THE Pukekohe and Waiuku Times PUBLISHED MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1916 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 141, 4 February 1916, Page 2

THE Pukekohe and Waiuku Times PUBLISHED MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1916 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

"We nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice."

You want a Diary for I!) 16. Full stock at The Bookery.* The Pukekohe Borough Council invite tenders for painting the Municipal Chambers. For particulars see advt. A welcome to the new Vicar of of Pukekohe v the Rev. J. P. Cowie) is to be tendered him by the parishioners of St. Andrew's Church on Monday evening next in the Oddfellows' Hall.

A feature of the Lyceum programme for to-morrow night will be ihe picture of the Melbourne Cup. The rac3 is shown from start to liuish.

Choice and palatable teas are always acceptable in the home and Messrs Gilmoreand Go's well known brands Arcadia, Eun-Euan and Planters' Choice are guaranteed to give satisfaction. They are sold at the ordinary rates and are obtainable from ail storekeepers in the district

The N A. Loan and M.A. Co. advertise iu this issue particulars of entries for their sheep fair to be held at Tuakau next Monday, when some 6iUO sheep and lambs will be yarded. The Company have also an entry of 800 head of cattle for their usual monthly stock sale at Pukekohe next Tuesday.

Trooper George Lauer, son of Mr Fred. Lauer, of Pukekohe, was among the invalided soldiers who arrived in Auckland yesterday morning by the s.s. Eotorui. He came on to Pukekohe by the <>.2o [i m. train last evening and was welcomed at the station by the Mayor (Mr H. G. E. Mason , Crs Barter aud Patterson, and Mr J. Coady, members of the Military Eeception Committee. He was|then conveyed to his home in Cr Barter's motor-car. Trooper Lauer was attached to the 4th Waikato Mounted Eifles and left New Zealand with the Main Expeditionary Force. He saw a good deal of lighting at Gallipoli prior to being wounded on August Bth. Suffering fiom gunshot injuries to the shoulder, he was a patient at one of the hospitals in Cairo and subsequently was treated at the Eastleigh and Weymouth hospitals, England. What may be termed as a [highly satisfactory result is the outcome to the examination recently held of the candidates attending the Dr Wake's St. John's Ambulance Class in Pukekohe. Thirteen candidates presented themselves for examination aud all passed, the results being as follows, viz.:—Final for Society's medallion: Mrs Ivan Motion, with honours : Misses Euth Allen, Ena C'osto", Mabel Freeman, Mabel Shiphenl, Mary Tozer, Ivy Brown, Gladys Johnston and Elvie Goldsworthy, all tirst class pasre?. First Aid examination :—Misses Joanette Barton, Edith Hewlett and Clara Preston, passed tirst class, gaining SO per cent. Passes : Misses Mary Waldcn, Mary Costello and Mary Brown.

Although no fresh cases of infantile paralysis have been reported in I'tikekohe and notwithstanding that, a> previously reported, no child I'roui any house in which the disease has occurred is in attendance at the l'ukekoho Public School, the chairman of the School Committee has authuiised the opening of the school to lie restricted from 0 a in. to 12 30 p.m., as iu the case of the Auckland -t hool.i, pending instructions from the Education Board on the subject. Local medical opinion favours the restriction of hours on the scoro that an Overheated atmosphere, such as is the natural outcome oi the present hot spell of weather, is prejudicial to the health of the scholars apart from the tendency to promote the

Mr W. J. McFadden's prop°rty, consisting of oO acre 3 at Putumahoe, was offered for sale at Pukekohe on Monday last by Messrs Alfred Euckland and Sons, but failed to secure a purchaser. Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons are to offer for sale in Auckland on Friday, the 18th inst, the freehold farm of ()8| acres, situated at Buckland, the property of Mr W. H Yule. Particulars will be found in an advt in this issue.

A recent visitor to the neighbourhood has been Colonel Eoberts, who staying with friends at Mauku has been renewing his acquaintance with tbe neighbourhood after an absence of nearly fifty-three years. As a subaltern in Major Jackson's Forest Eangers Colonol Eoberts saw much service hereabouts during the Maori war of 1803, and was present at the capture of Orukau pa, where the power of the Waikato rebels was finally broken. After going through the Wanganui and Urewera campaigns he was placed in command of the Aimed Constabulary at Taupo, and on the occasion of the lost native outbreak, the revolt of the Taranaki natives under Te Whiti, he headed the largest force of New Zealand troops ever got together in one body prior to the present war. Thanks tu the iirm attitude of the then Native Minister, Mr John Bryce, and the show of force made, the rising was soon put down. Colonel Eoberts was naturally much struck by the difference which half a century had made to the district. At the earlier period the great Hunua forest stretched in an almost unbroken nnss from the Frith of Thames to the West Coast and the Waikato to the Manukau. A few hardy pioneers at Mauku and another small band at East Pukekohe represented all the settlement south of Drury. Eoads there were none except Maori trails and the few tracks the settlers had made, and Pukekohe was covered with a dense forest of puriri and cedar. Tne only communication with the Waikato proper was by way of tbe Maunkau Harbour and the Awaroa Creek, which even in those days was talked of as a possible canal-route. Members and officials of the Franklin Qcunty Council were yesterday entertained to dinner at the Pukekohe Hotel by the County Chairman (Mr J. Flanagan N in connection with his recent re-olee'.ion to the chair of the Council. A capital repast, served in Host C. Clarke's usual admirable manner, having been partaken of, Cr Eenall submitted the toast of •' The Chairman of the County." He said it was a pleasure to sit in Council with Mr Flanagan, who not only satisfied the Councillors, but all those deputationists who waited on the Council and others who had dealings with him. The Council, as a whole, had worked wonders and had negotiated many obstacles. —In responding, Mr Flanagan said it was his pleasure to be associated with Councillors who had the courage of their convictions and transacted the business that came before them, not in cliques nor before arriving at the meeting, but in the Council Chamber. \\ hile that independent spirit continued the ratepayers would be well represented. Unfortunately, little revenue came in during the first two or three years of the Council's existence and the war was now 011, but although they had not done anything sensational they were progressing and would pay due attention to the roads and other public matters. He pointed out that the county was still only in its infancy, and that the de velopment would continue for many years.—Cr Henry proposed the toast of "The Staff," which he claimed wore highly efficient. Their clerk (Mr Day) was as competent as any clerk in New Zealand. Their engineer (Mr McArthur) was also a very capable official. — Messrs McArthur and Day returned thanks, expressing their appreciation of the cordiaf relations that existed between Councilkrs and theuuUvei