DISTRICT NEWS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 217, 31 July 1914, Page 3

DISTRICT NEWS.

MERCER.

A BROKEN LEG. An accident occurred at Mercer on Wednesday, the victim being John Coyle, a stevedore, 50 years of age, who resides in North street, Wellington. m Coyle missed the second express, and while running after the train, fell over the canr.ecting rods of the interlocking signs I system and sustained a broken leg. The police took the injured man to the Auckland hospital.

PAPAKURA.

OUR BEACH

Ihe efforts of the Papakura Town Board have at last been crowned with success. At the last meeting of the Auckland Harbour Board it was decided to vest the required area of beach on the Manukau harbour in the Papakura Town Board, the bearh to be used for pleasure purposes.

TUAKAU.

THb TOWN BOARD. The Town Board has advanced another stage. Mr A. H. Tapper, who has been appointed returning officer, has fixed the day for the election of the seven commissioners as September 10tb, and the last day for receiving nominations as September 9tb. There are many rumours abroad as to who vill be the aspirants for scats on the first Board. Should only half of what the man in the street says be true, the number required will be exceeded, and there should be considerable excitement over the election. Now that the date of the polling is actually determined, we may look forward to «aspirants definitely announcing their candidature. A USEFUL IMLPEMENT.

It is a tribute to Tuakau and to Messrs W. Cole and Pirret Bros, that their invention of a young fiuit tree digger should have acquired a reputation outside the district. On Wednesday Messrs Pirret Bros., who are the manufacturers of this useful appliance, forwarded one to Messrs U. Hay and Son, of New Lynn.

Opunake natives prepared for a tangi on Saturday over a deceased native. On Sunday the "dead man" came to life again, and the sorrowing rites had to he postponed. A bullock had been slaughtered for the occasion and a quantity of provisions obtained to provide for a number of visiting mourner*. A native was questioned as to what they would do with the Htock of provisions: "Oh, we eat him, he die once, he no live now."