STRATFORD DAY BY DAY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 222, 31 December 1910, Page 5

STRATFORD DAY BY DAY

(From Our Own Correspondents.}.--\, > Stratford, Last Night.- f" * ; The much debated question of whe'- .;' ther the half-holiday should be on the. '•-' Saturday or the Thursday is the subject '*', of a good deal, of discussion*here at.pVe- '; sent. A letter from the I : New.'Plymbnth Chamber of Commerce t6 the. Borough Council suggesting that ira ■•j.tt.empt jie "', made to secure a of the Saturday half itiMigM out Taranaki is the cause of the mwtter' ? coming before the public. Saturday is the busy day for the tradespeople hete, . '' '< but a large number oi them, whether, a majority or not is difficult to say, favor . i the Sat%rday half-holiday, provided it is universal throughout Taranaki. There % is no reason why Friday should not be made the market day, and as much. *"-r business be done on that day as is car- • .» ried on during the Saturdays under the * existing system. " , * The wrestling match between Robert- * scon and Balloch last night was short' ' * and sweet. The first bout lasted. s ou * . '}. four minutes, when the visitor fell a "&A victim to the "scissors" hold. The seba'jgjlt ond Dout lasted a little longer, buf.,w*' ; there was never any doubt as to who. would win. ■;.,■-

The parishioners of Holy Trinity ', Church, in commemoration of the visit

of the Anglican Mission, are presenting ft. y >' shield to St. John's Church, Newcastle, the vicar of which Wa o,ne of the mis- ).- sioners. -.».'"■ Mr. and Mrs. P. Thomson, of"lnvar-'! * « cargill, are on a visit to Stratford. s , q Periodically every community receives* \ a number of chain-prayer letters. Who.,*., sends them usually remams a which is doubtless well for the sender. •• „> Some person or persons unknown are forwarding these epistles to many residents of Stratford, and the waste paper baskets for the next few days will be

full of these appeals. It may be a.eer-. tain amount of consolation to the recipients of these absurd letters tq re- ' fleet that the postal revenue being ,$ enriched by someone's fanaticism/ • ' '.■'/*, .'"• I hear that Mr. Newton Kin£ proposes />: shortiiyi erecting a two-storiejl JbjicJc■; i 'V'-', 4 . building on his present site. *•- '■'. ■■.&■??},