LOCAL AND GENERAL

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 79, 29 June 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

“I have never seen another like it. It must have been nVide ip the eqrly days.” In these words a witness at the Stratford Court this inonuntr endeavoured to describe the decrepitude of a waggon he saw or. a' 'Farm.

Some time ou "Wednesday night, premises at the rear of Mr I). Sijs* arich’s restaurant were entered and a iiam valued at £2 10s was removed from the safe. The long-drawn-out case of Busby v. Barlow was continued at the Stratford Court this morning, a period of twenty-seven days having elapsed since the case was previously before the Court. However, a magnificent specimen of ragwort gigantious, produced in evidence at some sitting away back in May, was still found gracefully reclining in the jury box. Great interest is being taken in the tug-of-war competition to be held at the King’s Theatre on Friday, July 6 to raise fund s for the Strain ford Mountain House and the BandThe tournament is being arranged by Mr L. B. Wilson, manUger of the Theatre, and will be run under the N.Z.A.O. Union rules. Nominations close on Wednesday, July 4, and no entrance fee is being charged. The final will take place on Monday, July 9.

. While bathing some months ago at Opotiki a Tauranga boy found a green glass globe similar to a globe reported to be found on a beach, Stewart Island. The globe has a circumference of 17| inches and is held in a well-preserved net of thick twine. <, It has a shamrock blown on the surface. Although the globe has been, inspected by a number of people they are unable to state its use. In the House of Representatives yesterday, Mr J. A. Lee, M.P., for Auckland East, made reference to the activities of the P.P.A. “I wUnt to ask the Prime Minister,” said Mr Lee, "whether he was personally the recipient of a letter of remonstrance addressed to members of the Reform Party by the P.P.A,, and whether the letter will be dealt with by the Reform caucus, or by private members. I also want t 0 ask whether w© oait Assume, in the absence of a public statement, that the Reform Party has made it s peace with the P.P.A. "I suppose,” said Mr Garcia"~afc yesterday’s school committee conference, "the Syllabus Committee did not take steps to eliminate our old friend th,e vulgar fraction-” "They have run it to death,” replied Senior Inspector McKenzie. "They have brought it in in Standard. IThat has not the approval qf (any Inspector I know*.” "They are all little vulgar fractions in Standard I,” jocularly commented the Rev. Canon Ka.yll. i; '

Reference was made at yesterday’s School Committees conference to the fact that Mr. H. Dempsey was present Sand! that there were four persons present holding important positions whom he had taught when he was in charge of! a school in Ne\d Plymouth— Mr. S. <t. Smith, chairman of the Education Board, Mr. W. Hoskin, chairman of the Stratford School Committee, Mr. F. A. Coleman, the newly elected president of the School Committees, and Mr. T. Avery, the secretary of that bodyMr. Dempsey said it made him feel proud to bo present thjvt day.

Dn Wednesday June 27, a Young Peoples’ social was held in the odist Hall to welcome Miss McCdvkindale, Education Director Tor Australia for the W.C.T.U., and Mr. Purton, Dominion Organiser of the Youth Movement 'against alcohol. During the evening Miss MeOorkindale described the work done by youths in other countries, and Mr. Burton e.v plained the origin and organisation of the movement in New Zealand. It was decided to form a branch m Stratford and a provisional commit tee was set up, members being Miss Lnjwn, Miss ,G. Keiglitly, Miss C. Huston, Mr. W. Moore and Mr. W Pettigrew.

“I would like to compliment the School Committees of this province ou their efforts during the past year in the way of improvements to school property,” said Mr. N. R. McKenzie, senior inspector of schools, at yesterday’s conference of the School Committees Association, Something like £3OOO had been spent on improvements to grounds and equip-* ment. They deserved praise for what represented a very considerable sacrifice on the part of some pprents. As be went about, also, be saw a lot of work being done which was not represented in the committees’ bal-ance-sheets. He desired that committea should know that their efforts were noticed and recognisted. Inspectors were not supposed to report on committees but from time to t™ e lie put in a remark about what was done by the committees.

Most people want a lot of things they can’t have, often fastening their desires on some expensive article o Clothing, etc., eulogised in a hig expensive advertisement, that is partially paid for by the desired article. The people you envy most are tiro people who get everything they want out of a lower income than yours. Wo know most of these people, we> often see them on “Our Premises getting what they want. Our low profit and quick turnover method exnlained in familiar language, is just, merely “More Thing. Per £.’’ That is the secret, and anyone i s welcome to share it with people who get what they mint.—The Auckland Warehouse Drapery and Clothing Store, near Post Office, who brought prices down..

i Stratford was isolated as far as telegraph communication was concerned for a fairly long period lodgy. A big break in . the lines occurred south of Waverley and another north of New Plymouth, w At New Plymouth yesterday an. inquest was opened into the death of John Lord, a commercial traveller, o£ Christchurch, which occurred' iii the New Plymouth hospital, on Wednesohy niglit. Lord was severely injured y in a motor accident on June 20,. when ■ a closed, service car driven by J. Fowler plunged over a bank near the Mangorei dairy factory. The inquest was adjourned sine die after evidence of identification had been given. ■ -w • ■ * ' 1 Yesterday Messrs S. G. Smith, chairman of the Education Board, H- Dempsey, member, H. W. Insull, secretary, and L. H. Moore, • architect, visited Te Popo, where they met Messrs Knox (chairman),' Aldridge and Gibbs, members of the committee, in connection with a request lor the erection of -a teachers’ residences. The members were sympathetic in both cases. Eto route to Te. Popo_lal visit was paid to the Stanley School, which was the first of the ;openj > apl , type of school to be erected in Taranaki. Judging by the appearance of the, children, the school has given satisfactory results. At the Stratford Court this morning Mr Coleman made a' strenuous endeavour to bring into question the reliability of a person who vtlis giving, evidence as an expert. The witness would not say that he wa s a geologist, but lie claimed to have enough knowledge to be able to say that, it* was impossible for springs to occur on certain land. Witness, however, claimed to have taken a course in veterinary science, and "was positive in his statement, contrary to the, opinion of the chief veterinarian at the Wallaceville Laboratory, that cleaning out was of no value as a) measure of ensuring cows getting ip calf. Mr Coleman got from Witness that he could not be described as an astronomer, but was an astronomical student, counsel’s suggestion, ap- • patently, being that witness spent. time on studying the stars ■which fy© should spend on his fUrm. Mr Tate, S.M., did not permit the cross-exam-ination on these lines to be continued, remarking that already /m the case (Busby v. Barlow) there had been too much irrelavent > evidence fgiven.