LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 289, 3 July 1917, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Messrs J. T. Btembridge and Co., entry for the usual weekly sale next Friday at their Pukekohe auction mart includes special lines of pigs, poultry, trees, produce, etc. Particulars of entries for a special dairy sale on Monday and of their ordinary monthly stock sale on Tuesday to be held at Pukekohe by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company are advertised in this issue. The rainfall for June in Pukekohe as recorded by the Rosemont gauge totalled 4.58 in., the heaviest fall being 1.44 in. in the 24 hours ending 9 a.m. on Saturday last. Rain fell on 16 days. The total for the corresponding month of last year was 3,09 in. It is understood that in a temporary rearrangement of district magisterial court work, necessitated by the absence of Mr F. J. Burgess, S.M. (Thames) on military appeal duties, the Pukekohe, Waiuku and Mercer courts will be attached to the Hamilton circuit and will be presided over by Mr E. Rawson, S.M. An individual intent on "getting rich quickly" made a round of calls on business premises at Pukekohe yesterday afternoon. He was a victim of the hoax relative to gold being contaioed in copper coinage and laboured under the impression that pennies bearing date of issue of 1915 were worth 2s 6d each. With furtive zeal he managed to gather in several of the coins referred to and then started off on his quest to find a buyer for his collection. Entering into the joke the person on whom he first called referred him to another tradesman. Tradesman No 2 did the same, and so the fun went on with the result that after a protracted peregrination of the town the stock of 1915 pennies was still intact and their possessor was a sadder and wiser man.

With the work of installing electric light in Pukekohe having progressed so well that its operation is only a few weeks distant the wellknown firm of Messrs Turnbull and Jones, Ltd., electrical engineers, of Auckland, Wellington, Christchujch and Dunedin, make timely announcement in our advertising columns that they are prepared to undertake orders for the wiring of business establishments and private residences and also for the supply of motor appliances, etc. The firm are to open a depot in King street, next to Mr C, R. Lusher's jewellery establishment, and their local representative will be Mr J. Hart, to whom correspondence in the meantime can be addressed c/o the "Times" office.