LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 175, 19 May 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Some interesting letters from correspondents will be found on page 1 of this issue. Zealand Dairy Association by an advt. in this issue invite tenders for carting contracts for next season. Particulars ot the Bah to be held by Messrs Alfred Bucklar.d and Sor.B, on June 23rd mx', of 25 farms, bung a subdivision ot the Helvetia Ostrich Faim, will be found in our advertising columns

Clearing sales are to be held by Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons on Tuesday nest at Mr T. Colson's farm, Whaugarata, and on Thursday next at Mr C. K. Nelson's farm, Pukekohe Hill. For particulars see advts.

Tickets are selling well for the Pukekohe Boy Scouts' concert to be held in the Premier Hall on Tuesday evening next when the proceeds, as already reported, will be devoted to the worthy ohject of the Scouts' Fund. A capital musical programme has been arranged and should be well worth listening to.

Pukekohe's onward career was testified to by the report presented to the meeting of the Borough Council on Wednesday by the Building Inspector (Mr Penman that the building permits issued last month represented value to the extent of £l3Bl. An important sale of furniture, etc , m to be carried out by Messrs J T Stembidrge and (Jo on Wednesday :?ext at r'aerata, under instructions from the Executors in the estate of the late Mrs Juau'son. For particulars see advt in this is-u>

A telephonic extension line from the Pukekohe Borough Council Chambers to the Fire Brigade station adjoining was authorised at Wednesday's Council meeting and will permit of any fire alarm being conveyed direct to the Brigade at night-time. A meeting of the Pukek 'he Recruiting Committee was held in the Borough Council Chambers ou Wednesday when it was decided to employ two returned soldiers to canvass eligibles resident in the borough. The names suggested for the purpose were those of Corpl. Willis and Pte Lauer.

Mr Lea Brown, manager for Messrs Eoulston Bros aud a prominent member of tlio Pukekohe Fire Brigade, is now cjnvalescent after a serious attack* of pleurisy and ijuiozy. On the conclusion of a spell in the country he hopes to return to his business du'ies once again.

Pukekoho's bill of health c»utinues most satisfactory. Apart from oDe in which three cases of scarlet fever were recorded somo time ago, the epidemic so prevalent in Auckland lies not spread to Pukekohe, and no recent cases of infantile paralysis have been reported. Infectious disease is therefore non-existent in the borough. The experimental treatment of different portions of King Street, Pukekohp, with bituco and tarred macadam is so far giving satisfactory result in both cases and ou the

! suggestion of Cr Hubbard the Foremau of Works (Mr Clews) was at Wednesday's Council meeting instructed to furnish a statement oi the respective cost of the work, as laid down, for the Council's future guidance. A caßtigation by means of a horsewhip of a Pukekohe resident by an angry soldier, who had temporarily returned to his home in Pukekohe from Trentham, has been th« chief topic of local conversation this week. The circumstances that are said to have led up to the incident are denied by the individual who was attacked, and he has instituted

magisterial proceedings against his assailant with respect to the assault.

By the omission, as tha result of a printer's error, of the wurd "not" in a portion of the report in our la9t issue of the Kobe Kobe road gate case certain remarks made by Mr A Banna, Counsel for the defendants (the Franklin County Council), in his address to the Magistrate, appeared as palpably contrary to what was intendel Tha actual statement should have read, "Mr Hanna submitted that it could nut be behaved that the Council were influence by the fact that Mr Renal! was a Councillor." The absence in Pukekohe of adequate arrangements on the part of the Defence Department for the enlistment of recruits offering themselves was glaringly exempli-

lied last Saturday. Two young men made a journey to Pukekohe lrom Unewhero for the purpose of enlisting. They saw a and passed

the medical examination but repeated fails at the Defence Department's office revealed that the premises were closet and that no official "was in attendanc?, and they accordingly returned to their hornet without having accomplished their object. Similarly, a would-be

recruit aniveJ from Mercer and he also failed to lind anyone authorised to enrol him in the rank*, in his esse, as a I yst resource he applied at the police station, but as no enlistment lorms have I en supplied to the locs I pclice he also depart-, d homewards covir.eed that military organisation was sadly deficient in

'ukekohe With a view of [>ro< min- the best

labour available for Murks under tho jurisdiction of tbo Kaglau County Council, Cr K. I'. Tapper kawa) proposed at the mooting of that authority, hold on Wednesday of last week, that stops should be taken to secura a loan to purchase several acres of property in o.ich of (he ridings, and that in each case a house should bo erected thereon, to remain tho property of the Council, and to be let to the Council's workmen. By that mot hod, ho claimed, the Council would have in their employment men who would take an interest in the roads of tbo County and ia matters appertaining thereto. The suggestion was most favourably commented on by Councillor?, but the tine was considered inopportune for it.-; adoption Cr Tapper was asked, however, to bring (lie matter forward fit a later date when probably tho proposal will be given eil'ect to.

In conversation with a "Times" representative, a merchant in a large way of business mentioned that it was his experience that the present shortage in sugar had been brought about by householdeis making extensive purchases in view of an anticipated rise in prices. It was his ,'the merchant's idea, however, that if an increase in rates occurred such would be of very small extent. At the same time he anticipated that despite the Government's regulations restricting the export of butter a rise in the price of that commodity was imminent.

Mr Geoffrey Mellsop, one of the victims of the terrible quarry explosion at Ohakune, was the only son of tho late Mr James Me'.lsop, at one time a settler at Glenbrook, but for many years headmaster of the Mangere school. Mr Geoffrey Mellsop, who was only 28 years of age, was on the threshold of a promising career, having successfully passed high examinations iu the engineering profession. At the time of his death he was engineerin charge of the construction of the Raetahi branch railway. The funeral took place at Huntly and was largely attended, he hiving been well and favourably known during his residence there while in charge of the construction of the Pukemiro branch line. Wreiths were sent by the Public Works and Survey Departments, and by numerous private friends. He leaves a wife and in'ant son, for whom general sympathy is felt.