STRATFORD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13430, 22 March 1907, Page 8

STRATFORD.

(From Ouk Resident Agent.)

Alar-Ii 20. — Fire and a-half inches of ram much Sunday. Other places seem to have been more liberally treated, but it does* not do to grumble nowadays. Aye nught get a cuff from the Meteorolo£:ca! Department to match the on© irp:.i the Public AVorks. (^aptain Edwm v, i?l be telling us that the gqod w<3"!; he has done in the district is evidently r^ot appreciated. I '■M/,re like Clapham Junction every! oa.r, wan the remark of an ex-Lon- i aciicr on the railway station this morn- ! im--. It certainly was a busy time. The cKtfol corps-, 100 strong^ were entraining aii route for Cbristclmreh Exhibition .truck-loads of East Road children an*' ciifir friends were siJU'-traokod Wttiupv for tho 8.60 to take c.-.f-m on to j the nveakwaier for a day on Hie beach; I thou tJiere wao the usual bustle of passep^prs. for the express and the more i leisurely movement of those bound for the Taranaki metropolis. Altogether, ! what with the bright, fresh morning and the animated crowds (juvenile for thy most part), one felt life's currents i rimj:hjg more i briskly than they are\

Tho town has been brisk and lively t»ll uvy, by reason of that beneficent current that flows from the dairy factorr cheque books on the 20th of the month.

T'-i" 'Astbury has announced himself as -x candidate for Egniont (our neighbor i-uicr electorate) at the general election. l\x Astbury is a Uoverninenf support or, Imt in -favour of the option if tho freehold. In common with nmny of }iis f i-ionds hero, I was under *he im]»ic 3 >ion that he was an -out-and-out leaseholder in' principle. The Stratford .Football Club hold its annujil meeting last night, and from thn committee's ropm*fc appears to be in a very nourishing state.- Play for tho season commences to-morrow.

There are 567 pupils on the roll of the DipiriVt Higlr School of whom 175 arc iv i»:iPiidHiicc on an average. TLo cofnmitt^t* thinks the average not so good as if might bc\ Cookery classes at the Technical Schoo] ai-e to -.tart on April 9th.