STRATFORD.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 November 1917, Page 3

STRATFORD.

(From Our Own Correspondent). [All communications, letters, etc., left frith Mr. H. J. Hopkins, bookseller, will receive prompt attention.] A successful Rale of work was held today in the Parish Hall, in* connection with the Anglican Church. It wag originally intended that Mrs. J. Hine was to open the bazaar, but owing to the serious injuries sustained by her husband, the member for Stratford, this was relegated to the viear. Rev. C. Howard. The latter, in a few words, complimented the ladjes on the fine results of their efforts with machine and needle, etc., and also congratulated the workers on the very artistic appearance of the stalls, decorations, etc. The proceeds are to go to the Church Army funds, and good business was done during the day, which should be further increased by the evening's effort. T)lie ladies assisting in the various stalls were: Plain work, Mesdames Prentis, Grant, Budge, Richards and Fookes; sweets, Mesdames Martin, and Dixon; Christmas tree, Mesdames Howard, Abraham and Stanford; tea rooms, Mesdames Crawshaw, Thorpe, Alger, Freer, Penn and Pease; books, Misses Middleton (2), A Stratford visitor to Auckland says that things in the northern city are deadly dull iu some things. In the eyes of most Aucklanders, Taranaki stands as the most forward province in the Dominion. The prospects before the ironsand industry, freezing works and the dairying in Taranaki convince the northern residents that our province has something to go nap on.

An advertiser in the Daily News tells me that, he is well satisfied with the results achieved through having a space in these columns. He says he has had replies and done business right round the mountain, and enquiries from Wellington.

The secretary of the A. and P. Association is a busy man just now. The prespects for the show at the end of the month are exceptionally good. Entries received have been well up to expectations, whilst the canvassing in the several districts Ims awakened interest in the society's operations.

A number of people are now exercising their minds as to what to send to absent friends. Their dilemma will soon lie n thing of the past if tlie.y call at Mr. C. H. James' jewellery' warehouse and note the fine Chr!=tmns cards. grce...i'js. etc., Ik> has for sale. The shelv< are also crowded with those little trinkets so dear to the feminine minds. Now, young men, don't for-;et the ladies. Ladies, don't absent faces.