THE Pukekohe and Waiuku Times PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1914 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 174, 27 February 1914, Page 2

THE Pukekohe and Waiuku Times PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1914

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

" We nothing extenuate, nor set down auaht in malice."

FIRST PAGE.

I Smoke social; entertaining show

visitors. Th2 Poker.o ilax ca-e. Hill versus Dean. Plaintiff non-sjited. FOURTH PAGE. D;ury way. Quinn and People's establishment. Alleged theft; a Mercer incident. Th 3 Great South road. Problem of its upkeep. Government aid sought,

The tender of the Bookery, for the supply ot stationery to the Franklin County Council, has been accepted. To-morrow Mr J. Adams, of PukekoV.c, is to undergo an operation in a private hospital in Auckland for a broken cartilage in the knee. He will probably be laid up for a fortnight, and it is expected that it will be six weeks before he is right agab. On the 21st inst, the New Zeabnd Dairy Association, Ltd., distributed amongst its suppliers the sum of £60,436 7s 2d. This payment covered butter-fat supplied during the month of January. The corresponding payment last year was £54,795 18s lid, thus the increase for the month as compared with last year is £5640 8s 3d.

On Pukekohe bowling green during the week the untinisheJ game for the gold challenge medals, Bjrter and Graham versus J. Adams and Eames (holders), was completed. Play resumed with 15 heads gonr, the score then being: Holders 17, challengers 15. The holders won by 21 to ICJ.1 C J. The following tenders were receive i by Mr L. C. A. Potter, architect, of Pukekohe, for the cottage at Tuakau for Mr W. RipleyMcPherson and Haivey, £363, W. H. Fausett £'365, Woodbridge and Son £37?, A. E. Freeman £385, Jansen and Baird £415, S. M. Gallagher £425, Briggs and Murch £425. The tender of McPherson and Harvey has been accepted. A meeting of creditors in the estate of H. E. Brunton, hairdresser and tobacconist, ol Pukekohe, was held in Auckland on Tuesday morning, the official assignee (Mr vV. Fisher) presiding. There were only two creditors present, and the business was therefore cf an informal nature. The bankrupt's statement showed that the liabilities amounted to £353 and the assets to £255. llie latter is made up of stock-in-trade £l6O, book debts £2O, and balance from furniture availatli for creditors £75. The bankrupt eaid that he started with £4 15s in cash and £3O worth of stock, and he owed about £SO. He did well for a while, but trade declined, and his wile's illr.ess during the last two years must have cost him £25. The creditors present suggested that the assignee should proceed to realise on the assets.

As the dug tax is again due, the I'olloring reference to the habit some people have of endeavouiing to "work a point" cn the collector, from a Te Aroha paper, may be of seme use: —"Those owners of dogs who, once annually, at least, claim that their pet is one of the useful sort and can drive either sheep or cattle, will this year get a shock when the tax is collected. The question was fully discussed at the Te Aroha Borough Council's special meeting, ar.d the clerk re id the Act, showing clearly that a person claiming that his or her dog is used cxc 1 usingly lor driving sheep or cattle may be required to sign a declaration tu that effect. A person making a false declaration is subject to a tine c.f not less than £2O, or one month's imprisonment. The Council l'elt that there were so many flogs, supposed to he used exclusively for driving in Te Aroha, that it will be more satisfactory if the tax-collector be asked to require that the declaration he signed. This will probably be the means of charing our main thoroughfare of the packs that are often to be s:en, and the eels in Hit river will probably thereafter be very fat."