STRATFORD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16448, 4 June 1919, Page 3

STRATFORD.

FROM OWE RESIDENT AGENT. June 2.—Tho annual meeting of the Acclimatisation -Society was held on Saturday. The finances continue fairly satisfactory but the functions of providing fish and fowl for the sportsmen appear to have suffered during the war period. Pheasants are rare birds in these territories and fishermen have had to put a strain on their well-known scrupulous veracity in reporting captures of trout in our streams. Tho meeting seemed disposed to look for novelties in the way of game wherewith to stock our depleted preserves. Geese were mentioned only to be dismissed as unsuitable. Wildcats escaped the notice of members, hut a Stratford town resident had quite good sport with one the other day. It had wandered into the house and when discovered made a flying leap at a, closed window. It was eventually brought down with a hammer. Tile climate has certainly joined the extremist. May was the. dryest May ever recorded and I think the temperatures of the , last week must have been lower than we have experienced for many ycArs. The days are bright but the frost holds all day long in the shade. It is pleasant weather to move about in, but deadly for tho inactive. One’s sympathies go out to the City Fathers of a night in their froez—Council Chamber, to the peace celebration choir practising in the Perish Hall, and particularly to the kiddies in the district ice-cool.