TOWN and COUNTRY

Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 348, 1 May 1935, Page 4

TOWN and COUNTRY

Public Meeting Tonight A public meeting will be held in the Borough Chambers this evening at eight o’clock to discuss ways and means of providing building accommodation for the Stratford Winter Show. The Mayor (Mr. J. W. McMillan) will preside and all citizens are invited to attend.

No Quorum

The fact that it dashed with several other meetings in Stratford last night so affected the attendance at the meeting of the East comiuitee of the Egmont National Park Board that there were insufficient members

present to form a quorum and the meeting had to I>e abandoned. A fur-

ther meeting of the Board will be called in the near future.

Change-over at Factories. The Stratford, Toko, Huinga, and Douglas factories of the Stratford Dairy company to-day changed over from cheese-making to butter-mak-

ing, the supply having now dropped to (he usual winter level. Butter-

making will continue until the spring. The Skinner Road branch will not be affected, as it makes only butter and casein ordinarily.

-o'* vt.'vvw vmvH<»vHvmvwi Tournament Hockey Permission to send a junior team to compete in a seven-a-side tournament at Kohuratahi on May 6 was granted the Stratford men’s Hockey Club by the management committee of the Taranaki Hockey Association last night. The tournament is being held as the official opening of the Kohuratahi clubs.

Births and Marriages Decrease A decrease in births and marriages ami an increase in deaths is reveal ed. in the Stratford vital statistics for April as compared with the same month last year. The figures for the month supplied by the Registrar, Mr J. W. Pooley, with figures for the corresponding month last year in parentheses are:—Births 17 (23); deaths 8 (3); manages 8 (10).

Shooting Season Open

The shooting season for the Strat-1 ford Acclimatisation District opened i

this morning under conditions that

were far from ideal. A number of local enthusiasts were out with their guns, but in view of the boisterous wind and rain it was not anticipated that their bags would ho large. As

far as most sportsmen are concerned the coming week-end will be the real commencement of the season, and provided reasonably good weather con ditions prevail the sound of guns and the beating of wings should be heard in all districts where game is plentiful.