LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 223, 3 November 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

With the dairying season in full swing operations at the Pukekohe butter factory are exceedingly brisk. The daily output of butter averages nine to ten tons and one day last week a total of 8,500 gallons of cream was dealt with

A Pukekohe lad, who is "under probation " in connection with an offence committed some little time ago, was interviewed by the Magistrate (Mr F. V. Frazer) in the Pukekohe Courthouse yesterday as the result of a report by the police thyt the boy's conduct constituted a breach of the order in force against him. After being sharply admonished by the Magistrate he promised to be of good behaviour in future.

In addition to the four recruits who, as previously announced, pre sen ted themselves to be sworn in at Pukekohe last Monday, three other candidates also attended but were rejected as medically unfit. Inasmuch as the whole of the seven men came from the country districts the military authorities incline to the belief that many " eligibles " living in the borough of Pukekohe fail to realise the urgency of the call for men.

Ballasting work on the new Waiuku line on the completed section between Paerata and Patutuahoe will commence on Monday next, arrangements having been made by the Public Works Department for the daily supply of 24 waggons loads of ballast. The engine to be used in the process was brought from Blenheim and having been overhauled at the Newmarket railway works is due to reach Paerata to-day. During ballasting operations it is probable that the engine will also be utilised for the haulage of goods' trucks and in due course the line will be taken over by the Department when a suitable time-table both for goods and passengers will be put in force. The abundance of feed appertaining throughout the Waikato is not proving altogether a blessing to dairy farmers since tests at the butter-factories reveal the fact that the milk is less rich in butter-fat than for many seasons past. The explanation is that copious rains have produced unusual prevalence of feed and this latter circumstance in turn has the effect of bringing about an increased yield of milk from each cow, the natural result being that the more milk given the less butterfat it contains. Consequently although the dairy farmer is this season supplying larger quantities of milk to the different factories than last year his receipts will not be correspondingly greater. Should a dry spell set in, milk will decrease in quantity but the test will rise. In some instances in the Upper Waikato, it is reported, the tests have fallen as low as 2-7 showing that more or less the s«une conditions prevail throughout the Waikato

Business at the sitting of the Pukekohe Magistrate's Court yesterday was disposed of in a few minutes, only three civil actions being set down for hearing. Judgment by default was entered for Wallace and Co, of Pokeno, v. Jas. McDonald, of Gordonton, for £lB 18s 4d and £2 2s 6d costs, and for Dr Bronte v. A E. Webb, of Waiau Pa, for £5 5s and £1 17s 6d costs. On the judgment summons Lapwood Bros., of Tuakau, v. Kemuro, a native, of Tuakau, the debtor did not appear, and an order for payment forthwith of £26 5s 6d was issued, in default four weeks' imprisonment, the issue of the warrant to bo suspended for seven dnv».

For Bronchial Coughs, lako

On behalf of the Te Aroha Bacon Co., Messrs Frank Perkins and Co. will purchase pigs in Pukekohe next Monday. The N.Z. Farmers' Co-op. Bacon and Meat Packing Co , Ltd., have arrange 1 to buy pigs in Pukekohe on Monday next as well as on Tuesday, as previously annmnced. A full list of dates and places of the Company's operations will be found in our advertising columns.

In view of the annual meeting of th 6 Franklin County Council being due to be held on Thursday, the 23rd inst, the usual meeting on the first Thursday in the month did not take place yesterday. The Finance Committee, however, met and passed payments of the accounts for the month.

" How We Beat the Einden " is the subject of a tine picture which will be shown at the Premier Hall to-morrow (Saturday) evening. The film will be screened at 10.0 p.m , after the conclusion of the usual programme. A charge of sixpence will be made for people coming in after 10 p.m., but patrons in the Hall may remain without extra cost.

The prohibition of the exposure for sale or the removal of young cattle, between the ages of 14 and 18 months, in Franklin County, is announced—to take effect from the 13th irjst.—by the Agricultural Department unless the same have been inoculated against blackleg. Arrangements are being made for inoculations to be performed by one of the Department's officials, and dates and places for such will be announced in due course.

In connection with the previously reported death of Rifleman Rowland Taylor and the official wire sent last Saturday to his mother, Mrs James Taylor, of " Glenroy," Pukekohe, as announced in our issue of Tuesday last, that an error had been made inasmuch as Kiflemau Taylor was actually alive and not wounded, the following letter was yesterday received by Mrs Taylor from the Director of Base Records, viz: "This is to confirm the telegram sent to you conveying the glad news that your son was not killed in action as previously reported. It transpires that the soldier who was killed was Robert Taylor, whose mother resides in Bendigo, Victoria. Owing to an error at camp both soldiers' records bear the same number. I desire to express regret for having conveyed to you the message of your son's death, but trust that you will recognise that the fault did not rest with this office."—lt may be mentioned that in addition to Pte. Rowland Taylor Mrs Taylor has two sons serving under the colours, viz, Pte. Harry Taylor, who was wounded at Gallipoli and is now in France, and Pte. Arnold Taylor, \ who was recently reported " wounded and embarked for England."