STRATFORD.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 February 1917, Page 3

STRATFORD.

[All communications, letters, etc., left with Mr. J. Hopkins, bookseller, will receive prompt attention.] SHELL-ROCK LIMB. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Stratford, Feb. 3. There is a probability that in Ihe near future another indiMfry will be added to our district. I refer to the shell-rock quarry about to be opened between Toko and Huiroa. Samples of flu shell-rock have been analysed and reported to, contain 92 per cent, of lime. Machinery is to be installed .to allow the burning-out of the completed article. Mr. Ottaway, the owner, was in Stratford to-day arranging details for making a start. The value of lime to a dairy farm has always been recognised. In the cold lands round Jit. Egmont a warm fertiliser counts for a great deal, and the prospects of such in practically unlimited quantities means much, to farmers in need of this class of fertiliser. Word reaches me that the face of the quarry is over 100 ft. deep, and the area sufficient to last requirements for many years. The decision of the lessee to go on with the project appears to have been made at the eleventh hour, as the services of a motorist were necessary to drive the party out and place a man in possession before the option expired. Taranaki must depend upon dairyina, and any manufacture that tends to relieve the cost of running a farm is welcomed, and when this is by local industry the innovation is doubly welcome. ' ITEMS. A cold driving rain is falling today. On Tuesday the thermometer registered 72 degrees in the shade. To-day it has gone down to 62, and the weather feels able to maintain present supplies for cold. As a result of the rainfall farmers <irc now hopeful of being able to mainWit the present milk supplies for some time longer than seemed likely a few days ago. Constable Robertson is still indisposed. He has been confined to bed for several days, but is now progressing favorably. Evidently the law has no terrors for some men. Young Swadling is a case in point. He has been more or less under the notice of the police for some months now. Away in the backblocks he is a "solid toiler" —according to his mates. In town he is a nuisance—his weakness beer, causing him to forget his manhood. The spectacle of a man scarcely able to locate the magistrate when a charge is being heard is rarely met with. Perhaps the military authorities will restore his manhood. Swadling evidently luvs no desire for the trenches, but now his name lim.3 gone to the ballot-box he may become a member of the Expcditiuinry Force and a credit to the district. Stratford schools re-assemble on Tuesday.