GENERAL NEWS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 36, 14 February 1929, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS

A Crowded! ,Train. The special race train for Wanganui (his morning took ninety passengers from Stratford, being crowded as it pulled out. Egwont Club Snooker. Last night’s snooker t'ourney at the Bgmjout Club was won by Mr W. Liddell, Mr T. Sullivan being runnelr-up. IJhie Ngaere School. Timber has been unloaded on the site of the old, Ngaere school, and it is understood that the building of the new school will be commenced almost immediately. Borough Tar-sealing. The Borough staff has completed the tarring of Page Street. from Miranda Street to the camp site entrance. The next tarring work to bo undertaken is the central portion of Began Street West, and when this is done the street will he tarred from Broadway to Brecon Hoad. A Remarkable Escape. The boy Massey, son of Mr 0. Massey, who was knocked down by a motor car on Tuesday evening is reported to bo doing well, and showing no signs of internal injury. Considering the nature of the accident his escape from, serious injury must bo regarded as remarkable. 8

All sit OpunakU • * Stratford; p)rbsente!l* a deserted appearance to-day. All sWops were closed and very few people were to | )e seen on the streets. There was splendid weather for the school excursion to Opunake. About (500 passengers were aboard the first excursion itjraip. and 300 on the sec'ond.

These Americans. Stratford appears to a narrow escape from a visit from a number of the party of American tourists who visited Taranaki under the auspices of Pacific Tours Ltd. At first it was thought they would visit tho Mountain from Stratford, and then that t}my would spend last night in Stratford, but actually they did not set foot in the town.

Valueless Cheques. Charges of issuing valueless cheques t!o various Anns, totalling £497, where preferred against James Ena Spiers and Henry Harley McNatty before J’s.P. at Invercargill. They obtained goods valued at £BS from Thomson and Beattie, drapers, goods valued at £lB2 from the Bristol Piano Company, and goods valued at £230 fr'om W. Strang and Company, furniture dealers. They pleaded guilty and were committed to tho Supreme Court' for sentence.

Penguin as House Pet. The Hawera Star states; “One has heard of all kinds of household pots, almost every kind of animal, bird etc., but the latest one, whic i is in the possession of a well-known Hawera resident, is something of a novelty. This unique pet is a small penguin, and although only captured last Saturday at the Ohawo beach, it is quite tamo and easily handled, anil already snows a peuenaut. tor being indoors, Tim Dim is a young one, pug is tolly groan, and Ucioiigs

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ougu pounds, mow tlie penguin came asiiore is a mystery, as the species are rarely seen alone, and generally travel m Hocks of a or more, 'ike plumage of tins particular penguin is a pretty slate gtey ou Die back and pure white on the breast, the combined effect when m the sunlight rellectiiw >n;ow beautiful hues.

Eel Menace to Trout. The matter of the menace to trout caused by the eels in the district stream has .been discussed to some extent locally as the outcome of the proposed petition of the, Maoris to Parliament (states the Hawera Star). The president of the Hawera Acclimatisation Society (Mr B. O. Bennett), interviewed, said that there was no doubt eels were destructive and a menace to trout. He added that they appeared—and this was the; experience of anglers of long cxperience—to ho able to mesmerise trout. Anglers, while fishing, had repeatedly seen an eel come up stream to whore he was casting for trout, ami the latter appeared unable to get away ami to fall an easy prey. Oases had, been noted also where the eel followed, up the female trout daring spawning time, and secured (lie eggs just after they had been laid and covered in the soft mud or the sand.