LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 213, 29 September 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

lu connection with the departure from Pukekohe a soL-ial and dauco is to be tendered Mr B. H. Andrew by his fellow members of the Excelsior Lodge of Oddfellows, in the Oddfellows' lial!, next Tuesday evening, anc 1 the public are invited to co-oper-ate in the gathering. Thursday, October l'Jth, has t:een fixed a* the date of the first annual dinner ot the Fukekohe Chamber of Commerce, and Mr F. V. Frazer, tbe Stipendiary Magistrate, hae accepted an invitation to he present on lll'' occasion. Fm Bronchial Coughs, lal;o

Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons advertise elsewhere i this issue the sjle Ly private treaty, as a going toncerr, of a livery and bait stable busies, the owner of which ha* enlisted.

The fire inquest hell at Waiuku on Monday snd Tuesday, by Mr F. V. Frszer, S. M., was of a protracted character, the verdict being thit the conflagration wa» the wilful work of sjme person or persus unknown.

SiibEcrirJers to the Pukekohe Public Library are uotil'ud that as from October Ist the hjurs of opening of the lending departm nt will be 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily, except Haturd<y, 9 a.m. to 12 no n. New subscribers aie invited to joir, the Library having 4'JOO vcl.mes oi the shelveß.

The pr nt°hle n<iUiC of the dairying industry, esp ciully under current comJition?, i* testified to by a retUiii secured by Mr A. F. Matuscbka, of Puktkdu, of £25 14s 7a for milk supplied by him list month from eight cows to the New Z aUid Dairy Association.

An important sale of Pukekohe pioperiy is to be held on the ground on Thursday next when Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons will otter by auction 18 sections (eight i acre lots and ten 1 acre lo'.s), the property of Mr M. Hartneady. Particulars will be found in an advt.

For the purroie of making provision for to carry on the good wcrk on which tiny pre e.igaged the Pukekohe bra<ch of the Wom.n'a Patriotic League have organised a bazaar, to be btlJ in the Masonic Hall on N ivebiuer 2ud, 3rd and 4tb. Gift* of articles, produce, itc, for the stalls are requester).

[laving di po«ed of bis farm at Ha'risvillr, Tuakau, Mr Fred Sou ter has in.tructed Messrs J. T. Stemb.idge and Co. to carry out a saU of tin live a..d dead stick on U.e prop rty on Thursday next. The off-ring inrludts 23 dairy cows, milking plant, etc. Kor particulars see advt.

Formal notice appears iu our adver'ising clumns of the popisi.l of the Franklin bounty Council to reducj ihe width of tbe thoroughfare, known.as Tramway road, for its entire Lngih between Pakington and Cameron lowrr. For the of confirming the iouticil'3 action in the matter a meeting of County ratepayers will b3 held in Hie C-uncil'j office.', at Pukekohe, on Wedn.sdav, Dscember 6tb.

TLe Rev. S. Nixon, Me, delator of Mauku Home Mission Charge, has received nitice from Dr Gibb, of Wellington, that Mr G. D. Wilson, 8.A., of Duuedin, will arrive iu Mauku about the middle of October in order to take up the position of Homo Missionary rendered vacant by tbe resignation of Mr A. CliiuH who has enlisted. Mr Wilson has had a bril.nnt college career, and tbe charge may consider itself forttrnate in having secured his services.

Mr J. K. Hart, one of the Board of Trade Commisßione's, visited Fukekohe yesterday and consulted with th: local bakers in the nn'ter of tire pi ice of bread. No bgreeujeut was arrived at, but before departing for Auckland Mr Hart expressed to a "limes" reporter the hope that some settlement wruld be coma to. One of the suggestions, he mad?, wa* that within a t*o miles' radius of Pake the coupon system snorld be ru titu'.el st that the 4lb loaf should be sold at yd instead of lOd as now.

Highly complimentary r: marks wrre pasaaJ at the enquiry h Id at Waiuku this week tr.tc the cucumstanc s attending the recent fire in that township by Mr F. V. b'tszit, S.M., in his capacity aa Coroner, and by the Counsel engaged in the proceedings, at the s'ulful and rapid manner in which the evidence was "typed" by Mis? Meryl Maxwell, who by r quest of the police acted aa tnc t-ffici 1 typiat for the occasion. Tie depositions as recorded occupied a little n ore than 67 foolscap folios, but throughout the long fittings—ll hours on Monday and 14 hours on Tue'day—Miss Maxwell, who is a member of the "limes" staff in Pukekote, resolutely kept to her task.

The secretary to the Consul for Eelgium has written asking the Pukekohe branch ot the Women's Patriotic League to help with the "Egi{ Week" scheme, which has ben oganised on behalf of the Belgians. The idea is to ask for dora'ions ;f eggs in Octobrr, when eggs are most plentiful. Tre egas will be stored iin cool chamber in Auckland by the Auckland Farmers' Freezing Co. till Easter week, when eags are dearest and then sold and *tre money devoted to wtatever work may have the most urgent claim at the time Three ladies will be in attendance at Mr Lawrie's rooms oo Thursday and Friday, October 12th and 13th, from 2 p.m., to receive and pack all donations of egg", when it is frped a good number will be forthcoming. AM eggs s-nt in ! etore the advertised date can be left at Mr Lawrie's office ia King street. Mr Cej.'ge, carrier, has kindly offerei to cait anything in connection with the Patriotic work tree ot chirge.

Four pairs of rsmches, seat from the Helvetia Ihtrich Farm, Pukeforr, have hfen added to the Z:o at Wellmetor. K ferring to the new arrivals "The Dominion" says: "One big fellow, with a boll eye and a whitish io.k about the ear?, has alreidy been named 'Hill Masßey,' and another, who is mo*e sle°k and clerk-live in aspect, besrs thi cognomen of 'Joe Ward.' The birdj were brought down i.om Ajckland in one big bulluck-truck and were delivered at the Zoo without mishap of a.iy kird. Naturally, everyone, or at hast every lady, looks the ostriches over for the feathers that never fade from, fashion, but in that regard th.re is r.othinj: doing, as they were picked from the birds' valuable tails before they left Auckland, and there sill be no more until next autumr. The taretaker dtclarrs oue of the o.t iches to be a tegular rogue. He went into the enclosure the other day and had not walKtd half a doz=n paces before 'Bill Ma9sev' made a wild swoop at him. He had just time to dive for th* tfftte when lhe bird was upon hiT, and before rnnld pel. through its claw had sh !itl> cut