STRATFORD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13745, 7 September 1908, Page 7

STRATFORD.

(From Our Resident Agent.) Sept. 5. — The election for a vacant seat on the Borough Council resulted rather unexpectedly in the return of a new hand in miinicipal affairs, Mr E. B. Stohr. AbouW4oo votes were cast.

Factory directors are taking plenty of time to consider the disposal of outputs this year. The butter-chasers are nearly worn out with racing up and down the country holding forth, as the case may be, on the folly of refusing a good offer or on the imbecility of playing into the hands of speculators. Neither Midhirst nor Stratford has as yet decided the momentous question, and the back-country factories are also following a bide-a-wee policy. The Manganui Road Board after some 28 years of useful life has passed away. There were some stormy periods in its career but its end was peace. The obsequies were duly observed at the invitation of the chairman, Mr Hathaway, and the remains, consisting of the minute and rate books, are awaiting interment in the museum of antiquities which will no doubt some day adorn our town.

Change is the order of the day again at the School. Miss Blackett's resignation is to be followed by that of Mr D. Cameron, who has been appointed to - Douglas.' Miss Beedie has taken Miss Blackett's place. There is nothing to chronicle with regard* to the industrial dispute in the <}airy factory business. The question of comyulsory unionism will, it is presumed, came before the Arbitration Court in due course, and in the moantime the 1907 agreement remains in force.