STRATFORD.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 October 1917, Page 3

STRATFORD.

"(From Our Own Correspondent.)' [All communications, letters, etc., left With Mr. H. J. Hopkins, bookseller, will receive prompt attention.] COMPLIMENTARY SOCIAL; Stratford, Sept. 23. Considerable interest was taken in the social tendered to Mr. and Mrs. W. Skedgewell at Tuna on Friday evening. The attendance of settlers and others was very good. During the evening Mr. W. Hathaway expressed regret that, after having spent 27 years in Midhirst, Mr. Skedgewell was retiring to live at Stratford, though still continuing to have an interest in Midhirst herds, hav. ing placed his herd in Bhare-milkers' hands. He had been a director and then chairman of the Midhirst factory, and was also elected to a similar position on the newly-formed Tuna Company. The chairman concluded by presenting Mr. Skedgewell with a travelling rug, and Mrs. Skedgewell with a silver-plated tea service. Mr, Reld also paid tribute to Mr. and Mrs. Skedgewell's generosity as settlers of the years gone by, and also wished tliem every happiness. Mr. Skedgewell, in replying, thanked all for the good wishes and the presentations received that evening, and hoped the good relations would continue. 1

GENERAL. There were no railway bookings from here to-day for the medical inspection of recruits at Hawera, but on Friday a few made the journey. Mr. .T. W. Boon,-contractor for the Tuna 1 factory, is making good progress with the new building. The suppliers are hopeful that they will be In U e new premises by ttw end of Yovembe>\ One of the returned soldiers who was in Stratford to-day, using two walking sticks to assist locomotion, says he was eighteen months away, and had only eight days in France when he was thrown out of action by a bullet wound. Eighteen months' training for only a few hours in the trenches was his record. He certainly "had a run for his money," and did not fare so badly as the Waipuku man who trained in the Dominion and then was invalided home through an injury to the ankle whilst in one of the big training camps in Britain.

There is no time like the present. It is yours, and the wise man is he who makes the most of the opportunity. Just now the opportunity of making a little cash go a long way is presented at Mr. C. E. James' warehouse. Prices' are down to bedrock, whilst quality is of the highest. ladies, don't neglect this chance of securing best leather handbags, jewellery, wedding presents, etc., now offering. Call and inspect when next in town.