LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 50, 2 June 1916, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Stratford District High School broke up for the winter holidays this afternoon, and will re-open on Tuesday, 13th June.

The Hawke's Bay Jockey Club today selected Mr Herbert S. Moss, late secretary of the Carterton A. and P. Association, as the Club's secretary. .There were seventy applicants. — P.A.

A mass meeting under the auspices of the No-License League is called for Sunday night in the Town Hall to deal with the anti-shouting movement. His .Worship the Mayor will preside. j

i Two more cases of infantile paralysis are reported in the Wellington health district. One is at Weraroa (Levin), and the other at Masterton. Both 'patients are boys, adds the Press Association. At the Auckland Supreme Court, Justice Chapman' sentenced George Joseph Windsor, aged 21, who started a series of fires at Devonport with the object of obtaining employment in the fire brigade, to six years' reformative treatment. —P.A. A picture theatre was opened in Christchurch on Monday without a license from the authorities, and the proprietors were fined ten shillings today an each or two charges for using the theatre on Monday and Tuesday without a license.—P.A. Weather Forecast.—The indications are for: South-easterly moderate to strong winds, backing by east to north. There is a prospect of fair to cloudy weather. The-night will probably be verv cold, with frosts inland. Barometer little movement.—Bates, Wellington. The annual meeting of the Stratford Licensing Committee was held this afternoon, when all licenses in the district were granted. In respect to the Tariki Hotel, the police reported that all the improvements ordered had not been completed. The license was allowed to run on until the September meeting. , ~• _^_