STRATFORD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143673, 18 December 1911, Page 3

STRATFORD.

(From Our Resident Agent.) Dec. JO. —The mental exaltation due to the elections is subsiding, and we are returning tu the normal. Interest is renting in such every-day mancro as tile laemry-U-ets, the- pi lee ol pig.-, the half-holiday fjiiesticm, the latest unpleasaiu.ncs at the Borough Council table. It is nut so easy to guess the topic of conversation of street groups. At an expense of some £25. the Loirgarth Dairy Co. has installed an apparatus for ascertaining the moisture in

samples of cheese, thus enabling the manager to control it. The taste of the British public is said to he turning to a cheese that will spread, but, apart from this, the control of moisture will mean almost as great a benefit to the cheesemaker as it has proved to the buttermaker. It seems unlikely that the .Saturday half-holiday will lie adopted until legislation makes it compulsory on all retailers, whether town or country. Town shopkeepers are not going to force their customers to patronise the country store for their Saturday supplies. Recent happenings at meetings of the Borough Council have revealed the fact that the by-laws provide no penalty fur defying the authority of the chair. It is true that it is stated that Parliamentary practice governs all matters not specifically dealt with, hut—there is no Hcrjcant-at-Annu.

Bowlers, amt for the matter of that all lovers of outdoor sport, have a great grievance agaiu.t the weather this seapan. The bowling green is essentially a warm weather resort, and of that kind of weather we have scarcely bad even a sample. Last Thursday, when the New Plymouth Chib visited ns to play for the provincial banner, was one of tile best days we have had, and it was too windy and cold for perfect enjoyment. Thr.ro was plenty of interest in the play, however. New Plymouth winning by one point. It was a red-letter day for the Smarts, earn of the three winning rinks being “skipped” by one of tile family.