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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 268, 20 April 1917, Page 3

Y.M.C.A. WAR WORK AND TRENCH COMFORTS FUND A lecture in aid o£ the Camp ign to raise £25,000 in the Auckland Provincial District far the above fund will be given in the Pren ier Hall, Pukeknhe, on MONDAY, April 30ih 1917, at 8 p.m, by Mr H. M SMEETON, the Honorary Commissioner for the New Zealand Y.M.C.A., who has just returned from the front. Hr Smeeton has a most interesting story to tell of the splendid work being done by the Y.M.C A. on behalf of our boys at the Front GOME AND HEAR DIM. Admission: Adults Is; School children 6d Donations to the fund are solicited and may be paid to the Town Clerk H. Q. R. MASON, 1676 Mayor.

ASKING FOR BANKRUPTCY If I intended staying in business it would simply be asking for bankruptcy to continue selling at my present prices. I am liable to be called up in The First Division any time, hence my reason for sacrificing my ~. *_ stock of Footwear. £BOO WORTH LEFT AND EVERY PAIR MUST GO A Good Spcculaiion Buy more than your present requirements & store them War between Germany and U.S.A will mean another Big Rise in Boots. SO GO IN AND SCORE a t KING'S BOOT STORE KING ST., PUKEKOHE. RAJS ! GET RID OF THEM. Our EXTERMO RAT PASTE positively . |/- kills Rats and Mice instantly— no exceptions— 1/6 tube, dries their carcases up. No smell, No Danger. tin. pa■ _ f% I—l i are Exterminated with our rlGriS ft rllcS KLEKEELO-onetinis I IWUw ** ■ ■■ ww sufficient t0 kin thousan ds. . * is. tin. Our Mosquito Oil "X£Send immediately for these pest killers to Fear's Pharmacy Md o " ,iCi " h jSS nH)HE . 'Phone No. 12.

A BARGAIN. Second-Hand fShafter, First-class Order. COOPER AND CURD PUKEKOHE.

Stagnation Prosperity Which ? Pukekohe's prosperity and progress depends upon the farming community, absolutely. » We have no manufactures, no industries. Therefore we are entirely dependent upon our Commerce. As a commercial community it is our duty to most carefully oonsider the convenience of those upon whom our Commercial prosperity depends. It has been the custom from time iramemorablo for the farming community to do their shopping on Saturday for the reason that this day is the most convenient for them and is least likely to disorganise their own farming pursuits. As a commercial centre—dependent almost entirely upon the farming community—it would naturally be supposed, that we, ask* en business men here for the purpose of doing business, would be only to ready to con-ider the customs and convenience of the farming community by catering in a reasonable manner for that class on whom we are dependent to a very great extent for our own prosperity and of course incidentally for the prosperity of Pukekohe and every person that has any interest in the town. What do we find? Instead of consulting the coavenience of our farmer friends, business people turn round and say—in effect—we don't want your business; we are busy having a holiday. You farmers are here for our convenience. You will have to come round and spend your oash when it is convenient to us. We assert that this autocratic stand is doing harm to the Commerce of Pukekohe and is likely to seriously prejudice our commercial interests. Perhaps some business folk are railing in wealth and can afford to b« independent. If they want to mirk time it is not rehHO'iab eto the progres- of this tow.i nor is it f*ir to expect the many to conform to the extraordinary views of the few. Electors I Carefully consider this ha f-holiday quest on on its merits and vote as your comraonbense dictates. Remember that the aim of ev- ryone should be Progres* and Prosperity, a better and brighter Pukekohe that we may be ju*tly proud of. and finally realise that we must give reasonable consideration to those people on whom Pukekohe's prosperity depends—the farming community: