LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 174, 16 May 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The usual monthly meeting of the Pukekohe Borough Council takes place to-morrow (Wednesday) evening.

Constable Miller, of Auckland, has been appointed to fill the vacancy in the Pukekohe Police caused by Constable Watson's resignation and Constable Parrel I, who was relieving in the meantime, has returned to Auckland. Lieut. A. E. Hatt left Pukekohe last evening to take up duty in the BaseKecords Office at Wellington. It will bo remembered that Lieut. Hatt returned last year from Gallipoli suffering from concussion and has been certified by the Medical Board as unfitted fur further service at the front.

Tho gross praceeds of the Gift Sale promoted by the Women's Patriotic League on behalf of tho Bussian Relief Fund and held last week totalled £2B Is (id. The hon. assistants at the sale, in addition to the names given in our last issue, were Mesdauies Ivan Motion, Hooey and W. T. Jones and Miss Ivy Brown.

Tho Govemuiout has decided t > issue a proclamation prohibiting (.lie export of butter without l ho consent of the Minister tor Customs. Tho object of the prohibition is to ensure that thero shall be enough butter ret tined in New Zealand during tho months when the supply is less than tho consumption to sullico for tho people of this country. Last year stocks wore depleted uutil thu bult <r ucjuiicl scarcity value Tho coatentiou has been made by a dairy farmer and published in the Auckland "Star" that whilst farmers concerned in butter-making will sulfor, graziers and cheese producers will 1)0 left unchallenged. The actual fact, however, is that butler has now only I eon brought into li< e with beef and cheese, which are already subject to Government regulations. It is true that the mutton industry has had no restrictions placed on it to far as regards expoit but on the other hand owing to froi/in" sp.n-e being mainly alloled lor be I' for Government requirements the export "1 mutton is considerably cintiulod.

Members of the Pukekohe Rod and Gun Club are uotitied that ths Abbott Cup will be competed for on Saturday next. Messrs Frank Perkins and Co., as agents for the Te Arolia Bacon Coy., announce that they will b3 reviving pigs (weight 110 lbs to 150 lbs > at Pukekohe on Monday next, the price offered being Gd per lb. The late Col. Banks, whose death at Colombo was announced last week and who at one time held the post of Officer Commanding the Auckland district, was well known in Pukekohe in the old volunteer days, when Mr H. Dell was captaiu of the Pukekohe Mounted Killes, with Messrs Conuell and A. Glasson as his lieutenants. On the occasion of the Boer war those recruting from the Pukekohe district were subject to Col. Banks' acceptance and the deceased officer also went to South Africa with one of the later contingents.

Whilst on his way on Friday to be present at the official opening of the new school at Puni Mr G. J. Garland (chairman of the Auckland Education Board) was consulted in Pukekohe by a Deputation from the local school committee. Ihe matter of the deadlock that had been reached in regard to the Continuation and Technical Classes in Pukekohe was brought under his notice but whilst conceding the point, which the Supervisor of Technical Education had refused to acknowledge, that the Advisory Committee should be consulted as to local appointments Mr Garland stated that the appointment of a local Superintendent of the classes had been made by the Board for the current season and could not be interferred with. The need of an improved system of drainage at the Pukekohe school was also mentioned and Mr Garland expressed his belief that a septic tank installation would be agmd to by the Board if soil conditions were found capable of dealing with the elliuent.