STRATFORD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16681, 2 March 1920, Page 3

STRATFORD.

FROM OUR RESIDENT AGENT. March 1. —Summer is over, and l autumn has come in with a promise of — more rain. Twelve and a-half inches was February’s record, following on January’s offering ’of fourteen and ahalf. Two such months of superabundant moisture are rare even in our winter experiences, and are without precedent in the summer season. A high average temperature has accompanied the rain, and the combined effect nas been to produce the phenomenon of increasing production of butter and cheese at the season when it is usually on the down grade. ' - We have narrowly escaped the useless 'expense of a contested election for the Licensing Committee, one of the nominees, Mr. L. Baskin, having at the last moment sacrificed his ambitions on the altar of economy. The weather, however favourable it may be for the production of milk, is distinctly adverse to the prosecution of public works. It looks as though winter would once more find the borough with its main thoroughfore affording striking contrasts between the up-to-date and tho out-of-date in road construction.