LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 195, 28 July 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The next ordinary monthly meeting of the Franklin County Council will be held on Thursday, August 3rd

The annual meeting of the Franklin A & IJ.1 J . Society is being held this afternoon. A report of the proceedings will appear in our next issue. The Rev. Father Skinner, of Waiuku, leaves for t;e front in a. few weeks' time, and his place will be taken by the Rev. Father Keraine, of St. Patrick's. Residents of Pukekohe are iuviled to become members of the Pukekohe Chamber of Commerce and to attend the annual meeting of the organisation to be held in the " Times" olfice on Monday evening next.

Formal provision i« mule in tbe " Washing-up" Bill, intioduced yest'idiy in to Parliament to secure a title to the Pukekohe Buiough Courcil of th = site of tbe present power-house and cancelling such land as a recreation gruurd. Messrs W. and R. Fletcher, Ltd., of Auckland, oifer a prize of two guireas for the hest suggestion of a word as a dade mark for bonedust to be manufactured at the new freezing works at Westtield. Parlieul'rs will be found m an advt. in this issue.

Ihe Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company advertise in this issue particulars oT a clearing sale they are to hold on Mr Matthew Henry's farm at Waerenga on Wednesday next. The stock to be offered includes 50 dairy cows, 50 yearlings, and one two-year-old Shor horn bull, together with a Treloar milking plant, Alfa Laval Separator, etc.

A proposal to institute class.-a for farmers' book-K-epirg as part of ths instruction afforded at tbe Pukekche TechicHl Education Clis;es is to come under consideration at tbe aorual meeting of the Pukekohe branch of the Farmers' Uni n, to be held id th 9 Borough Council Chambers on Monday evening next. Tbe election of officers will also be held. Members are requested to make a special point of attending.

Writirg to his parents at Patumahoe under date of May 16th i from "Somewhere in France," Rifleman Denys Davy states tbat since hia arrival in France letters have reached him regularly. He had witnessed an air duel, a German airship having come near their quarters and havirg been chased hack by an Engli h airman, machine guriß being fired by both. He mentioned that after marches it was now possible to change one's shirtß and socks, au.l good bath?, disinfected with sulphur, with hot and cold water were available.

At the Auckland police court yesterday, b< fire Mr E. C. Cutten, S M. Norman Selwyn Connolly (2">) admitted that at Pukekche in June he obtained a saddle, value £4 13s, from IT. Dell rind Son by the false pretence that he was authorised by his brother-in-law to get it. SubInspector Mcllveney stated that Connolly went to Messrs Dell and Son's saddlery establishment in Pukekohe and endeavoured to buy a riding saddle on credit, but was refused. He returued later and represented that he had been authorised by his brother-in-law, a well-known settler in the district, to get the saddle, and after having satisfied himself that Connol'y was related to the settler in question Mr Dell let him have the saddle. Connolly at ouce wont to Tuakau and sold the saddle for 13s, later coming to his homo in town. Subsequently Connolly's brother-in-law made restitution to Mr Dell. Mr W. Hackett, for accused, stated that Connolly was awaiting trial at the Supreme Court ou a charge of attempted rape, and requested a short sonteuce in order that the man's trial on the other charge might not be prejudiced. His Worship entered a conviction, and vomandnd pri- >ner for sentence until after the other matter hid been decided.