TOWN and COUNTRY

Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 198, 10 November 1934, Page 4

TOWN and COUNTRY

j Orange Boycott I At a special meeting yesterday of | Wellington reta.il fruiterers, which \ was attended by over '6OO, the fuliowi ing motion was passed: "That ,lle j prices asked for the present class of i oranges is excessive and u.ftjU the ! retail fruiterers refuse to purchase ' any further oranges until the pric« ! is reduced." Taranaik fruiterer;: have ! come to a similar decision. , • ' ' Week-end Cricket The Wanderers' Cricket team to take part in a match at the weekend is as follows: Brown, Faulkner, McCready, Barlow, Hill, Kivell, Graham, Lamplough, Latham, P. Collins,' Neill. i Dairy Produce j The New Zealand Loan and Mer- I eantilo Agency Company Limited, i Stratford, have received the follow j ing cabled advice from .'their Head Office, London, as under: Butter, 76/ I to 77/; market steady. Cheese, white I 54/ to 55/; coloured 54/; market j quiet. , j

Blackbirds' Useful Role The old proverb that nothing is as black as it is painted applies wiih peculiar aptness to the discovery made by a New Plymouth resident recently. She slates that blackbirds are killers of the white butterfly and •that as such they are compensating for their depredations in other directions. It is stated that the birds pur sue, catch, and eat the butterfly.

j Apparent Incendiarism ; " I The kerosene-soaked floor and con- <- j tents of a wood shed which was found -] j afire at lnglewood last night suggest--0 { ed that incendiarism had been com--3 i niitted. Two mysterious fires occurs j red in the borough within half an y j hour, but it is not known whether i there was any connection between j the two. The first was in a cowshed t! on Dr. McAllum's property. When i I the brigade arrived the structure col--1 I lapsed. No authorised person had * I been in the shed for several days. r : Entries Flowing In c j The office of the Stratford Agricul- : ; tural and Pastoral Association pre- - •' seated an extremely busy appearance j today. The secretary (Mr. W. F. 1 j Ross) was busily engaged receiving l 1 | entries, which close tonight at nun- ) | o'clock, and the indications are that * | in many classes previous records will ' ! be eclipsed at the. Silver Jubilee Show " ! to be held on Wednesday and Thurs- > | day, November 21 and 22. This af- : ! ternoon, particularly, large entries l : simply flowed in, and it is expected | that up till the closing hour tonight - j (he last minute rush will continue, i I Additional prize money has been of- ; | fered and this no doubt has assisted j to draw many more entries. i - i I Worries of Motorists ] j Ask any motorist if (here is any- j : | thing more provoking than a shunti i ing train on a crossing when he is | in a hurry and ho will invariably j I answir'in the negative,-. The. question j if put to a Stratford Kiotorist the i other day would have drawn more | than a mere negative reply. He drove j up Fen ton St. at the maximum speed, i i already late for an appointment, bat ! w:\s held up at the crossing by a | shunting train. He waited a couple i of minutes, decided that ho would i make more progress via Regan St. land dove down Juliet St. in that j direction. Swinging round the corner j he was confronted with a wig-wag- | ging wigwag and the warning bell. j He waited for a train to cross but it failed to materialise and he de- ' tided, to risk the crossing when a I rake of trucks appeared, thus forcing i him to remain stationary. By this I time, he thought, with growing uneasiness at his lateness, the Ponton J St. crossing would be clear and ho ! returned with all haste, confident of ! a clear run. Imagine his feelingj when he found the line still blocked j and about 10 cars waiting on each I side !of the crossing! It was not I lons'- "however, before the shunting j was completed and the harassed moi torist's impatience found vent in a j full throttled roar of the exhaust as j l the car was driven across the line. j !