LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 96, 15 October 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mrs Horton and Miss Uaywatd announce in our advertising columns that thjy have commenced dressmaking at premises in Seddoo street, Pukekohe (second house from King street), and they guarantee satisfaction to lady clients.

Mr and Mrs Duncan Roulston leave Auckland on Monday next, by the 8.8, Niagara, tor Sydney, where they will be met by Mr William Roulston, who is spending a holiday in that city. The party intend to re present to witness the running of the Melbourne Cup.

The Auckland A. and P. Association advertise particulars of their Patriotic Carnival and Dog Show to be held on November 26th and 27tb. Entri-s for the Agricultural Show close on November sth, and for the Dog Show on November 12th, schedules being now obtainable from the secretary, Mr Bruce Fordyce, Hall of Commerce, Hig h street, Auckland. Extensive improvemens to the refreshment and confectionery business carried on by Mr Aspden in the Premier Hall lea Booms include an additional tea ro m, adjoining the main shop, with six tables. The room U large and airv, hnd is a pleasant resort in warm weather. A new eight-tap cascade soda fountain has been installed, and a large variety ot soft drinks are always on hand. The Pukekohe Rugby Football Club, on the suggestion uf Mr James Roulston, has taken the initiative io arranging to give some form of "send-off" to local residents departing to join the Reinforcement Drafts. As a result, Messrs 0. Bilkey, F. Bloxham and B. Dougherty, who are leaving next week for Trentham, are to be entertained ibis (Frilav) evening at a "smoker" to be hell in ths Masonic Hall.

The Giil Pease Souls of Pukekohe realise that they have a part to play in the efforts being made to provide fir Wounded Soldiers, and with a view of aisis'ing the local patriotic fund Ihey have arranged an entertainment for Thursday next in the Premier Ball. Ths programme to be submitted promi*e3 to be of a highly attractive character, and will include a grand spectacular poster march, tor which dresses have been given by local firms, tableaux, songs, instrumental solos, recitations, a fairv operetta, at d a display of ambulance work. The Rev. R. Tabu Poliki Haddon, th 3 eloquent Maori Minister of the Taranaki dutrict, 13 paying a visit to the Pukekohe Methodist Circuit this week, in connection with the annual appeal for the Horns Mission Fund. Mr Haddon will preach at Tuakau 11 a.m, HarrUville 2.30 p.m., and Pukekohe 7 p.m. on Sunday. On Tuesday evening Mr Haddon will speak at Tuakau and oa Wednesday evening in the Pukekohe Methodist Church. At all the services on Sunday the collections will be for the Mission Fund.

The gift afternoon, promoted by the Mayor and Mayoress, to be held on the Pukekohe Bowling Green to-morrow (Saturday) promises to be a function ot eminent utility for the object aimed at <as well as a pleasant means of providing recreation. The public are cordially invited to attend and at tbe same time to remember the gallant New Zealanders fighting in the war by brinigng tor despatch to them some torm ot gift suitable for a Xmaa present. Selections will be played by the Pukekohe Town Band, afternoon tea will be proviled, and various bowling competitions will be engaged in. Close to the town of Pukekohe, viz., on Messrs Roulston's property not far from the Franklin A. and P. Society's new showground, a party of Dalmatians and Crotians, thirteen in 'number, ate busily engaged in kauri gum digging. They work in pairs and state that they are meeting with satisfactory results, tieir operations giving them an average return of 2 cwt. of gum per week for each pair ot men. The prices ruling h Auckland for gum have, however, decreased considerably since the war broke out, and to-day valueß range trom 10s to 80s per hundredweight, according to quality. The men consider that ths gum industry promises to become an asset of great importance to the district, their opinion being that a considerable extent of country uear at hand will afford profitable yields

An appreciable change is already noticeable on the Franklin A. and P. Society's new showground, alongside the Pukekohe railway station, where the erection of pens, etc., is being carried out under the supervision of the Society's secretary, Mr Baxter. All the permanent fencing that it is intended to erect round the show ring this year has been completed, and the majority of the posts are in position for tbe erection of 200 pens, which are subdivided into sections of 100 each by t u e drafting yards, which will be used for tbe dual purpose of both drafting and judging stock. Between the pens and the drafting yards is a 7ft 6in lane which will facilitate the removal of a beast or beasts from one pen to another without interterinu with the judging. All the boles for the stock yards have been made and the men are at present working on the gate leading into the main stock entrance, whicfi is 27 ieet wide. It is hoped that six weeks hence will see the completion of the undertaking.