LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 99, 27 March 1922, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A large meeting of the Egmout Agricultural and Pastoral Association decided to revert to the Spring show teports-the Pres s Association). The date of this year’s spring fixture was not .decided, r Only, four voted-a.gaiusv the change. . v At Auckland Police Court, Oh as. Philpott, charged with betting tote odds, was fined £6O, there being i' - three offences. Sidney Clyde Hanton was committed for trial on a charge of bookmaking. In the case .of Philpott, the police found on him hooks and credit and debit slips showing a credit of £6Bs.—Press Association. Two men were caught in the act of burglary at Nook Brothers’ store, Paparoa, at 2 a.m. (reports an Auckland Pfess Association message). | They were caught by the proprietors and held until they were taken into custody by a constable from Waipu. \ -They the names of Frank Wood and ./Bert Moore. After being locked up at Waipu, both men escaped, hut were recaptured a short distance aw,ay. y'v At tie Convention of the W.C.T.XT at Hamilton, a memorial service’ was :> held fdr the Countess Carlisle. {Lady Henry Somerset, and Mrs A. R. • Atkinson. The Convention decided to recommend every union to try and secure the election to school committees and education hoards t of candidates favourable to the Nelson system of Bible-teaching in schools.— Press Association. Spj To spend a fortnight’s holiday in Auckland and Rotorua and return to Stratford convinced that it is not the wettest place in the Dominion is a* tonic such as' pessimists require to face the coming winter with pleasf ing- equanimity. Such, however, is the conviction of a local resident, who states that for a fortnight in Auckland and Rotorua rain fell heaviIv every night and there were showers occasionally during the day. ( Other travellers report similar ex- • periencesi to the newspapers in their towns. Alas for Auckland’s reputation. . Interviewed at Wellington on the arrival in the Tahiti x from Washington. Conference, Senator Pearce expressed keen gratification at the ratification of the Pacific Treaty. He thought the majority wqs very gratifying in vjew of all the circumstances. He was sure all the other treaties would he ratified, yith probably larger majorities. He declined to speak before returning to Australia upon the particular effects tbe Treaty would have upon the Commonwealth and the Dominion, but hb said that no countries had more reason to be gratified ! and thankful for the deliberate acceptance cif policy of peace in, the Pacing, He expressed, the view that the direct representation of Australia and-liSTew Zealand at such a. f. oolifere.pce was .absolutely essential, . particularly because of the influence / the representatives were able to bring I to bear upon the British delegation. | Nobody from the United Kingdom, and j h© said this without casting any refloc- ' tion on their ability, could adequatef ly represent Australasia owing to the I different environment. Press Assoc iaf , iapfc.