LOCAL AND GENERAL

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 85, 5 July 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Every e'veniug nowadays there is a busy working bee at the Winter Show buildings, getting the decorations ready for next week’s Show.

Some new members were enrolled at a successful practice held by the Combined Choirs on Friday even-

. ? Notice is given in an adu-mse-ment by the Borough Council that all dogs in the Borough which are not registered by July 20th. will be dealt with according to law.

The Stratford Chamber of Commerce last night decided to support a move by the Wanganui Chamber of Commerce to have the stamp duty on cheques and receipts reduced from 2d to Id.

His Worship the Mayor has receved advice that the Prime Minister, Hon. J. G. Coates finds it impossible to visit Stratford for the purpose of opening the Show on. July HThe ceremony will he( performed by Hon. O. I, Hawken, Minister of Agriculture. ... , 'i-v

• A t yesterday’s annual meeting of the Taranaki brahch of the Friesian Breeders’ Association, Mr Morris (Oakura) referred to the fact that at New Plymouth there was not a Friesian breeder doing the' judging in the Friesian grade division, and the Boys and Girls’ Club section. On his motion it was agreed to aski the New Plymouth Society to bring the matter under the notice of the Boys ’and Girls’ Clubs’ committee.

“How long will y°ur case take? is a question frequently put by Magistrates to counsel on busy Court days when the schedule of cases is being arranged. Counsel base their answers on the points involved, the number of witnesses, and the likelihood of trouble in cross-examina-tion and estimate the time accordingly. In very few instances, however, do they manage to get through in the time stated, and the cases next in order suffer as a result. From long experience, the Magistrates have learnt that counsels’ estimates are invariably wide of the mark and ample time is usually allowed for each case. Something of the kind was probably in the mind of Mr J- H. Salmon, S.M., in Wellington when he asked counsel in a maintenance matter how. long his case, would take. “Five minutes was counsel’s prompt reply. “I will rel v on the usual assumption, then, and double it.” said Mr Salmon, amid laughter.

Most people want a- lot of tilings they can’t have, often fastening their desires on some expensive article of Clothing, etc., eulogised in a Jug expensive advertisement, that is par-v tiallv 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. ■\Ye know most of these people, wo often see them on “Our Premises” getting what they want. Our low profit and quick turnover method explained iu familiar language, is just merely “More Things Per £.” That is the secret, and anyone is welcome to share it with people who get what they mint. —The Auckland Warehouse Drapery and Clothing Store, near Post Office, who brought prices dorr*