LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 274, 11 May 1917, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lambs have already made their appearance on Mr J. Gearon's farm at Mauku.

Mr John Hoatty, on behalf of Messrs W. and R. Fletcher ('N Z.) LM , will buy pigs at Runciman on Tuesday and at Pukokoho on Wednesday.

Messrs Alfred Buekland and Sons' next horse sale in Pukekohe is to be held on Monday, the 21st hist. Entries for the same are solicited

Mr A. A. Civil, hind and estate agent, has removed his offices from Backhand to Kind's Chambers, King street, Pukekohe. Clients are requested to note this p'lange of address.

A reminder is given of tlm sale < f household furniture and effects to ho carried out to-morrow (Saturday) by Messrs J. T. StombrHge and Co., at the residence of Mr J. 0. Russell, Harris street, Pukekohe.

The death took place in the Wairarapa on Monday of Air Richmond Daysh, father of Mr A P. Daysh, of Pukekohe. The late Mr Daysh was eighty years, was horn ii Hampshire, England, and came out to Now Zealand in the ship Gertrude in IK 111.

Undismayed by the heavy rain that fell continuously list Monday several members of the Pukekohe Howling Clnb carried out a w irkingboo and dismantling an old wire fence on tne road frontago of their ground they erected in its plaeo a neat fence of timber. l-.r Children' 11.i.-kiny (' hirli at niu'lil iV.iodV Cool Kpp.rniiiit Cure. 1 fi, l 2 o

A sale of builder's timber and mutorial.s is to 1„» |„.|,] » n Wednesday afternoon next by Messrs J. T. Stembridge and Co., on the grounds adjoining the new Masonic Hall, Pukekohe. For particulars see advt.

A clearing sale on behalf of Messrs Smart Eros,, "who have disposed of their farm, is to bo carried out on Thursday next by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd. Fur particulars see advt,

Householders in Pukekohe are notified by advt. in this issue that the Borough Council has now made arrangements for night soil removal operations to be again undertaken, commencing to-morrow (Saturday) night. J ' Cr Wilson, member for the Pirongia riding, reported at Wednesday'; meeting of the Raglan County Council that heavy traffic was being taken over the road in his riding in contravention to the by-laws. Several other councillors made similar complaints, and the offenders against the by-laws will receive in due course r notification from the Council to desist,

Attention is again drawn to the sale to be held on Wednesday next at 11.30 a.m. under the conduct of the Registrar of the Supreme Com! by Messrs J. T. Stembridge and Co., at their auction mart, Tukekohe, of n freehold property situated in Seddon Street, Pukekohe. Particulars will bo found in our advertising columns.

The following amounts have been received by the Town Clerk of Pukekohe towards the Y.M.C.A. Trench Comforts Fund, viz: Mr Smeeton's lecture (net) £3 Is fid, Y. Papesch £2 2s, E. ttillon (Mauku) £2, T. G. Usher £l, J. Russell £l, J. H. Ferguson 10s, J. B. Brown 10s. total £lO 3s.

At the meeting of tho Raglan County Council on Wednesday, on the motion of the chairman, seconded by Or Cobourno, £">o was voted to tho Y.M.C.A Trench Comfort Fund. Several Councillors spoke in glowing terms of the work which was being done by the Association.

The N.Z. Farmers' Co-operative Bacon and Meat Packing Co., Ltd., will be buying pigs next week as follows:—At Onewhero on Monday, at Tuakau on Tuesday, at Papakura and Runciman on Wednesday and at Te Kauwhata on Thursday. Clients are requested to note that with the train service restored the original days for buying at Payakura, Runciman and Te Kauwhata .will be reverted to.

Among the wounded soldiers who arrived back in Auckland last Sunday was Pte. R. R. Cook, who at the time of his enlistment was a member of the Railway Grade Easement Works staff and resided at Pukekohe, Fie received shrapnel shot in ono of his ankles in the Somme advance and is now on crutches. Pte. Cook i 9 being treated at tho Auckland Hospital, but hopes to visit ]£ukekolie at an only date. Referring to tho outstanding native rates in his riding, Or Swann stated at Wednesday's meeting of the Raglan County Council that be had been informed that if the rate notices were made out in Maori the rates would be paid. Councillors did not think the adoption of the suggestion would have the desired effect, as the majority of the natives thoroughly understand English

Writing from Trentham to a friend in Mr W. Duggan. an ex-member of the staff of this paper, who last week wont into camp with the 29th Reinforcements, testifies to the completeness of the equipment served out by tho authorities. On the night of their arrival, he says, each of them received 3 pairs socks, 2 pairs underpants, 2 singlets, 2 shirts, four blankets, and one sweater all the foregoing wool), pair of boots, pair of denims, great coat, oil sheet and palliasse, whilst the next morning they were handed their uniforms, putties, a second pair of bocts, and a pair of "shorts."

No loss than a substantial and creditable profit of £l3O lis is recorded as tho outcome of the recent horticultural and industrial exhibition promoted by the Pukekohe Branch of tho Women's Patiiotic League, the receipts, including £l4 10s returned prize money, totalling £173 3s 7d and the expenditure £l2 12s 7d including prize money £27 13s. At a meeting of the Branch held last Wednesday tho following allocations from the profits were made, viz. : £OO to the Red Cross Fund ; £4B 18s 3d to tho Y.M.O.A. (together with £2l Is 9d receipts of" afternoon " on bowling green; ; £lO to the Belgian Children's Fund (together with £lO proceeds of children's competitions organised by Miss Millicant Taylor); and £lO to the Salvation Army War Fund : tho balance of £1 12a 9d being paid into tho general fund Further donations received for tho Y.M.C.A. fund are T. W. Woods i'l, Miss Robinson 10*, and small sums 5s fid.