LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 232, 5 December 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Private Greeting Cauls for Xinas, to be printed with your name and address, are stocked in great variety at the •' Pukekohe Times" office. Call and in*p»ct tho choice designs.

Have you seen the special Doll Display at The Bookery? The goods are recherche and unique, and the prices are 50 per cent below Auckland. Call and inspect. You will not be pressed to buy. --Advt.

A furtoer list of dates and place* for the attendance ot an officer from the Agricultural Department to inoculate calves agaiust blackleg 19 announced in our advertising columns. l'he recent rapid advances in the price of wheat and cji.'equeatly of iluur is responsible tor a njlice appearing io our advertising columns from the master-bakers nf Ftanklin tbat the price of bread has bee i increased as from last Saturday to I 5Jd per the 21b loaf and lid per 41b loaf as hitherto. The usual quarterly meeting of the Franklin Licensing Committee is to be held in the Pu«cekohe Courthouse next Thursday. All the houses, however, in the Committee's district continue to be so well conducted that the proceedings will be both brief and formal. "Exemplary Conduct" on the part of the public of the Pukekohe police district is again testified to by the fact that although live weeks have elapsed since the last sitting of the Pukekohe Magistrate's Court, Mr Frazer, S.M., will on Thursday next, so far as things stand at precent, have no one in the dock before him other than a resident of the district who will be called upon to answer a charge, instituted by the military authorities, of having failed to attend Territorial drills. Similarly, the civil cause list is very limited.

Although some weeks back a return of the names of individuals in the Franklin electorate, who come under the catagory of " Family Shirkers," was furnished by the police on the instructions of the I >efence Department no move has been made towards compelling such men to enlist. The absence of action is not calculated to assist voluntary recruiting since opinion is general that the " family shirker" should be made to realise their, obligations before others respond of their own free will to the call. Further, there is every indication that if " the stand-backs" within the Auckland military area were compelled to join the colours the enforcement of conscription in the area would be avoided at least for some time to come if the present rate of voluntary recruiting was maintained.

We are requested to state that late eotiies for the flower show and exhibition of home industries to be held in the Premier Hall, Pukekohe, under the auspices of the Anglican Church, next Thursday and Friday, will be accepted without extra charge up to nine o'clock tomorrow (Wednesday) morniag. Entries should be foiwaraed to either of the hon. secretaries, for A. F. Brown and Mr b. E. Simpson, or will be received at the " hires" office. From present indications there is every prospect of a brilliant flral display, as apart Jro-n local products some of the leading Auckland growers are to s?rd exhibits "not for competition." Home Industries will, as usual in Pukekohe, be nl a high standard. A particularly attiactive stage programme will be presented each evening, including tableaux by children representative of nuts;ry rhymes, action songs, etc. On Friday night there will be an exhibition ot maypole dancing, and "ihe Story of the War" will be told in tableaux foim by a party of Buckland ladies. Produce and other stalls will cater for public requirements and at the close of the proceedings on Friday evening there will be the customary auction sale of goods and exhibits donated to the committee. The show will be opened at 2.30 p.m. ou i'bursday by Mr R. F. Bollard, M.P.

Some little time ago on the occasion of the discovery of the body of a man in the Waikato river, near Churchill, when the corpse was taken to Mercer for an inquest, the payment of the funeral expenses entailed a dispute between the Auckland and Waikato Hospital Boards, the latter authority, although the body was found in their district, refusing to be responsible for an internment at Mercer, within the Auckland Board's district Again last week, although from a different cause, there was an example, in connection with the corpse discovered near the railway line at Mercer, of Hospital Board administration being defective. Funeral expenses, for which in the case of paupers, or bodies ranking as those of paupers, Hospital Boards are liable, naturally vary according to locality. In the case under notice the undertaker at Mercer stipulated for £4 10s as the burial fee. With the Auckland Hospital Board only sanctioning an expenditure of £3 10s a delay in the burial seemed imminent, and there was a possibility that tho corpse would have been left unintorred until the Hospital Board and the undertaker adjusted the point in dispute. However, aftor some telephonic communications had been carried out the hitch was overcomo by the Hospital Board's payment of £■) 10s to the undertaker being supplemented by tho sum of 17s 9d that had formod the monetary contents of the deceased's pcckets. A repetition of similar undesirable official methods would bo best overcotae by authority being given to the police to make arrangements for a funeral at tho lowest possible cost on behalf of the Hospital Board concerned.

See Kiug's selection of Court and strap shoes before you buy elsewhere.—King's Boot Btore, Pukekohe. —Advt.

It is not our boast that we possess £OO,OOO nor that vested interests enables us to squeeze out other traders. Wo leave such boasts and tactics to the unscrupulous and vindictive minded. We buy for cash in tlio bast markets : von will renp tlie benefit by buying from Thk iiiiY. —Advt.

The fiuancM difficulty tbat threatened the Pukekohe Uoroush Council through rot being able ti raise money from Government sourc s it 5i per cent for the £12,000 loan recently approved by the ratepayers has been overcome by tbe issue of debentures, which are beiig sold privately. Already sime £2OOO has teen taken up, and in no case has any brokerage fee been parJ.

As will be seen trom the list of local successes at tbe Auckland A. and P. bbuw, recorded in another column in this issue., Mr Alfred J. Kidd, Aka. Aka, hid the disti ction of securirg tbe female championship award n the HiUtein-Frisian aec'ion with bis cow Jewel 11. ot Biundie, who was alao phced ts the reserve champion dairy ciw of the ehow. This animal, it will be remembered, was pu:chased by Mr Kidd some f-w moith? back at 265grs at Pastor Clark's (Mepe sal sale at Hamilton. Mr Kidd hps now s cured another member of tbe bleed since actinson the advice of tbe most compet nt judges he bo igbt a second Holstein cow at tbe Auckland Show on Saturday.

Mr and Mrs J M. Baxter, of Pukekohe, are at a lost to understand the actual circumstances appertaining to their son, Lieut. W. J. Baxter. Yesterday they received a letter from him from England to the effect that he was progressing favourably from his wounds and had been ordered to embark for New Zealand on the hospital ship Maheno which was due to leave England on Oct 26th and which he expected to arrive in New Zealand about the 14th inst. This letter, however, forms a puzzle since on Saturday last Mr and Mrs Baxter were advised by the Defence Department that Lieut. Baxter was in hospital in England suffering from gunshot wounds. The possible explanation is that since writing the letter Lieut. Baxter has had a relapse and is still in hospital. We have the most extensive range of Xmas Cards in Pukekohe, and the prices are down 50 per cent. Packets of cards from 31 per packet at The Bookehy.—Advt.