LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 211, 22 September 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Foi Bronchial Coughs, take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Tenders are invited for removing and addicg to the building formerly uprd as a creamery at Funi. For particulars toe advt. An important clearing sale of Hive and dcid stock, including a ' herd ot 30 dairy cows, 30 young ' steers and heiferp, and feveral horse -1 , is to be conducted by Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons on Mr C W. Landon's farm at Fokeno on ( Wednesday next. At the same time the live and dead at< ck of Mr 1. G. Evison will be sold. Particulars will be found in our advertising columns. Distinctive Printing! Printing that will attract attention and put customers' advertising literature in a clasa by itself—printing that certains oiginality in conception and the highest degree of excellence in execution—this is tre quality of distinctive printing that characterises the work of the "Pukekohe Times" Jobbing Department, now under the supervision ot Mr E. E. Wright, late of the " Waipa Post." Sunday next will be observtd 'in Pukekohe Presbyterian Church as Church Rail; Day, when every family is expected to attend worship. The morning service will be taken by the Rev. S. Nixon, while in ths evening the Rev. I. Jolly, M.A., ot St Stephen's Church, Auckland, will preach. Mr Jolly is one of the foremost preachers in the Presbyterian Church. By error the dale ol Mr F. W. F. Pagan's clearauce sale at. Clifton, Whitfod, was referred to in a parargaph in a recent l.sje as being tor to-day (Friday), whereas the sale takes place next Friday, i the 29th icst The N.Z. Loan and M.A. Co, are the auctioneers, and particulars ot the stock, etc, to be offered will be found in our adver tisiog columns. A school incident, in which ex c:ssive punishment is alleged to have been administered by the te3dmas'er to a pupil at one of the country Bchaols in the vicinity of Pukekohe, was down for hearing at the Pukekohe Magistrate's Court yesterday, but owing to the ei - forced absence of the solicitor lor , the prosecution the case was ad ' journcd until the ntyt Court, to be held on Thursday, October sth. I lo view of increased busimss i having necessarily to be transacted j by the Pukekohe Borough Council in connection with the carrying out 1 of the loan schemes, Cr Koadley ! gave notice on Wednesday that at i the next meet!! g he would move that the Council should meet fort- , nightly instead of every month as now. At the meeting of the Pukekohe Borough Council on Wednesday notification was received that it was [ proposed to hold the annual conler- . ence of the Seventh Day Adventists in Pukekohe next January. Application was made for permission for ' ths party, abcut 300 persons, to i camp on the Recreation Reserve i tor ten days, the period ct the conP ference. The request was acceded to. The following is the copy ot a ' letter Mrs J. M. Baxter, of Puke--1 kohe has rtceived from a soldier in f France, dated August Bth, 1916, [ viz.:—"Please accept my many . thanks for your kind gift of sox. Quite a bundle of gift things came 1 in to-day and were much apprecil ated by the boys. I received sox as my share of the lucky bag, with your kind message intide, bo thought I would just drop a line to thank you and at least give you the ' satisfaction of knowing that all the good work done by so many in New I Zealand is not in vain, because these gifts are really appreciated by all the boys out here,-rHoping ' this will ri:d you safely, yours sincerely, 2,549, Dr. R. W. Burns. : 3rd Battery N.Z.F.A." Of the 39 building sections on the old showground in Pukekohe , offered for «ah on Wednesday by Messrs J. T. Stembridgr and Co., * by instructions of the: Fratklin A. and P, Suciety. three only found purchasers. Lot 15, the nearest section to Hall street on ths western side of the new road, was scld to Mr E, Crum for £l2O, and the section immediately opposite, on the railway or eastern side, was bought by Mr Tbos. Hoult fcr £1270. Lot 24, the highest section on the ground on the western side, was purchased by Mr J as. Wjhe for £llO. In several instances forthcoming were gomuwhat adjacent to the reserve iigurrs so that sahs by private treaty may yet take place. lhe gang engaged on laying additional telephone lines from Auckland for what is officially known as "main trunk" work have now reached Pukekohe. Three new lines are being installed—one to Pukekohe, one to Tuakau and one to Hamilton. Pukekohe is to have the advantage of the joint use of the luakau line as well as of getting the benefit of its own new line. Workmen will be engaged next week in connecting up subscribers' lines in Pukekohe with the metallic circuit cable which was erected a few months a*o for the purpose of overcoming the induction failing now existent whereby conversations between subscribers are overheard.