Stratford News

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 99, 12 September 1912, Page 3

Stratford News

From our Resident .Reporter. FOOiBALL CANTER IU'RY v. TARANAKI. TO-DAY'S MATCH AT STRATFORD.

All roiirtti lead to Rome In-day, and the Rome of football for the time being is Stratford. The Canterbury men are reported to be in rare buckle, and the alterations in the Taraiiaki team should add to its strength. -To-day's game should be fast and exciting, and very even. A big attendance of the public is expected. Mr. Tom Rain, the manager of the visiting team, is conlined to his room with blood-poisoning. It is possible that an operation will be necessary to-day. THE TEAMS. CANTERBURY. The Canterbury team to do battle to-day is as follows:

A. E. Doell A. McDonald, X. Payne, R. Pyle L. Cave and H. Taylor D. Sandman (Wing forward) L. Parsons W. Maxwell, E. Baxter W. Snrgcson, A. Paterson, W. Cummings E. Hasell, C. Hegarty (front row). TARAXAKI. Tinney Don Cameron, Roberts, Stohr, S. Cameron Franklin Brown.

Taylor (wing). Cain, Deuar, Tamil, Pini, Ivissick, Ha:\vkins, Wliittington. Emergencies: Bertram! (back), Ryan (forward).

THE VISITING TEAM WELCOMED.

The Major tendered the Canterbury team a civic welcome, on Tuesday ecening in the Council Chambers. Mr. P. Skoglund officially welcomed them on behalf of the Taranaki ltugby Union. .Subsequently the visitors were the guests of the Egmont Club at a social. The Canterbury men won a euchre tournament by '2O games to 1!), but the Club won live out of six: of the billiard matches. Messrs. Templer and Taylor (Christchureh) sang. Mr. J. H. Thompson accompanying at the piano. A capital supper was provided. Messrs. S. Ward, on behalf of the Club, and Evans, on behalf of the team, exchanged compliment!-. Mr. Ward welcoming the guests, and Mr. Evans thanking the club for its hospitality. lesterday, the Canterbury men practised at Victoria Park, and spent the afternoon in a drive from Stratford to Mangatoki. via the Opunalce and Hastings roads, thence to Eltbam and afternoon tea, and home to Stratford by way iif cli!- Mountain road, a very enjoyable drive behind a five-horse team of Mr. Fred (loodi's.

The visitors were highly pleased with their reception and entertainment -here. They contrast it vividly with the treatment meted out to them in the Empire City. A "correct card" will lie issued by the Sir; it ford office of the Taranaki Dailv .News.

TUESDAY'S FIHE

Something should be done to remedy the defective ringing of the lirebell. The rope jammed badly on Tuesday night, and this delayed the arrival of the brigade considerably. Then the water was very slow in coming on. Members of the brigade say that there was grit in the plug, and that this made the hydrant difficult to fit. Is it not someone's business to see that tHie plugs are in proper order? Who is responsible, the brigade or the Borough Council? The public pays, of course.

COMMERCIAL

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Stratford, branch, report ;is follows: On Friday, Oth inst., we held our usual monthly sale at our Te "Wera yards, when about 300 head of cattle" were yarded. There was a fair attendance of buyers, and prices realised were as fol-lows:—2-year-old steers, £4 to £4 10s; yearling steers, 50s to liOs; 2-year empty heifers, £3 14s to £4 ss"; yearling heifers, £3 to £3 8s; mixed yearlings, poor quality, 48s to ."ws; springing iheifers brought from £4 138 to £7 17s (id; dairy cows, £4 15s for second-grade cows to £7 12s fid.

On Tuesday, 10th inst.. we held our usual fortnightly Stratford conjunction sale, when there was a fair yarding of 000 head of mixed cattle. There was a good attendance of steers on account: of a Strathniore client, at very fair prices. Prices ruling at this sale were as follows: —3-year-old steers, low in condition, £5 10s to £(i; 2-year-old steers, hard done, £3 lite to £4 19s for failquality; 2-year-old empty heifers, £3 IDs to ,£4'.")s; yearling steers, 34s Cd for culls to £3 Is for good lines; yearling heifers, 3(is for -poor quality, to £3 ss; mixed yearlings, 50s to 57s Cd; hulls, 70s to 115s; store cows, £3 to £3 LSs; fat and forward cows, £4 10s to £5 ss; springing heifers, £5 15s to IS: dairy cows, the majority of which were rather backward to attract buyers, realised for ordinary sorts £5 15s to CS 2s Gd; Holstein cows, £6 to £l3 10s.

