LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 1, Issue 9, 8 May 1912, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe Borough Council holds its first meeting- to-night. At the T0.0.F. social the prize winners wore Miss L. Blake and Mr P. Howe, Miss M. O'Connor and Mr •f. Beatty. Capital musin was supplied hy Mr McMahon.

Nominations to till a vacancy on the Pukekohe West R >ad Board on Friday at noon. Tiie Bombay bucuers, Messr 8 Ingrain Brothers, no>v have an advertisement ruuning in our columns. Delivery carts run daily throughout the district aud customers are assured of prompt and careful attention. The resignation of Miss R. Beabl e > assistant teacher at Aka Aka, appe irs in the latest li»t, and the appointment of Miss 0. 0. Foster as temporary assistant at Waiuku. Mr G. Smith, Cheap Draper, formerly of Papakura, puts a business proposition to the people of Waiuku. He gives particulars of some special lines in his advertisement on page 4. Pukekohe West Road Board ratepayers were so engrossed with the municipal elections last Wednesday that they did not turn up to the annual meeting of ratepayers, which consequently lapsed. Tiiere were thirty representative persons at Monday night's meeting of the Pukekohe Chamber of Commerce. The mepting was most enthusiastic. Mr H. F. Webster was elected President. Earlier in the evening the School Committee met. Both reports are held over. The All Star electric pictures continue to provide instruc ion and amusement It would be a very difficult matter to select finer programmes than the proprietor, Mr Coyle, puts oa. From an educational point of view the pictures vividly pourtray industrial and scenic life and teafch more in a few minutes than pages of wor.l-painting could do in as many hours The All Star pictures may very properly be regarded as the window of the world, and with the complete changes of programmes the management deserves a liberal patronage. Mr James B. Brown, of Pukekohe, corrects a report which appeared last week from our Tuakau correspondent. Thirty years ago Mr Brown lived in Tuakau and, he s iys, there was no brass band there then. With Mr James Poland (who died in South Africa), Mr Brown was trustee for the TuakHU Drum and Fife Band and on July 30, 1884. they paid into the Auckland Savings Bank the sum of £4. We have seen this book, which has neither had interest added to it in the books nor been deducted from. Mr Brown says that so far as he knows there is no account anywhere for a bauk account for Tuakau showing such a suin (£67) to its credit as was mentioned in the " Times." The sale of land in Auckland by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, in connection with Messrs Buckland and Sons and Vaile and Sous was very successful. The property was a block of about 1,000 acres of what is wellknown as the Karaka Land Company's Estate, at Karaka. about three miles ftom Runciman. The sections in the homestead block realised from £ll to £l6 per acre, and were eagerly sought. A block of partly improved lmd was also offered, two of the sections being sold at £9 and £9 ss. par acre and two or three other sections are now under offer. There was a very large attendance of the public, an I bidding was brisk. The value of the land sold was £12,000. The subdivision of this estate will bp, no ,d'>ubt, of great benefit to the district, th ' laud being within eat»y distance to bo h creamery and railway station and tue public school is quite close to several of the sectious sold. I'he new settlers will find that at Runciman there is every facility in the way of p >stal arrangements, and a telephone bureau, which ,is a necessity in these busy days. Some further verbal passages occurred at the last meeting of the Waikato River Board. The Chair(Mr Glass) accused Mr Wily of quibbling and of obstructing " I will be glad to help whenever I can see that a proposal is good," said the representative from Mauku. Mr Gallery : "Mr Wily has said that he is trying to abolish the Board." Mr Hill: Mr Wily reminds me of a Clergyman who rushes into trouble first and reasons afterwards. Mr Glass (not to Mr Hill): " Oh, you're tilking through your neck." Later on Mr Glass said : " We girt on very well before you cam* 1 and now you are just bringing in these quibbling things." " Excuse me, Mr Chairman," replied Mr Wily "but these are Mr Walker's motions." If we had room and inclination we could give a most diverting account of the proceedings. But we have even to hold over really important discussions on rating and other questions. These will appear next week and every ratepayer in the Waikato River Board area should read the report. Are you on our subscription list? The Franklia Circuit of the Methodist Church held its quarterly meeting on April 3rd, at Pukekohe, ! with representatives present from all parts of the circuit. The Rev. George Bond (Auckland), retiring chairman of the Auckland District, presided. The church membership had increased to 178, and progress was also reported in the number of the scholars in the Sunday Schools. Tbe balance-sheet revealed a credit balance of £7 2s 2d. Discussion took place on the proposed union of the Methodist Church in New Zealand with the Primitive Methodist Church, and.the voting was unanimously in favour of the union.