STRATFORD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 14347, 27 October 1910, Page 2

STRATFORD.

(From Our Resident Agents October 27. —Continued bod weather for outdoor iwork is retarding the preparation of the ground and buildings for the Agricultural Show but the immense rose“vo of cm-r-'v etill latent in the committee will pull "things through all right bv December 7. , , ~ 'Stratford was unrepresented on too dmiutation that endeavoured to draw the Ministers on the Opunalko railway question. Our Mayor was in Wellington a few weeks ago and learnt that there was lio hope of anything being done for some time to come. There are already more men engaged in railway construction in Taranaki than in any other part of the Dominion, and representatives of other districts know it. Probably at this time next year, with the general election casting its shadow before, a vote for the Opunake line will have a chance of appearing on tho Public Works Estimates, with a reduced vote for tho Whangamomona line and a proposal to start construction at Ongarue, so ns to keep the Ohura people sweet. Politics will rule tho camps. AVe see very little of the co-operativo workers in town now that the camps arc away past Pohokura, and thoir absence docs not appear to have a depressing effect on trade, except perhaps tho trade with a big “T.”