LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 158, 24 March 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

I'articulara of excursion fares and ' a special train to run to-morrow 1 (Saturday) lor the I'aeroa races 1 advertised in this issue ! (Jr ]?' Hubbard who is now in the j convalescent stage after s eevere I attack of bronchitis, left I'ukekotic I yh IVedtiesday for a stay at Waiwera j for the Lcne.'jt of his health I Tiio usual suuiuio. rsopeuiug of j the Pukekohe Telegraph Oili.ce I bfetwo&u tho hours of 7 p.m. and j 8 p.m. will bo discontinued as from 31st March nest.

The Franklin County Courul invite tenders for the supply of dog collars. Particulars will be found in an advt. Messrs F. Perkins and (V, announce that, on behalf of the Te Aroha Bacon Company, they will be bugingpigs at Pukekohe on Monday next. Intiniatiun is given in this issue by the Franklin, County Council that proceedings will bo taken in the cas? of all overdue rates not paid by the olst inst. A church pirado of members of the Pukekohe Lodge of Oddfellows, M.U., is to be held on Sunday morning nest preparatory to attending the Presbyterian Church. Messrs Diuiock und Co., announce in this issue particulars of dates and places at which they will be buying pigs in the district for a month hence. For particulars see advt. Jack London's famous story "The Sea Wolf " will be shown at the Premier Hall, Pukekohe, on Tuesday and Friday of next week. There wdl be no pictures on Wed nesday, the hall having been booked for a lecture by the Ckaplain-Capt-Mac Donald. The Rev. G. Frost will conduct farewell services at Whangarata on Sunday aft*moon and at BucWaud in the evening. His final service in Pukekohe will be on Sunday week (April 2nd), when he conducts the evening worship. 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."

Mr R. G. Pooley, who his been appointed permanent telegraph lineman at Pukokohe, arrived in the town yesterday and takes up the station immediately. The district ia fortunate in obtaining the services of an experienced and capable mechanician and linesman, and further advancement in the Telephone Department is assured. We also understand that the work of laying the lines underground will shortly be undertaken by the Engineers' Department at Auckland. The heroic and noble work that was performed by Chaplain-Captain Macdonald among the New Zealand troops in the war zone has been duly chronicled in these columns and all the more interest was attached thereto from the fact that the rev. gentlemen was s mio time ago the Presbyterian minister in charge of the Tuakau district. He has since returned to the Dominion on sick leave, but having now regained his health he is carrying out a series of lectures on his war experiences prior to returning to the Front next month. Jn response to an invitation to speak in Pukekohe, CliaplainCaitain Ma-jDonald has amused to give his lecture in the Preniiir Had on Wednesday evening next, when a large audience should assemble to welcome him. He is an eloquent speaker and his discourses have made a great impression everywhere. A charge of Is is to be made for the benefit of the Soldiers' Camp

Equipment Fund. In the case heaid a fortnight ago arising out of trailic arrangements for Show Day in Pukekohe in which a local engineer, named Alexander John McDonald, was charged with obstruction by refusing to comnly with police instructions to proceed to the town by way of the borough road and not along the railwiy approach road, the Magistrate (Mr E. Page) to-day gave his reserved jugdment. He stated that on the decision of Mr Justice Denniston in a case relating to the definition of "a public place" railway propeity was not a " public place " within the meaning of the section of " The Police Offences Act " as relied upon in the case. He accordingly dismissed the information. In doing so, however, he said it was without projudice to any rights there might be bestowed upon the police under the Railways Act or regulations. The defence, as submitted by Mr C. O. Mahony, it will be remembered, was that as the station approach road was the property of the Railway Department the defendant was within his rights in using it and the police had no jurisdiction in regard to traflic over it.