TOWN and COUNTRY

Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 38, 24 January 1936, Page 4

TOWN and COUNTRY

i Stratford Court Postponed. I Owing to the death of the King, the Stratford Court sitting set down for Wednesday was not held. The first sitting of the new year will be held on January 31. Avon Bowlers. Avon howlers to play Waitara, at Avon to-morrow, are; Anderson, Skoglnnd, Ansley, North, Short, Pennington, Adams, Bowie, Kerswill, Clemow, Archer, Betts, Young, Jenkins McLean, Hardy-Jones. i Cricket Match Postponed. The cricket match between Stratford and Manaia B teams, fixed [or tomorrow, has been postponed. Manaia defaulted. Stratford Cricketers. The Stratford Cricket Club “A” team to play Manaia, at Manaia. (Cars leave Post Office at 1 p.m.): Gatton, Beere, Barlow, Walker, Young, Young, Adlam, Richardson, McGregor, Collins, Ross. Stratford Fire Brigade. A team of six Stratford firemen wTI compete in the llawera Fire Br;hade demonstrations on February 19, Pi notices are being held practica'ly (■very evening. Stratford is entering for six of eight events —The two-man coupling, the five* man reel and ladder, (lie four-man motor and the four-man motor with ladder. The other two are both dressing events. The whole programme will this year he dry. Every brigade in Taranaki will bo represented. | Memorial Services, I Special services in memory of His I late Majesty King George V will he j held in Holy Trinity Church on Bun- | day nexit. The day will begin with i a celebration of Holy Communion at 8 a.m. and at 11 a.m. the vicar will conduct a special memorial service, to which the Mayor and Comicil’ors have been invited. The preacher at I the evening service will he Canon I McFarland, of Auckland. Memorial

services will also be held in the Methodist Church.

Gymnaclum Burnt Down. One of the finest school gymnasiums in New Zealand was totally destroyed early yesterday morning when lire razed to the ground a new building at the New Plymouth Coys’ High School. Of ji largo, solid si mature, which cost £2OOO to erect, little was left at daybreak nut a litter 'if blackened beams, a twisted mass ot corrugated iron and i few concealed lumps of melted glass. Shower rooms adjoin'ng the mala building are sii 1 standing, but (he only upright remnant of the gymnasium itself, is a slender charred polo which was once a heavy support. Big Slag Shipments. The first shipments of orders for basic slag conservatively estimated at 20,000 tons will reach the post of New Plymouth next month. The February imports for the farmers of Taranaki will, however, he small in comparison with those for the throe succeeding - months, when the 20,000-ton aggregate will have trebled last year’s slag total. A substantial reduction in the prices of slag, coupled with the fact that there is every reason to believe that prices for primary produce will he above those of last year, are responsible factors in the remarkable swing

Stratford Bowling Activities. The Stratford Bowling Club is pvcparing for a one-day rink tournament to bo held on February 15. Club competitions have not been advanced very fur. because of the weather, excepting the scaled handicap pairs competition, which is now creating much interest. There were no mid-week prunes in the central division shield bowling competition this week because of the tournament at New Plymouth. Avon members are now engaged in (in!) competition matches. During the week the following matches were played in the Rogers Cup: Ruscoe beat Kidd, Kidd heat Anderson, Kidd beat Dwyer jnnr. hi tho B singles Archer beat Ruscoe,