LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 227, 4 September 1914, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr J. Wyli?, ex-president of the Franklin A. and P. Societv, has bean appointed as a member of the pretest and general cjmmittce, set up by the Agricultural Societies' Conference which met in Auckland on Tuesday. The Rev. G. Frost, who has been suffering from larr.ygitis, has gor.e to Te Aroha for a few days' change. Uunng hii abaence the pulpit of the Methodist Church will be supplied hy students from the Methodist Theological College, Auckland. " The road was not fit to ride a horse along,'' remarked a defendant to Mr Fra/er, S.M., during the hearing of a charge of riding on the footpath at the Pukekohe Court yesterday. " And if you lide horses along the footpath it won't be fit for a person to walk on," was the magisterial reply.

For dairy farmers in the South Auckland district there has been a "golden'' lining to their war cloud. The New Z aland Dairy Association, Limited, has just distributed i"JO,:iBG los sd, covering shareholders' tnnus upon past season's supply, payment of dividend, and for July supply of butter-fat. '1 he similar payments which were made at this time last year totalled ill.GO,*' 2s tid, this being an increase of .tSTTS 10s 1 Id.

At yesterday's meeting cf the Franklin County Council each councillor's papers were loaded down with a lump of metal Ihese had been brought to the mretirg by Cr Lyons from the Mercer stone quarry, in order that councillors might examine the quality of the material. Some tnr.e ago an engineer declared that this stone was as good as any that existed in New Zealand.

()n IVidav, 1 Itli in-t ,J. S de Moiitalk and Co. have been instructed by Mi W. Thomas, cabinetmaker, ol Pukekohe, to s"ll by auction his stock of new and up-to-date furniture. The l!i;S I' k-p'oii :1 11,f h.ini !11 Ni-u Zealand, hinioek's Swan brand. < >I• tainable from I'. I'LKKINS ,v ( Pukekohe.