GENERAL NEWS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 41, 26 September 1928, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS

RADIO’ NOTES. “Tiie Radio notes by “Grid! Leak” usually published on Wednesday nill bo inserted to-morrow. EDUCATION. A special meeting of the Taranaki Education Board is being held on Monday next to consider important business held! over from the last ordinary meeting. A STRIKING INCREASE. For the month ending yesterday 6573 dozen eggs' were received by the Stratford Egg Circle, o« compared with 4837 dozen in the previous .month and 4239 dozen in the corresponding month last year. Yesterday 120O~uozen were shipped 1° Wellington, "milking 51 crates despatched this week.

MOUNTAIN CAMPING SITE. “We sjhoulcl advertise the fact,” | said Mr. J. O. Robins at last night's meeting of the East Committee of the Park Board, “that ive had the first camp site for motorists in Taranaki at the Stratford Mountain House. There is a large area available for camping, and there can hardly be at any other camping site in New Zealand better facilities than wo provide.” MANGANUI GORGE TRACK. Some time ago it was complained that the track leading across the Manganui Gorge on Mt. Egmont was not in good order. At last night’s meeting of the East Committee of the Park Board the chairman (Mr. J. 0. Robins) said that the Stratford House caretaker (Mr. Haldane) kept his eye on the track at the point mentioned! and kept it in order. The track runs over moving gravel, and it is (necessary to out it anew at intervals, A very large expenditure would be required to make a permanent track. WELCOME "DONATIONS. ’Hie East Committee of the Park Board decided at its meeting last night to send letters of appreciation for donations to Mr. J. C. Burrell and the Stratford Borough and County Councils). The chairman (Mr. J. C. Robins) said it was pleasing that Mr. Burrell should make a donation after having made so many donations previously, and it was particularly pleasing to receive the donation now that it would ho subsidised. The donations front the local bodies were also very welcome. FREE TUBE. Perched! precariously on the back mudguard! of a push bicycle, and looking a picture of misery and nervousness, a large setter dog was seen having a. free ride along a New Plymouth street on Satin-day morning, says the “Herald.” His owner was steering with one hand and had a firm hold of his doggy friend by the scuff of the neck with the other hand, but the result would no doubt have been painful to, both 1 had) the passenger been so careless as to allow his tail to stray between the spokes of the back wheel when the cycle was travelling at a fair pace. THE NATIONAL PARK. At the Inglewood Court yesterday Henry Mullov and Archibald E. Ferguson, farmers, of Kaimiro, pleaded guilty to charges of wilfully cutting and injuring treas and shrubs in the Egmont National Park to the value of £ll IQs—a rimu valued at £7 and three small trees valued at £1 10s each. Defendants have a license from the Park Board to trap opossums over a certain area. A provision of the license is that thjo traps be visited once each day, and the tree? vere cut down to provide crossings over streams to enable) this to be done. The magistrate said the trees in the Park must he protected, hut he saw difficulties in the present case and would reserve his decision. INFANT SCHOOL. The agitation to have the infant school altered so as to admit direct sunlight into the class-rooms, says the Stratford correspondent of the “Taranaki Herald,”- is significant oi the great change that has taken place in the public’s estimation of the value of the sun’s rays in relation to the health of the human animal, especially the youth j pi the ispecies. it is not so' very many years ago since the school was .built, yet at that time although ft was obvious that the suin would not shine upon the scholars aft their work, no one appears to nave seen any fault in the lay-out. At any rate, as well as I can remember, no one voiced an objection. At that time, too- and even more recently it was quite common for settlors to deliberately plant trees around their homesteads in such, positions us would ensure the exclusion of the life-giving rays from .the windows. It is in such matters, more than in the more sensational application ot modern knowledge of natural forces, that civilisation is advancing.