LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 260, 20 March 1917, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An advt. in this issue in reference to the forthcoming half-holiday poll in Pukekohe appeals to electors to vote for Wednesday as the weekly half-holiday in order to allow of shopping facilities being available on Saturdays.

Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons are to submit to public auction at their sale rooms in Auckland on Friday next a desirable grazing farm of 1501 acres situated at Maungatawhiri Valley. For particulars see advt.

Mrs J. Taylor, of " Glenroy," Pukekohe, has just received from France from her son, Rifleman R Taylor, an interesting relic of the war in the form of a German helmet Rifleman Taylor, it will be remembered, was a little time ago erroneously reported by the authorities as having been killed. The recent working bee at the Pukekohe Cemetery, initiated by Mr R. Bilkey, made a good clearance of weeds and the greater portion of the grouud now presents a respectable appearance. A small balance yet to be performed on will be gradually taken in hand by other voluntary workers.

A clearing sale in the estate of the late Mrs Elizabeth Foote is to be held by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company on Monday, April 2nd, on the farm at Maramarua. The offering will include dairy cows and heifers, horses, farm implements, household furnitnre, etc. Particulars will be found in our advt. columns.

A collision between two motor cars, fortunately unattended with personal injury, occurred in King Street, Pukekohe, opposite the Post Office, last Friday evening. A car driven by Mr J. Mairs, of Auckland, proceeding down the street, and one of the Waiuku cars, driven by Mr M. Walsh and well laden with passengers passing up the street from the railwaj' station on its return journey to Waiuku, were concerned in the impact, both apparently being somewhat out of their proper sphere of route Tho Auckland car got off the lighter of the two in the collision with its radiator and one lamp smashed, tho Waiuku car having its left front wheel shattered.

Railway arrangements for the Easter holidays are advertised in this issue.

Save money on footwear by visiting King's during the Ist Division Boot Sale. See advt. in Wanted column.

Mr Len. Brown, captain of the Pukekohe Fire Brigade, presented himself at the Recruiting Office in Auckland last week but was only passed for " home service." Messrs J. T. Stembridge and Co. advertise in this issue particulars of a special entry for the usual weekly sale at their Auction Mart, Pukekohe, on Friday next. Mr D. Bockett, town clerk, of Te Awamutu, and brother of Mr H. Bockett, of Pukekohe, has enlisted The last meeting of the Te Awamutu Borough Council declined to accept his resignation, but granted leave of absence on half pay and wished him a safe return. Mr C. Bowden, clerk of the Waipa bounty Council, was appointed acting-town clerk. The difficulties encountered sometimes by backblocks settlers in their efforts' to attend County Council meetings wcri aptly illustrated in at least one instance at the last meeting of the Raglan County Council, when a Councillor stated that it had cost him no less than £3 5s to get to the meeting. He was anxious to have the day of the meeting altered—and who wouldn't at £3 5s a time ? The success he had achieved at the Pukekohe Show on the 24th ult, as being adjudged the best Maori rider competing at the Show led a young Waiuku native, named Paul Noble, to celebrate the occasion by quaffing the contents of " the flowing bowl " despite the fact that he was the subject of a Prohibition Order. Constable Taylor cautioned Paul on the show-ground as to his attendance in the booth and in the evening the Constable found him in the Tuakau Hotel with the result that he made his appearance at the Pukekohe Magistrate's Court last Thursday on a charge of entering licensed premises during the currency of his prohibition order. The excuse Paul made to the Magistrate (Mr F. V. Frazer S.M.) was that it was his father who had taken out the order and he thought it was only to prevent him entering the Waiuku Hotel. He was warned by the Magistrate not to repeat the offence and was fined £1 and 7s costs.