LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 24, 15 December 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Applicationb are invited by the Public Service Commissioner for positions as assistant accountants in the Public Trust. Department.

At Mr Newton King’s Haymarkct yard this morning .Mr P. - Bcere,> Stock Inspector, was busy inoculating chives. Some nice calves were dealt with, but the number was noticeably less than last year.

On Tuesday evening Mr il. Masters will address electors in the King’s Cinema Theatre, Stratford, commencing at 8.30. From 7.30 up till 8.30 a free picture programme will be screened, but as accommodation is likely to be taxed to its utmost children will not be admitted.

In the Supreme Court at New Plymouth on Saturday morning, the young man named William Donald Blair, who had been remanded for sen. tcnce on a charge, of the theft and destruction of postal packets ta which he had pleaded guilty, was sentenced to 18 months’ reformative detention.

The Borough Electrical Engineer notifies that until further notice power will not be available between tile hours of 12.30 a.m. and 5.30 a.m. The electrical department is-having a very trying time at present, owing to scarcity of water. So dry a season has not been experienced for a great many years.

The live stock carried over the railways from April Ist to November BtJJ, disclose , a fallings off when compared with last year’s,total. The number of head of cattle decreased by 34,083, calves by 9055, sheep by 108,018, and pigs by 12,078. The fact that slaughtering commenced lata this year is understood to account to ’dome, extent for the drop in the figures.

The National Prohibition Committee regrets that' in a recent publication giung the lest of Sir Andrew llusdcll’s

letter he is described as Commander-iu-Chicf of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force instead of G.O.C.*

Sanderson and Judd, Registered ambflui hnve removed opposite

Hie Stratford Retailers’ A ssueiation announces that shops ..ill observe the weekly half holiday on Wednesday—polling day.

'Weather Forecast',—The indications are for freshening northerly winds, backing by west o south after about ,d() hours. The weather appears likely to be cloudy and unsettled, with ruin following. Barometer falling, but rising after about 3G hours.

Men everywhere grumble at the nigh prices they had to pay for suits. Our Sincerity, Kaiapoi and Petone tailora.ade box suits mean direct savings. They are priced from 85b to 130 s each, and fit any figure to perfection. A. H. Hillock, Men’s Wear Specialist, Phone ■SO, The Kash Stratford,•