LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 222, 31 October 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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. Messrs Q. Dell and Son, land agents, of Pukekohe, insert in this issue a replace advt. of some of the properties they have for sale. Wall papers of a wide range and of dainty designs form the subject of Mr W. .Roulston's replace advt. appearing elsewhere in these columns. Special lines of goods offered to customers during the month of November are announced by Messrs P. Henry and Son, proprietors of thePatumahoe Store, in a replace advt. in this issue,

Tenders are invited by the Liquidator of the Onewhero Pioneer Dairy Co, Ltd., for the purchase of the creamery and plant situated at Onewhero. For particulars see advt. The Auckland Dairy Produce Committee has fixed the wholesale prices of butter and eggs for the week ending November 2nd as follows Farmers' butter, first grade, per lb, Is ; fresh eggs, per dozen, Is.

Particulars of tho livo and dead stock to bo offered by auction by Messrs J. T. Stembridge and Co at a clearing sale on Mr Carinichael's farm at Patumahoe on "Wednesday of next weok will be found in our advertis ng columns. As Mr Carmichael is leaving the district the desirable larming property of 36£ acres will also lie submitted for sale.

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Under the revised military area scheme Sergt-Msjor Gillespie has been attached to No. 11l (Pukekohe) area as an assistant to Warrant Officer Hatt. Sergt.-Major Gillespie, who was twice wounded at Gallipoli, will probably be stationed at Mercer.

Messrs J F.Treanor and "Dick" Bilkey, members of the Pukekohe branch of the Bank of New Zealand, go into camp next week as members of the 23rd Reinforcement Draft. Mr Edward Ryan, late of the Pukekohe postal staff, also proceeds to camp with the same body. For Children's Hacking Cough Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.

After a spell more or less of inactivity the Pukekohe Chamber of Commerce is bestirring itself and with considerable additions to its ranks of members matters appertaining to the welfare of the district are receiving close attention. Some twenty members were present at a meeting held last evening. Mr H. Dell (president) being in the chair. The business transacted is reported elsewhere in these columns. The first Monday in each month was fixed for subsequent general meetings of the Chamber. The recent census discloses the interesting faci that more females than males reside in the borough of Pukekohe, the figures being 756 males and 789 females, a total of 1545. The number of inhabited houses is 346, with ten houses vacant and two in course of erection. As Pukekohe had not been formed into a borough at the time of the prexious census, viz., in 1911, comparative figures are not available but when the borough was formed in 1912 the population was estimated at about 1200.

With a view of securing unity of action on the part of local business men in regard to days to be observed as public holidays it was resolved at a meeting of the Pukekohe Chamber of Commerce, held last evening, to request traders to fix holidays as follows: Christmas Day and Boxing Day ; New Year's Day and January 2nd ; Anniversary Day (January 29th) ; Good Friday, Easter Saturday and Easter Monday ; King's Birthday (June 3rd); and Labour Day (4 th Monday in October). At last night's meeting of the Pukekohe Chamber of Commerce it was decided by a majority of one vote that the Chamber should take no action in regard to promoting a petition for a poll of electors to be taken at the next municipal election to determine the day on which the statutory weekly half-holiday should be observed, the opinion of the

majority of the members present being that it was preferable that the petition should be promoted privately rather than by the Chamber. In accordance with the decision, a petition for the object in view was subsequently set in motion and is new in circulation. The provisions of the Act are that a petition signed by not less than one-tenth of the total number of the electors on the roll must be presented to the Council before a poll can be taken. In recording appreciation of a promise given by the Minister of Kailways (the Hon. W. H. Herries M.P.) to receive a deputation of the Pukekohe Chamber of Commerce in Auckland next week in connection with various local matters it was decided at a meeting of the Chamber last evening to invite Mr Herries, if possible, to visit Pukekohe in preference to the deputation waiting on him in Auckland so that by personal observation he could be better informed of local conditions. The topics to be submitted to Mr Herries concern the stopping of the main trunk expresses at Pukekohe, better accommodation in the goods shed, more speedy transit of goods between Auckland and Pukekohe, a definite decision of the Department in regard to the approach road to the station in view of tne existing road forming part of the railway track in the near future, and an application for a subway to be constructed on the south side of the station as a means of conveying stock from the railway yard to the new showground as well as forming a route for stock from one side of the line to the other instead of the same passing over the public bridge as now.

