STRATFORD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144709, 18 June 1915, Page 4

STRATFORD.

FROM OUR RESIDENT AGENT, Juno 16—Tlio Borough Council has determined to sec if it cannot succeed, where its predecessors have t;iil orl in coming to terms with the Electrical Supply Company for the purchase of the business It is quite possible to arrange the matter if the old antagonistic spirit does not revive. There is to ho no billiard-saloon on the site of the recent tire in Broadway, but three small shops. It is understood that the Railway Department, to whom the land belongs, will not extend the lease beyond the original term, which has some five years to run. Consequently wo shall certainly see no very palatial structure arise. A ship-load of our wounded is approaching tho Dominion’s shores and it behoves ns to make ready for this and probably many similar cargoes of suffering. ' The patriotic committee accordingly appeals for subscriptions, and starts the list with £2OO from tho fund it has in reserve. At the present stage it was not thought wise to devote the whole of the reserve to this purpose. Probably few men feel the toll of war upon our young men more keenly than tho headmaster of the Stratford school, through whose hands have passed in tho last quarter of a century so many of the hoys now at the front. In Mr, Tyrer’s monthly report to the school committee he alludes kindly and tenderly to two of the brightest ami best of his “old boys,” Sergeant Dewhirst and Private Handrup whoso names wore on the latest roll of honour as having given their lives for their country. A Stratford man now in hospital in j Cairo, says in a letter to his father, Mr. | John Petrie, that on the memorable Sunday of the landing on the Gallipoli j Peninsula, out of thirteen men in his j section all from Stratlord district, only j six escaped wounds. |