LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 88, 27 November 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The following additional nominators for Mr Joseph McCluggage were received on Saturday :— Emily Osborne (Pohokura), Mary Hefferman (Pohokura), Bernard Martin (Pohokura). James Edward King (Whangamomona), John Edward Jones (..' hanga momona), Mary Alicia (Wliangamoniona). In the list previously published, Mr C. D. Sole’s name was unavoidably omitted. Following is the latest return in connection with the Utility Poultry Club’s competition:—Pullets: Misses Bradley (36) 938, T. Kennedy, S.W. ('27) 924, A. R. Browne (34) 914, G. H. Robinson (16) BS2, Heretaunga Poultry Co. (35) 880, Heretaunga Poultry Co. (31) 869, W. Nixon (31) 867, A. R. Browne (31) 864, A. Tisch (34) 855. Ducks: Heretaunga Poultry Co. (30) 961, W. Knight (29) 937, A.' R. Browne (33) 901, P. J. Keller (39) 326. According to the latest census returns for the administrative county of London, the total population of Greater London is 7,252,963. The area of the administrative county of Loudon is 116.8 square miles. The area of Greater London which includes all parishes within eleven miles of Charing Cross, is 693 square miles. In 1910 the live boroughs of New \ork boasted of 4,776,883, although the population is now estimated at more than five million. News come from Budapest to the effect that the Hermes Exchange Savings Bank, a branch of the Hungarian General Credit Institution lias devised an original plan for encouraging depositors. Automatic collecting devices have been placed ,in the streets into which persons can drop money at any time, receiving in exchange a receipt for the amount deposited. Upon presentation at the bank of the dips which the machine hands out. credit for the deposit is given in a book. Evidently the purpose of this device is to encourage the possessor of spare change to deposit it in the bank while he is in the humour.

Mr W. Cochran, Waipuku, gives notice of heifer running on his property.

.Notice of Licensing Poll for the Stratford Licensing District is given by Mr Frank Hivk returning officer. The Waitara Freezing Works will be open to receive stock on and after Monday, December 4th. Mr H. Wilson has in contemplation considerable alterations to his business promises in Broadway South, intending to take out the present siiop front and substitute plate glass. The railway bridge staff worked hard all Saturday night and got the girders for a single lino of rails across the Patea River in connection with the re-building of the railway bridge. Tile Prince of Monaco possesses one of the most valuable collections of autographs in the world. An entire wing of his palace at Monaco is reserved for a display of documents written by celebrities. The Premier arrived at New Plymouth from Onehunga this morning and passed through Stratford by the mail train, en route to Normanby, arriving back in Stratford by the 3 o’clock train. After the laying of the foundation stone at the Stratford District High School by the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Ward this afternoon, he will he entertained at dinner at the County Hotel. He will leave for Inglewood by the Noi'th mail train.

Mr Louis Robertson, the well-known champion wrestler, is now the leading builder at the growing township of Ohura, and takes a great interest in the progress and welfare of the settlement. He speaks highly of its prospects, and of the enterprising people who live there.

“Does Dr. Thacker think that alcohol has anything to do with tho number of inmates in our asylums” was a question put,to Dr. Thacker at Christchurch. He replied that if the questioner came to his surgery with 10s 6d he would answer the question and give the fee to charity.

Messrs. J. Masters and J. B. Richards, chairman and secretary of tlie Chamber of Commerce, have waited on the shopkeepers of the town, and have found that a majority of tlie business people favour the halfholiday being held on Saturday, provided if is made universal throughout Taranaki.

Prior to the wrestling match tonight between Louis S. Robertson and Stoker Penny which takes place in the Town Hall, Stratford, a special display of moving pictures from 8 p.m. to 8.30 o’clock will be given by tho Crystal Palace Company to show what they are really capable of. Penny and Robertson both' arrived in Stratford on Saturday, and a good contest is looked forward to. German military authorities are thoroughly up-to-date in their appliances. Tlie War Department has ordered the purchase of five cinematographic cameras for air-scouting. \n airman will thus be able to take a continuous panoramic picture of_ an enemy’s entrenchments. Lessons given to the German soldier in barracks will, in future, be illustrated by cinematograph, pictures in which the right and ways of carrying out exercises and evolutions will be shown.

The latest issue to hand of the Petroleum Review (October 7) states: — “There seems every likelihood; that when tho next , oil boom does come along—and signs are not wanting to suggest that this will be in the near future—the possibilities of developing petroluem-producing territories '"n New Zealand will be appreciated by the investing public to their fullest extent. That a most serious attempt is being made to put tho petroluem industry of that colony upon a basis of solidity and real progress is evident on every hand. In mimerous districts developments are already taking place, and the indications of a successful issue re such that oil land values are rapidly rising.”

Shoo manufacturers claim that the American woman’s foott is growing larger. The number two shoo is almost obsolete, they say, and sizes four and five are much commoner than three. The explanation seems to be that the phenomenon is due to the increased use of the feminine foot as a means of locomotion. The constantly increasing number of women engaged in industry and the growth of popularity of tennis, golf, and walking have had their inevitable result and common sense has done much to abolish the wearing of pinching shoos. The tradition that small feet are an excellent thing in women has persisted long and will not die without a struggle. Conservatives need not fear that women will carry this matter to far; they know when to stop.