STRATFORD.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 June 1917, Page 3

STRATFORD.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) [All communications, letters, etc., left with Mr. H. J. Hopkins, bookseller, will receive prompt attention.] LICENSING COMMITTEE. Stratford, June S. The annual meeting of the Stratford .Licensing Committee was held at noon to-day. Present: Messrs W. E. Haselden, S.M. (chairman), A. Meredith, W. Morison, C. D. Sole, and J. B. Richards. Applications fort renewals were "ranted to Messrs P.\ ( Phelan (Commercial Hotel), W. P. Kirkwood (County Hotel), W. Lovett (Club Hotel), and J. Rothery (Wliangamomona).

The transfer of the Egmont Hotel. Midhirst. from J. C. Parsons to Mrs. C. Knwn ? ht was granted. The police reported that since the new licensee hatfl taken possesion many repairs had been attended to and the hotel well conducted. F. J. Mills' application for renewal (Tariki Hotel) was granted. The raolice report was that the place, was Well conducted, hut the yards and stable must be attended to. F. Whittle's application (Stratford Hotel) was granted. Two baths are to be replaced within a fortnight. Mr. D. J. Malone's application for a wholesale license was granted. :,: S.M. COURT. The usual fortnightly sitting of the Magistrate's Court was held this afternoon before the S.M., Mr. W. R. Haselden. Judgment hy default was given in the following civil cases:—J. Donald v. S. Parker, claim £1 H9s, costs ■&; W. Elder v. M. Loveridge, £2 12s 2d (13s); G. Syme & Co., Ltd., v. F. Bound, £2 7s lOd (18s!. In the judgment summons case, G. T. Walters v. M. Loveridge, claim £4 15s 2d, an order was made for amount to be paid within fourteen days, in default 4 daysHmprisonment. After hearing the evidence of defendant in the case of. Masters & Son v. N. Julian, claim £l4 12s 7d, no order was made, defendant showing his inability to pay. An application by the police for a prohibition order against H. Brinsden was adjourned for a month.

The information against D. S. Maxwell, farmer, for allowing ragwort and blackberry on Jiis farm at Huiroa, was also adjourned for a month.

In the case of the pplice v. Harold Symes, Sergeant Dale outlined the charge, which wag that defendant, a boy of 14, had placed half a plug of gelignite on the lailway line, <wMch had been discovered the same morning and removed by a surfaceman. The boy pleaded guilty, but stated that after he placed the gelignite on the line he became frightened and went back to remove it, but found it had been removed. The Magistrate decided that the boy should return to his employer, and his case will foe reviewed at the Court sittings on July 6. GENERAL. Private Blanchard, of Waipuku, recently invalided home, has a "hard luck" story to unfold. He went away with one of the Reinforcements last spring, and then, whilst undergoing further training at Salisbury Plain, tripped in bayonet and trench drill, whereby he dislocated an ankle. That meant lying up for repairs and then back to Sew Zealand. He missed his chance of getting to the firing line, and now returns to factory work, with a twinge of rheumatism as a legacy of his journey to the Motherland. There are times when a man meets an fangry subscriber whose paper has been mislaid or not delivered. Again, an advertiser may "rouse" at the position of his advertisement in the paper. Those complaints are at times unavoidable. Recently I received a complaint of-a totally different character. An advertiser approached "your own" and gladdeAsd the surroundings with the conversation that followed. "Just take out my land advertisement. I have sold it, and paid about 2s in stamps answering other inquirers after the same property. I'm getting letters from well down the South Island and North of Auckland. Guess it pays to advertise. I'm more thiin pleased with resultsVl. This is a true testimony. Land hunger appears to exist in a marked manner in Taranaki, and, judging from what one has heard, land will still soar in price. Inspector Ballantyne, of the Education Board, paid a surprise visit to the Stratford Catholic School to-day. T. Lamason's usual Saturday sale is advertised, and in addition an oil engine and a line of crockery, etc., Will be offered for sale. Crockeryware is becoming more and more expensive as the shipments become more scarce. That being so, those ladies on the look-out for the very best Doulton china and other ware should note that the best variety, combined with moderate prices, will be found at C. E. James' warehouse.