STRATFORD NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13250, 23 August 1906, Page 6

STRATFORD NEWS.

' (From Our Resident Agent.) August 20th.-^-At a largely attended meeting of the, .Stratford Dairy I Company shareholders on Saturday a' resolution was carried 'tightening up the restriction against non-suppliers sitting on the dircctoi'ate. It will now bo a necessary qualification of a director th:\t Tie mu^t supjply 12-OOlbs of butterfat dumrg-Lhis year of office. ! Farmers about hc^e are determined to keep +110 whole business iii tbeiir own hands. -,- . The matter of sending a representative of the dairy companies Home for! three years was 'discussed', but fc until no great favour, and ft- was i decided to take no, action. •Independent "milk-testing was also debated, and the shareholders found to be equally . divided on ,the qaiestiuii. Nothing was done Stratford's population is iner<?n)sing by le-aps and 'bounds' — three at a birth down R-egan-st. way. A pr-titi'o i n in favour of the constitution of tlie Mang-ariui Goimty -h-as br-cn largely sig-nod fn the 2forth Riding, bul. tho other Hdinsjs are on th« v^ai'-path. and there will be a very strong counter-petition. Th<n la«t word lias not been said yet on the Opunake railway question. An ■agitation . has 'been started at Ngaire for a survey of « line june-tioni-ng at that aitd.cnt", ' but thriving ■jr.d'us trial cs^ntre. And %\'hv should not. Ngaire have its say'?, it is thirty awl 1 three mi]."s -frcin Npw !Plvmauth and from Paten it is thirty oiiiles -an-l thiT'j. It is manifestly th" h-ivb <»? Taranaki. an-d why sh-nnkl not the Mloi'-s hnve tliwir spoils ? It is v 'he-.^l «kfn'd that evervene is tired of -h^arine of the. birthright of 751tha-"n. the "svirc-willmc: of Stcai'ojtl, t-!-sj. m-ag'nanianity of H-awena. Let Ngaire ■have tlve floor for a wdidle.