LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 1, Issue 70, 21 February 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is pleasing to be able to record | the fact that the condition of Mrs H. Biunton, who recently underwent a serious illne;s, is much improved. At trie last meeting of tiie Auckland Education Board Miss E. M. Short was temporarily appointed to the Patum ihoe School, in the absence of an assistant. A Minstrel Concert is to be given on the o easion of too flight of the new then re in Puket'oh?. Those who are willing to as.-.ist iti the choruses a-e invit d t<- meet in the Library on Saturday evening. The idea of municipal! ing the loca! salcyards is leing actively can vasted a:d on Mordny evening, March 3 d, an extraordinary meeting of numbers of the Pukekohe Chamber of Commerce is to he held to discuss the question. Preparatory work is being actively carried out at the Showgrounds to provide for next week's exhibition of Franklin's live stock. The pens are beiriJ repaired wherever thev are broken and a general cleaningup is being made.

On account of the Pukekohe Show Buck 1 ind and .So is' .yVaiuku Sale has been postponed from March Ist to March Bth.

The pillar-box at the Pukekohe dairy factory is r>ow cleared d.iiy a ! . 1 o'clock, instead of at 5 ','Jork as futmerly. It was considered that the clearance in the middle of the day wculd be a much more suitable time than th? evening service. Whilst out exercising ore of his horses this morning Mr W, G. Abbott, of the Pukekohe Hotel, had the misfo.tui.e tj be thrown from the tiap in which hj: was driving, sustaining a lew r.asty abniii .ns and a broken l.'ft arm. the break was a bad or.e and Mr Abbott was Tiotared to Auckland to have the iujury attended to.

l'he following t c am will represent the Pukekohe Lawn let., is Club agairst Papakura, at t> morrowHopkins, Cargill, ..orbett, Johns, Carroll, Beckett, Mesdames Bockett, Bailey, Curi and Miss G. Bilkty. The team will leave by the 12.50 train.

t he telephone service at Pukekohe cjntinues to grow. Since the recent campaign new .-üb-cribers others have come on naturally a:,d now all the important businesses an.i oliices are attach dto the exchange. Tnere are at present iifty-jjx on the list a.id three more are waiting for the installation to lie made.

There hive been some changes in the Pukekohe telephone exchange. Miss Poland has been transferred to Auckland and her place has been filled by Mr E. Hyan, who ins b2cn perrnaneritly appointed as telephone clerk. Mr Ryan was formerly a letter cjnier in Pukekohe, and if he fulfils his duties in the bureau with as m.cii credit aa he acted as letter-car ier there will be nothing but praise for him in hie new position

We are informed thai there is u> present possibility of having Pckekohe created ss Ue municipal authority to conduct the election for the Manukau and Franklin representatives on the Auckland Harbour Board, the reason bsing that the Marine Department has already taken steps for the appointment (f the Otahuhu Borough Council. It id understood, however, that in any future electims Pusekohe is to have ;ts turn as "principal authority."

The seven-to-ei.ht p.m. telegraph service in Pukekohe hai not been very well patroni ed and the postal people ate thinking of cl .sing during that evenbig hour. Of course, with the eytended telephone hours the need for the telegrah office being opened at night is i.ot so pre at as it would cth.twise have hetn. At the Faxe time the Chamber of Commerce ought to r.consid.r the matte', ns it would be a pity to lose the service if there is any chance of it a tusiness necessity in the- n.ar futire.

Som? time ago the Ctiamber of Commerce asked f.>r extended conveniences for the despatch of small parcels frr-m the Pukekohe Post Offi:p. Hitherto it Jtas impossible to get a parcel aws-y by the tarlj morning post unless handed in to the officj before 5 o'clock pm. and in a number of cases, narticolarlv in connection with chemists' go::ds, iru:h inconvenience was caused. With the general uvertraul now taking; place at the Post Office the nnw?p3pur apjitur.? ha 3 hren enlarged so as to take moderate-size;! parcels, 'this represents another small step forward. "The Fall of Robtspie;re" is o-ie of the finest historical films tha famous Pathe Freres have ever presented. 'the French Revolution provide inexhaustihla materi.l for the novelist and the living picture photographer. The sudden defcent of " Ihe Incorruptible" from the zenith of his power to the guillotine provides the ttuine of a great historical drama. This will be the principal film at ihe All Pictures on Monday night, but others cf more than usual interest will be "From 0.-urich Egg to Feather Boa" and "A Thousand Miles Through the Rockies."

The VVaiuku railway has been again brought tc prominence by the visit tu VVaiuku of Messrs Wither and Hall-Jones, of the Public ]Jcpart'uent Their office from the Govcrr.ii.ent \i to make an inspection of the surveyed route -jf the railway Some time ago, during the course of a speech. Mr Massey pointed out that entirely ne# surveys mighi be rendered necessary, in view of the changes in settlement that had taken place. What the representatives of t.:e Department are deputed to do is to view the proposed route a,-id determine what improvements, if any, can be made. After being shown the beauties and productiveness of Wai uku district tnL officers expressed themselves as bein« wry well pleased. Mr Hall-Jones, i' is understood, is to commence the laying oil oi tiie line from ihu Prorata