PUBLISHED MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1916 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 133, 17 January 1916, Page 2

PUBLISHED MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS.

MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1916 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

"We nothing extenuate, nor set down auaht in malice

*+» The sitting of the Pukekohe Magistrate Court will be resumed to-morrow (Tuesday), the holiday VEcatioD having concluded. The Tuakau Town Board invite tenders for the spawling of metal at the Board's quarry. For particulars see advt in this issue. The Auckland .Dairy Produce Committee has fixed the wholssale price for butter and eggs for the week ending -January 22nd as follows Farmers', separator and dairy butter, lOd per lb; eggs, Is Id per d.z:n. Messrs Allied Buckland and Sons announce an entry of 7UO ewes, wethera and lambs, arc! 150 rams, tor their first sheep lair and ram fair lu be held in th a Tuakau saleyards on Thursday, February Brd. Further entries are solncited.

As notified in our advertising columns a Government otiicial will be in attendance at Papakura tomorrow, at Patumahoe on Wednesday, and at Mauku on Thursday for the purpose ol inoculating calves against blackleg.

'lhe recruiting problem was informally discussed at the meeting ot the Whangarnarino Road Board on Saturday, and Mr Bennett remarked that he considered it a farce for the wcrk to be put on to local authniii'.B. Mr ball that he, for one, objected going to his neighbour to say tlia it was his (the neighbour's) duty to enlist.

In reply fa a statement made by a native defendant at the Ngaruawahia Magistrate'? Court the otlnr day, that he could rot get work. His Worship, Mr E. Rawson, S M., said that such a statement was nonsense. He had been told frequently by people in touch with farming that there was a great dearth of farm labour, bo much so, that in some places the farmers had to utilise tie s;rviceo of boy scouts for the work.

Flies are a pest. As carriers of disease they are a Where fond stuffs are concerned too great a care cannot be taken to guard against the deadly housefly. We are pleased to notice that at l?ast one trader in Pel; kolu is alive to tie necefrity of retaining hi? wares under most sanitary conditions. We refer to Hierdegen's bruit Sto e. Fly pioof protectors of wire gauze have tccn titled to nil doors and wiidows, wlneb, while excluding the lliee, admit fresh air.

The line «»'»;> of oats, rircntly cut, seen from the railway on [tie east tide ol l'aerata station has come in for general admiration, lhe owner is Mr John Sehlaepler. who estimates that the yield for the full area of 10 acre? will average quite a couple of tons to the acre, it is ilso interesting to mention that Mr Schlaepler, at the lirst of the season's wod sales in Auckland, had the distinction of toppirg the market with 2;i> 1 per lb for crossbred wool, whilst he aI. o rec-ivcd 15 Ad lor I ,rg wool.

Messrs J l' SleniL/ridije ynd Co repori a-i l.lhws: -At our usual aa'r oil Friday last, in our l'uke kolie Auction Mart, we had a crowded a', tendance and bidding was brisk. Pigs realised from IDs to 2G •; poultry, liens, small la Iff to Is 4d, be tier Is Ud to 2s GJ; chicks, Sd each. Fruit in large quantises sdd at —Pears, soft and over rife la 5d case, better at 2d; apples, 2s halt bushel case; plains, 2s Id to 2b 'ld; peaches, small 2' lOd, better -lb to 4s ud case, Cabbui;e, Is 2d dozen; carrots, Is 2d c'ozen LuncliC3; onions, about Id lb; potatoes, cwt. Sun fries at usual ratey.