LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 179, 2 June 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-morrow (King's Birthday) will be observed as a general holiday in Pukekohe. Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons advertise in this issue particulars of a special sale of registered Jersey cattle to be held in their Pukekohe Ya*ds on Thursday, June loth.

The death occured at the Waikato Hospital on Tuesday last at the age of 17 years of Mr R. I). Bollard, second son of Mr R. F. Bollard, M.P. for Raglan.

The French Red Cross Fund has benefitted to the extent of £lOl 12s as the result of a contribution on butter-fat supplied to the New Zealand Dairy Association by several of its farmers.

The rainfall as recorded in Pukekohe by the " Koseinont" gauge since last Saturday, May 27th, until yesterday morning days) amounted to 2 - 80 inches, or an average of over 57 of an inch per day. A recent police test for drunkenness was to drop a piece of paper on the floor and watch tue man trying to pick it up. A much better plan, however, is to drop two pieces of paper on the floor aud watch the man picking up four pieces. r, Evidence tiiat despite the war building operations are still brisk in the borough of Pukekohe is allordod by building permits to the value of £3676 having been issued by the Borough Building Inspector (Mr J' Penman) during the month of May. Awards made in the dairy section at the Waikato winter show include fourth prize for box of butter suitable for local trade and third for box of butter made by exhibitor who has never won a prize at previous winter shows gained by the Waiuku butter factory (Mr A. Stevensen, manager). For box of butter, championship of the Auckland Province, the Pukekohe factory (Mr W. T. Kirkman, manager) was bracketed thitd. At a sitting of the Pukekohe J.P's. Court yesterday before Messrs J. T. Stembridge and C. Roadley, Thomas E. Skinner, until recently in business as a plumber, (in Pukekohe, who had been arrested by Constable Thornell in Auckland the previous evening, was charged with having on May 25th, at Pukekohe, obtained the sum of £5 from William McClintock by means of false pretences. The accused was remanded to ba brought up at the Magistrate's Court to-day.

Chatting with a "Times" reporter yesterday, whilst in Pukekohe, Mr K. K. Mulgan, Chief Inspector of Schools, referred to the neglect of parents to take advantage of local higher education facilities. He stated that Pukekohe was the centre of a district that was quite capable of acting as a feeding ground for the establishment of a High School or a technical High School. He pointed out that uf the pupils who had passed the Gth Standard examination last year only lour had proceeded to the Secondary School. It rested with the people of the district and not with the Boaid to provide the necessary number of pupils to warrant the establishment of a Technical High School, and it was his intention to go round to the schools in the district and to explain to the parents and children, and the local Committees, the advantages to be gained by according support to the Technical High School scheme. Mr Mulgan. in cjncluaion, said, "If we are to lace the future with confidence after this disastrous war we will have to face it with an educated people."

Dreadiioi'.Klil 800 l ■ ami Klm.". lest un the market. Sold only by FRANK PERKINS & Co, Puke'-c-he. -Ad vt,