LATE LOCALS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 15, 30 December 1911, Page 6

LATE LOCALS.

Ex-Sorgoant Cullen lately iVi charge if the police force in Stratford, and ioiv retired, is at present in Stratford on a short visit. Wo understand that a local resident pulled off a hundred pound prize in f'attersall’s sweep ‘last week, says the : ‘lng!ewood Record.” A new method of protecting a crop from the small birds is reported not a hundred miles away from Stratford, in the shape of tethering a number if cats on a string, thus enabling them to wander about in the paddock as occasion arises. The idea, it is stated, works admirably. Another /cntleman, on being informed of this, and whose currant trees were continually being tampered with in the same manner, at once gave a job to his cat Ginger, which is doing its duty in good stvle. He also had another tree some distance away, and in order to protect it, gave a kitten a job, but it refused duty, and had to be released. Should this not be brought under the notice of the Department of Agriculture? ( THE GUINEA POEM I A Cheque for £1 is has been sent to the writer of this verse— Mr. JjGsß.; 10, Mowbray Street, Wel- . n olmgton: /lilac, : ii- • Linens, frocks', ■ flannels, socks; r A household your threshold knocks I Labour light, washing white: “Puritan Soap” ensures delight! . „,WIN ,A { ,GUINEA 1 Prize Poem, published every Saturday. Best original 4 Short-line advt verse about “Puritan Soap” wins each week. Printed wrapper—from cakes of Puritan Soap—must be enclosed. Address: “Puritan Soap, 1 ” P.O. Box 203, Wellington. Wholesale Agents : ; A. S.. Paterson and ’s?• fl b ' b i