Stratford News.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 12817, 27 March 1905, Page 6

Stratford News.

(From our Resident Agent.)

]\laroli 25th.— No rain j-et ! The Patea is drying- off and the Electric Light Company can scarcely obtain enough power to run the dynamo on a Saturday night. The Engineer lias lo publish an appeal to consumers to bo economical. Yet the country cannot be said to bo looking particularly

burnt up and the milk supply at the factories is not being afi'ected to anything like the extent we hear of in other places. The district stands v drought remarkably well.

The Committee of the Teelu-iical School advertise a series of winter leC' tures for farmers, dependent on sufficient support being forthcoming. The nature of the soil, use of fertilisers, eradication of weeds, veterinary lore, the production and care of milk, these are the subjects of which tit is proposed to treat. Ft will now be seen whether, among the adult farming population, there is any desire for technical instruction. If it should unhappily prove that there is not, it need not be concluded that the Technical School is a "white elephant." There remains the rising generation. The -young idea is being taught to shoot "pretty straight at the District High School. Cadet class-firing at the range was commenced this morning at lOO.aiid 200 yds. Out of a possible 5(5, I lie scores ranged from 49 to 29. Two rinks of the IHtzroy Bowling i'llub visited our green to-day mid were met by an assortment of our .bowlers. A pleasant afternoon was spent. Stratford proving the winners, tlrs -AI orison, kindly gave afternoon tea in the pavilion. From the experience of the far-back factories it does not appear that, with reasonable precautions, butter siull'ors in the least from long journeys by road. Both Huiakama (21 miles) and Makahu (28 miles) have throughout the summer been sending butter to Moturoa that has uniformly graded high.