STRATFORD.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1919, Page 3

STRATFORD.

(twin Our Own Correspondent.) Wll cawmunicatious, letters, etc., left with Mr. H. J. Hopkins, bookseller, will receivo prompt attention.) Nov. 22. The accommodation provided by Stratford hotels and boarding-houses during the Show is expected to fall far short or requirements. The President of the A. and P. Association will be pleased to hear from any householders who have spare rooms or beds whicii they would be prepared to let for a few days. Meals can be obtained at any of the local hotels. Further donations received by the Stratford A. and P. Association are as follows:—!'. W. Bond, 10s; Farmers' Organisation, £5 ss; Burgess, Fraser and Co., £5 ss; F. J. O'Connor, £2 2s; N. R. Cleland, £2 2s; D. McMillan, £1 Is; Morey and Son (tropny), £1 l a; C. James (trophy) 12s 6d; R. Dingle (president), £lO 10s. The grand total of donations in now £543 Is Bd. Since April 844 new members have been secured, the latest list of names to be added to the membership being as follows:—Morev and Son, L. Strachan, W. J. Uhlenberg, A. E. King, L. Hitchcock, E. Keightley, A. Lees, M. J. Jury, W. D. Blennerhassett. The Dominion Fire Brigades' Conference will be held in Stratford on February 19th. It will be seen from an advertisement in another column that there will be a special train service from New Plymouth to Stratford on Thursday next, People's Day of the Show. The train will stop at the showgrounds, and will leave New Plymouth at 10.50 a.m., arriving at Stratford at 12.50 p.m. 'The property next to the Marble Bar m Broadway was sold this week to Mr Stewart Hustomiof Inglewood, at £l5O per foot. The section runs right back to Miranda Street. Mr. Hustin intends to build a large up-to-date billiard saloon on the section. In these days of high cost of livinn 't w a relief to find something to pur" chase at the old pre-war prices. Just now ladies will find at C. E. James' Broadway, Stratford, a display of Leather Hand Bags at the old value The\ are a special purchase, and are selling nt one price, 7/fi each. Don't trust pictures you value to travellers and strangers. If -you want any photograph copied or enlarged send itto McAllister, Stratford. The result will be the best possible, and you save the canvasser's commission. Reduce the depreciation in your motor car by taking it to C. D. Mathews. Stratford, and i{ it is mechanically sound he will return it looking as well as when you lirst bought it, at a very small cost The best paints and varnishes, and workmen who know their trade. "You're Only Young Once." Help to keep so as long as you can by reading .this story. It's like a ixniiy day in grey weather. By Margaret Widdemar. author of "The Rose Garden Husband" and "The Wishing-Rmg Man." Price as postage Cd extra, at H. J. Hopkins' Broadway, Stratford.