LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 1, Issue 57, 7 January 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

All over the countryside, in paddeck anl garden, the cockstoot seed is now rip?. Although nothing like an industiy is made of it, a good deal of seed in small lots is threshed. Reports from all directi3ns go to show that the heavy winds lately experienced have worked a lit of damage amongst fruit trees, the pround in many canes having; been literally covered with windfalls. Some people have queer ideas of what (on'titutes a pracucal joke. At Hastings on New Yew's Eve somebody turned off the town supply at the reservoir. Pleasant thing if a fire had broken out. The waim weather after the rain hr.s brought tha oat ard crops well forward and a number of crops are still standing that ought to be in stook. A week's fine weather would do much towaids completing the harvesting.

A committee meeting of the PukekHhe Borough Council was held on Saturday night—present the Mayor (Mr Lawrie), Crs Hamilton, Hart, Bilkey and Pollock. G. G. Honey, of Waiuku, who had tendered for crushing metal, did not complete his contract to do the work and the crushing, which was for 3000 yaids, was therefore let to P. McSheen, who also has the spawling contract. The outsiandiig film at the All Star Pictures on Monday was "The Great Round-up at Pendleton, Oregon. ' Not only was it a remarkable piece of living photography, but it conveyed an exc ll<?nt idea of the skill of thH American cowboy in handling horbes and cattle The other pictures were varied, and all were interesting. On Wednesday night a special programme is being submitted. Ttie principal film is a detective melodrama, "The Eye that Never Sleeps.'' "The Melbourne Cup of lyl2" will be shown from the start to th 3 fininb. Other dramas are: "A Just Verdict," "A Lion's Revenge," "Nemesis," whilst there are numer-' ous comics of a particularly diverting nature.

Th2 Pukekihe Borough Ccuncil is still enjoying iti longest period of iest from public meetings since the establishment of the horcugh. It me-ta again on Wednesday evening, next week. Meanwhile, of coun 3 , committee work and the gtn-:ral administration of thebirough is being attended to. A Tuakau resident states that rabbits are becoming very troublesome iu that distiici. It ii related that the occupier of a small patch carried out a campaign of destruction, and having ciea'ed his rdents out he sowed oats with 6ome confidence. The oats a;peared—but so did the neighbours' rabbits, and the paddock was eaten out. He then gave up. He suggests that farmers in the district ought to co-operate and take united and decisive steps to deal with the pssts new, before they multiply any farther.