STRATFORD NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12866, 26 May 1905, Page 3

STRATFORD NEWS.

(From Our Resident Agent.) May 21th.— The ceremonies appropriate to Empire Day were duly performed at t*ne District Tlig'h School this afternoon. The children, headed by the cadets, marched rouaid the school and saluted the flag, and were then drawn tip in close order to be addressed by the visitors. The speakers wvre the chairman of the School Committee (utfr C. D. Sole), his Worship the Mayor, Mr Monk'house (member of the Education Board), the Rev. . C. A. B. Watson and Mr E. F. Hcming'way (Town Clerk). The speeches were brief and pithy, the weather conditions not favouring flights of oratory. Th response to a deputation that boarded the mail-train this morning, tho ?Jiiiister of Public Works promised that the suitability of Stratford as the junction for the Opunake branch railway should be considered and th 1 - 1 route surveyed. Copies of the Eltham Argus will lv in demand in Stratford for the next few days, jt being confidently anticipated that when the editor hold of the news about "the birthright" tWre will be a display of journalistic fir; 1 w<>rks worth seeing. The opinion of the "man-in- th^ street" about the Opunake branch railway is that it is too /nuch like the br.selc^s fabric of an election vision to be worth troubling about.