TUAKAU.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 215, 6 October 1916, Page 3

TUAKAU.

(See also Page 1). HONOURING THE GALLANT L)EAD. Before proceeding with the ordinary bnsmess at tte meeting of the Tuakau Town Board last Tuesday, the chairman, Mr R. Dynes Fulton, referred to the severe loss the district bad sustained in the deaths in action of Trooper Wallace Glasgow and Sergeant Charles McGabar. A perusal of the casualty lists of the last few days, be said, impressed on one more than anything else the horrors of a terrible war, and when they found in the li9t ot the fallen the names of young fellows they had faiewelled in the pride of manhood's strength it made it all the more clear that there was a deep debt of gratitude to them that they could never repay. There was one consolation, however, and that was they had died as they had lived—according to the highest ideals of true manhood. Mr Fulton aleo made mention of tha death of the late Mr John McUahan, who, he Baid, was recognised and esteemed as a good resident.

Votfcs of condolence with tbe respective families were carried.

At the Westfield yards on Wednesday last a line of 60 wetbers offered for sole on behalf ot Mr Fred Lawaon fetched up to £2 7s 9d. th average being £2 6s 4d and a line of 62 hoggets, on behalf of the same vendo', sold up to £1 9s 9d, the average being £1 Bs. Nurse Allen, who is supported by Dr Cheeseman, announces that she has accomodation for patients at her nursing home in Tuakau. The body of the unfortunate man, Entwhistle, who was drowned at the Waikato Heads last Sunday as reported in our last issue, has not yet been recovered. In case the corpse has gone out to sea the masters of coasting vessels have been requested by the police to keep a look-out for the body.

At the meeting of the Tuakau Town Board on Tuesday a suggestion was made by tha chairman, Mr R. Dynes Fulton, that the attention of the Franklin County Council should te called tu the existence of a length a two chain toad outBide the Board's area leading trom the Tuakau Dimaio Keserve to the Waikato river, and that the Council should be asked to dispose of one chain of the same to »he frontage owners, who were willing to purchase it, on the same lines as were being tollowed in the case of the reduction of the Tramway road from Packington to Cameron Town. Ihe suggestion was adopted and a letter accordingly from the Town Board came u.ider consideration of the 'Jouncil yesterday, when Cr Wilcox was empowered to make enquiries and to report to the following meeting. A vote of condolence to the widow and family of the late Mr John McGahan was passed at Tuesday's meeting of the Town Board. The chairman, Mr Dynes Fulton, said that the late Mr McUaban was a well-repeected and esteemed resident of the district, and had reared a big family ot good citizens. He concluded by adding that bis death was deeply deplored by everyone. On the claims of witnesses called on behalf of the Board in the recent action Miss Taylor v. the Board being passed for payment at the Board's meeting on Tuesday Messrs Dynes Fulton, H. B. Free, J. Pirret and A. H. Tapper all donated the amounts they were allowed, viz., a total of £i 16s Bd, to the Soldiers' Memorial Fund

The steamer Roddam, reported in the cables on Monday last as having been torpedoed in the English Channel was the vessel of which Captain Ryder was in command of when he retired from the mercantile service. In fact Capt. Ryder was on the bridge when the boat was launched from the docks of the Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Coy. at a cost of £4-3,000. When engaged in the wheat trade between the Black Sea, India and the River Plate the Roddam carried a crew of 32 so if it is correct, as the cables state, that only eleven of the crew were saved probably about 21 were drowned. A brace ot men, who had admittedly been on "the jag" in Tuakau for a few days previously, made their appearance at the Pukekohe Magistrate's Court yesterday on a charge of being deemed to be rogues and vagabonds by reason of having been found at night-time on Wednesday on enclosed premises in River road, Tuakao. The men, who gave their names as William Button and Frank McDonald respectively, both pleaded guilty, and Constable Taylor explained that they had been a source of annoyance to residents and were found under the influence of drink sleeving in a garden. The accused pleaded that they were on the look-out f?r work, and on Constable Taylor remarking that he could easily find them work the Magistrate directed them to obey Constable Taylor's instructions. He further convicted tbem and ordered them to come up tor sentence when called upon, besides issuing a prohibition order in either instance. With evident thankfulness that Mount Eden was not to temporarily house them the pair stepped out of the dock.

The judgment summons case, Dr Wake v. Mrs Esau Gale, which indirectly concerns the sale of the late Mr Esau Gale's property in luakau, was again mentioned at the Pukekohe Magistrate's Court yesterday, when Mr Frazer, S.M., announced: "I make no order. The debtor gave ber evidence in Auckland and has no means."