THE Pukekohe and Waiuku Times PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1914 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 201, 5 June 1914, Page 2

THE Pukekohe and Waiuku Times PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1914

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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Cr J. Flanagan, of Drury, has been appointed to represent the Franklin County on the advisory committee of the Pukekohe Technical School. Speaking at yesterday's meeting of the Franklin County Council the chairman (Mr Motion) said if he lived closer to Pukekohe he would attend the larmers' class at the Technical School. A public meeting of those interested in the Lawrie testimonial will be held in the Library on Monday evening, June Bth, Tha Rev. C. C. Harrisons's subject at the Men's Own meeting on Sunday afternoon in the Oddfellows' Hall will be: " Unshakable Things.'' "And yui wei'e born in Pukekohe, lived in Pukekohe and you say you can't milk'.'" a solicitor asked a witness in the Magistrate's Court at Pukekohe on Thursday. "No; I never learnt and I never intend to," was the very emphatic reply. The Rev c. C. Harrison, of Trinity Methodist Church, Kingsland, will preach in the Methodist Church, Pukekohe, on Sunday next. The morning subject will be "A Lest Christ" and the evening "Present D*y Perils." Mr Robert Warnock, who fca3 been appointed to aesut Rtv. S. Nixun, Presbyterian Minister in Charge of ths Pukekohe parish, landed in New Zealand from Scotland on Monday, and has arrived in Pukekohe. Mr Warnock will take up his duties on Sunday. The Loyal Pukekohe ledge met on Tuesday evening last, wheu a good i attendance was recorded in spite of \ tha rain. Another new member was i initiated and the secretary reported j that 24 new members had joined the I lodge since November last, and that | six members were awaiting initia- ! tion. The officers are to be congratu- ! lated on these splendid results. A case was represented to the j Franklin County Council yesterday of : a wofkman who had been unable to j get payment'for his work from his : employer, the contractor. Tee ! Council decided that they could not I legally take the contractor's deposit ; money (against which a lien had been I registered) for pavment to the workj man. As the man was said to be very hard up four councillors and I the county solicitor each put in ss, | which it wa9 hoped would relieve ] any immediate distress "The Auckland province has increased its output of dairy pro- ] ducts immensely of late year.«," I remarked Mr J. Burgess, cf Warea, I when speaking at a conference of | dairymen at Hamilton on Wednesday. j"t!ut," he asked. "ha 9 it been the i reault of better methods of dairying in such matters as hsrd testing, or has it been brought about on account of the tact that more land has been brought into occupation j for dairying'.' If the latter is the cause, add to it the former :ause and : the cu'.put will increase to such an I extent that it will follow as a

j natural sequence that you will secure j the roads of which some of you are so 1 much in need.''

The members of the commission appointed to report upon the various canal proposals to improve the inlaud waterways of the Auckland province are now in Auckland holding meetings of a private and informal nature. Yesterday afternoon the members inspected ihe route of the proposed canal between the Waitemata and Manukau harbourj by way of the Tamaki. They were accompanied by Mr W. H. Hamer, Harbour Hoard engineer, and Mr J. E. Tavlor, who hai strongly advocated this loute. Ihe Whau route is to be inspected be lore the members of the commission leave Auckland, acd it is probable that preliminary inspections oMhe Wai-kato-Manukau and the WaikatoWaihou canal routes will also be made.