LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 241, 12 January 1917, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The dairy produce committee has fixed the wholesale price of butter and eggs for the week ending January 13, as follows Farmers' butter, first grade, lid p-?r lb; fresh eggs, Is 2d per dozen.

Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sods are to hold their next horse sale at Fukekohe on Monday, the '22 nd inst The yarding already totals 200 horses of all classes, and further entries arc invited.

In view of the municipal elections due next April the electoral roll for the borough of Pukekohe is in course of preparation, and claims for enrolment must be lodged with the Town Clerk on or before February 15th.

A dissolution of partnership is announced in our advertising columns as affecting Messrs J. J. Coady and 0. Calder, picture theatre proprietors, whereby Mr Coady retains the Fukekohe and Waiuku portion of the business aud Mr G Calder retains the Buntly section. %

The new pillar box at the top of East street, as asked for by the Fukekohe Chamber of Commerce, haa this wees been placed in position by the Postal Department. It is attached to a telephone poll opposite the junction of East street and Nursing Home road.

As the result of the agitation of the Fukekohe Chamber of Commerce for an improvement to be effected in the local telephone service the Postal Department hare arranged that a skilled operator should be placed in charge of the Fukekohe Exchange as soon as circumstances will permit. Two very desirable dairy farming properties, situated at Awhitu, are to be submitted to auction by the NZ. Loan and M.A. Co. at the Waiuku saleyards on Saturday of next week by order of the Public Trustee in the estate of Mr Wm. Short, deceased. The land is nearly all in grass. Particulars will be found in an advt. in this issue.

A special meeting of the Pukekohe Borough Council was held last Wednesday evening when tenders were opened and dealt with for the supply of plant for the electric light installation. Mr E. J. Fenn (Advisory Electrical Engineer) was in attendance and subject to deliveries of poles and wire being effected within three months he anticipates that the light will be in operation about Bix months hence.

Mr W. Coster, Pukekohe's postmaster, has recovered from his recent illness to the extent of being able to leave the Auckland hospital, of which institution he had been an inmate for some weeks. He is now back at home and after a period of rest will go away for a change. It is unlikely that he will be able to return to duty before about a couple of months.

The death of an infant iu particularly distressing circumstances is repoited from Ballarat (says the "Sydney Daily Telegraph.") The child, which was nine months old, had been ailing for about a week from what was supposed to have been the effects of teething, but later examination showed that the illness of the child was caused by some head trouble. Finally the little sufferer died. When the body was lying in the coffin prior to interment a member of the household n< ticad a movement of one of the eyelids. On the lid being raised a centipede was discovered. It is supposed that it entered the ear of the child while it was asleep under a tree in a perambulator, and then burrowed its way upwards into the brain, finally emerging near the eye. The child died in great agony.