TUAKAU

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 203, 25 August 1916, Page 3

TUAKAU

The local poat office will open, id addition to ihe ordinary attendance, irom aeven p.m. to nine p.m. to-day and to-morrow and also the Fnday and Saturday evenings of next week for the purpose of dealing with applications for War Loan certificates. An acknowledgment of the Tnakau Patriotic League's donation ot £6O to the North Sea Relief Fund has been received trom the Auckland centre by Mr J. Quinlan the secretary. Timber for a . tour-horse stable to be erected on Mr Dynes Fulton's farm was carted from the railway station on Wednesday last. ■ Quite recently Mr Fulton erected a most up-to-date milking shed on the property. ihe Controller and Auditor General, Mr Collins, has sanctioned the Town Board's suggestion that interest charges, amounting to £49 16s lud and £34 12s 9d respectively, should be paid out ot the General Kate, and be further advises that tie is not aware of any icason why the Hospital and Charitable Aid rate should not be paid trom the General Kate. Another big sale, involving a large number of suitable building sites, originally in the Henderson estate, viz., lots one to eight, inclusive, has taken place, Mr F. W. Mander, M.P., ot Whangarei, having purchased the sections from Messrs Eimes and Cargill. The trawler Albany, which is due to arrive at the Waikato Heads shortly has put into Te Hapua, where repairs, which will take a week to effect, are in hand. A diversion caused on Wednesday by a runaway team of five horses attached to, an empty waggon was very lively while it lasted. The waggon and horses were in charge of Mr W. Logan, an employee of Mr S. Ciawrord, uf Onewhero, and wbliat temporarily unattended the animals took fright and male off from where they were standing at the railway station for the townahiu, in the direction of home. They collidel with one ?f the Town Board's lamp posts, smashing the lamp to fragments, but were eventually brought to a standstill outside Messrs Green and Colebrook's store.

MAORI WAK MEMORIAL. • Word baa been received by Mi W. Gubb, Clerk of the Tuakau Cemetery Committee, from the Hon. G. W. Kuikll, M.F., Minuter for Internal Affairs, that he mil visit Tuakau at an early date tor the purpose of carrying out the ceremony of unveiling the marble obteiak, recently erected by the Government on the Bite of the Alexander Kedoubt, in memory of the European soldiers who fell in the Maori War and whose gravfs have been located in the cemetery adjacent to the Kedoubt. A public meeting has been convened for Mo-day next for the purpose of niaUnii arrangf-im-nts for in* «remony and to welcome the Minister to Tuakau.