LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 1, 11 December 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The executive committee of the Stratford A. and P, Association will meet on Wednesday evening instead of Tuesday. The Stratford School Committee will hold a special meeting to-morrow (Tuesday evening), to make final arrangements in connection with the school ‘concert, which takes place on Thursday evening next. Inspectors Ballantyne and Whotter of the Taranaki Education Board are in Stratford to-day, conducting the central examination for proficiency certificates.

Mr M. H. Brown, Chief Inspector of the Technical Department of Education, Wellington, was in Stratford on Saturday, and conducted an examination for teachers in hand work. An examination into the affairs of a bankrupt this morning showed that debtor had paid on a loan the huge amount of 7G per cent, interest. “Is lie a registered money-lender? I wonder, “enquired a representative of one of the creditors, amid general expressions of surprise. The exceedingly high winds which have prevailed of late have been very trying to farmers and others throughout the district, and in quite a number of cases we learn that seed sown has been literally blown avay, and in many instances re-sowing has had to take place. The following letter for Mr. J. Smith, Stratford, appears in the London “Daily Mail,” of October 28th:— “I was pleased to notice in your issue of June 3rd the kind references to the comrades of Garibaldi leaving England for Italy to take part in the celebrations in that country, ft may be of interest to some of those comrades to know that we in New Zealand have at least one old comrade of Garibaldi still hearty and well, in the person of Mr. William Webb Stevens, seventy-six years of age, now employed by Mr. H. S. Priestley, cabinetmaker, Began Street, Stratford. Mr. Stevens informs me that he was in Captain Hampton’s company of the Foreign Legion, and that as yet he has not received any war medals, which ho would have liked.”

Mr Cyril H. Crokor, a son of the Assistant-Inspector of the N.E.L. and At.A. Co., Wellington, lias accepted i. o managing clerkship in Mr W. G. Mahno’s office. Mr Oroker is a fully qualified solicitor and . received his training at Dunedin with Bessrs Adams Bros., and lately with Messrs ißisking and Cook, two well-known Dunedin firms.

A portion of the paragraph appearing in our issue of Saturday, referring to the smart work of the De-puty-Returning Officers at the No. 1 and'No. 2 booths, at Stratford’s principal polling place on election day, unfortunately went astray, and the honour that should have gone to the p: incipal Deputy (Mr. P. Skoghmd) and the principal Licensing Deputy (Mr. C. Penn), for tiie good work done, was not credited. The No. 1 booth was all ready to make a declaration for the electoral poll at 6.30 p.m., and for the licensing poll at 7 p.m., but these results were not made public until the whole of the Town dull voting was available.