LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 139, 31 January 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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The public schools will re-assemble to-morrow (Tuesday; on the conclusion of the Christmas and New Year holidays.

Top Dresser' tor Hire, for broadcasting lime, slag, bonedust and grass seed, 5,'- per day from FRANK PERKINS & Co.. Pukekohe.—Advt.

Messrs Frank Perkins Co. announce in our advertising columns that as agents for the Te Aroha Bacon Company they will be buying pigs at Pukekohe on Monday next, the price being 5.\ per 11 >.

Notification of an increase as from February Ist in the price of'bread to be made by bakers of Pukekohe and district appears in our advertising columns, whereby the 2-lb loaf will be charged at 5d and the 4-lb loaf at lOd as against the prices recently charged of 4Jd and !'d respectively. Patterns of all the designs of fashions, etc., appearing in our supplement, week by week, can be obtained by sending stamps, value 7d, for every pattern required coat, skirt, blouse, one-piece gown, etc) to Miss Ida Meller, care of the Editor. The envelope should be marked " Patterns."

There is a probability that in place of the proposed amalgamation of the Dairy Companies of the Auckland Province, which has fallen through by reafon of the withdrawal of the Thames Valley and Te Aroha Companies, a South Auckland Dairy Association will be established, consisting of the compauies doing business in the Waikato. A conference on the subject is to be held at Hamilton at an early dat 9.

At the sale of the Franklin A. and P. Society's show privileges, held today at Messrs Alfred Buckland and Son's saleyards, Mr Chas. Clarke (Pukekohe'Hotel) secured the publican's booth rights for £lO (the price paid last year being £00), whilst Mr Geo. Sinclair, of Epson), bought the rights of the Luncheon Booth for £l2 and of the Light Refreshment Booth for £2O, last years prices being £lO and £l4 respectively. Two cases of infantile paralysis have occurred in the borough of Pukekohe within the lasffew days, but in one instance the young patient was a newcomer and the disease was thus what is technically known as "imported." Other two cases are also under medical treatment iui country districts near by. It will be re-assuring to parents of children attending the Pukekohe school to know that no children from any of the houses affected are on the school-roll.

Pukekohe presented a very deserted appearance on Saturday Anniversary Day) with the exception that bowlers weie a gool deal in evidence, a tournament being played on the Pukekohe Bowling Club's green. Picnic parties were numerous to the country districts and there was also a heavy exodus of residents to Auckland. The latter, particularly those attending the Takapuoa Piaces, were loud in their complaints of railway management, which in no way catered for the requirements of a public holiday. The last train from Auckland left at p.m. — the ordinary time—and that meant an early return for all and in the case of the many racegoers it necessitated leaving the course before the last two races were run.

The following men from the Franklin and Manukau Counties are included in the Auckland quota of the loth Reinforcements, to be called up on February Bth, vizlnfantry: Albert J. Begbie, Pukekohe Eist; Algar F. F. B ith, Drury; Garrett Kearney, Ararimu; Arthur D. Burnside, Ardmore ; Michael Crossens, Whangarata ; Percy F. Darrell, Andrew Erceg, Mauriel Ford, and James Fausett, Pukekohe, Claude A. Granger, Whitford ; Alex Nicholson, Paerata, Leigh F. Smith, Manurewa; Sidney E Sm'th, Clovedon ; John S. Woodhouso and Godfrey L. Stuart, Mercer, Arthur J. S. Slater, Pukekawa ; Rankin Thomas, Waiuku. Mouuted Ritles : Wm. Bellingham, p.o. Drury; Noel Stuart, Pukekohe; and Ernest A. Winter, Mercer. Intimation was received by Dr Wake, of Pukekohe, from the Defence Department on Saturday tliat his son Corporal Here ward Langdale Wake, of the Wellington Infantry Battalion, who had been "reported wounded " in an engagement that took place at Gallipoli on August S:h last was now " reported believed to be dead." All elloits made by the authorities, as also by relatives in England among wounded New Zealanders, to trace Corporal Wake proved fruitless and it now appears that he must be regarded as among New Zealand's fallen heroes. The sympathy of all their friends is extended to Dr and Mrs Wake in regard to the mournful intelligence communicated to them, especially as their distress must be rendered all the more acute by the uncertainty that is necessarily attached to their son's fate.