STRATFORD.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 December 1915, Page 3

STRATFORD.

(From Our Own Correspondent.Stratford, Yesterday. Lieut. W. V. Wilson, of Stratford/has been gazetted a captain and attached to the Queen Alexandria Mounted Rifles, the apopintment to date as from lCth February last. Captain Wilson has been officer in charge of the local mounted corps for some time and he is congratulated upon his promotion.

The Railway Department have a gang of men at work relaying the line between Stratford and Eltham with new and heavier rails.

The athletic competiton for the Bayly Scholrshlp will take place in Victoria Park on Thursday, Dec. 16. In order to allow visitng competitors to return by early trains the sports will commence at 10 a.m. The local school will hold their annual sports on the same day and place. The Works Committee of the Borougn Council have recommended the Council to purchase an Adriance onehorse mower for cutting the grass on side footpaths. By the look of the footpaths throughout the borough plenty of worn should'be found for the machine;

At a general meeting of the Patriotic Committee, held in the Town Hall this afternoon, to elect a representative on the Taranaki executive, Messrs Kirkwood. Dingle and J. Masters were nominated, and after an election, Mr. Kirkwood was appointed. A meeting of shareholders of the Stratford Dairy Company will be held on Saturday next, when the directors will ask for the shareholders to sanction a substantial grant to the Wounded Soldiers' Fund,