STRATFORD.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1916, Page 3

STRATFORD.

(From our own Corresp»ndent.) Stratford, Saturday Night. At a meeting of the Presbyterian Church last evening, it was unanimously decided to forward a call to the Rev. Dawson Madill, of Papakura, to fill the vacancy vacated by Rev. J. iPatterson. The practice of driving motor cars at night without lights is getting far too prevalent. The local authorities should make an example of the offenders. If the minimum fine was £5 motorists would think twice before they committed the oft'ence. The Stratford Wounded Soldiers' Fund now stands at £GS3I 9s Id. The sum of £lO2 Is Sd has been collected for the Sailors' Relief Fund. The following men leave Stratford on Monday, July 24 to join the 19th reinforcements: —F. D. Oxley, N. R. Hamblvn, F. H. Miers, C. T. Fearon, E. W. Miers (all of Stratford), J. S. Reid, W. Hartigan and R. C. James (all of Toko), F. Treves, J. G. Treves W. Hughes (all of Midhirst), H. J. S. Bishop (Te Polco), C. E. Neal (Cardiff), C. R. J. Relf (Ma■lioe), F. J. Maindlonald (Rowan), (J. Edgecombe (Whangamomona), H. J. Johnston (Tahora). In response to a wire from the Defence Department, 24 men from the Tahora tunnel works have offered their services in the Tunnelling Corps. Several of the men were in Stratford to-day for medical treatment. This number practically exhausts all the eligible men from the Public Works Department workmen on the Stratford end of the railway "out east." The annual meeting of the Taranaki Dairy Companies Association was held here yesterday, there being a large attendance of delegates. Mr. R. Dingle was elected president, Mr. J. Marx vice-president, and Mr. W. E. Percival re-elected auditor.