STRATFORD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16468, 21 June 1919, Page 10

STRATFORD.

FROM OUB RESIDENT AGENT. June 19.—The School Committee is appealing for funds for erecting in the grounds a building in which the children who are too far from home to got tho home dinner can take their midday meal. Arrangements have already been made for providing hot cocoa and it only remains for parents to subscribe the needful £ s. d. Winter rains are now with us and we are beginning to appreciate the advantages of tho tar-macadam main street and to be anxious for extension of the clean smooth roadway. The uutarred portion looks very out-of-date by comparison. A by-law that would seem desirable for municipalities would be one compelling the removal within a reasonable time of the debris loft after a fire. Nothing can be much worse both from the aesthetic and the business point of view than that visitors and residents should bo confronted month after month with the spectacle of heaps of burnt and twisted iron, blackened chimney stacks and miscellaneous rubbish. How long are wo doomed to have this eyesore is hard to say, but probably for some time, as the Railway Department has to make up its procrastinating mind on the renewal of the leases of the site of tho last fire. “Cherchez la femme” is a French saying applied to all kinds of trouble, but there is one class of 'trouble wherein it would be well if the principle of “Cherchez I’homme” were more generally applied. Such a case was before the Stratford Court to-day when a weak-minded girl was committed for trial for the manslaughter of her illegitimate child.