LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 742, 27 June 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe produce growers and friends are lemindcd that the Association’s euchre tournament and dance takes place on Friday evening next in the Oddfellows’ Hall;.

At the ;lasit meeting of the Borough Council it was reported tnat arrangements had been made) to procure a motor reel for Fire Brigade purposes. .This fact should be geatly 'appreciated by the firemen and the general public.

At the last meeting of the executive of the Franklin A. and P Society a vote of sympathy with Mr Arnold Logan was passed. It will be recollected that Mr Logan sustained a fractured leg in the football match (Franklin v. Hamilton) played on Winter Show day. Mr Logan is progressing as well as can be expected.

“Small wages and a permanent job are far beitfter than a person Iboking for a position that carries with ic big wages without success ’— a female witness ait' the Magistrates Court on Thursday. These age the truest words uttered for a long time. If these words were put into practice by a large number in this and other counries,. who are at present faced with unemployment and who are causing the Governments much concern,, it would be far better for the countries as a whdle. At present we are passing through a black cloud that has a silvel* lining, and if only those unemployed, would work for small wages and ithus “keep the home fires burning,” for* a short while, the dark cloud would disperse 'and tht sooner would he better itimes, which have loomed up, approach at a quicker pace. Those who help themselves will, in most cases, receive assistance from Others. This is 'the expedience of many people throughout this great big wide world o,f ours, and an experience that should be followed by many to-day who will not work because the wages are not high enough.

An advertisement re the proposed £IO.OOO loan for completion of Papakura wafer supply, appears in today’s issue and should be read by all interested.

On Wednesday, July sth, a grand military ball will be held in the - Mauku Victory’ Hall by the 3rd Troop C. Squadron, A.'JVLR. A special orchestra has been engaged and with a splend’d floor an enjoyable evening should result.

A deputation from! the PukekoheSchool Committee, consisting*; of Messrs J. W. Johns and J*. BJiS'm, wafted on the Borough Council its* last meeting with reference to an account for over £27 for water consumed at the school. They requested a redudtion, if possible, in the amounts It was pointed out that during the period from .the time *the school re—poened aflter the summer vacation up to the present, 'about four and a half monhs, over 300,000 gallons of water had been As there is a roll number of about 400 children, it would appear from -the figures that the children attending Pukekohe school are a thirsty Sot. lib was emphasised that the school authorities should exercise greater car®and see that the taps were turned off before leavfijng the school and: thus eliminate the waste as far as. possible, because there was a wastage, through a tap running continuously for several days. It was sugegsted to the committee’s representatives that a tap should be boxect in, so that the supply could be cut off by someone in authority. Howeverthe maltter was referred to the engineer for a report to be submitted at next 1 meeting. At ‘the Magistrate's Court on Thursday last, before Mr E„ W. Burlofy S.M., an application was mad® by Mrs Mary Dix for a prohibition order to be issued against her husband, George Arthur Dix, who was represented by Mr J. G. Haddow. Applicant stated that her husband had been drinking on and off for the past 11 years. When under the .influence he used very bad language, but when he was sober ha was a good husband. She had 9 children, six of whom were dependent on her. •jibe language used by’ Dix was cruel. A mother could not rear children when their father used such language. Dix was a hard worker, .but would not keep ia billet. He was very sparing with hiat^sh r and since the beginning of tseyear she had only received £7 15s of it. The rent amounted to £4B a year, and husband was in debt before she married him, ar.d lie has been in debt ever since. He did not pay ‘all his earnings away in liquidation of accounts, but half of it was “needed Ito quench his thirsti” Defendant objected to the issue of an order prohbiting him, from taking a wee drop. He claimed that he did not waste his estate or injure his health, nor did he drink excessively. During the ?ast| six weeks he did not spend 5s ora dn:nk< During the present year he had earned £56 0s 4«, ana had paid the bills with it;. Abortt 15s a month went towards the purchase of tobacco and smokes. His better half was a good wife, only she nad one fault—she had a tongue. She “nagged” at him night and day. Faults were on both sides. He would take a IoS of the blame but was not responsible for the whole. The trouble did not arise over drink—-it arose over a continual nagging by the applicant. He would not deny he used bad language but did not use the “kerosene’* language as stated by. his ,wife. She could swear, too.. Her nagging cau-* sed him to use the vauguaga. In the* tongue business he would back his* wife against anybody. The Magis- * trate said he believed the trobie* arose over an .infirmity* of the gue. He had bad a sample of it thatH morning (Mrs Dix repeatedly inter-■ rupted.) He thought. there wereß fault on both srdes, and dismissed the application. ■