LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 156, 17 March 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Messrs A. P. Home and Sons advertise that on behalf of the To Aroha Bacon Compauy they will buy pigs at Buckland next Monday, price 6Ad per lb.

The latest form of progress in Pukekohe is the erection of siguboards by the Borough Council indicating the names of the streets and the direction of the outlying districts.

Tho Franklin A and P. Society intimate by advt. in this issue that the prize money of the recent show is now ready for payment on application at tho Society's office in Pukekohe.

The special meeting of the Franklin County Council to doal with tho recruiting question is to be held on Wednesday next at 1 p.m. instead of on Monday owing to Mr Massey's visit to the district on tho latter date.

At the meeting of the Pukekohe Borough Council ou Wednesday last the Town Clerk mentioned that so far no applications had been received from any firms or companies willing to install a lighting system in Pukekohe. He added, however, that the time in which adplications were to be made did not expire until the 31st inst. Instructions have been received from the Health Department and Education Board that as a safeguard against the further spread of the infantile paralysis epidemic the Pukekohe School will not reassemble next Monday, as originally intended, but will remain closed for a further week.

A proposal by an enterprising Auckland tradesman to effect streetnumbering in Pukekohe and to supply number plates for the purpose was submitted at the Borough Council meeting on Wednesday but members were of opinion that having regard to the many vacant sections existing in the thoroughfares the time was not yet ripe tor house-numbering to be instituted. The Salvation Army are to have their Harvest Festival celebrations this week-end. Envoy and Mrs E. P. Smith, of Auckland, will conduct the meetings all day on Sunday in the Army Hall, at 11 a.m. and 3 and 7 p.m. On Monday night at 8 o'clock a grand musical programme will be rendered by local talent. A treat is in store for all who attend. A sale of produce and refreshments will take place at tho clos\

Arrangements are in course ot progress for the delivery of this paper in the outer parts of the borough, of Pukekohe by a messenger on horseback. New subscribers desiring to avail themselves of this mode of delivery arc requested to leave instructions at our office and the management will also be glad to hear from old subscribers with a view of improvement of tho existing mode of delivery wherever possible. Further proof of the extending circulation of the " Pukekohe Times " and of members' appreciation of tho reports that appear in our columns of meetings of local authorities is afforded by the fact that at last Tuesday's meeting of tho Manukau County Council this paper was appointed as the Council's advertising medium for the Wairoa and Manurewa Hidings. A similar appointment has also been made by tho Raglan County Council for advts affecting the Onewhero and Pukekawa Ridings.

Definite arrangements lnve now been made in regard to the Technical and Continuation Classes to bo held in Pukekohe, at which attendance is compulsory for boys and girls between the ages of 14 and 17 who do not posse?s the nocessary certificates of exemption. The Supervisor of Technical Education has revised old methods and the instruction to be provided will certainly bo found to be beneficial to scholars in their later life. The classes will start next week as follows: Monday for English and Arithmetic; Tuesday for Bookkeeping, Wednesday for Cookery and Woodwork, and Thursday for Dressmaking, all between the hours of 7 p.m. and 'J p.m. Mr C. Roadley is the local Superintendent, who will enrol scholars, and further particulars eau be obtained from him.

Mi' 3 nickey, whose death occurred at the Ilames on Sunday last as briefly recorded in our last issue, was acquainted with Pukekohe in its earliest days when the site of the present township was covered with denso bush. Bora in l>S-i,'}in Dublin, Ireland, she left the Old Country i and went to South Africa, whoie she spent a couple of years. From Cape Tow n she came out to Now Z w laudand landed in Auckland in January, 1*6.3, in which city about a month later she married Mr Jeremiah Uickey, whom she previously uiet in Cape Town. Mr and Mrs Uickey proceeded direct to l'ukokuhe and settled on what was thou kuoy.n as tho Capo Settlement! in tLe vicinity of tho existing Human Catholic Church, whe;o tl;oy h ive ever tiueo lived. Mrs liickey j is survived by her husband and by a ! Krowu-up f imily of three suns audi three daughters, three sous having ! predeceased her. Thero are also I eleveu grandsons and one grand-j daughter living. The fuuerul tojk place iu tho Pukekoho Rowan Catholic Cemetery on Tuesday last j in the presence of a I trge gathering j of old settlers.