LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 170, 13 February 1914, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

This morning, the town clerk, Mr J. F, Deane, resumed office duties after an absence caused by illness. In reply to a telegram from tho Mayor, tho Right lion. W. F. Massey has wired >aying that he will bo pleased to receive a deputation in Pukekohe on Thursday morning next iu connection with the reservation of Kooso'B bush as a scenic reserve.

At Wednesday night's meeting of the Borough Council the Mayor expressed the opinion "that the ratepayers wtie a pretty ungrateful lot." "Oh, you've just found that out'.'" remarked Cr Patterson. And a smile went round the Council table.

The Prime Minister (the Right Hon. W. F. Massey), accompanied by the Minister for Railways (the Hon. W. H. Hcrries) and the Hon. Or Pomare, left Auckland on Tuesday on a tour of the East Coast districts. Mr Massey delivered a political address at Te Aroha on Tuesday night. A match will be played at the Pukekohe courts on Saturday between the Pukekohe and Mauku Lawn Tennis Clubs. P.ay is to commence at 12 o'clock. The following is th€ PuKekohe team:-Johns, Wake, Barker, Curd, Willid, Maxwell, Comrie, Motion, Mesdames Bayly, Motion, Johns, Grigor, Misses Bilkey and Coster. Mr F. E. Simpson, land and estate agent, cf Pukekohe, has removed his office to the ground floor buildings in King street lately occupied by the Franklin County Council. Mr Simpson advertises some district snips on cage 4 to-day. One is an 86 acre farm in Pukekohe, another a JSO acre tarm at Waiau, and still anoiher 107 acre Waiau farm. These are only a few samples but Mr Simpson's land and property list is an extensive one.

Proceedings have been instituted by the Aucklar.d Acclimatisation Society with a view to restraining a sawmiller at Mercer from discharging sawdust into the Waikato river. In advising the council of the society of the steps which had been taken, the president, Mr W. H. Hazard, reported that the miller had refused to meet the request of the society, and had intimated that if it persisted in its demand, the timber and flax millers would combine to tight it on the question. A complaint was received by the council that pollution by refuse from mills was injuring the fishing in the Mangapehi Btream. Consideration of this matter was deferred pending the hearing of the action in the Mercer case.

At Tuesday's meeting of the Manukau County Council a letter was received from the Prime Minister who wrote asking for a statement of the position with regard to the CJreat South road, as for example, between the Borough of Otahuhu and Drury. He wished to know particularly whether the county had had any assistance for the purpose of improving the road from the public funds, (since the county hal taken it over. The clerk said that he had replied 10 the effect that the Council had not as vet received any Government grant for the improvement of the road, but that a small sum had been allocated by the Department.

For supplying one dozen photographs to order, Harold Silverston, a travelling photographer, sued W. Adamson, coachbuilder, of Waiuku, for the sum of £2 5a 6d The defence was that the photographs were not up to the standard of samples shown, and l'uither, that defendant had the power to refuse acceptance if the photographs were not, in his opinion, satisfactory. Expert evidence was called by plaintilF to show that the photographs were, iu view of the altered conditions, as good in workmanship and effect as the samples. Mr Kettle, in giving judgment, said it was a pity the case was brought into Court and eo much expense incurred. It would have been better to have referred the matter to an independent photographer of standing. The photographs were, in his opinion, reasonably Rood, and further, there was nothing in the contract between the parties to suggest that defeudant had power to refuse the photographs at will. Judgment was given for plaintiff for £2 bs tid, with costs.