LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 267, 17 April 1917, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Agricultural Department announce in our advertising columns to-day a list of dates and -places for the attendance of an officer this week to inoculate calves against blackleg A report is current that the rearrangement of the train service will not he anything like so drastic as originally proposed. It is rumoured that consequent on financial stringency the railway grade casement works now in progress are likely to be suspended in the near future.

It is understood that it is the intention «f the Railway Department to establish a new station, to be called Karaka, about midway between Paerata and Runciman. The New Zealand Farmers' Cooperative Bacon and Meat Packing Company's current prices for pigs are Gd per lb for 120lbs to loOlbs and 5.1 d forSOlbs to 1201bs.

The Misses Ramsay have just opened up a wide lange of winter millinery aud drapery goods, etc, at their establishment iu Pukekohe and solicit an inspection of the same. Mr Eber Barriball, the wellknown Waiuku agriculturist, who recently underwent an operation for appendicitis and wa3 recovering fairly well, is now suffering from an attack of pleurisy, winch supervened some days after the operation. An ordinary election to fill two seats on the Maungatawhiri Road Board will take place ou Saturday, May .jih, nominations for the same being due to close at noon on Friday, .the 27th inst The annual meeting of ratepayers will be held in the Board's i •tlice, Raz >rbaek, on Saturday, May sth at 1.30 pm Owing to Mr Fred Souster's forthcoming removal to New Plymouth his compact residence at Buckland is open to lie leased with adjoining lard of from three to 13 Hcres as may be preferred. The propeity is an eminently desirable homo Particulars will be found in an i.dvt : iindor our "Wanted" '"Mumm •'

Writing from France to Mrs R F. Wilkinson, of Pukekohe, expressing his appreciation of a present received by him from that lad?, one of " the boys " says : " I received your very nice gift sent through the Auckland Women's Patriotic League aud I sine-rely thank you for your kindness Words cannot express how much we appreciate the gifts.'' We are requested bv the Postal Department to state that free telegrams of enquiry addressed to the Seer tary Postal Department. Wellington, concerning wounded soldiers ; ; re permitted provided the first telegram is not sent within seven days cf the official notification of the casualty, and a further 14 days must ulapse before the second or third telegram can be sent. A well-appointed fish and oyster saloon, under the title of the Cafe de Paris, has been opened at Empire Buildings. King Street, Pukekohe, under tire piopiietorship of Mr S. Andrews, an experienced restaurant k-opor. The siloou is smartly and comfortably fitted up and li-h or grills will he supplied at all hours. Willi the commencement of the oyster sea-on Mr Andrews intends to make a speciality of oyster suppers

hi tho items of cost of the erection of tli" and Hingaa hridges as forwarded by the Karaka Road Board to tho Franklin County Council engineering expenses appear as L'-'7l and engineer's travelling expenses i'.'S2 10h, or a gross total of i'lOti lOs Tnose ligures" ere instructive when it is remoiiibered that the salary paid to the County Engineer is £4OO par annum and that tho work of designing th.' liriilgos and superintending thi-ir iTfitiiin would, if they had li.M'ii in the Council's area, have Keen a nier-' incident in that official's duties.