LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 227, 17 November 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Private Greeting Cards for Xcaas, to be printed with your name and address, are stocked in great variety at the "Pukfkohe Times" office. Call and see the choice designs. For Children's Hacking Cough Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.

On behalf of the Te Aroha Bacon Co., Messrs Frank Perkins and Co. announce that they will be buying pigs at Pukehohe on Monday next.

Tenders are invited by the Wairoa Road Board for the position of teamster to the Board Particulars will be found in an advt. in this issue.

The Railway Department advertise in this issue particulars of train arrangements and the issue of tickets at excursion fares for the Waikato A. and P. Show at Hamilton next Tuesday and Wednesday.

A special sale of embroideries and ilouncings, taking place at Messrs W. G. Shotbolt and (Jo's drapery establishment in Pukekohe, should be of interest to ladies. Inspection is invited.

The Auckland Dairy Produce Committee has tixed the wholesale price of butter and eggs far the week ending November 23rd, as follows :—Farmers' butter, first grade, lid per lb fresh eggs, la per dozen.

On the occasion of the Recruiting Officer's visit to Pukekohe last Tuesday, ten recruits were attested as follows, viz : Messrs S. H. Anderson, G. H. Willis, A. Cook, A. Phillip, J. Adams and W. H. Hawke (Pukekohe); G. List (Tuakau); R. Flanagan (Drury); R. M. Gee and T. G. Stokes (Bombay). One other applicant was rejected as medically unfit.

The Pukekohe Borough Council, by advt in this issue, invites application for the issue of 120 debentures of £IOO each, bearing 5] per cent interest per annum for ten years. The money is required in connection with the loan recently sanctioned by the ratepayers. At a meeting of the Auckland Racing Club Committee yesterday permission was given the Seventh Day Adventists to hold a 10-days' camp on the Ellerslie Racecourse in January. Ellerslie is apparently therefore to be the scene of the camp instead of Pukekohe as previously proposed.

Through the breakdown of a tram-car yesterday morning in which he was travelling from his home in Auckland to the railway station Mr F. V Frazer S.M failed to catch the ten o'clock .train to Pukekohe, where he was to preside over the fortnightly sitting of the Magistrate's Court. Other than an interpleader action, remitted from the Supreme Court, there were only two or three minor civil cases down for hearing and these latter were disposed of by J.P.'s, whilst the former by arrangement between Counsel was postponed until next Court day. Mr Frazer was accordingly notified by telephone that there was no necessity for him to arrive by the afternoon train as he offered to do.

For some years past public convenience has been served at Bighttime, after the closing of the local telephone exchange, by the Pukekohe Hotel being connected with the Auckland telephone exchange, and in cases of illness or other emergency the facility provided has frequently been made use of. Under the Postal Department's new regulations, however, instructions have been issued that such extended connections will in future only, be granted on the payment of an extra subscription of £2 per annum since, more particularly in the suburban areas, many private residents haTe hitherto been given the night facilities referred to without any fee being paid other than bureau charges. The case of the Pukekohe Hotel is, however, different in character to that of the private resident, inasmuch as the proprietor of the hotel had himself nothing to gain by his telephone being available for use, often at his personal inconvenience, by the public in the dead of night. He has accordingly naturally refused to be mulcted in extra cost over the matter and the night telephone is therefore no longer in operation after 11pm. Rather than to have made a levy for an increased subscription circumstances would have been better met by a charge of double the ordinary amount being made for night cal's and this would probably have been cheerfully met by those who had occasion to thus use the telephone. It should be mentioned that although Auckland is no longer within call from Pukekohe after 11 p.m. subscribers in Tuakau and adjoining districts still retain facilities for night communication with the residences of the Pukekohe doctors.