LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 134, 19 January 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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Mr Charles Clarke, (lie respected proprietor of the Pukekoho Hotel, lias had a return of his recent illness and is again in an Aucldaud hopital for treatment, Among the troops returning invalided on board the steamer Rotorua, due at Auckland about Feb. (ith, are Trooper George Lauer, of Pukekoho, and Pte. Thos. W. Narby, of Pokeno.

After an extendod holiday spent iu New South Wales, Miss Mabel Clarke, daughter of Mr C. Clarke, of Pukekohe, returned to Auckland on Mouday last by the as. Riverina. Owing to Mr Page, S.M., being detained on duty in Auckland, the Pukekohe Court yesterday presided over by Mr CuUen, S.M , who also took the Court at Wuiuku to-day and will siw.il irly sit at Mercer tomorrow.

Commenting at the special meeting of the Pukekohe Boiough Council on Monday, on sanction being given b} the ratepayers to the loan of £3OO for fire brigade purposes Cr Barter remarked that the acquisition of a motor reel wa3 only a question of time and would not have to be overlooked if the brigade were to be enabled to deal with tires in all parts of the borough.

The flaxniillers of tlio Waikato are reaping a harvest, the present price of tlax beiug £34 p->r ton and it is still on the rise. Fortunately for the Dominion, said a Bangiriri llaxuailler, to a representative of the " Times," the l J rimo Minister saved what appeared some few mouths past to be"inevitable, viz., a shortage of shipping space, by reserving accommodation for Dominion produce consigned Homo. So promising does the future appear for the Haxmillers that a mill is to be erected at Pokeno and arrangements are also proceeding to work a double shift at a mill at Kangiriri.