LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 221, 27 October 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

m Private Greeting Cards for Xmas, to be printed with your name and address, are stocked in great variety at the "Pukekohe Times" office. Call and see the choice designs. Tenders are invited by the Manukau County Council for quarrying 600 yards of metal at Beardon's Quarry, between Alfriston and Brookby. For particulars see advt. Home-dressmaking is always popular, and Mrs A. £. Massey, of King street (corner of Seddon street), Pukekohe, announces that she is willing to impart expert advice to ladies in regard to cutting out and fitting. Particulars will be found in an aovt. in this issue. For Children's Hacking Cough Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.

Messrs F. Perkins & Co. announce that on behalf of the Te Aroha Bacon Company they will buy pigs at Pukekohe on Monday, Nov. 6th.

Members of the Pukekohe Bowling Club are notified by advt. in this issue that the sim-uer season has now commenced, an 1 tli it the green is open for play. Mr William Hunter, of Christchurch, Grand Master of the Independent Order of Oddfellows, is to visit Pukekohe on Tuesday next to meet members of the Pukekohe and Waiuku lodges. In addition to dates mentioned in our last issue, the N.Z. Farmers' Co-op. Bacon and Meat Packing Co., Ltd , will receive pigs at Onewhero next Monday and at Tuakau on Tuesday. A clearing sale of live and dead stock is to be held by Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons on Mr O. J. Nicholson's farm at Paerata on Thuisdayof next week For particulars see advt. Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons advertise particulars of entries and order of sale for their second Spring Horse Fair to be held at Pukekohe on Wednesday and Thursday, November 15th and 16th. The schedules for the summer flower show, organised in aid of the funds of St. Andrew's Church, Puke kohe, and to be held on December 7th and Bth, are now published and are obtainable of the hon. secretaries (Messrs A. F. Brown and F. E. Simpson), or at the '' Times " office. Home Industries and floral artistry are catered for in addition to all varieties of cut blooms, pot plants, etc.

In reference to the statement made by Mr Ja-meson at the last meeting of the Karaka Road Board, as reported in our issue of the 20th inst, th*t Mr John Schlaepfer failed to accompany the Health Officer in his original inspection of the farm at Paerata now being used as a nightsoil depot, we are requested by Mr Schlaepfer to say that he was not notified of the Health Officer's visit and therefore was not present on the occasion.

It is understood that in regard to the "Family Shirkers" concerned in the Military Service Act a total of ten families in Pukekohe and the immediate vicinity have so far been traced by the authorities, each containing two or more " eligibles " who have not volunteered for ser vice. Names and particulars have been recorded and notices to compulsorily join the Expeditionary Force will be served in due course subject to the right of appeal to the Military Service Board. . Whilst discussing the local telephonic accommodation at the Mauku Farmers' Union meeting last week, a prominent business man stated that he had been four days endeavouring to get in touch with a firm in Auckland and up to the time of speaking had not been successful. Another member stated that a telegram that had been sent to him from Auckland by a person who wanted the addressee to meet him at Pukekohe station was brought to his house by the sender ot the telegram after his arrival in Mauku some six hours hours after its despatch. A motion is to be submitted at a general meeting of the Pukekohe Chamber of Commerce to be held next Monday that, without taking sides on the question at issue, the Chamber should assume the initiative in promoting the necessary petition for signature for a poll of electors, as provided Ly the Shops and Offices Act, to be taken in conjunction with the municipal election next year to test the wishes of the residents in regard to the day of the statutory weekly half-holiday, ie., whether the holiday thould as now be observed on Saturday or changed to Wednesday. During the course of a response to the toast of the " Magistracy of New Zealand " at the first annual dinner of the Pukekohe Chamber of Commerce, at the Pukekohe Hotel, on Thursday evening of last week, Mr F. V. Frazer, S.M., referred to the rapid progress Pukekohe township had made during the five and a-half years he had been visiting the district. He mentioned how on his first visit the main street was a quagmire and the Pukekohe Hotel, then half the size of the present structure, was the largest building in the town, whereas the fine substantial buildings and the good streets now existant were an indication of the development made.

Arrangements are well forward for the bazaar to be held in the Masonic Hall, Pukekohe, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of next week, under the auspices of the Pukekohe branch of the Women's Patriotic League, and, as previously announced, the opening ceremony will be performed on the Thursday afternoon by Mrs J. H. Gunson, Mayoress of Auckland. The different stalls will all be well stocked, and the various competitions promise to be well supported. Stage entertainments of a very attractive character will also be presented each evening. We are requested to state that members of the committee wi'l be in attendance at the Masonic Hall all day on Wednesday and also on Thursday morning to receive donations for the stalls.

Fiuit is a scarce commodity at the present season when we are dependant on oversea markets and the vagaries of shipping. Owing to the unprecedented call on shipping for more important work, thousands of cases of oranges were wasted in the Islands—entirely due to lack of shipping facilities. The failure of the citrus crops in Australia is a contributory factor to the increased prices of most other fruits. Fair shipments of Canadian apples are now reaching the Dominion, and notwithstanding the increased cost of freights and insurance these fine apples are being retailed on a par with last season's prices. Heerdegen's Fruit Store have just landed a consignment of exceptionally tine Canadian apples of a variety and quality that should find a ready markot.

Wortiih' Croat Peppermint Cure, Fur Coughs and Colds, never fails,