LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 58, 19 July 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Pukekohe Hod and Gun Club advise members that the Colonial Ammunition Company's trophies will be shot for on Saturday next.

Tenders are invited in our advertising colums by the Auckland Harbour Board for the dredging and removal of mud from the swinging basin at Waiuku. Tbe ordinary monthly meeting of the Pukekohe Burough Council takes place un Wednesday evening next.

The amount rai.ed in Pukekohe and district for the Hospital Ship and Wounded Soldiers* Fund is aa follows:—Amount previously acknowledged, £356 16s; S. Cioldaworhy, £1 Is; total, £357 16s.

To the public of Pukekohe and district!— You are summoned to appear at the Premier Hall next Thursday night aud failing nonattendance you will be lined for Contempt of Coukt. Advt. The JNorthern Steam Ship Company invite tenders, to cluae on Saturday next, for th2 purchase of their goods-sheds and office builcirgs now Btandirg on the Waiiku wharf. For particulars see advt. Messrs Alfred Buckland and So~e will hold b clearing sale of Mr W. H. Caddy's live stock, implenents ard horses, etc., at his farm, Paerata, at 12 noon on Thursday next.* Luncheon will be provided. For particulars sea advt The Aucklmd Dairy Produce Committje has fixed the wholesale price for butter and eggs tnr the week ending July 24tb, as lolloars: — Factory butter, Is 6J; farmers', separator and dai-y buttsr, Is Id; egg«, Is 4d per dozen. Mr J. Flanagan, thai man of the Franklin County C uncil, left Pukekohe on Fiiday to attend the conference of delegates of local authorities at Taumarunui, convened tu cot sider the prorosed construction of a national highway between Auckland and Wellington. Mr Flanagan was to proceed on to Wellington, where he is due to ariive to-dav, for the purpose of soliciting Government assistance for grants for various works in Franklin County.

A mother and her young son, aged about nine years, were rather unexpectedly parted on Saturday evening at Pukekohe railway station on the occasion of a prospective journey to Auckland. The Main Trunk Express from Wellington, which owing to a mishap at Rarimu was running several hours late, stopped at Pukekohe to allow a South bound train to cross. Those on the platform concluded that the train was the "ordinary" one that leaves at 6.7 p.m. for Auckland and the lady placed the boy on board and then turned round to gather up her luggage. Before she had time herself to enter the train it drew off with the boy a passenger and the mother still on the p'atform. The Station-master,-Mr F. Brown, communicated by telephone with Auckland and arranged for the child to be detained there until the arrival of the mother. Writing to a friend in Pukekohe, Mrs Gordon Hovey, better known in Pukekohe prior to her marriage as Nurse Milne, makes some interesting references to the nursing duties, connected with the war, in which she is now engaged in England. She is attached to Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing service, with the rank of Lieutenant and is stationed at the Wharncliffe War Hospital, near Sheffield, where she is sister-in-charge of a surgical ward containing 69 beds. The institution, she says, is a huge place and was formerly used as an asylum, the grounds comprising 250 acre*. The number of beds available are 2500 but 3000 can be provided. Just prior to writing, she mentions, a big batch of patients had arrived direct from the trenches in France. The worst wounds were caused by shrapnel or soft nosed bullets. Most of the patients were cheerful and eager to get back to the front. Nurse Milne also refers to an exciting incident nearing the English coast on the completion of her journey from New Zealand. The boat, by which she was a passenger was chased by a submarine, a torpedo being tired by the latter but missing its mark. Three representatives from the Pukekohe district were included among the wounded troops, who returned from Gallipoli by the troopship Willochra last week. They were Private J. H. Cook, of Tuakau, suffering from heart trouble, Private de Vries, of Buckland, suffering from injury to his hip, and Private Robinson, of Putamahoe, suffering from injury to his left arm. The two former are now inmates of the Auckland Hospital. Trooper Robinson arrived in Pukekohe on Friday afternoon and proceeded to hij home at Patumahoe. In course of a brief conversation with a "Times" representative, Private Robinson mentioned that he had had fifteen days fighting before he was wounded. He was immediately alongside Private Crum, of Pukekohe, whan the latter got ' hit" at the landing operations. Private Eobinsen added that he had every hope that in due cours# he would be able to regain the use of his arm, although the bone had been shattered by a bullet. To the public of Pukekohe and district! You are summoned to appear at the Premier Hall next Thursday night and failing nonattendance, you will be fined for Contempt ok Court. Advt.