STRATFORD NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13359, 27 December 1906, Page 8

STRATFORD NEWS.

« i (From Our Eesideut Agent. \ December 22.— Plenty of people and plenty dt money in' the town to-day. Glorious weather. The new electoral districts do not obeain -universal approval. Ngaire | and Cardili' residents 1 are bucking against being cut off from their marlcet j iown and tacked on to Eltham and Kapon^a to raise the quota for the - nay Egmont electorate, whilst, at the • ' southern end of the new electorate • ihere is a similar feeling around Mansria and Okaiawa. It is quite naturaj, but the poor Commissioners will scratch tbo remaining felt from their ljrnin-cases in the effort to find population for Egmont if they knock out £00 at each end for ,ibie sa^e oi the "community of interest" principle. Anomalies there must bo under thp present system of one member constituencies and a narrow margin of population to come and go upon. A Stratford machinist who uses the 'town water for motive-power found a woH-u-rown ©el in his Pelton wheel th* other day. I asked the Mayor and Town Clerk about it and it appears that the incident arose in consequence of somo experiments 'tlie Borough Council is making with a fresH -fish service for the ratepayers. The advantage;; of having trout and eels always on tap are so great thai it is io bq hoped this little' difficulty with u*ers o*_ machinery will be arranged. * The departing old settler farewellcd this last last week was Mr Alf . Bayly, who is removing to TVanganm. This sort oi thir.g is becoming deprossmgly common and "you* own" is feeling irore like a relic every day, ana °5s perturbed when t*»e word - "museum" is mentioned. Im - the?ejlippaut days the position of "oldest iiivabitant" carries with it a deal of disrespect, and a ''dragon -of the prime," instead of keeping the whole country side in awe. is laughed at for th« oirt-ofdate cut of his scales. The .'Horticultural Society's Show on Thursday, was a very good one, ~ and a token oi the good work the promoters arß* doing m encouraging gardening. The hea'dinaster reportedt to tbs School . Committee last ; evening that the rol! call of the High School classes would be Tip .to the hundred next f^uarter -and that pupils w o uld h& attending: from as far as Hawera en the south to Waitara on the north..