LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 250, 24 November 1914, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Train arrangement- in connection | with the Auckland Agricultural I Show are announced in this issue in j«our advertising columns. The Returning Officer for Franklin Mr \V. J. King has been temporarily connected with the Pukekoho Exchange and his Number is NO. What should prove an enjoyable 1 gathering in the form of a concert | and dance is lixed to take place on ' Tuesday evening next in the (ilenbrook hall. The proceeds are to lie devoted to the Hall fumK

During the progress of Messrs Alfred Buckland and Son's horse sale at Pukekohe yesterday, Mr Johu Box, a dealer from Cambridge, was thrown from a hoise %nd su-tained a fractimd lib.

The BI'.ST b.tcuu ami liuni in Xrw Zealand. iKniock's Swau brand. Obtainable front F. PKItKINS & Co Pukekohe.

The Postal Department anuounces tliiit as tho Pacific cable has now been restored oidinary deferred and week-end cables may now be sent, the same, howewr, being subject to the restrictions in force in connection with the war.

For the purpose of furthering the scheme for giving a fresh lease of life to the Pukekohe Town Band a meeting of members and intending members is to be held in Mr C. M. Wright's office on Saturday next, at 8 p.m. v

The following pupils of Miss Millicent Taylor, F.S SI., were successful at the recent Auckland University College examinations in music pianoforte), viz.: Intermediate Grade, Doris Willcocks; junior grade, honours, Marion Berlidge; junior first class, Virginia Waddell. A concett and dance in aid of the Belgian Relief Fund is to be held in the Patumahoe Hall on Friday of noxt week, December 4th. Every effort is being made to render the gathering an unqualified success. Mr W. Finlay is undertaking the secretarial duties.

Preparations are well forward for the dance to be held on Thursday evening next in the Masonic hall, Pukekohe, in aid of Sister Esther's charitable work amongst the poor of Auckland. A committee is working most energetically to secure a good attendance, and an enjoyable evening should be spent. Mis* Millicent Taylor lias now passed the final examination in minic piano at the Auckland University Collego. Having previously passed in all theoretical subjects and attended the prescribed three years' course of lectures at the College, she is now a Fellow of the School of Music of the Auckland University College.

Mr D. E. Bremner, sm of Mr J. W. Bremner, Drury, arrived in Auckland on Monday by the s.s. Riverina from Sydney, after spending three years at the Royal Military College, Dunttoon, N.S.W. He left for Trentham in the evening to take up his commission as lieutenant of the reinforcement company in camp. Notwithstanding the serious drought which prevails, the New Zealand Dairy Association, Limited, on the 21st instant, distributed amongst its suppliers the sum of £08,705 10s (id. This covered

1,40G,5691bs af butter-fat supplied during the month of October. The amount distributed for the corresponding month last year was £04,462 7s 6d, thus the increase for the month was £4,213 3s. The aunual show of the Pukekohe District Horticultural Society is to be held in the Masonic Hall instead of in the Horse Bazaar as previously arranged for) on Thursday and Friday, December 17th and 18th. Owing to election day being fixed for December 10th the exhibition has been postponed until the dates named—a week later ,than was originally intended. Particulars as to alterations in the prize schedule will be found in our advertising* columns. The statutory meeting of shareholders of the recently formed Frank lin Printing and Publishing Company, Ltd. (the proprietors of the " Pukekohe Times ") was held in the " Times " office yesterday, Mr Godwyn Smith (Chairman of Directors presiding. The chairman reported on the Company's operation up to date and a resolution was unanimously passed expressing satisfaction with the, report of progress submitted by the Managing Director Mr J. P. Asher . The following is a list of names of Pukekohe ladies who were successful exhibitors at tho Waikato A. and P. Show, at Ckudelamls last week, viz, Mrs D. Hill first for fruit cake, Oriental cake, shortbread, gingerbread and second for jam sandwich. Mrs W. Davidson tirst for Madeira cako and second for tray cloth. Mrs J. Taylor first for marmalade and second for jam varieties), point lace (coarse , and most original article. Mrs J. 11. Mcßae tirst for Hedsbo embroidery and second for point lace tine) and crochet in silk. Mrs J. M Baxter first for baby's jacket and knitted socks and second for collection sweet peas. The usual summer alteration of the train service is to come into force as from Tuesday next, December Ist, when the Rotorua express trains will cease to carry passengers for the Thames branch. A new train will accordingly leave Auckland for Thames at !» 15 a.m., calling at Pukekohe at 10 37, whilst the down train leaving Thames at ( J. 18 a.m. will call at Pukekohe at 3 38 p.m. as is now the case with the Eotorua Express. The present 10 a.m. train from Auckland for Rotorua will be altered in running and is timed to call at Pukekohe at 11.12 a.m. and the down express from Rotorua will call at Pukekohe at 2.51 p.m. arriving in Auckland at I p.m.

A manufacturing firm writing from Liverpool to Mr W. Roulaton, of Pukekohe, states : "By the disastrous war with Germany our business relations have been very much interrupted and our workhave been practically brought to a standstill. In England we have been greatly pleased to witness the outward manifestations of a loyalty on the part of the colonies which we always knew exit-ted and was only waiting for the time of action to make it-self apparent and we sincerely hope that the efforts that we are putting forward along with our allies may be the means of crushing the military power of Germany which has been a menace to the world for >o many yeais. No doubt you may hear from foreign sources that things are in a very bad state in the Mother Country, but let u> assure you that such is not the case. Everything in the way of busine-s is going on quite as usual with, of course, the exception of the trading to France, Belgium, Germany, and Austria which naturally is at a stands-till owing to the fact that it i-< impossible to make shipments I<> these countries, but otherwi>e business is being conducted as usual and so far from there being any panic there is a ijuiet comideuce among all clas-es of the community that however arduous the campaign may prove and whatever saciilires may be.

required mn-t be made that lin.illy the power of (ierinany mu-t be broken.''