LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 691, 9 December 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The fruit and confectionery business recently conducted in King St by Mr. A. Oldham has changed hands, Mr. J. Aitken being the new proprietor. Owing to the breakdown at the power house and the advisability of having to use the traction engine for pumping water purposes the work on Buckland road would have been completed this week said the Mayor at Monday’s meeting of the Borough Council.

In connection with the united effort at present being made in aid of the Church of England, Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist orphanages in the Province of Auckland and retiring collections will be made in St. Andrews Church next Sunday, and in St. Paul’s Buckland the following Sunday. Pukekohe has had a water supply for 20 years. There has b£en a reservior on the hill for a like number of years and the present Mayor of Pukekohe is an old resident of this district. At Monday’s meeting of the Borough Council his Worship revealed a secret and it Was this. “I have never seen the reservoir on the top of Pukekohe Hill”. Better go up and have a look, eh what! your Worship.

The Waikiki Hawaiians will per. form at Tuakau to-night (December 9th). The show is excellent, so do not miss it.

It was reported at Monday's’ meeting of the Borough Council that in spite of the acute position at the Power house as far as the•, water supply is concerned some people continued to use water at will, by watering gardens, and allowing hoses to run for hours. It was decided to request consumers to assist the Council to overcome the difficulty by refraining from using the water at will any one “going the limit”' will in future have the water cut -hj off. An advertisment to this effect appears in this issue. 1

The one-wheel bike, which has been on view for some time at the W.. and R. Cycle Co., King Street, has attracted a great deal of attention. The firm offered a pound to the person who could ride this machine, at the same time demonstrating that it could be rode. Numerous attempts have , been made* and now a schoolboy— Arthur Holden—claims the pound, and at 7.30 to-night the public are invited to go along to the cycle shop and see him try to earn his pound.

The break-down at the power house has disorganised the pointing works of the “Times” >to a very great degree. The running of the linotype machine by a kerosene engine has been anything but satisfactory,, and the firm has been utterly unable to xeep pace with the big rush of work which always precedes Xmas. Several replaces, which should have appeared in this issue, cou)d not be handled, likewise a deal of reading matter, reports, etc. We can assure our readers that this state of things is anything bill pleasing to us, but until the powerhouse restores its supply of energy to consumers we have tc suffer.

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