Local and General.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 96, 28 August 1923, Page 4

Local and General.

Schedules for the forthcoming Methodist Bulb Show are now available. The prizes to bo awarded in connection with the Druids’ euchre party and dance at the . ,wn Hall next mohth are on view -n Bosley's, Limited’s window, Broadway

Smart Bros, tor electric light advertising flashing Solar Lamps. For Electric wiring, repairs, etc. ring up No. BO and at night No 156,

“1 don’t know how you sell U at the price” la what they all say who have, inspected and tried the beautl fully finished new model 1923 Chevrolet car, £290 complete. Inspection invited and demonstrations arrang-ed.--Stevenson, Blackstock &: Co. International Harvester Coi, Regan strest. x

A reminder is given of the meeting of'ladies willing to licit) with supper arrangements at the Fire Brigade’s annual hall to be held at the Fire Station at 7.30 this evening.

Members of the Egmont Club are reminded of the lecture to be delivered at the Club Room at 7.30 o’clock this evening by the Hon. A. T. Ngata.

On a recent Sunday evening there were 138 threepenny pieces in the collection plate said a speaker at a meeting of members of #ie Gore Presbyterian Church.

Repairs costing £20,000 have been recommended by Messrs. Sladden and Palmer to put the extension to the New Plymouth hydro works at Mangorei in a proper state of repair. The recommendations were adopted by the Borough Council last night and the authority of the ratepayers to raise a loan of £20,000 to carry out the works is to be sought.

On Thursday night a store at Glen Murray landing was completely destroyed by Are, and the manager (Mr C. H. King), who was sleeping on the premises, was burned to death, his charred remains being found in the debris the following morning. The store was the property of Mr Gall, of Rangiriri, in whose employ Mr King had been for several years. Mr King was a widower, about 66 years of age. The cause of the fire is not known.

A series of unusually brazen have occurred in the Frankton district recently. Mr Rimmer, of Te Kowhai, had left his dray in the yard of Johnson’s factory for repainting, and the vehicle was removed by somebody during the night. At Tuhikaramea almost a whole milking plant, including a vacuum pump that was in process of erection, w r as stolen, while a carrier, Mr Ritchie, of Frankton, had a full set of harness purloined. The police are inclined to associate the thefts.

A penny with a history turned up at the Winton A. & P. Association’s re-union on Thursday (reports the Record). When one of the reinforcements was leaving Wellington, Dr. Gbw went to the boat’s side to see the Winton boys off. , He was unable to talk to them so wrapping a note around a penny he threw it on deck. On Thursday the penny was handed back to Dr. Gow by the man who had picked up the note. It had been carried through France before it finally returned to New Zealand.

Several women teachers from Canada arrived in Auckland last week by the Niagara under the system of exchange of teachers between the tw 0 Dominions. Miss A. W. Patton, who comes from Vancouver. will go to Richmond Road school; Miss L. Downing, of Winnipeg, to Manurewa; Miss M. D a nt, of Winnipeg, to Waipawa, Hawke’s Bay; and Miss F. Wilbers, to New Plymouth. Miss A. Bricknell, an English teacher who has been “on exchange” to Canada for a year is widening her Empire experience by having undertaken a position at Ouga Onga, Hawke’s Bay.

On three charges of issuing valueless cheques at Hawera and New Plymouth, Montague Henry ; Pennycuick, of Wellington, was brought before Mr H. R. Cattley J.P. at the New Plymouth Police Court yesterday. It is alleged that at Hawera on July 5 he received £4/10/frora Percy Cox in exchange for a cheque purporting to be drawn on the Bank of New South Wales, Palmerston North, by “H. J. Ellis.” James Patrick Hoare, of Hawera, is said to have paid £5/10/6 on July 9, in respect to a cheque on the Bank of Australsaia, Palmerston North, signed “W. R. Ellis.” The third charge relates to the receipt of £6/15/6 and 8/- worth of goods from John Stoddart Wilson, of New Plymouth. The cheque presented to Wilson was for the former amount and was drawn on the Bank of New Zealand, Palmerston North, by “W. R. Johnson.” It was endorsed by “W. R. Jones.” /Accused! was remanded till to-morrow.

In the Magistrate’s Court yesterday a judgment was given against the Tahora Land and Sawmilling Co, which,"we regret, in the paragraph in the “Stratford Evening Post,” was, by accident, made to appear as against the Pohokura Sawmiiling Co.

