STRATFORD.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 October 1915, Page 3

STRATFORD.

(From Our Own Correspondence.) Stratford, Yesterday. The toll gate and residence at Waipuku is practically completed. The collection of tolls will start on -Monday next. The Dardanelles Market on Saturday had a very bußy day, over £3O being taken. A Stratford lad who has tried on three occasions to enlist and been turned down owing to unfitness, has left for Wellington, at his own expense, in order to offer his service to the Defence authorities in any capacity. The lad says that he may be able to relieve somebdy who is medically fit, and is willing to take on anything in order to do something for his country, Tlie public have been warned again and again about sending money to Egypt, on receipt of word from men who may be there, because in a lot of instances the cables sent are bogus, and have never been sent by the sons themselves, but by a clever gang who are taking advantage of the war. To-day "your own" was shown a cable, said to be sent by a 6oldier in Egypt, asking for ten pounds to be sent through Agency. The father is half iuclined .to view the cable with suspicion, because if the son was in need of money he knows that the right source for the money to reach him is through the Defence Department at Cairo, and the fact of him specially mentioning the particular agency where to send the money certainly looks "fishy," A well-known local business man who has just returned from a visit to Hawke's Bay informs me that, despite reports to the contrary, there have been plentiful rains and the crops and fruit are looking well, and the people in that district are looking forward to a record season. Miss Kelleher has been appointed assistant at the fPost Office counter. It is something new for Stratford people to have their wants attended to at the Post Office by a young lady, and there is no reason why women should not be employed at these duties at a time when men are needed in the firing-line. It is time the Borough authorities gave a little attention to the asphalt footpaths in the town. They are worn out, and getting full of holes, and want badly repairing. Last Saturday, a lady caught her foot in one of these holes, and sustained a nasty fall. If the Borough Council do not want some heavy damages to pay for an accident that may happen through these footpaths, they through attend to the matter at once. Mr. Charles Bayly, of Toko, who is leaving Stratford for Great Britain in a few days' time, was entertained at the Stratford Club on Saturday by a large gathering of members and made a presentation as a mark of esteem in which he was held, and of the high appreciation, of his patriotic action.