LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 40, 25 May 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tenders are invited by Messrs Daniell and Cray, architects, of Hamilton, I'or the erection of a manager's resideire and men's quarters in connection with" the new dairy factory at Waiuku. For particulars see advt.

A public meeting to further the movement initiated by His Excellency the Governor for the prnvi ion of a Hospital ship for wounded New Zealand soldiers ha? been convened by the Mayor of Pukekuhe and wi 1 be held in the Borough Council Chambers on Thursday afternoon at three o'clock.

We understand that at the service (1 intercession to b3 held tomorrow (Wednesday) evening, in the Methodist Church, toe other ministers of the town have been invited to take part. In these days of war crisis it is expected that there will be a good attendance.

Kemanded from Pukekobe and charged with a breach of the Bankruptcy Act, in that he had incurred a debt without reasonable expectation of being a'l 3 to meet it, William Wilde, late hairdresser and tobacconist, ot Pukekohe, was brought up at the Auckland Court en Fiiday and was further remanded for a week. Bail was allowed in one surety of £2O»J or in two of £IOO each, Mr Selwyn Mays saying that the bankruptcy was a bad one, and that the defendant had threatened to leave the country as a barber on an ocean-going vessel. There were other charges, toe, added Mr Mhvp, pending against the defendant.

Winter Games—an endless variety at the Bookery.- Advt.

Support Town Band funds by attending Concfit, Wednesday, May 26th, Premier Hnll, Pukekohe.— Advt. ■lust arrived Uoldsworlhy's lamuus straw coloured Spanish Union Seed. Book j our order? early, only a limited eupply.-F. PERKIN'S & Co., Pukekohe.

A meeting of the Advisory Board ot the Pukekohe Technical Classes is to be held in the Puke kohe High School on Thursday evening, when a full aitendance of members is requested. We beg to rcmr.d interested parties that an importa&t clearance sale is to be carried out on Messrs Mason and Roberts' farm on Pukekohe Hill to-morrow (Wednesday) afternoon by Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons. Full particular will be found in cur advertising columns. A Guernsey cuw in America is said to have established a new world's record. in the twelve months ending on lath February of this year -he gave 24,(J081bs of milk, cuntiioing 10tJ8.181 ba ot butter-fat. The total cost of fe-.d was 53.9 cents a day.

Uuiing the parade of th<s I'uk.kohe branch of the Natonal Resrve last week a resulution was unanimously pas:ed instructing the Eecrctary to communicate with the Piime Minister, urging that all alrn enerries resident in the Pukekohe district should be interne J forthwith.

The Pukekohe Asscciatiufi Football Club will this week lose four of it-s players, namely J. Shanaghan, J. Lees, T. Skivicgton, and S Chambers, all of whom have joined the Expeditionary Reinforcements and are I raving Pukekohe for the Trent-ham Camp. J. Willis, laßt year's captain of the Club is included amongst tlnse wound d in the Dardanelles operations.

The committee of the Pukekohe Town Baud confidently appeal to the residents rf Pukekohe and district tor cordial support to the entertainment to be pivsn in the Premier Hall to-morrow (Wednesday) evenirg, when half of the gross proceeds will be devoted to the Band's funds. 'lhe first part of the programme will consist of pictures, and voca! and musical items will form the concluding portion of the entertainment.

The preliminary arrangements for the transfer from Pukekohe to Fapakura of headquarters of the officials and men encaptd on the main teunk railway giade-easement works were put in hand on Saturday last, whan the Departm nt's sheds were removed to Papjkura. Although the Engineer and Inspector will be mainly in attendance at Pnpakura thete is a goud deal rf work still to be carried out on the Pokeno and Paera'a sections and the men engaged on these sections will for the present continue to rjfids in the vicinity of PuKtkohe, Referring t> the war against rabbits and the suggestion made at the Franklin County Council mattrg that Rabbit lrspectois are able to effectively deal with the pest in their ordioaiy routine of duly a correspondent forwards the following cutting from the "Matpura Ensign," viz.: "Since the openirg of the rabbit season last week a busy tiroe has been expaiienced at the Mataura Freezing Works. Un the first day 10,000 were received, while on Saturday and Monday large consignments cams in, something like 20,000 being handled by the packers each day. the rabbits are in splendid condition. Rabbiters should make good chrques this Eeason, aB the high price of BJd per pair is bding paid at the works." Our correspondent naively remarks: "Rabbit Inspectors have been at work in th« jsouthlasd district for over twenty years to my knowledge. Evidently the question of extermination is beyond them."

Conatable J. H. Fearnley took up duty in charge of the police district of Wsiuku lust week, vice Constable Moffitt, superannuated. Previous to his departure from Frankton Junction, which district he had been charge of for the past two and a-half years, Constable Fearnley was tha guest of members of the Frankton Borougn Council at a "smoker," at which the Mayor, Mr Chan. Allen, presided and on behalf of the public of Franktoa Constable Fearnley was presented with a handsome suit case, suitably inscribed. As a physical culture expert Constable Fearnley has been very successful. During his residence in the Frankton district he was the physical culture instructor to the Boy Scouts. He has also taken an active part in boxing and Kugby football, having represented the Hawke's Bay Rugby representatives and he waialso a member ot the 190'J Ea=t Coast Kugby touring team.