STRATFORD.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 October 1915, Page 3

STRATFORD.

{From Our Own Correspondent) | Stratford, Last Night. A man at Kiore created quite a lot of excitement in that district by insisting that people were continually ringing him up on the 'phone, and other suggestions. The police took a hand in the matter, with the result that he was arrested and remanded for seven days to see if the "rest cure" would improve his mind. This afternoon the school cadets paraded in Broadway, and their excellent marching was freely commented on. A man named F, Payne, working at Robson's Mill Pohohura, met' with a serious accident yesterday afternoon. It appears that he and his brother were rolling a log on the mill truck, and in using the axe the head came off the handle, with the result that the axe head struck him below the knee, inflicting a serious cut and severing the sinews. Medical aid was immediately 'phoned for, and on the doctor's arrival the leg was stitched up, the injured man being brought into the Stratford Hospital by this afternoon's train.

Lieut.-Colonel Cosgrove, Chief Scoutmaster for New Zealand, who is on a visit to Stratford, inspects the local scouts this evening. The Stratford Beautifying Society have leased the land between the line where the Toko-Whangamomona train siding is to the boundaries of the back of the business premises in Broadway. The Society intend planting the plot with shrubs and laying it out in lawn. A 6ft. fence has been erected at the back portion to allow of creepers and -climbing plants. When completed the improvement will certainly hide the unsightly back yards that meet the eye of visitors when they get off the train here.

Miss Fitzgerald met with a painful accident yesterday. It appears she was motoring to Stratford, and when in the act of taking down the hood of the car her finger was hadly crushed, requiring medical attention. Mr. T. Lamason has just completed the additions to his bulk store in Broadway. It has now a floor space of 100 x 40 feet, and will give him ample space for his increasing business. A son of Mr. H. Burmester met with a painful accident at Ngaere yesterday. It appears that, along with other boys, he was waiting for the train to Stratford, and wandered into the goods shed. One of the boys picked up some lime out of a sack, and thoughtlessly threw it in the lad's face, with the result that his eyes were badly burned. The patient is doing as well as can be expected, but it will be some days before the doctor can say whether the eyes are permanently injured or not. The Patriotic Market on Saturday was again a great success. The Bed Cross Fund benefited to the extent of £97 12s 6d, £56 lis of which was taken at the market and the balance through street collections.

Stratford visitors to the Waverley races yesterday were loud in their complaints of the railway timetable. It appears the train leaves the Waverley course within one minute of the last race, and this of course prevents patrons from seeing that race run, and if they have the luck to strike the winning horse it does not give them any chance of collecting the dividend. Further, the Club or Railway Department want to enlarge the gate at the entrance to the course, and the grandstand is totally inadequate and requires enlarging. Mr. S. H. James secured the appropriation of £3OO and Messrs Henry Brown and Co. a further £3OO at the Stratford Building Society's meeting last evening. The Toko district has contributed close on £l9O to the Red Cross funds.