LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 151, 29 February 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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You are leaving it rather late for those Shoes. King's Boot Sale closes soon.*

Messrs. W, Dimock and Co. announce that their next date for receiving pigs at Buckland is on March 1 Mb, an error as regards that date having crept into our last issue. The Railway Department announce special trains and the issue of tickets at excursion fares for the Te Aroha races on Saturday and Monday next and for the Cambridge Show on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.

Mr H. M. Smith, brother-in-law and partner of Mr T. B. Hurley, leaves Pukekobe on Tuesday of next week to go into camp with the Mth Reinforcements. Mr W. Manson is another local resident, who is also joining the same body. A clearing sale of live and dead stcck is to be carried out Sat. 11th inst. by the N Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Coy. on Mr G. D. Smith's farm ut Paparata Valley. A preliminary announcement will be found in our advertising column. An exceptional opportunity to acquire a desirable farm of ten acres in Pukekohe is afforded by an advt. in this issue. The sale is necessitated by the owner going to the front. Particulars are obtainable from Messrs. Hurley and Smith, Pukekohe.

A special sitting of tho Pukehohe Magistrate's Court is to be held on Thursday next, when a civil action, adjourned from last week owing to the illness of Mr J. (i. Haddow, ono of the counsel engaged, will be heard together with the charge against a local resident in regard to a noxious article (pills, supplied to a female.

A Public Smoking Concert organised by the Pukekohe Military Reception Committee will be tendered on Thursday evening next at the Masonic Hall, as a farewell to Messrs. George Dix (now on tinal leave,!, and Martin llickey, Frank Ryan', Robert Beaton, Hugh Smith, and William Manson, members of the 11th Reinforcements. The Mayor will preside and tho public are invited to attend.—Advt. On February -Ist the New Zealand Dairy Association Limited distributed amongst the suppliers the sum of £7-'i,952 Ms (Id. This payment covers 1,282,810 lbs. of butterfat supplied during the month of January. The amount distributed for the corresponding month last year was £54,025 16s Id, thus the increase for the month was £19,926 18s 2d.

Ihe conduct of the large crowd that was iu attendance at the Pukekohe Show on Saturday was so good that not in a single instance were the services of the police reouired, a blank sheet on the records at the police station denoting complete immunity from crime both throughout the day at the Show and in the evening in the streets, the absence of insobriety at uight-time being a particularly satisfactory feature Who is Xing of King street 'i Why the Bootmaker who is sacrificing his Stock. Now, what about those Shoes for the Show ?* Dreadnought Boots and Shoss, best ou tin. market. Sold only by 1. RANj£ I'EKKINB& Co. J'ukekqlie.-Advt.

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A report of the smoking concert held on Friday evening la9t by the Franklin A. and P. Society Executive as a reception to the judges who officiated at the Show is, owing to pressure of space, unavoidably held over until our next issue.

The list of passes in the Senior Civil Service examinations includes Mr L. E. Attewell of the local public works staff. Mr Attewell was formerly a student at the Pukekohe district high school. He has just received notification of his trans'er to the Dunedin staff. Du ing tbe progress ot the ring events at the Pukekohe Show on Saturday one of the competing horses ran off the course on to the public enclcsure, with the result that Mr James Fulton, father of Mr Dynes Fulton, was knocked iljwn and sustained a cut on his nuht leg. Mr Fulton, eenr,, who is over 80 years of age and lives at Mount Albert, whs also severely shaken and was taken by train to his home in a semi-unconscious condition

Following on the recommendation or the Public health Department the Auckland Education Board notiried Mr D R. Flavell, headmaster, of the Pukekohe public school yesterday, that the school was to be closed for a fortnight. The pupils duly assembled at the School this morning but were notified that their presence was not required until March lo;h. A further case of infantile paralysis in the borough has been notified, the patient being a scholar of the Pukekohe School. The Prime Miuister (the Rt. Hon. W. F. Ma?sey), who came north for the express purpose of attending in his capacity as member for the district the Pukekohe Show on Saturday, returned from Auckland to Wellington by the Sunuday evening's main trunk express. In conversation with a "Pukekohe Times" representative Mr Maesey mentioned that he was unable to undertake the opening of the Karakaßoad Board's two new bridges on that visit but ho hoped to undertake the ceremony towards the end of March, when he trusted he would also be able to officially open the new post-offioe at Patumahoe.