TOWN and COUNTRY

Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 209, 23 November 1934, Page 4

TOWN and COUNTRY

Miclhirj-f Tennis Courts The excavating for "the Midhirst Tenuis Club's new courts is complil rd and tiny arc now ready for as phalting. It is hoped thai they will bo ready for use very soon.

Appointment of Nurse Nurse L. D. Manners' asked to be relieved of her duties as staff nurse at the maternity hospital from Novem ber 30 at today's meeting of the Strat ford Hospital Board. She had accept ed an emergency vacancy for mid wifery training at St. Helen's Hospi tal, Auckland. Her resignation was accepted by the board with regret.

One Day Tournament No 'competition bowli/;ig matches were played in Stratford yesterday, all banner games having been post poned on account of the Silver Jubi lee Show. Considerable play was had on the greens, however, and several Stratford and Avon rinks took part in a one day tournament arranged by the huvicwood Bowling Club. Douglas' rink (Inglewpod) emerged (he winner with an undefeated series of games.

In the Interests of Safety lip to date about 1000 bicycle mud guards have been painted white free of cost to the owners by two Blenheim firms, which were appointed by the Marlborough Automobile Association and are to be reimbursed to the extent of threepence apiece by that body, stales the Marlborough Express. A new bylaw in Blenheim requires cyclists to have the rear guards or rear forks of their machines painted white, and the association is assist. ing cyclists to observe it in the in terest'.- of motorists as well as them selves.

i "Wonderful Stock Country" j "Your iamb raising coUiilry : s in I mavv< lions condition, and it's wonder I t'nl what your country i s able to pro ! duce." stated Mr A. S. Kidman, a | nephew of the "cattle king of Austra ! ]ia," in an interview before he left I for Australia after a. trip through {the Dominion. "The number of ewes ! and lambs carried per acre in many | districts is really remarkable, and only the exceptionally good- Austral ! ian districts can in any way compare j with it. The North Island seems to j have the best, pastures; of course, i the South Island lambs are not as • far advanced. It is really a very won ! ilerful stock country."

Rictid Prohibition ; : : : ; ':'.'<•''■ ?V."'- r V The Agricultural Department, is tatt ing no irisk of..the introduction-into New Zealand of tlie dreaded/discasfe of swine fever, and a rather extra ordinary instance of the effect, of the prohibitory law came under cbrisid eration refcently. A; New Zealand JaX ni'Cr sent a carcase of lamb to.'a friend in San Francisco, and as a gesture' of appreciation of the gift the American forwarded to his friend in the Dominion a cooked ham. Tp tlie surprise of the intended recipient however, the gift was refused admit tance to the Dominion on the ground of tlie possible (lunger of the intro Auction' of swine fever. Nptwithstand ing urgent, representations,, tlie De parfment was adamant., as if, was held that even the cooking of the joint did not eliminate th o danger, and the ham will no, grace the Christ mas dinner table of the New Zealander.