STRATFORD.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 May 1916, Page 3

STRATFORD.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) Stratford, Yesterday. The valuers who are engaged to Value the Electrical Supply Company's plant in connection with the sale of the undertaking to the Borough Council commence on Tuesday. The next meeting of the Borough Council will be held in the new chambers. No formal opening of the buildings will be held, but it is understood the place will be open for inspection by the public for a few days. The contractor is busy putting in the plate glass windows in the shops and should complete his contract in about a week. A little girl was knocked down by a motor car in Broadway this morniijf. but escaped with only a. few bruises. She ran out from behind a cart, and did not notice the car coming. This is a decidedly dangerous practiaa, snd the accident should prove a lesson to those children who persist in this practice. The Borough Council have decided to assist the Recruiting Committee by allowing the recruiting agent to make a nottse-to-house canvass of the Borough. An effort is being made in the Stratford district to form a contingent of those men who served in the Boer War. It is proposed to get 1000 men, up to 45 'years of age, to offer their services to the Defence Department. The petition of Ngaere residents to ihe County Council asking them to approach the Railway Department to have (he dangerous bank taken down near the railway crossing at the Climie Road (ieer+es more than passing notice. The riemocr for the district might have been approached in the matter by the €can> eil. and it is also a matter that tfie Automobile Association that was started here some months ago, and which seems to have died a natural death, could have taken up.