LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 166, 30 January 1914, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual general meeting of the Pukekohc Gun Club will be held in th2 Borough Council Chambers on Wednesday evening next. Tbe*c was a heavy fall of ram over Pukekohc district lait night which completely laid the dust and gave a much-needed drink to the thirsty land. As most of the hay is now safely in the fall will have given general satisfaction. The challenge gold medal pairs were agjin c:ntesttd this week on the Pukek-hs bowling green. The holders are J. Adams and Eamcs, and the challengers weie Lawiie and Graham. For the fi-et nine heads the game was an unusually close right, only cine single points being scored: Challengers 6, n:llers ?>. Next head the holders got in three and evened matters up. Some give and take play followed until with three heads to go the holders ltd by three. They then put on scores of I, 2 and 3, the final being: Holders 2.'S, challengers 14. "I thank heaven I'm a farmer," siid Cr D. K. Hamilton at Wednesday's meeting of the Pukekohc Borough Council. He used those words or words to that effect. Addressing a fellow councilor who wss squabbling about the evening closing time of shops Cr Hamilton continued: "You shopkeepers are about the imst eel Hah peoph I know. All the fatmera who are in competition with me can work all day and all night so far as I care. It doesn't bother me. It won't make me work any longer than 1 care to." The tone Cr Hamilton used suggested that the shopkeepers' troubles reminded him of the old story about the dog in the manner. Several tchem s for the opening of iDla r .d waterways in the Auckland district have been mentioned at intervals for a number pf years, among others there are two schemes fo conn cting the Waitemata and the Manukau Ha'bours, one by way of Tanaki and t'.e other by way of the Wh.u. There is also a proposal to coirect t?ie Waikato river with the Manukau Harbour, and still anotli-T to connect Waitemata from Riverhead, with the waters of the Kaipara. It is now the intention of the Government to set up a Koyal Commission to report upon the practicability ot the schemes. The Right Hon. W. F. Massey stated on Wednesday that nothing had been done aa yet with regard to the pppointment of the commission; but he is awaiting a communication from the Auckland Harbour Board, and #hen he 'received it the members of the commission would be appointed within a few weeks. It was intended to appoint as commissioners two experts who had some experience of inland waterways.