THE Pukekohe & Waiuku Times PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1916. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 229, 24 November 1916, Page 2

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

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1916. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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

Private Greeting Cards for Xmas, to be priuted with your name and address, are stocked in great variety at the '' Pukekohe Times" office. Call and see the choice designs. Mr F. W. Mountjoy, of Pukekohe, invites tenders for the erection in wood of two cottages at Pukekohe. For particulars see advt. Tenders are invited, by the medium of advt. in this issue, by the Franklin County Council for the supply and delivery of 800 cubic yards of spawls at Aka Aka landing. The Te £roha Bacon Company announce that they wi'l be buying pigs through the respective agencies of Messrs F. Perkins and Co., and Messrs A. P. Horne and Son at Pukekohe, Buckland and Mercer on Monday, December 4th. A special remnant sale is to be held next week, commencing on Monday, at Mr W. Roulston's drapery establishment in Pukekohe. Particulars of various lines offering appear in Mr Roulston's advt. in this issue.

A vote of sympathy with all County ratepayers who had lost relatives in the war was passed by the Franklin County Council on Wednesday and it was also arranged that a Roll of Honour should be installed in the Council's offices.

A clearing sale of live and dead stock, including a herd of 25 dairy cows, is to be held on Mr T. J. Hicks' farm at Pokeno next Thursday by Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons. Particulars will be found in an advt. in this issue. The New Zealand Farmers' Cooperative Bacon and Meat Packing Company are to purchase pigs next week as follows: Monday at Onewhero, Tuesday at Tuakau, Wednesday at Papakura and Runciman, and on Thursday at Te Kauwhata. At the annual meeting of the Manukau County Council held on Wednesday, on the motion of Mr Bryant, seconded by Mr Hattaway, it was resolved that Mr H. R. Mackenzie be re-elected chairman for the ensuing year, this being his fourth year of office. In the absence of a quorum at a meeting of the Pukekohe Horticultural Society convened for Wednesday last the proceedings were adjourned until next Tuesday evening when the Borough Council Chambers will again be the place of assembly. Sister Walsh (of the Albury District Hospital N.S.W.) is at present on a visit to her sister, Mrs James Costello, of Pukekohe. Sister Walsh is accompanied by Miss Curran (her neice), daughter of Major Curran and sister of Lieut. Curran, the lastnamed now being in camp in England.

Additional dates and places for the attendance of an officer to inoculate calves against blackleg are advertised in this issue, viz., at Waiau and Karaka to-morrow (Saturday), at Patumahoe on Monday, at Mauku on Tuesday and Wednesday, at Glenbrook on Wednet day anl at Waiuku Batayards on Thursday. For particulars see advt. Entries are already coming in well for the Summer Flower Show to be held in the Premier Hall on Thursday and Friday, December 7th and Bth, under the auspices of the Pukekohe Anglican Church. All sections promise to be well represented. An attractive stage programme, in which a feature is to be made of tableaux by children representative of popular nursery rhymes, will be presented on the Thursday evening. Entries for the show close on Monday, December 4th. Particulars as to the same will be found in our advertising columns. The property known as the Totara Park Estate, situated in the rising suburban district of Manurewa, has been sub-divided and is to be submitted to auction in blocks ranging from four to 13 acres at the Mart, Elliott street, Auckland, on Wednesday, December 13th. The land is some of the best to be found anywhere in the Auckland Province, and being of high altitude it commands a charming view of tho inrrnnnding country. Easy terms of fmrchase arc offered. For particuars see advt. in this issue.