LOCAL AND GENERAL

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 75, 25 June 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Twenty-three Alpine Club members from Stratford and 33 from southern centres met on the Mountain yesterday. There was a fair amount of snow on the ski track and some tobogganing was indulged in.

At Saturday’s meeting of the general committee of the 'A, and P.

Association tho following new members were elected on the motion of Mr. J. Stewart: Messrs. R, M. Cathie, G- Petherbridge, E. Wisnewski and R- Huckstep. Mr J. C. Robins said Mr. Stewart should he congraulated on getting new memhei’g so early in the season.

Messrs Newton King have on view at their main office some Sutton’s Prize Winner Mangolds from Mr J. R. Hine’s champion crop at Toko. The yield was estimated at 122 tons per acre. Thirty-three feet of one row contained 63 roots, which weighed 8721h5. Seed and manure were purchased from Newton King Ltd, Stratford. Sutton’s mangolds (and carrots have apparently again shown great results throughout Taranaki, and appear eminently suitable for the district.

Early yesterday morning a jewel robbery was committed in Devon St. New Plymouth, when a plate glass window was smashed and pearls, opera glasses and binoculars to the value of £sl 13s were stolen. The police were informed, and Detective Meiklejohri arrested a man named Martiner, believed to be an Argentinian who was charged with the matter. The goods were recovered.

Suppression of the name of a young man convicted of I'ieft was ordered by Mr H. P. Lawvy, S.M., in'the Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday (say s the Christchurch Sun), A Christchurch morning paper published the name, and drew a strong protest in court from Mr W. H. Darby, the probation officer.: Mi- Lawryi was on the Bench. “It is really a matter for the police to take action,” observed the magistrate.

Advocates for the protection of c,ur native bird life will be interested td learn of a novel reason advanced a» to when one is entitled to shoot h pigeon (says the Grcy River Argus). A resident of GreymOuth went ta procure a license for shooting duck. While in the office ho remarked to another man standing by him that it wa s rumoured that -an open season for pigeons was going to he declared this year. In all perfect gravity came ‘the reply, “Oh, nod” There will he no open season. The only time you can shoot a pigeon is i n self-defence. If a pigeon attacks you, then it is quite < justifiable to. shoot it-”

Friday is to be children’s day at the Stratford Winter Show. The Sh6w committee are circularising school committees, drawing attention to the fact that school children in parties of not less than twenty in charge of a teacher are carried on tlie railways at school excursion rates. An endeavour, is to be made to'have the train from Tahora arrive at H a-m., instead of 1 p.m. as suggested, in order to give Eastern children every opportunity to see the Show, which will he at its best on Friday, with all the poultry and other exhibits in position. It is proposed to admit free on the X‘ riday children up to ten years of age accompanied by teachers ot parents, np to 4 p.m.

Reporting to Saturday’s meeting of the general committee of the A. and P. Association the secretary (Mr. A. J. Barr) said the Stratford A. and P. Association had passed a resolution protesting against any Association offering prizes which were really in the province of the Royal Show- This was in consequence of the Auckland Association offering North Island championships in addition to those of fered by the breed societies At the conference of A. and P- Associations at Palmerston delegates w r ero very emphatic in condemnation of the practice. An Auckland delegate said his Association would 'not take a direction from the conference, and, of course, the conference had no power to do anything beyond making recommendations. The Auckland Association, he said, w r ais a big one and would offer North Island championships if it so wished. It appeared to ho the intention of the Auckland Association to offer big prizes, so as to secure cattle from all over the * country. The chairman (Mr J. W. Boon); I. don’t think it will nffvke much difference. We offered bag money for one of our jumps ono| year and did not get a single extra entry. Mr S. Gadisby: It is different with cattle.

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Tho Kahui Road dairy' factory between New Plymouth and Opunako wgs destroyed by lire on Saturday evening. The building was totally destroyed and the origin of the fire is a mystery. u

f ‘Credit is tho basis of all trade,” remarked the official assignee, Mr J. H. Robertson, at a meeting of creuitors at Hamilton, without it business would soon come to a standstill.” Mi’ F. A. Snell said there was something wrong with the law or commercial practice when a “man of straw” could obtain credit when insolvent. The official assignee admitted that too much credit was sometimes given in New Zealand.

A ten-guinea challenge cup is open for competition in the district court exhibit at the Stratford Winter Show. Each court is to represent the produce of a school district under tho Taranaki Education Board, but the roots exhibited need not have been grown by school children. The competition offers a splendid opportunity to .school children to comb over their districts and secure outstanding speciraens, and the matter

is one in which members of the Roy's’ and Girls’ Agricultural Cffiiha might interest themselves.