STRATFORD NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1915, Page 2

STRATFORD NEWS.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

The Scottish Society has decided to hold its concert and dance on Tuesday evening next. On the same evening, the Belgian flag will be sold and the art unions drawn. The sale of stock will take place in Mr. Newton King's sale yards on Tuesday week. Those donors who did not bring the stock they promised at last Tuesday's sale are requested to bring it along at this sale. The Electrical Supply Company had the misfortune to be flooded out at the. works where the Diesel engine is situated. It appears that the culvert at the corner of Swansea Road got blocked and backed the water to the company's section, with the result that the water found its way through the ventilators and filled the concrete pit where the generators are. erected. The. consequence was that the iplnnt is temporarily useless. The company had to rely on its water power. The company hopes to effect repairs and have evervt.hina in working order by to-morrosv night. The Stratford-Whangamomona railway service has been temporarily disorganised, owing to slips on the line. A large slip occurred yesterday between the Whanga tunnel and Whangamomona and the railway gang was busy clearing it away, and hoped to resume services to-day, but news to hand says that another slip has occurred this side of the Iviore tunnel, and this will prevent the service running for a day or two. Councillors TTathaway and Worthington left by the mail train this morning for "Wellington, being a deputation to fhe for Public Works, and asking for a grant from the 'Department toward* clearing the slips and repairing the roads in the Puniwhakau, district Miss Oamevoh,',teaclie.r at the Denbigh Road 'School, and Inspector Tiallantyne had an exciting experience while driving from the school to Midhirst yesterday ifternoon. It apnears they were crossing one of the unbridged creeks .on the road, when the horse got into a whirloool. and the lady occupant jumped out, and was in danger of 'being drowned had not some settlers come to her rescue.

The Railway Department recently placed a large Price engine on the "Whangamomona service to cope with the trafli,-. The county engineer has received adnce that a large slip has occurred on tuo Stanley Road, and the settlers there are completely isolated,