Mr Geo. Orr, late of the Miranda district, Lb at present training at Salisbury Plains. About October of last year he made his fourth attempt to get away in a New Zealand Reinforcement but was told that he might be required about March. Having made all arrangements to depart he decided to cross to Australia and try his luck there and succeeded in entering the Field Engineers Australian Division and later went forward with that body to England to complete his training holding the rank of corporal. Two of his brothers were through the Gallipoli expedition and were wounded but are now in the forces " somewhere in France." Corporal Orr in a letter to a friend states : "We are camped here at Amesbury and a cold hole it is. About half a mile south of here is the old historic place of Stonehenge, and about a mile north is the village of Figheldean where the spreading chestnut tree of Longfellow's village smithy with the old blacksmith's shop still in use. We had " London leave " given us sometime ago and when we fell in on parade to be marched to the station we were ordered into quarantine for three weeks which has been extended three times now as every week someone gooa into hospital with mumps or meningitis. There are dozens of aircrafts flying about here every day, but they help to break the monotony of being confined to camp. I don't know whether I will come out of this job or not as the engineers get hit up pretty hard at times, soctions and companies get knocked that far that their return ticket expires before they get back. The country round hero is very much liko Taranaki—rolling country with weedy grass and a few plantations. England may be a great place but I would rather be in Australia or hotter still New Zealand. Devonshire is one of the best formed districts I have seen."

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Particulars of the special train service and the issue of tickets at excursion fares for the Ellerslie races on Saturday next and Wednesday, November 8 th, are advertised in this issue by the Railway Department.

The preliminary work is now well I in hand for laying King Street, Pukekohe, in tarred macadam. Tarring material and metal have been deposited in Hall street adjacent to the entrance to the old showground and will be there mixed up preparatory to being laid on the road. A tine patriotic fi'm featuring the Australian Navy and entitled " How We Beat the Emden" is to be shown at the Premier Hall next Saturday night. The picture is an imperishable record of a great historical success and has been taken with the consent of the Australian Government and the assistance of the Navy. The picture is an extra addition to the programme and will be screened at 10.5 p.m. Patrons attending the evening performance may view the picture without extra cost. For those who after 10 p.m. a charge of sixpence will be made. Under the new military arrangements Lieut. Makgill visited Pukekohe yesterday for the purpose of swearing-in recruits. No candidates from the borough presented themselves, but four residents of adjacent country districts, viz, Messrs G. McPherson (Buckland), J. B. Finlay (Mauku), W. J. Jeffeiis (Buckland) and W. J. Summerville (Mauku) appeared and were duly accepted. At Waiuku on Saturday four candidates were rejected but the following nine were accepted, viz, Messrs L H. Wynward, C. Mackay, 8. Black, F. H. Fitchett, J. J. Robinson, Sm. Barri-

ball, Jas. Bright, Jas. Turner, A. K. Macdonald. The bazaar to be opened in the Masonic Hall, at 2.30pm , on Thursday next by Mrs Gunson, Mayoress of Auckland, promises to be eminently successful and should greatly assist the good work of the Pukekohe branch of the Women's Patriotic League, for which deserving object it has been promoted. On Thursday afternoon, subsequent to the official opening, a musical programme will be gone through and in the evening the Convent pupils will provide the stage entertainment. On the following evening (Friday) competitions including wool-winding and hat-trimming for men and naildriving, etc., for the ladies, and a sale of trilbies will eventuate, while on Saturday afternoon a poster march and maypole dancing by the children should draw a large audience. The Maypole dancing will be repeated on Saturday evening and the winners of the guessing competitions etc., will also be declared and the proceedings will be brought to a close with an auction sale of the goods remaining on hand.