STRATFORD.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1918, Page 3

STRATFORD.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) [All communications, letters, etc., left with Ur H J. Hopkins, bookseller. Hill receive prompt mention.] COPPER TRAIL. Stratford, September 2Mr. J. SL Thompson supplies the following details of the financial result of the Stratford-Opun%ke football championship lasj; Thursday: Receipts: Gates £lO 16s, grandstand £G -l'2s 2d, tickets sold £6 '2s, ribbons (colors) £1 l'2s Cd; total. £34 '2s Sd; expenditure of team, advertising, etc., £l7 T3s 6d; leaving £lO fts 2d to go to the Copper Trail. The commitlee desire to acknowledge work, donation*, etc.. from Messrs Corlett (sign-writer), Fowler (motor lorry), Newton King (car), Stratford Band, and al«o the drapers (Messrs fl. T. Walters, Morey and Son, aniHtywles, and White), and the A. and P. Association for their grounds. The next "outing" on the same grounds will be the seven-aside Rugby tournament, to be held on the 28th inst. Teams have nominated from Opunake, Rovers, New Plymouth High School, and Technical College Clifton, Stratford, and Midhirst. The Town Band will be in attendance, and the 'Ladies' Patriotic Committee will have afternoon tea for 'sale. All details will 'be advertised in due course. GENERAL. Those who are interested in the farewell presentation to be given to Dr. Paget are reminded by advertisement on page 1 that the function will take nU/ in the Town Hall on Thursday evening. Mr. .Skoelund. lion! secretary, informs me that the evening will take tlje form of a conversazione, and, ao far, subscriptions have come in very freely. Those in the countrv who desire to participate in the presentation can forward their subscription at any time. Several favorite soloists will contribute vocal items durin" the evening. , ° Weather conditions being favorable, a dance will he held in the Lowgarth Hall to-morrow (Tuesday) evenin?, the proeoeds being in aid of the send-off funds The music will be supplied bv Mi« fl\r diner. Mr. Tirke. the secretary, will control affair?, so natrons can rely on spendin? an enioyable evening. That it pars handsomely to have the voune larfin, interested in ativ f, mr >fi„ n « ev.dent from the fact that Miss Vera Fowe has. up to the present, sold 130 KtTtT In" r , ibbonS ' and before the Ktratford-Onnnake match s lie «ct to work to make „ p c l„b rosettes, and succeeded m sellin, ,30 and then' the 9 ,, p. football tournament on the 20th inst .A farmer who attends the annual meet,,, of the Model Dairy iC""on wished to address the mating but was not permitted to do so. as he was not a member . i„ the .act of retir •n? from the room, he remarked that the farm was teaching t J,e boys low „ T do.- ' rOW ass - like As a result of some eorresnondenee in. Wirt H *™* !n COm^ wit.i Captain Hawkins' temperance ln \ ress. the lectin b as nePn w s, , W " 1 dft,n ""f *«> damages for lo ss „ 1 T2 m '\ r^ltati °n by nla.nt.ff. an hotelkeeper here. Messrs Ctiapman SfcerMt, and tripe. We!Z defJcT Cngaged t0 ,Cok aft€r <* e

, .Writing from somfiewhere in France to «w parents. Private ,T. T. Mi", XVn -ted from MMhirst, stateslhitt w £ now undercronir a * - «■*. after three months j„ the trenches 2; 4 * «« had been recommended for a commission out of the last bunt, tat hare to wait awhil 1££o. s on the waiting list. . . . Tllerc had been a reunion of the Midhirst boys -Pat Anderson, Le 3 a ffd Arch Tickers Arthur Cameron, Herbert Hule", Ale" nd Charhe ttdcew, and the writer-fust ahout all the Midhirst boy* who we •till in France. Charlie Vik-ers was in ful member Arthur Cameron is in the ;3P a t^ wish to run across. Taranaki news was that some papers should be sent along. He had completed his second year, and wm looking forward to a holiday short- » Also, he was forwarding a parcel of souvenirs from £h e front.

vow the cable news, particularly cable and sporting items, but there are others who are on the look-out for bargain an-n-nmcementa. Those who scan these me? are reminded that thev can eci iMjwws not offering elsewhere in ladies' handbags, jewellery, Doulton ware, toys, books, all kinds of smokes, at Mr C E Jamer 1 Jewellery Warehouse.—Advt.