LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 687, 25 November 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Chamber of Commerce will meet in the secretary’s office on Monday evening. A good attendance is requested.

Readers should certainly read the “Potato Patch” in this issue. The subjects touched upon by the whimsical “Digger” are quite dverse and equally interesting.

Another sign of tfye progress of ithe town is evidenced in the two handsome shops being erected for Mr R. G. V. Fear in K : ng Street. The gaps in thi,s street are filling up.

Attention is drawn to the closing meetings (advertised on front page) of the Cameron-Woods mission, to which all are heartily invited. Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings, and Sunday afternoon, Salvation Army Hall, Pukekohe.

Readers will be pleased to note that we have completed arrangements with Mr P. Virtue, manager of the Northern Roller Mills, Auckland, to publish all of his whimsical and inspiring advertisements which he addresses to “My People” from time to time. The first will appear on Tuesday next.

As showing what can he done in quite a small way to beautify business premises, we urge everyone to note the neat little flower gardens, full of gay flowers, in front of John W.. Andrew’s Pukekohe garage. Here is an object lesson for the Beautifying Society.

The scarlet titree at Garden Place is attracting considerable attention. This plaint was brought from Chvistchurteh seven years ago, and is at present a mass of scarlet bloom. The botanical name of it is Leptospermum Nicholli, and it was .discovered in the McKenzie Country about ten years go by a shepherd named Nichol. The one in Hamilton is the best specimen in New Zealand to-day. —Waikato Times.—Mir E. Allan,, the well-known Buckland nurseryman, had on exhibition at the recent St. Andrew’s Flower Show, a splendid bunch of the scarlet titree.

At Monday’s meeting of the Manurewa Town Board, a resident on the Great South Road, in the Town Board’s district, claimed £1 from the Beard foi* scraping and! painting a gate which was spattered with tarwhile the street wais being tarred and sanded. The foreman stated that the damage was not done by the Load s employees. Some children caused the damage by dipping sticks into the tar and dabbing it on the gate. There was very littlie damage. Mir M. D. King remarked: “It is a good job the ladies now-a-days do not wear long dresses, because if they did they would get them covered with tar. The inference is that the ladies at the present time wear thejr dresses too short. If everyone adopted strict economy as ladies do, that is as far as their dress is concerned, the country would successfully overcome the cloud of financial stringency which hangs low at the present t;rne. Dress materials are expensive, and u laaies wore longer dresses, the cost of these would be greater.

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