STRATFORD.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1918, Page 3

STRATFORD.

<Frora Our Own Correspondent.)' [All communications, letters, etc., left with Mr H. J. Kopliius, bookseller, will recei?e prompt attention.] <st.rn"oH A"ril 17. IT. iu 1 .- . ..'■'". .: ' • i: * --" - " - ,-n "" '"-• '- •' '<. C C..H:.. .uri..,, ;„e pasr ■ , -he iLumtUs. a statement of t■. " al ; 0I ti'" accounts showed '•"' I " '.">«'■]" >r>oim' '< - a-. ■•■ ' o.;<_ £412-2 anj the interest account £IO7C, ■ J-Jibu ami liaai respectively in 1917. riTiiuts to the value of £6-122 for 'buildings were issued, as against £13,470 for 1917. Rents received from reserves totalled £IO2G, against.£s7l for the previous year, the increase being mainly attributable to the conneil receiving a full vear\s rent for the municipal building. ' Rent from the municipal building amounted to £7!)S, and expenditure (including interest and Kinking fund) £i:o». A°loss of £l5O was made on the town hall, as against £lOl (he previous year. Fees received at the abattoirs amounted to £GSS, against £717 the previous year. Library subscriptions totalled £Bl (£56). Electric light revenue amounted to -CS?D() and (V expenditure to £5515 A further £430 for interest also fell due, and was met by payment out of the district fund, £770 which was practically covered by outslnmllmr amu-its consumers £270 and trading £467 £737.

GENERAL. •T" the local ease nf ].- ox v . p„ lov ;„ whie.i the f ornier s , lC(] fo] . /;14 ,,.,' ' flJl . ''reach of contract, Mr A Cio-Ac S vf awarde-] ,tl s ani l rOS (... (bo hfddm," flint a month's notice was Miffi. e.ent for pb iifi/T to look round for other ■T'liilo' mr-nt-The Sjiwiflpl, should rc?ord a f „ ,fc ."; n "" T' l who-, a 'cvial ovoiMjr,- v.-ill he tendered Cant,in T ""J „ Ciiptain ' V - H - i,:ti;t. hob V.oods, and other returned soldiers. Mr. Frank Harford, president »f the •Jersey TVeders' .Hates that as a r.rsnlt of t.lit U-Jly Xew:, nublishin" l>" on th- association and the •Jersey cow, a soldier desirin« to take „„ fn..-1-..iii-- pursuit--, ) la , aporoaehod Mr. 1-ai.foi'd. The latter will dadlv .dve'all | information and assistance possible, and ijiifd now is a firm believer that it pavs to keep fl,« association's doim/s before News. ■■•'

Tlu- r -tratford-In.trlewoo,l hnwlinsr '»'''• '-p.. i n,„ declared ■'•oil'. - ' The pom is getting we!' advanced, and *trntlord l„.wl,rs evidently preferred remain.■ii.V rn their own jfi-een and v,iuios M Vr the championship <,■„.,!.„ decided between ■ owe. T.ekercun. Sharp. Oaekson. and Morigoii, tnan making the pmrnev to the ncishboriiiff town.

He is a remarkable man who never makes a mistake. The wise man < H nd wuinnl is (be one who tikes ndvi»ii a «c "' ,!l " f''--'"d and oae bargains offered at ('. E .lames' jewellery warehouse.

t ,'■' ';"•';■" "'' t;l 'n <!•« hest value in Ladies' Handbags, ]; in , s !ef.. Tirooohos jo ./.on Ware, etc. father can purehr-se the be=t brands of cieavs, ,md if ],;<. cho.ee gnu to tobacco and pipPL , hc wj]] not «o wrong in ca'lin? ;.t C. li. James' s

Don t spoil ILnt picture or photograph for want of a f ramp . ]!atw its vaum by purchasing a photoffvs.nl, rame at CK. James' f ßnev „„„,,, "■ ">"*<• He will fit nil sizes so ,i„ n * hesitate fn make enquiries. T-lfvo v,„J wen the T>a„ ITaircutter. Cuts to anv -effron of length. j llst |l, e thing for lie soldier in the trend., and for the home.