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Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 671, 4 October 1921, Page 4

At the Tuakau yards on Friday next, 7th inst., Dalgety and Co. will offer a fine selection of cattle, hoggets and sundries. Particulars are advertised in this issue.

In our report of the Franklin Schools’ Sports meeting, we omitted to mention the promoters’ thanks to the New Zealand Dairy Company (Mr J. G. Ward, manager) for supplying milk.

The official opening of the Pukekohe Bowling Club’s green for the 1921-1922 season takes place on Saturday next at 2.15 p.m. All bowlers and their friends are cordially incited to attend.

The Pukekohe Bowling Club has just had erected a pavilion for, the ladies; at the south-western end of the croquet lawn. This little structure will no doubt be greatly appreciated by members of the Croquet Club.

The Mayor (Mr J. Routly)-, and the Town Clerk (Mr J. F. Deane) left Pukekohe on Sunday night by the Main Trunk Express for Wellington, to attend the Municipal Conference. They expect to be away about a week.

There is in the course of erection, a photographic studio on the southern side of Messrs J. W. Andrew and Son’s Ford garage, in Hall Street. The building is being erected by Mr Dickson, of Drury, for Mr Hardy, of Pukekohe.

Members and intending members of the Pukekohe Bowling Club,with their lady friends, are invited to a ladies’ afternoon on the bowling green on Thursday next at 2 p.m. sharp. Ladies are requested to bring their tennis shoes. This event will be the forerunner to many similar events during the season.

This week’s issue of the Sporting and Dramatic Revew has an abundance of illustrations that will commend it to the general public. Events depicted are the Interprovincial Rugby Football match betwen Southland and Hawke’s Bay, the Wanganui Jockey Club’s spring meeting, the Avondale Jockey Club’s spring meeting, and the Ladies’ Hockey Tournament at Palmerston North. The Cowes regatta in England is the subject of a specially attractive series, and a frontispiece of. Mischa Levitzki makes up an excellent publication.

In reference to the big spider mentioned in last issue of the Times, the curator at the Museum says:— “The spider brought under my notice, so far as I know, has no local or Maori name. It is, however, -he largest spider in New Zealand, and it has the scientific name of Porrothele Huttoni, the latter part of the name being given in compliment to the late Captain Hutton, who was the first to bring it under the notice of scientific men. It s not uncommon in the forest but is solitary in its habits, and does not spin any web, but catches its prey by hunting for it.”

After nearly 15 years 7 service with the Valuation Department, Mr E. Morgan, district valuer, is retiring on superannuation. He is a native of , Pukekohe, and before joining the department was farming in Papakura Valley and Taranaki. On the eve of his retirement he was presented by his colleagues and the office staff with a pair of prismatic binoculars Joining the department in March, 1907 ,Mr Morgan took control of the Counties of Rodney, Waitemata and Manukau, the islands in the gulf, and the Great Barrier. Town districts have been created and extended, boroughs have been formed, and the County of Manukau, which was then under road board control, has been divided, and now forms the Counties of Manukau and Franklin. Th districts latterly under Mr Morgan’s charge comprise the Counties of Franklin, Manukau, Waitemata, and Great Barrier Island, the Boroughs of Pukekohe, Otahuhu, and Takapuna, the town districts of Mercer. Tuakau, Waiuku, Papakura, Manurewa Papatoetoe, Helensville, New Lynn, and the new district of Glen Eden, the road districts of Orapiu and Os tend, and all the islands in the gulf.

An unusual incident occurred recently on Mr Adamson’s farm, Pukekohe East, when young Adamson was trapping hawks. He caught forty of the birds, and among them was one which had an oval-shaped leather tag cn its leg, which must have been on for some years, as it fitted quite tightly around the leg. It would appear that this leather tag at one ■time had had brass or other metal name-plate attached to it, but this has been lost. From appearances it is evident that this tag must have been placed on the hawk’s leg when it was a youngling. It would be interesting to know if anyone in the district remembers or knows of the placing of this tag on the bird. The tag will be on view at the Times Oil ice for a few days, when those interested can view same if desired.