CORRESPONDENCE TAKAXAKI LAND J.SOAUD. To the Editor. Sir.—T wish to draw the attention of the Tnranaki Land Hoard, and more particularly that of the chairman, the Commissioner of Crown Lands for this district, to the action of the borough of Stratford in imposing special rates for the pur..■<:-.• of improving certain part* of the town ;,f Stratford, by money borrowed on the strength of large education reserves, situated within the boundaries of the town. Xot being satisfied with having done this in the past, the borough is now contemplating imposing further burdens on these reserves: firstly, for the mad idea of replacing the present steel and concrete bridg-' (known as Victoria Bridge), which crosses the Pa tea river in Broadway, by a structure the full width of the street (it!) feet wide), at a cost of £000'). Besides tiiis loan, and others which have been rai-ed in past years, further loans are in contemplation for widening, kerbing, asphalting; and improving other street-; the total amount which is proposed to lie borrowed not being far short of £3o.oil(>. X„w. I tfiave'no fault to find willi improving the town, but T draw the line at spending, or rather throwing awav, .CIiOOO on a bridge, when there is a lir>l-ii:>*s one over the river at the present time, which, if looked after, is ■rood for the next forty or sixty years. 1 object more particularly to the inclusion of the laree education reserves on the Flint and Pembroke roads, east. Now. th n se reserves should never have been included in the area comprising the Stratford borough, as they are far away from any important part of the town. In fact, they ore right out in the country, and should never have been j.-ut into a special rating di-trict for the purpose of raising money to provide luxuries for the people, residing on the south side of the Patea river. Every loan whii-h k partly raised on the rating nowr of these reserves is simply converting Ibem into Boroivrh Council (mn'nicipi!) property, and their revenue (as far as the Education Boards arc con-

cerned) is a diminishing quantity. I hope the Grown L::mis Commissioner will take prompt ,su-jis to i-.iop any iiirlner encroachment on cJI1■ right* of tae Eiiuuatiou Board in tiuse iaiuls. 1 It;; Stratford borough raus (genual anil special) an; already a heavy ri at, ami in a iew years will lie the sole rent.—l am, etc., " LXTKHESTED." .Stratford, September 11, 1912

A STRATFORD NUISANCE. To the Editor. Sir, —I wish to draw the attention of the Stratford borough to the oft-repeat-ed nuisance caused in Broadway North, near Pembroke road junction, by the disagreeable habit which some of the residents of the locality have of burning gorse and other hedge trimmings in the centre of the street (Broadway), thus causing a lot of trouble to stock, etc., and also danger to those driving traps and gigs. It is a delightful sensation, wHien driving a mob of cattle or a flock of sheep down the street, to have the full volume and force of the smoke driven into one's lungs, let alone the discomfiture to the stock. I am surprised that the borough inspector does not take action to have the perpetrators of sueli a nuisance brought ibefore our estimable magistrate. Anyhow, such practices are against the Stratford borough by-laws, so if this catches the eyes of the engineer or borough clerk, I hope they will see that the inspector does his dutv.—l am, etc., DROVER.

. STRAY PARAGRAPHS Mr. Wm. Reader, son of Mr. Thos. Reader, .was married yesterday to Miss Davis, at Holy Trinity Clnvrch. A little calf, attracted by a motorcar, followed it yesterday for half a mile at a tremendous bat, forsaking its dam and causing the drover to use much language which cannot be set out here. The combined, efforts of the youngsters, two dogs, and the mounted drover were necessary to ihead the mad young thing off.

The Girls' Friendly Society held a successful concert on Tuesday evening. Musical items were given as follows: — Songs, Miss Gladys Black, Miss Butler and Messrs. Jones and Lewis; recitation, Mrs. Lampen; 'cello solo, Mr. Everiss; pianoforte solo. Miss Fitzgerald, pianoforte quartette, Mrs. Penn and the Misses O'Lenry, Evans and Fitzgerald. Mrs. Munro played the accompaniments for the songs. Captain and Mrs. Lampen staged a capital sketch, "Diamond Cut Diamond," which was an' entertainment in itself. The Stratford Football Club's dinner will he held to-night in the Town Hall.

Our Borough Council, •whilst talkative, cannot compare with the New Plymouth civic fathers. On Monday it talked over two homy; and a half to do business that the A. and P. Association would have done in an hour. The same chairman, but a different team. When all are pulling one way, the thing is dead easy.

BERNARD'S PICTURES

A most attractive series of films, all nfiw to Stratford, is announced for His Majesty's Theatre to-night. Four dramus rival each other for first place on the list. "The Lesser Evil," a story depicting the thrilling adventures of a beautiful fishermaiden •who falls into the hands of a band of smugglers, is quoted by the leading kincmatograph journal at Home a.s the finest single-reel subject the. A.TS. Company have ever released. "Children who Labor," produced by the Edison Company in conjunction with the United States National Child Labor Committee, is a. film that must catch on. The intensely interesting story which this film tells carries a theme which ought to nppcal strongly to every rightthinking man, woman and child, makin* us first acquainted with a situation which few people realise, men being thrown out of employment while children are taken from schools and from play to d« work beyond their years. "Out of the, Deptlis" is a strong, vigorous drama, pulsating with real red blood. In "Brown of Harvard" there is a splendid eightoared boat race, which in itself is a feature. The programme includes ,"The Archipelago of Stockholm," a Nordisk scenic; "The Coming of the Lambs," an educational lesson; and "Sunny Ceylon." The comic, items are "The Lost Dog" (Lubin), "Humpty-Dumptv Circus," and "The Little Delicatessen Store," a fetching comedy by Edison.