LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 82, 13 September 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The usual meeting of the Pukekohe Borough Council is to be held on Wednesday evening next.

Tenders are iuvited by the Karaka Road Board for the Bpawling ot 600 yards of metal. For particulars see advt.

The Franklin County Council insert in this issue an advt. of tenders wanted for various works of formation, culverting, bridge erection, etc.

Father McCarthy, who recently carried out a series of mission services both at Pukekohe and Waiuku, has been accepted as one of the Chaplains to serve with the troops in the Dardanelles.

Members of the Pukekohe Bowling Club are notified that the annual meeting of the Club is to be held on Thursday next at 8 p.n. at the Pukekohe Hotel, to be preceded by the annual diuuer at 7 p m. The wounded soldiers, who returned by the S 8. Tahiti to Wellington on Saturday, included Pte. L. Hoyle, of Pokeno; Pte. Thomas Alex. Steen, o£ and Pte. Arthur Harry Whitaker, of Papakura. Particulars will be [found in our adverti.ing columns of the "Open" Shooting Handicap, promoted by the Pukekohe Rod and Uun Club, to be held on Friday of next week, the 24th inst. Prizes to the extent of £3O are offered for competition. Entries elosi on Saturday next. Ths Auckland Dairy Produce Committee has lixed the wholesale price for butter and eggs for the week ending September 18th aB follows:—Factory butter, Is 3d; farmer's, separator and dairy butter, lOd; eggs, Is per dozen.

Donations are invited to the "FukeKohe Times" Fund for supplying troops from the district* with tobacco and cigarettes, and relatives of "toys" at the Front are requested to forward names and regimental numbers to the Editor, so that gifts of the nature described may be forwarded to them.

Dr C. H. Wake, of Pukekohe, received advice this morning from the Defence Department that his son, Corporal Hereward Langdale Wake, had been wounded on August Btb, but no particulars are to hand of the injuries sustained. At the time of his enlistment Corporal Wake, who is 20 years of age, was employed in the Lands and Survey Office, Gisburne, and as a member of the Wellington Infantry Battalion he left with the FifthKeinforcements far the Front.

"A most up-to-date and wellequipped establishment —"indeed ahead of other country oilices I have visited in the Auckland Province" was the comment passed last week by a well-known Auckland merchant, who whilst in Pukekohe asked to be shown over the premises of the "Pukekohe Times." Samples of printing executed "on the spot" were also shown him and the visitor remarked that better or higher class work could not be turned out by a city firm. The death occurred en Thursday last at his residence on the Puke-kohe-Potumahoe road of Mr Andrew Sheridan at the age of 70 years. The deceased came out to New Zealand some 52 years ago by the sailing ship Dauntlet and had as a fellow passenger Mr Henry Sommerville, who died last month. Mr Sheridan settled in the Pukekohe district and with the exception of an interval of about six months he has lived in the locality ever since. A good farmer, he was well known and highly respected. The funeral took place in the Pukekohe Cemetery on Saturday.

It is understood that efforts are being ciiade to persuade Mr D. E. Hamilton, President of the Franklin A. and P. Society, to offer himself for election for tho vacancy on the Pukekohe Borough Council that will be caused by Mr J. A. Comrie's resignation consequent on his transfer of residence to Auckland. Mr Hamilton was a member of the late Council but did not seek re-appoint-ment in April last. The name of Mr E. H. McGough, also an exCouncilior and who headed the list of unsuccessful candidates at the April election, has also been mentioned in connection with the vacancy but he has announced that owing to stress of farming duties he is unable to accept nomination.

In the hope that the special train, conveying the Auckland section of the wounded troops that in Wellington on Saturday by the S.S. Tahiti from the Dardanelles, would stop at Pukokohe the railway station was yesterday thronged at 1.20 p.m. —the time at which the train was due to pass. Tho assembly on the platform included a large muster of tho National who lined up at the northern end of the station. It was just two o'clock beforo the train hove in s'ght but although pace was somewhat slackened no halt was made. Einging cheers greeted its advent and the welcome was acknowledged by the waving of hands by the gallant soldier "boys" in the carriages.