STRATFORD.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 September 1921, Page 6

STRATFORD.

STRATFbRD AGENCY. Advertisements and Items of news for publication in tie Taranak’. Daily News should be left at the office of our local representatives, Wilson Bros., Broadway, Stratford. Orders for paiiers may also be left with. them. BOROUGH COUNCIL. Sept. 20. The Stratford Borough Council met last night. Present: The Mayor (Mr. J. W. McMillan) and Crs. Rutherford, Walsh, Hunter, Lawson, Jackson, Mclnnes, Ward, Stewart and Cameron. The inspector of public health reported that meat was being sold in auction marts under unsatisfactory conditions, and recommended that the sales of meat should be prohibited during the summer months. —Received.

The Dannevirke town clerk asked for support in a petition to the Government to fully consider contributions towards the construction and maintenance of roads and bridges by adjacent local authorities under sections 109 and 119 of the Public Works Act. —It was decided to support the request. Superintendent Grubb reported that the fire brigade numbered 20, which was 5 short of the full strength. There were not enough uniforms, those ordered by the council being unprocurable at present. During the past three months the brigade had responded to three calls. The motor engine was in urgent need of general overhaul, which would cost about £2O. The new hose ordered had not come to hand. The station was disorganised, owing to the work of the carpenters, which, he trusted, would be finished by the end of the week. The annual meeting of the brigade would take place next month, and he would be pleased to carry out his duties as superintendent for a further twelve months.— It was decided to ask for tenders from firms in the town to put the engine in order, the matter to be left in the hands of the fire brigade committee. The Minister of Public Works asked if the council would take from the quarries which the department intended to open at Te Wera the quantity of stone the council had been prepared to take from Mt. Egmont quarries, the opening of which was indefinitely postponed.—The letter was referred to the works committee for a report. LATE T. ROBERTS FUND. At a meeting of subscribers to the fund raised for the dependents of the late Mr. T. Roberts, it was reported that the sum of £2OO 7s had been collected, which, with the Post Office Savings Bank interest, brought the total amount to £2Ol 14s. The meeting decided that the money should be handed io the trustees of the estate, to be used to aid the three children of the late Mr. Roberts. WAR TROPHIES EXHIBITION. The New Zealand Government War Trophies Exhibition, which has visited several towns in Taranaki recently, will open in Stratford at the Town Hall on September 24, and continue until Saturday, October 1. The exhibition will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and from 7 p.m. till 10 p.m. The proceeds are in aid of patriotic funds. The exhibits cover a very great variety of subjects, from an aeroplane to a uniform button. It is understood that the aeroplane will be placed on the stage, whilst the other exhibits will be shown on tables and stands. Big crowds have flocked to see the exhibits in other towns, and the exhibition will give an opportunity to Stratford people such as may never come again to view relics of the great war. THE KING’S THEATRE. To-night at the King’s Picture Theatre will be screened old England’s master picture, “The Better ’Ole”, from the drama by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather. “The Better 'Ole” runs the gamut of all the emotrons. Its infinite variety plays with human feelings as an organist with his instrument. It is stern duty, spangled with flashing humor, mirth and mellowed by sorrow'. Patrons are advised to book their seats for this picture.

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INGLEWOOD.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

Although the. resolution carried at the meeting of the Inglewood School Committee, whereby the chairman (Mr. King) and secretary (Mr. Glenie) W'ere appointed delegates to wait on the Domain Board and solicit that body’s co-operation to get an officer of the Forestry Department to give a lecture and demonstration in one of the board’s reserves, was not acted on, as it might have been, the very next night after it was carried, the proposal is not going to be let drop into oblivion altogether. There are members of the Domain Board as keen on the subject as are those of the School Committee who advocated its introduction. They see that forestry is likely to become a very important branch of the State’s industry, that all young people who are likely to become farmers will be benefited by some knowledge of so important a -subject, be it ever so little, and that if it should prove that any school pupils who attended the lecture and demonstration, when given, showed a distinct inclination and aptitude for that very interesting branch of study, and were encouraged to follow it up, a certain livelihood in healthy and congenial surroundings would be assured them in the future, and of a nature that would open up almost illimitable possibilities to a really brainy child, such as New Zealand has produced in other branches of study and research. The tree-planting season for 1921 is getting past us now, so no time should be lost in putting the resolution into practice. Besides the Domain Board, the lately formed Beautifying and Improvement Society might quite reasonably be asked to add its influence to the request to the department, without any likelihood of a refusal.