LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 158, 2 January 1914, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Huntly mines are to re-open next week.

The postal business at Pukekohe during the holiday season has entablished an easy record for a fortnight's work. The summer appears to have come at last, and those niiadow crops that were backward have ripened quickly during the past week or two.

During ths Christmas and New Year holidays the police in Pukekohe have had an easy time, so far as the preservation of order was concerned. Only a couple of first-offending inebriates were arrested and both were convicted and discharged.

A meeting of farm labourers in the Wellington district was held on Saturday, when it was decided to form a rural iabourers union, to include ploughmen, milkers, musterers, packmen, shepherds, bushcutters, fencers, threshing mill employees, and generil farm labour. A committee was set up to draft rules to be submitted to a further meeting.

In bowling it is a well-known thiDg that because A boats B and B beats C there is noj guarantee that A can boat C. Tho tournament team from Pukekohe defeated the only rink that dofeated the section winner. Similarly in the singles tournament Watson boat Rankin, who lod for the final of B section, but Eamcs (Pukekohe) was able to hold Wat*on in hand.

In the Pukekohe Magistrate's Court a man who had been arrested to: being drunk explained that the festive season was not responsible for his looking upon the beer wnen it was brown. As a matter of fact he was roping a .£6 cow and the animal, running to the end of its tether in a wild endeavour to escape, was stopped with a sudden jerk and a broken neck. "Six pounds for the cow," said the presiding J.P., "£1 to get drunk and a fine of £1 will make it £B." But the remark was by way of being magisterial humour for no tine was imposed. "Convicted and dicharged,'' was the verdict.

The following are tlio payments , made for butter-fat for the month of November by some of the 'principal j dairy factories of Taranaki, the ! figures in parentheses being the pay- i ments made for the corresponding period of last year: Mangorei, £4.539 8s l>d (£.">611 .">s 7d); Warea, j £2123 6s (id :is 7d): Rahotu, £2140 0s 'Jd (£1827 18s lOd); Oak- ! ura, £1777 is 6d v £1603 Is 3d): Omata, £1230 3s Hd (£!'•> 1 'is Id) : j Tarurutangi, £789 -1? 10<1 (£ 10"J 8s ! lid.) . | The Loval Pukekolic Lodge (Man- i cheater Unity) held their regular ! meeting on Tuesday evening and > arranged the handbook programme j of events for the coming twelve months. I'rominent on the programme are musical evenings and I ladies' nights, and it is the intcn- j tion of the new officers to make I these social functions thoroughly I successful. After the meeting was I over the officers entertained the i members to supper and an enjoyabie time was spent. Mr Eame>, <•[ Pukekuhe, wliu was i the snle country representative at the single-handed bowling championship tournament, beguu in Auckland on New Year's Day, was defeated in his section, winning two and losing three games. He lost to Needham v Dominion Road) 23—12 : to Rankin v M'>unt Eden 21 —l6 : to 1 Fookes J'onsonby, 26—18. His wins wore against 13all (Auckland j , —l4, and against Watson' (Mount Eden) I(>— 12. This section j was played on Remuora greeu which i was in a very ragged condition after I tho previous week's tourniiinent.