THE Pukekohe & Waiuku Times PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1916 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 219, 20 October 1916, Page 2

THE Pukekohe & Waiuku Times PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1916 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

"We nothing extenuate, nor tet down auaht in malice."

Private Greeting Cards for Xraas, to be printed with your name and address, are stocked in great variety at the "Pukekohe Times" offic9. Call and see the choice designs. Monday next (Labour Day) will as usual be observed as a public holiday in Pukekohe. For Children's Hacking Cough Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons are to hold a special sale of dairy cattle at Pukekohe on Saturday of next week. Particulars of the entry are advertised in this issue. Instead of receiving pigs at Pokeno on Tuesday next, as announced by advt. in our last issue, the NZ. Fanners' Co-op. Bacon aqj Meat Packing Co., Ltd., will receive at Papakura on that day. The current wholesale rate being paid locally for new potatoes is 2A-d per lb for good samples. Crops are now coming in well and the yields promise to be highly satisfactory to growers. Recent contributions to the Pukekohe Belgian Fund are : C. Shipherd (23rd contribution' £5, Jas. H. Tozer 10s, Mrs S. P. Henry (Puni) ss, Aka Aka Sunday School children 3s 3d.

A grand concert by children is to be given in the Premier Hall, Pukekohe, on Tuesday, November 21st, by the scholars of St. Andrew's Sunday School. A bright and sparkling programme has been prepared and is being carefully rehearsed. The Consul for Belguim in Auckland has acknowledged the receipt of eight boxes of eggs sent by the Pukekohe Patriotic League in conjunction with the local branch of the Women's Patriotic League and he thanks all donors for their kind co operation. An important clearing sale of live and dead stock, including 120 head of cattle, is to be carried out on Tuesday next by Messrs Alfred Buckland & Sons by instructions of Mr C. E. Haywatd on his farm at Whangarata. For particulars see advt. A summer flower show is to be held in Pukekohe on December 7th and Bth under the auspices of St. Andrew's Church. A special feature of the exhibition will be roses and sweet peas but the schedule also includes classes for all varieties of flowers, pot plants, vegetables, home industries, etc.

Mr J. Hooey's many friends in Pukekohe will be glad to hear that after having been an inmate of the Auckland Hospital for over three months, that he is now an out-door patient attending the hospital daily for massage treatment. Although progressing favourably it will be some considerable time before Mr Hooey will have recovered the use of his hand. In place of arrangements previously notified an officer of the Defence Department will attend at Pukekohe to swear in recruits on the following dates, viz , Monday October 30th, Tuesday November 14tb, Monday, Dec3mber 11th, and Monday, January Bth. All recruits must pass the doctor and dentist before being sworn in. Lance-Corporal E. 0. (Redwing) Stayte, reported wounded on the 20th September, is the fourth son of Mrs B. Stayte, of Pukekohe. He left New Zealand twelve months ago with the " Earl of Liverpool's Own " regiment and has been in the trenches in France since the 21st of May. He was a keen footballer. His younger brother, Arthur Sydney, is also serving his country in France. The members of the Pukekohe branch of the Women's Patriotic League are well forward in the arrangements for their bazaar to be held in the Premier Hall on November 2nd, 3rd and 4th. An attractive stage programme will be submitted each evening. Various competitions, particulars of which appear in our advertising columns, have also been promoted. Donations for the stalls in kind or in money will be gladly received by Mrs J. M. Baxter, Hon. Secretary.

The taking of the census of Maoris living in Pukekohe and Waiuku was completed last week by the police, the number of natives enumerated being 420. Without any records of their births particulars of ages could only indefinitely be furnished but it was found that very few could lay claim to exceeding sixty years of age although in one particular instance an elderly Maori gave his age as 80. The native women were inclined to refuse to divulge particulars as to the younger men of their families by reason of their fear that records were wanted with a view of the men being enrolled for participation in the war.

Despite the wet weather there was a very gratifying attendance at the Anniversary tea meeting held in the Pukekohe Methodist Church ou Wednesday evening last, about 100 persons partaking of a sumptuous tea provided by the ladies. At the annual meeting which followed, the Church was well filled and in addition to interesting reports on the various departments of the Church's activities an entertaining programme was rendered as follows Songs, Miss Bag nail and Mr A. Smith, of Buckland ; recitation, Master Herbert Yant ; song, by six girls; musical monologue and cornet solos by Mr A. H. Garland, of Auckland. All the items were well rendered and appreciated, hearty thanks being extended. The Anniversary meetings have been most successful and gratifying and were closed on Wednesday evening bv tho singing of the Do<cology.

Tenders are invited by the Waiuku Town Board for the removal of night-soil at Waiuku. For particulars see advt.

Tenders are invited, per the medium of our advertising column?, by the Franklin County Council for various contracts for the supply and delivery of spawls, road work, etc. Through pressure on our space our report of the Pukekohe Girl Scouts' entertainment, held last Tuesday, is unavoidably held over until our next issue. Messrs A. P. Home and Son, of Buckland, on behalf of the Te Aroha Bacon Co. notify clients that they will receive pigs on Monday, the 30th inst, instead of, as previously arranged, on Monday next (Labour Day). The N Z Loan and M.A. Co. desire to draw attention to the important sale ot live and dead stock to be carried out by them on Monday next on Mr D. McFadden's property at Patumahoe. Particulars will be found in our advertising columns. In connection with the visit to Pukekohe yesterday of the Minister for Internal Affairs (the Hon G. W. Russell, M.P.), Mr Sam Mills kindly placed his Daimler motor car at the disposal of the Executive of the Chamber of Commerce and met the Minister on his arrival, also taking him back to the railway station for his departure by the main trunk express for Wellington. In the afternoon Mr Mills met Mr J. A. Young, M P.. and motored him to the summit of Pukekohe Hill in order to afford him a view of the surrounding country and an inspection of the producing qualities of the Pukekohe lands.

What was popularly admitted to be the most successful gathering of the kind ever held in Pukekohe eventuated last night in the Pukekohe Hotel on the occasion of the first annual dinner of the local Chamber of Commerce. The company numbered between 60 and 70, the visitors present including the Hon. G. W. Russell M.P. (Minister for Internal Affairs), Mr J. A Young M.P., Mr F. V. Frazer S.M., and Mr A A. Ross (President of the Farmers' Union. General appreciation was expressed of the admirably served and excellent repast provided by Mr C. Clarke, the proprietor of the Hotel. The speeches were both eloquent and instructive andadelightful musical programme was submitted by the Lyric Quartette from Auckland. A report of the proceedings will appear in our next issue.

The Auckland Education Board have decided that the schools shall be closed for the Christmas holidays on Thursday, December 21st, and be re-opened on Monday, February sth. It was further decided that schools should be opened for 3.$ hours a day only in Februiry, the schools to open at the discretion of school committees at either 8.30 or 9 a.m. during that month.

The adoption of conscription for military service is foreshadowed by what are known as the family shirkers being now *' rounded up " in the district by the Pukekohe police, who have received instructions to interview the men concerned and then to report to Wellington whether the names and particulars as furnished for the National Begister are correct, additional names of two or more eligibles in a family to be at the same time also supplied by the police.