WAIUKU.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 2, Issue 157, 30 December 1913, Page 3

WAIUKU.

THE PICKPOCKETS. That pi kpocketa are at work in Auckland is very evident, and it behoves all visitors to be partii cuUily cartful for tome very skilful I thieves are about. On a recent visit to town Mr C. T. Barrihall, a well-known farmer from this district, was relieved of eight sovereigns in a vety smart manner. Mr Barriball had warned his son about a £5 note he was carrying, and shortly after put his band into his own pocket to get his purte only to find it gone. How it was abstracted from a deep trouser pocket without being de- > tected or felt is to Mr Barriball a j perfect mystery. HAY CROPS. Tne bad spell of weather recently has had a disastrous effect on haymaking operations. Several good crops that were cut during the wet weather were very difficult to save, and then only in a rather damaged state. H. S. LIMMER. With the continued progress of Waiuku appears a new butchery establishment. This is being opened by Mr H. S. Limmer, who has bad i eighteen years' experience at the ; trade with such well known firms as , R. Salmon and Co., Hellaby'p, and j A. Knight, besides considerable j experience in Hawke's Bay. A j section has been secured from Mr W. ( May, where an up-to-date slaughter \ house is being erected. The shop is i situated in Mr Grioble's recently j renovated block of buildings. It is neatly fitted up and has a fine marble meat shelf in the front. An office and machine room is attached at the back ot the shop. Messrs Michie and Rowe have had charge of the building operations and have completed a very satisfactory job. THE HOLIDAYS. { The holidays passed off quietly i here, and many oeople went away j to Auckland.fttJ'he usual Boxing ( Day picnic were held on j the west coirv, -whilst Waitangi* j Bay was well patronised as a r family picnic ground. j A NEW YEAR PICNIC. i The combined Sunday schools bold \ their picnic at/ Mr W. Storey's r "Forest Farm"fon New Year's l Day. I t PAINFUL (ACCIDENT. A little boy, ton of Mr and Mrs i Geo. Brown of the Waiuku Dining t Rooms, met win a painful accident 1 on Sunday through walking on a 1 brokeu bottle, which was in a boat i drawn up at the water front. Dr t Howden had to insert sevaral stitches 1 in the little fellow's foot. 1 CHRISTMAS SERVICES. ' Bright and hearty festival services r were held at Holy Trinity Church on J Christmas Day ind Sunday, the church Jaeing prettily decorated. The 1 Ven. Archdeacoi Cullwkk, of ' Melanesia, preadhed on Sunday ' morning to a large ' +! r