STRATFORD NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 295, 22 May 1915, Page 8

STRATFORD NEWS.

The Rev. J. Sharp and Mrs. Sharp, of the Bluff, are on a visit to their aon j here. Old New Plymouthites will remember Mr. Sharp,' who was stationed in New Plymouth in the eighties. At the rilie range on Thursday President W. Brocklobank made a" record , seore for the range. Starting at ."00yds. ho put in 34, the same at 500 yds., and at 000 yds. 33, making a total of 101 out of a possible 105. This, considering he was firing at a figure target and had a tricky wind and dull light to contend with, makes it all the more creditable to him. The score has been equalled by Rifleman C. Jackson, but at the plain target. Broadway North is gradual!}- being built on for business purposes. Messrs Masters & Son have purchased the site on which the Methodist Church at present stands, and intend erecting a large and up-to-date store and warehouse in ferroconcrete. The section has a frontage of 70 feet, with a depth of 150 feet. The church is to be shifted to a site in Regan Street. Mr. <J. McAlister, our local jhotographer, has purchased a site "from Messrs Paget and Mackay, and intends erecting a two-storey building on it. The site is in Broadway, opposite the Loan Company's premises, and the new building will bo erected to suit (lie requirements of Mr. McAlister's increasing business. Mr. C. Martin (proprietor of the Egmont Coaeli and Carriage Factory) h;is purchased the ironmongery business of Air. R. H. Anderson, and 'in future the firm will be known as C. Martin and Company. Mr. Martin informs me that the coach factory will still be run is usual under the able management of Mr. R. Met'ormick. Mr. C. H. Potts, who for some years has been associated with Mr. T. 11. Penn, has volunteered for the front. Charley will be greatly missed by the farmers and townspeople, especially the former, who always received a pleasant smile when calling for their factory cheques on the 20th of the month.