Woe do’ Great Peppermint Cure. For rv>ntrh« *nd Colds never fails

Jack Sullivan undertakes to do plumLlng, electric light installations, repairs, and concrete paths etc., at cost. Best materials used. Workmanship guaranteed. Estimates given. Private residence, Regan St., Phone 94. %

Sanderson and Judd for plumbing drain-laying electric work, etc. All kinds of electric fittings stocked. Good work, prompt attention. Telephone 222. x

A meeting of all interested in the Stratford Horticultural Society will ba held in Smith’s tearooms tomorrow evening. A large attendance is expected.

The examination for teachers’ C. and •D. certificates, commenced this morning at the Stratford Primary School jand will last for a fortnight. Fifty-one pupils presented themselves for examination. Inspector W. A. Ballantyne of the Taranaki Education Board is supervisor, Mrs F. A. Tyrer acting as assistant.

By this evening’s mail train there will arrive a football team and a girls’ hockey team representing the Feilding Technical High School, who will play matches against teams from the Sratford Technical High School. The visitors are being bllletted by parents of pupils of the Technical High School.

Weather forecast.—The indications are for variable and moderate breezes, but westerly mode ate to strong prevailing and freshening. There is a prospect of fair to cloudy weather, the night will probably be very cold. The barometer has a falling tendency.—D. C. Bales, Wellington,

While d-Iving home from a Farmers’ Union social at Taupiri on Friday night, Mr Stanley Brown, a well-known farmer, missed the road, and his car overturnel into a ditch, pitching his wife and family out. While attending t 0 his daughter’s Injuries Mr Brown suddenly collapsed and died. His daughter Is stated to be in a serious condition. The other occupants escaped without injury.

Borough Council and Public Service meet m a cribbage match at Carman’s rooms to-morrow evening. Folllowing are the teams; Borough Council; C. Harris, A. Nelson, B. Green. V. Forbes, H, Collingwood, A, George,, W. Croots, C. Gatton, P. Skoglund, R. Haylock, P. Reeves*; W. Schnider, 0. Tocker, T. Lawson. Public Service: James, * Jackson, Jones, Curtis, Moxham, Rouse, Goldup, Hill, Casey, J. Neal, J. Jermy, C. Neal, Syme, Donaldson.

On the 1 Stratford Technical High School/ ground on ? Thursday afternoon Waitara and. Stratford will try conclusions in the final for the

primary school football championship of Taranaki, the being

at 1.45 p.ra.. Afterwards teams representing Stratford and Feilding Technical High Schools will meet. This match has been arranged by the Feilding School.

Suva and Fiji are to have the excitement of a visit next year from the large steamer Resolute, of 17,299 tons gross, which is to leave New York on a world'tour on - January 19, with no fewer than 450 rich American passengers. This aggregation of millionaires will visit in turn the Mediterranean, Egypt, India, Ceylon, "Java, Philippines, China, Japan. Fill, and Somoa. There will be a/golden opportunity for Fiji to put on its best array, and already in Government circles there is talk of big gatherings ■and festivities in honour of so mOny Jjnsltors.

Everyone interested in anv branch of horticulture „is invited to attend the meeting convene! by the Plunket Society for tb-mor r cw night to make arrangements for their autumn flower show. The show In February last year was a distinct success, ,and this season there is every indication of a more widespread Interest. It is hoped therefore that there will be a representative meeting to-morrow night, when the balance-sheet for last yeah will be presented and officers elected for the ensuing year.

A young man received a shock outside a residence in Hunterville last week. After escorting a young lady home from a dance, he stood at the gateway, holding his horse while bidding the sweet one a fond farewell. After a few moments his courage ebbed as a piece of firewood whizzed past his head, while from the

door he heard (he words, “Get out,

, you brute!” in language fierce and terrible. With trembling limbs ho • turned to fly, but before he could w mount and away the “head of the bouse,” in night attire, appeared and briefly apologised, stating that he had

been dreaming of the straying stock

nuisance. Awakening suddenly, and ~ hearing jthe horse moving on the well-kept footpath, he came to the conclusion that a stray animal was paying a call, hence the apparent heavy father act.

The New Zealand Jo-operative Herd-testing Association, with headquarters at Hamilton, is progressing favourably, several additional groups having been formed within the last few days. Already there are 24 .groups in existence, representing a total of 26,000 cows. Testing is now in full swing, and Mr A. E. Missen, who was appointed general manager of the association at its meeting on Wednesday, states that it yvlll he desirable for any district desirious of entering the tmheme to join the association immediately, as It would not do to commence testing operations later than September. Another cup has been donated by the Waikato Times for the highest individual cow in the competition, to be won twice In succession or three; times at intervals.