved to .allow the contractor 2d per yard extra to obtain metal from the' pit three ' .chains away and to allow him £7 for 'I putting in the service road.

Tliti contractor was allowed twcntv■ionr hours in which to decide. JJETAr, KEQIiIUEMEXTN. The engineer (Mr. Opie) repovli-d as follows on the maintenance work proposed J'or the ensuing year:—Tn tin- 15aholu Southern riding there was til7l available for contracts, after allowing for reduction of overdraft, maintenance charges, salaries, subsidies, etc. Against this was (In; metalling of the IClthani road, which would cost approximator £240, and tho re-metalling 0 f the Aniwliatsi flat, whiidi. would cost £2flfl. This would leave the riding overdrawn to the extent of .tOfl. This ini (.lie lowest estimate, of the immediate requirements of the riding, and did not allow for crowning up the road in front of Mr. J. Dudley's, wliieli was urgently ■needed.

In the Eahotu Xorthei'u riding, after making the deductions, the smii of .CIISO was available, which was proposed to be expended as follows:- -I'nniho £240, Waiwcvanui £2(l-!, Warua South £lll2, I Pum:archu North .CIHB, Oiwmui £OO, contingencies £32. He pointed out that all the sections of road proposed to be metalled are absolutely worn out, and patching would only mean throwing away metal. He was relying on the roller being available to assist in the work, as a light coat put down without ..rolling into shape straight ' away was. 1 subject to a large depreciation in actual ' I value. Another factor which contri- [ .biued to tiie through metalling of the Main road was the. fact that, the conI tracts so far let this season were costing ■tho ratepayers one-third per yard less, than the previous year's contracts. In the * leo riding C!l;)3 was available, which ho proposed to expend as fol-lows:—Opunake-Nlratford (north end) .COO, Oeo Lower £l2O, Oeo Cpper £23, Wilt!no £M3, I'atiki Southern £llO, Skeet road CI 15, Anroa. road £SO, Kltham road (Awatuna Fast.) £l7O, Main South road (racecourse, I'ihama) £IOO This did not include the Kiri road, for which he estimated £l5O per annum ■would be available. The clerk read a statement of balance*, which showed that the above amounts were available for contracts after allowing ttr maintenance.

The engineer was authorised to call tenders as above, closing on .January 23, and a committee, consisting of the chairman and cb-rk, was appointed to deal with them. WINTER TRAFFIC. Cr. llirrt said that the Council should take steps early and stop all heavy traffic on the roads during the winter. Traflic was enormously increasing every year, and most of the damage, was done in the winter, especially by firewood traffic.

It was pointed out that the by-laws already provided for this, and the Council decided to at once advertise thai the heavy trailic by-laws will be. enforced prohibiting heavy trallie during May, June, duly. August and September.

A OOMPLAIXT. As a i-ouiiiy ratepayer, -Mr. Ilui-tor Munro asked fhei Council to explain why tho pay-sheets for tlio month of August did not. correspond with the time-sheets as supplied by the foremen, and why d.iy labor charged up to the Kiri road on the time sheets was charged on the pay-sheet to the Kltliam road. The engineer pointed out that it was due to his ignorance of the riding boundaries when lie first came hero. tie had, however, since charged it. back.

It was resolved to inform Mr. Munro to that effect, and also that they wire quite satisiied with the engineer's explanation.

GENERAL-. Transfer of e. slaughter-house license from W. 11. Black to A. Thornloy was agreed to. A special order was confirmed striking a rate of 5-!7ths of a penny in the £ to provide interest and security on a loan of £4(i(l ever the Carrington road special rating urea No. 1. The Awatima Dairy Co. asked the Council to pay half the cost of timber for a culvert.

Mr. E. .1. Davios wrote asking that a drain on the <W> road should be continued for a few chains so as to give him an outlet across a swamp.-The Council decided to expend up to £'2o. provided lie pays half the cost.. The llawera Comity Council forwarded a form of application for apportionment of the Eltluuit Koad West loan, which hail Itocome. partially merged in the Egmont county.—To be attended Wi-

lt was resolved to inform the contractor on the Wireinu road that failing a continual ion of the work within fourteen days the Council would do the

A special rate to cover the Oeo road loan'was struck. The clerk was authorised'to advertise tbat all rates not paid within fourteen days will be sued for. A vote of condolence was passed with Crs. Davy and Campbell in respect to ■the death of Airs. Davy, the former's wife and the hitter's daughter. Accounts amounting to £"23U lis lid were passed for payment.