The Times. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 690, 6 December 1921, Page 4

The Times.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Published on Tuesday and Friday Afternoons. “We nothing extenuate, nor aught set down in malice.”

. ■ 1 The first aeroplane garage has made its debut in London. Skilled mechanics under qualified ground engineers make repairs “while you wait.”

The Buckland Bazaar and Sale of Work will be held in ihe Buckland Hall on Saturday, December 10th. For further information see our advertising columns.

Orders are pouring in for the limited edition of the “Times” Xmas Supplement, to be published on the 16th. To save disappointment orders should be sent in early.t The price is the usual paper price, 2d per copy.

Inventors connected with the Krupp works in Germany have brought forth a new metal known as platinum steel, which being used suc-

cessfully as a substitute for platinum, goid and f .ver in the filing of teeth.

In North Dakota •it is illegal to smoke in a hotel dining-room, cafe or a dining car in which women are present, under a law passed by the last Legislature. Both the proprietor of the place and the smoker are liable for violations.

Friday next will see a Street Stall in Pukekohe, when the local Plunket Society ladies will conduct one opposite the Bank of New Zealand. Numerous good things for sale are advertised to-day. Read how to save on your Christmas pudding.

A sick soldier was carried by air ambulance from Forks, in the Olympic Peninsula of Washington, to Camp Lewis for treatment in one day. The aviator travelled a cloud blanket on a course of 150 miles ion a day too cloudy for flying over the forests with safety.

“Here is a letter it would hardly do or us to publish,” said the patent medicine quack. “A man writes —‘l have just' taken |the first bottle of vour medicine.’ “Well!” said hi's partner. “There it breaks off (short, and is signed in another handwriting, “Per executoro. ’ Farmers and others should study H Dell and Son’s special advertisement on page eight, and note the sensational bargains offered in saddles, whips, chains, and a host of sundries A fifty per cent, drop below cost takes some beating these days.*

Record of rainfall as registered at Victoria Avenue, Waiuku,- during November, 1921. Rain fell on 16 days, the fall varied from .01 to .56 of an inch and totalled 3.03 inches. For corresponding month in years 1915, 1916,, 1917. 1918. 1919 and 1920 the register shows 5.80, 6.16, 2.83, 3.62, 2.18 and 3.89 inches respectively.

A Chicago company has put on the market a crawling yard crane. This is the ordinary locomotive crime made more useful by applying to it the mechanical locomotion used by car tanks. It can turn around in any one (Spot or in the circle of a radius equal to its own length.

As ilustrating the exaggerated importance we are likely to atltach t.o our possessions, a prayer uttered by a preacher in the Orkney Islands is quoted. These islands are only dots on the map of Great Britain, but the preacher in question was, it is said, accustomed to pray for the blessing of God upon “the people of this; land, and of the adjacent islands cf England, Scotland and Ireland.”

People passing the Mauku .school will not fail to be struck by the excellent order in which the school garden is kept- It is now a blaze of many-coloured flowers, and bears tetimony to the care that is bestowed upon it by the headmaster (Mr Moore), and the elder school children. In addition to flowers a number of ornamental trees and shrubs have been planted, and appear to be floourishing.