PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 February 1931, Page 8

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. F. Young returned to the training college at Wellington yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. T. Kirkwood left for the south yesterday, morning on holiday. The Mayor of Stratford, Mr. P. Thomson, mentioned last night that the Press had blamed the earthquake for the. appearance of cracks in certain buildings in Stratford. The cracks, he said, had been due not to the earthquake, but to other causes, such as the subsiding, of the foundations at.some previous period. It may not generally be known that the egg industry is worth more to New Zealand than the pig industry, said Mr. W. Hardy-Jones last night at the annual meeting of the Stratford Egg Circle. The Whangamomona County Council yesterday reappointed Messrs. W. L. Kennedy and C. Finnerty the council’s representatives in the east committee of the Egmont National Park Board. The statement that the borough of Stratford at the present season of the year is much freer of noxious weeds than it was during the corresponding period last year was made by the borough inspector in reporting to the council last night. In the bowling record of the central division published yesterday ;a win was credited in the official record to the Stratford club that should have gone to Inglewood. Thus Stratford has had only four wins and has suffered three losses and Avon heads the list with five victories 1 and only one loss. Avon has yet to meet Tariki twice, however, if the latter club is able to field a team. In this connection, Avon could justly claim a win against Tariki when the latter failed to put in an appearance for the match on February 5. No cases of notifiable infectious diseases have occurred in Stratford during the past month. Authority to tidy the old cemetery was given the borough foreman, Mr. L. B. Davis, .by the Stratford Borough Council last night. Sympathy to Borough-Inspector A. E. Sayers in the loss of his mother and brother was conveyed in a motion passed by the Stratford Borough Council last night. That a dangerous practice has been indulged in in one of the streets of Stratford was revealed at a meeting of the Stratford Domain Board last night, when the curator, Mr. S. Taylor, stabed that the memorial gates at the entrance to Victoria Park ha.d been peppered by someone using either a pea rifle or an air gun firing slugs, probably the latter. His assistant, said Mr. Taylor, had seen boys with a rifle passing through the park. When questioned they said they were only passing through the reserve and had done no damage. The names of the boys were known. The board decided that information on the matter be supplied to the police. “People who use firearms in a public street and on such a memorial as the park gates merit severe punishment,” said, the Mayor. Casting party politics and all differences of opinion aside for the moment, members of the Stratford Borough Council unanimously supported the Mayor When he moved the following motion last night: “That the council welcomes the announcement by the Prime Minister that Parliament be asked to pass measures designed io balance the Budget and to place the country in a sound financial position, and congratulates the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes upon the courage shown in his proposals. The council trusts he will have the united support of every section of the community in his unpleasant task.” The Prime Minister would need every assistance in carrying out his project, added the Mayor, and though various shades of opinion might be represented by the councillors he thought all public bodies should lend to the Prime Minister the support that they as representatives of the public could give him.