STRATFORD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 14134, 14 February 1910, Page 3

STRATFORD.

(From Our Resident Agent.) Feb. 12.—Tho season continues to gladden the heart of the dairy farmer, that is to say, if ho can manage that his overnight milk shall pass muster at tho factory receiving stage. Tho warm nights and humid nir are making it a little difficult to satisfy tho manager. I have no recollection of a Stratford summer averaging so high a temperature by day and night, and I have had more than a passing acquaintance with tho Stratford climate. vSo many of our citizens are becoming possessed of (or by) motor cars, that it is suggested to start a t class in motorology at the technical school. In the immediate neighbourhood in which I am permitted to draw a benzined breath there are no less than five of those fascinating but cxigeant machines. The motor habit appears to bo catching, and it is possible that at some remote date, when my journeyings are of a more leisured nature, I may discard the old pony. At present' I must be able to depend on my six miles an hour. The Mount Egmont road metal works continue to excite the derision of local bodies by the extraordinary absence of anything like method in their .management. It is a matter of the greatest uncertainty whether orders are to be executed or not, a melancholy result for tho expenditure of £50,000.