LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 16, 26 February 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Several matters of local interest will be found on pages 1 and 4 of this issue, including another contribution by " Scrutator " on Pukekohe's water supply.

Tenders are invited by Mr John Routley, engineer to the Tuakau Town Board, lor regrading and forming George street, Tuakau. Particulars will be found ii. our advertising columns. Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons advertise particulars of the large entry for their second sheep and ram fair to be held in the Pukekohe yards on Monday, March Bth. Further entries arc invited by the firm.

In connection with the decision ol the Railway Department to try the experiment of issuing cheap weekend tickets to Rotorua the arrangement will come into force i'nr the first time to-morrow (Saturday), when excursion fares will be charged to the popular tourist resort, available for return up to a;id including Friday next.

During shunting operations at the Pukekohe railway station goods yard on Wednesday a truck attached to the mixed goods and passenger train, due to leave Pukekohe at 4.15 p.m., for Mercer, ran off the line. The (rain was delayed about an hour before the truck was replaced on the rails. Pictures.—J. T Connor, Picture I Frumer and Art Cabinet Maker, 03 Karangahape Road, Auckland. Temporary Branch ! King Street,"' Pukekohe.—Advt. 1

The amount collected in the Karaka road district for the Belgian Relief Fund to date totals £l7 lis 6d.

Bring your pictures to us, we will frame them in the latest art styles. Prices low. Best workmanship.— Advt.

Mr J. Beatty notifies the public through our advertising columns that he is opening up a butcher's shop in King Street. A full and complete record of tie prizes awarded at the Pukekohe Show will appear in our issue of Tuesday next. It is advisable that any extra copies of the paper required by readers should bo ordered in advance.

The Show has brought the usual large influx of visitors into the town and tho hotel and all the boardinghouses are filled to their utmost capacity. The local business shops are naturally doing a good trade by the temporary addition to the population. Mr J. T. Connor, of the Newton Art Gallery Auckland, has secured temporary premises for a few days in Pukekohe and has on sale a very fine collection of engravings etc. He is prepared to take orders for pieture framing, which he will execute in the latest styles. The Mayor, Mr C. K. Lawrie, has been approached by several residents and has intimated his willingness to effer himself for reelection to the Mayoral chair at the forthcoming municipal elections. It is understoood that most of the retiring Councillors will also p'ace their services again at the disposal of the electors, and it is rumoured that fresh aspirants for eeats on the Council will be freely forthcoming in other quarters.

At a meeting of the Pukekohe East branch of the Farmers' Union on Wednesday last Mr A. Schmitt, Organiser of the Provincial Branch, was questioned as to his nationality. Mr Schmitt replied that although his father was a native of Frankfort on Maine, Germany, he himself was born in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, and has never been out of Australasia. His mother was an English woman being a native of Devonshire.

At the ballot for 10,596 acres of first and second-class Crown lands in the Hauraki Plains, held in the Chamber of Commerce, Auckland, on Thursday last, the following applicants from the Franklin County were successful in gaining sections of second-class land on the renewable lease in the Waitakaruru Settlement : Section 1-1, block 7, 182 a 3r 13p, R. H. Mackenzie, Waiuku ; section -1, block 8, 237 a, Lottie E. Ingram, Ramarama; and section 0, block 8, 268 a lr, James L. Rountree, Papakura.

Some commotion was caused in Pukekohe on Wednesday evening by the ringng of the firebell. The alarm was given in respect to two hay stacks, situated in a paddock off Hartis street and the property of Mr R. McGough, burning merrily. The Fire Brigade promptly proceeded ti the scene of the conflagration, but by that time the stacks were well alight and the firemen were powerless to prevent their destruction. It was not until the small hours of yesterday morning that the fire burnt itself out. The process of burning furze and oth-r cuttiugs had been in progress earlier in the day on Mr J. Roulston's neighbouring section, and it is suggested that the flames spread from one property to the other, ultimately reaching the hay stackp. Once again Mr Odium kindly assisted the firemen by taking them to the scene of the fire in his motor car, also towing the hose reel.

Tenders will be received by Mr F. W. Mountjoy, architect, up to Thursday next, for the erection of a cottage at Onewhero. Fur particulars see advt.