LOCAL AND GENERAL

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 80, 30 June 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

In a girls’ hockey match on Thurs-1 day S.T.O.G. beat School C. by tw.o goals to one. ho

Broken insulators accounted for the electric power being off in some sections of the town this morning.

Ten of the sixty members of ‘the Stratford Bowling Club have subscribed a shilling each towards the, proposed tribute to Mr. T. K. Sidey,j M.P., the father of Summer Time. !

The Dewar Shield, won by the Stratford seniors, and the Mokoia seVen-a-side shield, won by the Stratford juniors, have come to hand and have been placed in the case in the corridor of the Municipal Buildings;-

Members of the Stratford Reform League met last night. Mr D. Hebenton, Dominion organiser,, was present, and matters of organisation were discussed. It was mentioned that Mr J. B. Hine’s name would com e before .the delegate conference of the League in due course.

“Aren’t you a relation by marrige of the witness Mason?” asked Mr. Coleman of plaintiff Busby Ut the Stratford Court yesterday, , Busby replied l that tliit was not a fact, but counsel was not satisfied, and asked the. question again. Bushy,- after some thought, said that it was true that his wife’s brother had married Mason’s daughter hut, he asked, what sorb of >a relationship was that? Nobody enlightened him.

The committee of the Stratford,! Tug-of-War and Amusements Club; met, last night, when accounts were passed for payment. • ■ -tt was de- '■ cided to postpone the Taranaki championship until the beginning o£ next year. Application is being made for a space at the Stratford - Winter Show for the purpose of run-| ning a roll-down for the benefit of tne Mountain Committee. i

The annual meeting of the Avon I Bowling Club which was held: last night was very successful. The at-; tendance was large, infact it was the b eßt attended annual meeting held so far, while the Aiscsusiou showed that everyone took a keen interest in the affairs of the Club. Several new members have been elected, and it is generally regarded, that the prospects for the coming season are very bright.

Reference was made at last night’s meeting of the Stratford Bowling Glub to the fact tliUt Mr. B. Leach hhd; made an unusual endeavour to go., with the New Zealand bowling' team, which was now touring England. .In the course of a few remarks Mr- Leach said’ the New Zealanders seemed up aejiinst it at Home. This., no doubt, wa s due to the fact that,the greens at, Home wore always very heavy. When be was at Horae the game had not been brought to the pitch it )md in New Zealand, and the greens did not receive anything like the attention they did in New Zealand.

Mr. H. C. Taylor, chairman of the Ngaere Dairy Co., presided at h meeting of farmers held yesterday afternoon, at which addresses on the matter of the disposal of hobby calves were given by Messrs. C. JHawken and Williams, manager of the Patea, works. The following resolution was passed; “That farmers of the Ngaere district be recommended to form a pool for the disposal of their bobby calves, and that all farmers be urged to dispose op their calves through th e pool so as to obtain the benefit of the co, operative system of marketing instituted by the Patea Freezing Company.

Most people want a lot of things they can’t have, often fastening their desireg on some expensive article ot Clothing, etc., eulogised in a hig expensive advertisement, that is partially paid for by the desired article. The people you envy, most are the people who get everything they want out of a lower income than yours. We know most of these people, we often see them on “Our Premises’; getting what they want- Our low profit and quick turnover method _explained in familiar language, is just merely “More Things) 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; 1 prices (lo\C ;

"The attention of farpiers‘is drawn to the sale on account of Messfs Brown Biros., jbeing conducted on Friday next by the Farmers’ Co-op. The firm can thoroughly recommend the cows being offered, and a good lot of horses will be submitted.

Applications for space ‘at the Stratford Winter Show 1 are coming in quite satisfactorily,'! and. there- is every indication that Abe show Lwill be a record one in every way. The motto of the Club is to' make the Show 1 bigger, brighter -and/ better each year, and they should full£ succeed in this for the present Show."

The Winter Show. Committee is endeavouring to get the Railway' Department to bring to the Stratford Winter Show their exhibit measuring 32ft by 13ft, which'was on view at the Hawera Winter Show. Advice has been received that the, Forestry Department will have an exhibit apd it is hoped that other department* will do so also. >