LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 647, 5 July 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In an advertisement in this issue, Mr 1 Jsa. Crosbie, who has set up as a land agent ini King Street, t Pukiekohe, offers some exceptionally good snips td’ intending buyers. See his advertisement.

“ The. Work at the power house is progressing very ■' satisfactorily indeed.” said Or -. Armstrong at last night’s meeting of the Borough Council The Electrical Committee was instructed to erect the roof over a part of the new work at the power house.

As : everybody is economising just now the announcement on our front page to-day by the well-known Melba Fur Company (of Sydney and Melbourne), whose Auckland address is 338, Queen Street (opposite Grey Statue), cannot fail to excite interest. The company has just added a new department to its extensive business —the cleaning, dyeing and repair of all kinds of wearing apparel. It also renovates, restores and remodels old-fashioned furs, and not only makes them like; new, but according to the latest fashions.

It’s handy sometimes to know the address of a thoroughly reliable bootmaker, who not only makes boots that will last, but specialises in repair work. In this connection we can strongly recommend Mr E. Le Heron, of 492, Queen Street, Auckland. He is famous for repairs and receives every day boots for re-soling, etc., from people living far away from Auckland. Post your repair work to Mr Le Heron. He’ll do the rest. He has an announcement on our front page to-day.

A proposal to put war tanks to commercial use in the bush has been placed before West Coast sawmillers, states the Sun (Christchurch). A bush demonstration by an armoured tank of the “whippet” class will be given at the mills during the next few weeks.. The tank will haul logs out of the bush to the lawyers. This will be the first occasion on which a tank has been working in New Zealand. The machine is controlled by one man, and is driven by benzine. The cost is approximately £IOOO. Mr H. H. Smith, the importer, is confident of the machine’s success. He has twelve other tanks on order.

It is practically certain that Pukekehe will have the continuous te'e* phone service in stalled at an early date., The agents on party lines are /hskejd to communicate direct with the pcstma’ster as their signatures are required by tthe department.

The Finance Committee was instructed at last night’s meeting of the Borough Council, to. submit estimates for, the ensuing year at the next ordinary meeting of-thq Council. At this meeting it is intended to give notice of thestriking of the rates for the year 1921-1922_

At last night’s meeting of the Borough Council, Cr. G. H. Armstrong,, chairman of the Electric Lighting Cohimittee, reported that the material had 3pri\®d; foe ; the .electric.extensions in Totara-: Avenue I and Halil-Street, He, expected that the streets . Would be .linked up within one week-. ;

To picture a hotel having a couple of thousand bathrooms :have been few years ago as a rather extravagant flight in ablutionary fiction. One of the newest New York hotfels., the Pennsylvania, has 2300 bedrooms, and each has a bathroom attached., This is not a recent development. *in America. , Every hotel With any pretensions/ ,tq; modernity that has been builtf this cehtury on. the other side of the Atlantic is so equipped,

At previous meetings of the Bor- : ough Council, th,e,-Mayor »- introduced the subject of; dkrest rbotp for ladies in’ Pukekohq. He- intended to have thte. matter seriously considered at lafel night’s meeting,. but owing to various other proposals on foot at tije . present tittne, he considered that the present was inopportune to bring the matter fonygrd. He thought it/would be better to defer consideration thereof until after the winter. Eventually the, matter was held over for three /months. > \j '

The decision of the London stipendiary magistrate that to keep a dog constantly chained is 1 Cruelty, 'and punishable as such, is a useful assertion of the ddg’s fight to some free-/ dohi and joy in existence, even if he serves the utilitarian purpose of guarding a back yard or warehouse gate. Most people have good sense and humanity enough to give their dogs some of the liberty and freedom of movement they ; themselves claim as a necessity of' life. The cruelty of constantly chaining, like most forms of ill-treatment of animals which cannot protest, is generally more a form of thoughtlessness j;han of bad, intent. It is the same insensitiveness to pain > that causes people to turn their cats adrift into the streets while houses are closed for holidays.