STRATFORD.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1923, Page 6

STRATFORD.

DAILY NEWS AGENCY. Advertisements and items of news for publication in the Taranaki Daily N\ws should be left at the office of our local representative, care Mr. W. H. Humphrey, Breadway, Stratford. Orders for papers may also be left with him. DOMAIN BOARD. January 16. The monthly meeting of the Domain Board was held last night. Messrs. J. W. Boon and W. McDonald waited on the board as a deputation from the school committee, asking the council to deposit about 1000 yards of earth in the lower end of the school playground, and offered to pay 1/- per yard for it.—lt was mutually agreed that the school committee should take SOO yards of earth for £6O. As a deputation from the Cricket Club. Messrs. S. Spence and L. G. Furrie waited on the board asking it to make some provision for the laying down of a cricket pitch on the new Victoria Park grounds. The disabilities under which the club suffered for want of a good pitch were stressed, and the value of a good cricket ground to the schools was pointed out. The suggestion was to lay down a pitch 30 yards long by 5 yards wide. At present it was impossible to get. representative cricket matches at Stratford, all nf these going to New Plymouth or Hawera.—lt was decided that the board would lay down the pitch providing the Cricket Club took up debentures to cover the cost. The debentures were subscribed to-day and the club has been authorised to proceed with arrangements. LATE MR. N. J. KING. A tribute to the memory of the late Mr. N. J. King was paid by Mr. R. Masters, M.P., at the Egmont Club last night. Mr. Masters moved: “That the members of the Egmont Club extend to Mrs. King and the members of her family their deepest sympathy in the loss they have sustained through the passing away of their husband and father. The members feel they are under an everlasting debt of gratitude for the magnificent work done and sacrifices made by their late president ns one of the founders of the club, for the young men of the town.” In moving this motion, Mr. ‘Masters said they ail knew the great work Mr. King had done in connection with the club. He had been enthusiastic from the inception of the club and became its president. He had been a guarantor from the moment it started. As a Mayor of Stratford they were under a debt of gratitude to Mr. King, who was one of the finest citizens Stratford had ever produced. Mr. Masters suggested that a subscription should be taken up for the purpose of securing an enlarged photograph of Mr. King to be hung in a prominent position iu the club.

Mr. S. Ward, secretary of the club, endorsed Mr. Masters’ remarks and readily fell in with Mr. Masters’ suggestion. If ever a man deserved to be honored, he said, Mr. King did. At a special meeting of the Borough Council last night a resolution of condolence with the relatives of the late Mr. King was passed on-the motion of the deputy-Mayor (Mr. C. Jackson), the council standing in silence. GENERAL ITEMS. Mr. T. M. Wilford has notified Mr. R. Masters, M.P., that Mrs. Wilford will also be the Liberal rally in Stratford on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. T. Purcell returned to Stratford last night by the mail train, after an extended holiday spent chiefly in the Hawke's Bay and East Coast districts. / At a special meeting of the Borough Council last night a resolution was passed fixing Thursday as the statutory weekly half holiday for the ensuing year.

The special meeting of the Borough Council last night decided to utilise a quantity of the surplus soil from Victoria Park to fill in the gully in Ariel Street, between Fenton Street dnd Cloton Road.

Last night a party of football enthusiasts and others, marshalled by Mr. R. F. Harkness, surrounded the temporary residence of Mr. Harold Masters, armed with tin cans and drumsticks, to celebrate the recent marriage of the doughty Taranaki representative footballer. When an entrance to the house had been effected a pleasant little singsong was held and refre.slijnents were handed round. The health of the couple was drunk and they received many warm congratulations. Mr. Masters mentioned, in reply, that although his active football days were finished he would still take an interest in the game, and he had no doubt the fourth grade medal which he had presented last season would be an annual institution.

The mighty deep sometimes gives up strange secrets. When the Victoria Park lake was drained dry some time ago the secret of a lost lawn roller was exposed. Several claims of ownership of the roller were put into the Borough Council, and one man went so far as to remove the roller as his own. Under threat of police action he was persuaded by the borough foreman to immediately return it. and the foreman told last night’s meeting of the council that he now had the roller locked up in a shed for safety. It appears that the roller was loaned to the cricket club by a Stratford citizen and had been consigned to the lake by larrikins. It was agreed to return the implement to its rightful owner. The residents of Stratford and district are notified that Ernest, Davies, the LonStratford every Tuesday, and may be consulted at Mr. Gaffaney’s, Broadway. Hours: 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. WIRELESS! WIRELESS’! WIRELESS!!! High-class Radio Goods at reasonable prices. Head Sets from 35/-. Brown’s Super-sensitive 8000-ohm, 79/6. Sorsing “Tunit” Attachments, £4 10s (sold elsewhere at £6 10s); Varicouplers; Sorsing and Murdock Detectors; Valves and Valveholders; Rehostats; Dials and Knobs, etc., etc. In addition to the above, we have ex-British Army Stores (surplus) Mark 111 I Tuners. Prices and particulars from W. I Humphrey, Broadway, Stratford. 1