STRATFORD.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 August 1921, Page 6

STRATFORD.

STRATFORD AGENCY. Advertisements and items of news for publication in tte Taranaki Daily News should bo left at the office of our local representatives, Wilson Bros., Broadway, Stratford. Orders for papers may also be left with them. BOROUGH COUNCIL MEETING. August 8. A meeting of the general purposes committee of the Stratford Borough Council was held to-night. The works committee report stated that the engineer had been instructed to metal domes at intersection of Broadway and Regan Street and Broadway and Fenton Street. The committee recommended that the engineer should be instructed to have the water mains scoured regularly and to report each mouth the dates on which the work was done. The general committee reported that only one tender had been received for work to the Fire Brigade station, and this had been considered too high, and the commitlee had, therefore, instructed Mr. Healy to have the work carried out by day labor. The electric light committee’s report stated that the electrical engineer had been instructed to erect a street light in Cordelia Street North. The inspector for the Fire Insurance Underwriters’ Association cnodemned several installations, and had demanded that the premises affected should be re-wired within two months. The committee recommended that the postmaster's application to have an outside fight installed at the Post Office should be granted, and also that the maximum demand system should be applied to charges for current consumed by motors, milking machine motors to be exempted. The maximum demand system is one by which a consumer pays 6d per unit on his maximum load for the first 60 hours and 3d per unit for all afterwards.

THE KING’S CINEMA THEATRE TO-NIGHT. RENO AND ARTA. The theatre-going public of Stratford will have an. opportunity of witnessing one of • the greatest musical “acts” ever put before j an audience in New Zealand, when the above artists, Reno and Arta, appear at the King’s Theatre, Stratford, to-night. These entertainers have just completed a very successful tour of Fuller’s vaudeville circuit. Their instruments include the largest xylophone manufactured, and specially imported from the Began factory in Chicago. Of these artists a leading New Zealand paper says: Reno and Arta, the brilliant xylophonists, made their initial appearance in a series of delightful and unique ragtime and operatic melodies. The : artists showed great skill with the “hammers”, among their most successful num- i bers being: “Scenes That Are Brightest” ; (“Maritana”), “Till We Meet Again”, “Dear Old Home of Mine”, a rag entitled “Tickle the Ivories”, and the great vaudeville hit, “Huckleberry Finn”. Reno, expert jazz drummer, will give a demonstration of rapid manipulation of numerous musical instruments. In addition Miss Arta will give an artistic exhibition of solo dancing. “The Notorious Miss Lisle”, starring Katherine Macdonald, a story of divorce, love, intrigue and disgrace, will also be screened. A good farmer’s or householder’s bundle of stationery is supplied for 5s post free by Wilson Bros., stationers, i Stratford. This is the list: Two writ- | ing pads, three packets envelopes, pack- ; et blotting slips, lead, pencil, pen and | scribbling or order pad. Send 5s along i and get a bundle from Wilson* Eros. . stationers, Stratford.