LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 290, 6 July 1917, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The New Zealand Farmer.-' Poop Bacon and Meat Packing Company will be buying pigs at Pokono next Mondav

On Sunday •■■veiling next Rev. S. Nixon will preach, in the interests of the Navy League, on the lives of Admirals Sir John Jollicoo and Sir David Beatty,

Owing to the absence in Welling ton of Cr H. K. Mackenzie chair man of the Manukav County Conned the ordinary monthly meeting of th< Council has boen postponed fvorr Tuesday next until Tuesday week the 17th inst.

A social re-union of the suppliers and employees of the New Zealand Dairy Association is to bo held in the Premier Hall, Pukekoho on Tuesday evening next. Children's competitions for singing, reciting and the Highland Fling will precede a dance.

By reason of the meeting of the Franklin County Council yesterday lacking a full complement of members Cr Claude Motion did not proceed with ln3 proposal to move the rescinding of the resolution passed at last month's meeting of the Council supporting the six o'clock closing of hotels. Alluding to an Industrial School maintenance case before him at the Pukekoho Magistrate's Court yesterday Mr E. Eawson, S.M., commented on the practice of the Education Department in allowing arrears to accumulate. The Department, he said, was losing thousands and thousands of pounds sterling by such a course. In that particular case the claim wars for £lO and it was absolutely ridiculous to think that any working man could meet such arrears. Mr E. Eawson, S.M , took over as from yesterday the temporary charge of the Pukekoho, Waiuku and Mercer Courts when he presided at the Pukekche Court. It is understood that the re-arrangement of circuit work has been occasioned by the necessity of Mr E. C. Cutten, S.M., taking a rest for the benefit of his health. As Mr Eawson has other engagements for Thursday, the 19th inst, the next ordinary sitting of the Court in Pukekoho will not be held until Thursday, August 2nd. Two cases, partly hoard by Mr F. V. Frazer, S.M., have yet to be concluded but probably their further hearing will be taken in Auckland.

Although there are several matters affecting Franklin County that the Council would desire to bring under the notice of the Et. Hon. W. F. Masscy M.P., with a view of soliciting his support in securing Government recognition thereof the Council at its meeting yesterday agreed not to put anv requests before the Prime Minister on tho occasion of his visit to Pukekoho next Monday, their decision, in effect, being that Mr Masscy was coming to the district to bo publicly welcomed and not to bo publicly worried. 7: was hoped that other inteudiug deputations would similarly afs'ain from " business " interviews, The Pukekoho branch of tho Women's Patriotic League are once again showing their activity in a good cause since an " At Homo " to ho held under their auspices is to take place in tho Premier Hall on Saturday afternoon of nc t week, the 1 lth inst., in aid of the Baruardo Saturday Fund. The good work performed by Dr. Barnardo's Homes is well known and a loyal response to the appeal now made should lie readily forthcoming. Donations will be gladly received hy Mrs J. M. Baxter, Pukekoho.

The iniluenco o? tho ''Times" j appears to reach far. Writing from | Sydney, N.8.W., a c >rrespondent : says :—" May I compliment you on , the splendid leaders in the Lhiko- ] kolio paper. My friends admiro I them vry niiieli and they go round j a largo circle. A recent one upon | the Navy League they were much i taken with. One gentleman was pi taken with tho poetical expression ' Before the war began we were but a sort of fringe taekod loosely upim the skirt of Empire ; now wo are intimately and inextneably interj woven into the fabric of the garment I itself,' that !io pirated it and ;ised it [ in the course of his speech while unI veiling a memorial to falh-n soldiers ' Is it not a very extraordinary thing, | and one speaking volumes fir tlie I mental attitude of the Australians. , that r.o bianeh of the Navy League ! exists here '? I am going to make ' enquiiieS to see if WO can g*t one i started. Have you any spare literature that you rou'd send me'. | If not 1 will "send to London fm I it." We are putting ear eonvsI pondeut in the way of getting a plentiful supply of the kind id 1 literature re pared and trust the ' elTort to imti'ut" a !'ranch of the ; Navy Lea-U" win he successful. It I is indeed an extraordinary thing that I Svdnov with more than hali'-a ; million inhabitants, and die gieatest ' ->,,]»,,: -.<■>. ■!■ -outhi.f the lir.e. -h mild ' ic have a brat-i !t