THE Pukekohe and Waiuku Times PUBLISHED MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. WEDNESDAY AUGUST 18, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 71, 18 August 1915, Page 2

THE Pukekohe and Waiuku Times PUBLISHED MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS.

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 18, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

" We nothing extenuate, nor set down auaht in malice

Winter Games—an endless variety at the Bookery.—Advt. lickets at excursion rates are again to be issued both to Kotorui and Te Aroha by the Hail nay Department on Saturday text. For particulars dee advt. Mr G. £. Morgon, of Mercer, advertises in this issue particulars of a property of ten acrts with dwelling house, etc,, situate on Pukekohe Hill, that he desires to sell. The wholesale price of butter bus been reduced as from to-day to Is 3d per lb, a declii.e of 2d—and the local retail rates will now be la 5d per lb. • At the last meeting of the Board ot Education the application for the establishment of a High School at Pukekohe was referred to the senior inspector tor report.

Mr Fred. C. 8. Lawson, of Tuaksu, testifies to the value of the "Pukekohe and Waiuku Times" as an advertising medium. Stock that tie had been advertising recently, he says, could have been sold several tim?s over as the direct r.sult of an announcement in this paper. Purchasers, ne adds, made enquiries from a widely scattered area.

A correspondent writes: "The prices charged for milk in Pukekohe continue to remain higher than in the surrounding districts For Bonn months past the charge per quart in Tuakau has been 3Jd, whereas the' milk vendors in Pukekohe are still charging 4d per quart."

. Miss K. Rogers, of Pukekohe, whs the victim of a painful accident at her home in Edinburgh street on Saturday evening last. lo attemppting to prevent the slamming of a door causid by a draught of wind, she put her hand forward on the glass panel which smashed, with the result that her elbow was severely lacerated. ' The wounds were of such a nature that Dr Bronte found it necessary to stitch thorn. As a result of the early Spring and the consequent forward state of bulbs ar.d other flowers, the dates of the Flower Show to be held in Pukekohe under the auspices of St. James' (Presbyterian) Church have been advanced to Thursday and Friday, September 2nd and 3rd, instead of the original dates, as previously artuunced, September 16th ad 17th.

Lecturing on the War at Pukekohe on Monday the Kev. J. Culder caused much amusement by his evident acquaintanceship with spotting phraseology. "Let me give you a tip" now and then fell from the speaker's lips and he also explained that he was known in Auckland as the "Sporting Parfion." Again referring to the horse-flesh in Belgium, Mr Calder said many of the racehorses in Auckland fell much below the Belgian standard. "1 see horses in training in Auckland,'' he said, "tor which I would not give half-a-crown a dozen. Even a train could beat them, and New Zealand trains are slow enough!" The best and cheapest footballs are procurable only at the Bcokery.— Advt.