GENERAL NEWS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 30, 6 February 1929, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS

Motorists’ Picnic. Preparations are well, forward for the annual picnic of the South- 'la.' raimki Automobile Association, which is being heal at an early date at tho FJverelt Reserve. Drainage Extensions. The work of drainage extension (in Pag© Street and Hamlet streets is going forward well, and tho pipes are on the ground for the extension in Kogan Street west.

Licensing Committee Election. If necessary, the triennial election of members of the Stratford Licensing Committee will he held on March 12th. Tho supplementary roll for tho proposes of this election will close on February 18th.

indicating Main Roads. A motorist makes the suggestion that in order to indicate the main roadsj a, haful. of ai certain colour should he painted on all telegraph posts on main roads, or that just before and after passing side roads this indication should ho made. Street Repairs. The Borough Council staff is at present engaged on repairing the edges of the tar-sealing on Began street east, making the width of the tar twenty feet. .Recently the. edges on Opunake Road have been repaired. Ran into Signal. While cycling home to lunch today, Leo Ford ran into the wig-wag signal at the Regan Street crosslog. He received a few cuts aside the face, but was otherwise unhurt., The bicycle was badly damaged.

Downright Laziness. Tw)0) postmen, hi Ohriste|iiu.rch, Isaac Cecil Ward (30) and William Charles Rattray (28), were fined £3 each for delaying postal packets. Mail matter was found in their bags which should have been delivered weeks earlier, the police statjed. Dishonesty was not suggested, but downright laziness, inaccurate. As a result, of an inaccurate direction in a standard road guide for motorists a traveller recently found himself at Lowgarth instead of at Stratford, as he intended. The guide in question says that the road to Stratford crosses the railway line just after passing the Ng'aerd railway station, (wherqasi actually the first crossing is to Lowgarth, the main road crossing being a considerable distance further' 1 along. To obviate any mistake m future the Automobile Association erecting signs at Ngaere to show which is the main road.

I)irccltory Advertisin g. The method of using the telephone directory as an advertising medium was severely criticised by a leading business man to a Southland News representative to-day. “It is ridiculous,” he said, “the way each page is disfigured with unsightly printing along each side of numbers making it extremely difficult to see the name and number one is desirous of finding. To my mind the directory is for’ the use of telephone subscribers in finding numbers they require and probably every business man in Invercargill will agree with me, not a suitable place for any shopkeeper to advertise his wares. There are the newspapers and several othen means of advertising and it is my intention to keep my custom away from the man who indulges in telephone directory advertising.”