LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 694, 20 December 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The “Times” will be published on Friday next, 23rd December, and will not be published again until Tuesday, 3rd January. Advertisers please note this arrangement. Replaces for Tuesday, 3rd! of January, cannot be accepted owing to limited time in publishing paper.

We understand the New Zealand Cc-operative Dairy Co., Ltd, acting on advice received from London, has decided to pay the following advances for November: Is for butter, Is Id for cheese, Is Id for dried skim milk, and Is 3y 2 d for glaxo.

A meeting of onion growers will be held in the Franklin A. and P. offices on Wednesday, December 21st, at 8 p.m. All growers should make a special effort to attend, as the matterl of exporting onions to Vancouver will be discussed.

Mr Harnish, postmaster, of Waiau Pa, sustained painful injuries to his left hand last week. Whilst liberating a x horse which had been Caught in a baarbed wire fence he got two fingers caught, and these were badly torn about.- He is at present 1 in Pukekohe, undergoing medical treatment, and is progressing ing satisfactorily.

The name Todd is as famous in tailoring as Singer is in sewing machines. The public will be interested in the announcement appearing on another page stating 'that Todd, late oi . Otahuhu, will open an up-to-date tailoring and gent’s wear establishment in Fear’s buildings, King Street. The advertisement states he can save from £3 Ito £5 per suit. Read the advertisement.

Does ft pay to advertise- Yes, if one has the goods at the right price. A few days ago H. Dell, saddler, of this town, advertised a line of whips, saddles, and sundries at very cheap prices. The result was astounding, orders came from Hauraki, Papakura, Otahuhu, Waiuku, Mercer, and all around the district. The goods were sold rapidly. When you have something good to offer take |Jberal space in the “Times,” and let the folk know. It pays !

On Saturday, December 10th, Mr A. C. B, Baigent,, sawmiller, of Patumahoe, met with a painful accident. It appears that he was working at the mill and. his left hand became entangled fin some belting. The hand! was badly torn about and crushed, the arm being broken and severely injured under the arm pit. He was attended by Dr CgmpbellSmith, and removed to Burwood Private Hospital, Pukekohe, where he is progressing as well as can be expected.

At the sitting of the Magistrate’s Court on Thursday last, before Mr E. W. Burton, S.M., Mrs Emily Moreland, of Auckland, claimed from H. J. Rollinson of Pukekohe, possession of a certain tenement, being rooms and premises situated in West Street, Pukekohe, and known as O’Connor’s buildings. It was claimed by plaintiff that the tenancy had been determined liy a legal notice to quit. After hearing evidence the Magistrate gave judgment for plaintiff, defendant being ordered to quit on February 12th, 1922. Mr W. I • Hopkins appeared for plaintiff and Mr H. G. R. Mason for defendant.

The question of the Pukekohe Borough Council taking steps to acquire that strip of land on the town side of the reservoir on Doctors Hill, and adjoining Roose’s Busn, was brought up at the last meeting oi the Borough Council by Cr J. Patterson, who claimed that the piece of land under consideration was the pick of the property. It wou! t be a pjity if the opportunity to buy it was lost. He thought that the Coernment should be approached with a ijiew of obtaining a subsidy oi a free grant. Papakura could get Government assistance, why not Pukekohe, he asked. At the Mayor’s request, Cr Patterson moved th-'t fa-

ther consideration of the matte 1 ' ni ' deferred until the January meeting. This was agreed to.

The ; proprietor of the. Carnival Tea Rooms announces in this issue that on Friday and Saturday nights, and New Year's Eve, suppers, etc., and Pukekohe specials, will be available. See the advertisement.

Mr J. Herbert, Pukekohe East, intimates in this issue that he is prepared!. to undertake all classes of brick-laying and plastering. Tiling, bakers’ ovens, and boiler-work is a specialty.

" Numerous complaints have from time to time reached the police relative to breaches of (the Borough bylaws, and from now on it is their intention to rigidly enforce these bylaws. Persons driving vehicles should take this warning, study the by-laws, otherwise. legal proceedings may follow.

Our contemporary, the “Waiuku News” claims that “Waiuku is ahead of Pukekohe in most things. See that they keep ahead where the Band is concerned.” We will go as fat; as admitting that the “Waiuku News” is ahead of us in one respect, and that is using the scissors. Regularly our contemporary, upon receipt of “The Times,” clips from our columns reports of important meetings, and does so without even acknowledgment.