LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 606, 11 February 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Up to the present time over 400 motor cars and motor cycles have been registered in Franklin. Messrs. Tapper Bros, announce last week of thetg big sale of drapery, boots, millinery, etc., at their Tuakau store. At Tuesday’s meeting of the Maimkau County Council, the engineer (Mr W. J. Lopdell) reported that, during January building permits amounting to £4380 had been issued. Returned soldiers should carefully read the advt. in to-day’s issue relating to allowances, etc., in connection with the foreign and home service branches. The time lor chums is limited to March 31.

Holiday excursion tickets, available for return until February IS, will be issued to Claudelands from Auckland and intermediate stations on February 16 and by morning trains on February 17. A train will leave Pukekohe for Claudelands at 8.33 a.m., returning at 6 p.m.

Mr. Calvin F. Deed, a pupil of Mrs. E. Whitelaw, L.R.A.M.,, intimates that he has opened, a music studio in Roulston’s building's, King Street, Fukekohe, and is prepared to accept pupils who want to learn how to play the violin. Mr. Deed is a well-known local musician.

Owing to an oversight we omitted to include in the New Zealand Bacon and Meat Packing Company's advt., in our last issue, , that pigs would be received at Pukekohe on Tuesday, February 13 and 22, and at Patumahoe on Thursday, February 17. The company is paying 6d per lb up to 1501 b.

Readers should note the steady increase in the volume of casual and contract advertising in this paper. This is proof positive of its virility and is the final test of the success of any journal. Thus any reader who has anythng to sell or wishes to buy any article should not hesitate to make use of the columns.

An advertisement appears among our professional notices the effect that Mr. J. F. W. Dickson, of Auckland, solicitoi’, has commenced the practice of his profession in Pukekohe. This is in addition to the business already established by him at Waiuku. Mr. G. Gordon Grant will be in charge of both branches.

It is anticipated that there will be a large influx of show enthusiasts for the forthcoming A. and P. Show. With a view to providing exhibitors and others with sleeping accommodation, householders who have spare beds or rooms to let, are requested to notify the secretary of the show, Mr. D. R. Hamilton, at once.

The local branch of the Farmers’ Union Trading Co., like the head office in Auckland, firmly believes in the power of printer’s ink used wisely* To-day this isinsf firm has taken liberal space to push forward the advantages of becoming shareholders in its business. Every reader should make a point of carefully reading the announcement.

Owing to suppliers at Aka Aka having decided to pi’oduce butter instead of cheese, the trustees in the estate of Henry George (Deed.) intend making fresh arrangements with the New Zealand Dairy Co. for carting cream and casein to Pukekohe for remainder of present season. The time for receiving tenders has been extended to noon on February 26. See advt.

Record of rainfall as registered at Victoria Avenue, W aiuku, duiing January. Rain fell on 12 days, the fall varying from .Olin to and totalling 2.03 in. For correspondingmonth during years 1916,, 1917, 1918, 1919 and 1920, the register shows 1.83, 1.53, 3.17, 2.09 and 5.95 inches respectively. Readers may remember that we had nearly two inches of rain on the last day of January, 1920.

It is understood that a charge of alleged profiteering is to be laid before the Prices Tribunal by a Pukekohe resident. The charge will be that an excessive price was exacted for a notebook by a local stationer. A school girl sent for the ordinary pre-war penny notebook was charged sixpence—a 500 per cent, increase. Who said the cost of living is declining?

Every dairy farmer among our readers and every householder who keeps a cow should carefully read the advertisement from Messrs. Osmond and Son, which appears in this issue seting forth the advantages of using “Oxygas,” for mammitis, milk fevex and all udder troubles. This preparation has a large and inci*easing sale among the dairy farmers of the Dominion.

The highest score on the local, lange last Saturday for territorial shooting ■was made by R. Pei'kins, who reached 9G out of a possible 115. In the senior cadets’ shooting, Ralph’Wright is leading. A large number of territorials and senior cadets have not yet fired their musketry, as required by the Defence Act, section 51. They are reminded that it is compulsory for them to shoot on Saturdays, in addition to the ordinary drills on Wednesdays.

• A letter exemplifying the unfortunate position in which a man places himself by purchasing a property before the road is formed was lead at the meeting of the Papatoetoe Town Board last Tuesday evening. The property in question fionts Hi'lside Road and lias a width of !96ft. Since 1918, when he made the purchase, the owner has been unable to obtain access to his holding. Even his frequent requests to his neighbour to move in the matter and complete the road work have been unavailing.

| A. J. Tozer, representing Adam Burgess, of Palmerston North, notifies the public that he will be in Pukekohe on February 25 and 26, at the Franklin Show, exhibiting potato diggers and planters.

An enterprising Palmerston youngster of five or six summers is in the habit of strolling into a tea room, ordering an ice cream and then coolly requesting the most likely person present to settle the bill. The nonchalant air with which the young brigand asks for the cash betokens long practice, and makes one wonder what his next coup will be, says the Manawatu Times.

The newspaper Kokumin Shim bun states that the Japanese Government is planning a revision of the AngloJapanese Alliance, which will free Japan from its obligation. The paper says that this action has followed a statement by Viscount Hayashi in London, interpreting the British view of Article IV. of the alliance, ae leaving Japan isolated and unprotected.