LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 637, 31 May 1921, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Times will appear as usual on Friday next, King’s Birthday.

Cheap fruit is advertised by Sears Fruit Depot in this issue.

Special trains for King’s Birthday and Auckland races are advertised.

Owing to pressure on our space, several reports have been held over until our next issue.

Mr. Tom. Maxwell, the popular outfitter, advertises a special line of serge suits Read his advt.

The New Zealand railways carried 15,315,614 passengers last year, compared with 12,760,814 in the previous year.

On Friday next, the King's Birthday, a special matinee for children will be given in the Strand Theatre. A first-class programme will be presented.

The Governor-General, Viscount .Jellicoe, will unveil the Soldiers’ Memorial at Papakura on Sunday next, June 5, at 3 o’clock. The public are invited to attend this function.

Cigarettes are being retailed at sixpence a packet in Masterton.. says an exchange, but this is nothing extraordinary. Cigarettes are, also sold at PukekohJe at 6d per packet.

“ The man who brought the prices down,” Mr Fleming, Beehive Stores, is the latest local tradesman to take generous space with us to announce still further reductions. 'A''perusal of his advertisement will be well worth while.

In a replace advt. in this issue Seal's’ Fruit Depot intimates that they are prepared to sell fruit at lowest prices, and offer the public a chance to save money. Peruse the advertisement for the bargains. They are selling 401 b cases of choice apples at 11s per case.

Replying to a deputation at W'ellington the Hon. C. J. Parr said that to apply the pruning knife drastically to the system of education would be false economy, and that matters would have to be pretty bad before they reduced the expenditure on education.

At the recent show, the stand of Mr W. S. Russell devoted to vulcanising attracted a great deal of attention. Mr. Russell has fitted an up-to-date plant on his premises to handle this work and is prepared to take orders at any time. The class of work done is stated to be the veryhighest possible.

A dislocation of the suburban railway service that caused considerable ■.inconvenience to men who were going’ to work occurred last Friday mommy at Papatoetoe station. The engine which, was attached to the 6.32 a.m. train to take early workers to tiw. city was shunting when it apparently me,t| with some obstruction and left the lines. It was found necessary t,|i bring another engine from Otahi.ihu, and altogether there was a delay of forty minutes.

A correspondent from Dunedin in a letter to the writer of an article oh ‘‘A Prehistoric Race,” published in the Times a week or two ago, while expressing great interest in the subject, takes exception to the statement that there are no hierogUphics extant to give us a clue to these people. There are, he says, in some caves somewhere in the South Island, weird inscriptions carved in the rocks. We have heard of something of the sort, but always understood that, they were painted figures, not inscrintions. It any of our readers

possess information on this interest ing subject we slur 11 'welcome it.

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