STRATFORD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144713, 23 June 1915, Page 7

STRATFORD.

FROM OUR RESIDENT AGENT. Juno 22.—At ii meeting of tho BorCouncil last evening a motion to submit to the ratepayers a loan proposal of £12,000 for street improvements was carried, after tho defeat of a comiter-proposal to defer tho matter until the result of tho negotiations with the Electric Supply_ Company t/as known. When the details of tho said improvements como to bo discussed, then will hogin tho fun, as of old. Tho Borough Council and tho Municipal Band have boon holding a symposium at which many sweet things were said. Like most other institutions that depend upon the younger sort, our hand has been depleted by tho war, and two or three more of tho members are expecting tho call to Trenthara.

Bad weather is interfering with a commencement of tho erection of tho new Municipal Buildings. Tho contractor has had his men boro for tho last week.

Mr. D. Cameron, tho manager of tho Cardiff Cheese Factory, has followed up his successes at tho New Plymouth Show by bracketing first with Dalefiold in two classes at Palmerston, winning in another class right out, and running second in yet another. This achievement is tho more creditable seeing that Mr. Cameron has not tho advantages of a modern concrete-built curing room, tin? Cardiff Factory being by somo yeare tho oldest cheese factory in Taranaki, dating from 1892. Tho Home Defence Corps last evening attended a lecture of first-aid to the wounded given by Dr. Steven. One can trust with somo confidence that, tlie lessons may not have to bo put to tho tost in actual warfare in this country, or by tho majority of tlioso who listened, but they are useful in tho ordinary casualties of civil life.

If the weather at Trentham is of a kind similar to our local infliction, the now recruits aro getting a good hreak-ing-in for life in tho trenches of the Low Countries next February.