LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 310, 14 September 1917, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Messrs Alfred Buokland nnd Sons invite entries for their next dairy sale at Pukekohe, to be held on Saturday the 22nd inst. Applications are invited, per advt. in this issue, for the position of Clerk to the Papakura Town Roard. TheNZ. Faimers' Co-op. Racon and Meat Packing Co., Ltd., will be buying pigs at Patumahoe on Monday next and at Te Kauwhata on Tuesday. Tenders are invited by Mr John Routly, Engineer to the Tuakau Townßoard, for kerbing and channeling at Tuakau. For particulars see advt.

Mr Alan P. Day, Clerk to the Franklin Countv Council, presented himself before the Military Medical Roard in Auckland on Tuesday but was rejected for active service. Paerata station is now being converted into an "island" platform to provide for the Waiuku branch line requirements and sidings for the same purpose are also being constructed.

Picture patrons are reminded that Carlyle Blackwell and Miss Ethel Clayton play the leads in "The Madness of Helen" at the Premier Hall,-Pukekohe, to-morrow (Saturday) night.— (Advt). A reminder is given of the clearing sales to be held at Pukekohe by Messrs J. T. Stembridge and Co, viz., on Mr E. Harris' farm to-mor-row (Saturday) and on Mr J. B. Donald's farm on Tuesday next. For particulars see advts. Although the bore at the Waikito Co-op. Dairy Coy's new butter factory at Tuakau has now been sunk to a depth of 390 ft water has not yet been struck. Until success is attained operations at the factory cannot be commenced. The attention of owners of orchards from which fruit is sold or is intended to be sold is drawn to the necessity of registering their oroh ards not later than the 30th mat. Particulars relative to the same will be found in an advt. in this issue. Rehearsals are in full swing for the entertainment to be given at Pukekohe on October 22nd by the local musical combination styling themselves the Snowflake Concert Party. As previously announoed, the programme willl include some original and novel items. In regard to the picture "Stingaree" which has been called in by the authorities, Mr Coady, proprietor of the Lyceum Pictures, Pukekohe, wishes to inform patrons that ho has been instructed to return the picture to Wellington for censorship. As soon as it has been modified by the Government Censor it will be reproduced. Due notice will be given in these columns of the screening of the last two episodes which have not yet been shown here.—;, Advt). A good story comes from one of the military camps. A well-to-do run-holder was drafted into camp, and was followed a fortnight after by one of his farm hands. One of the first things the newcomer saw was his late boss peering potatoes for the cookhouse. "Good Heavens, sir," he criad—" However did you come by that job ?" - " Influence, my boy, influence,'' was the cheerful reply of the landed magnate. It is understood that the whole of the present members of the Franklin Count} Council a: e likely to again place their services at the disposal of ratepayers at the forthcoming triennial election. Mr H. Wilcox (Pukekohe East riding) and Mr R. Lyons (Mercer riding) have contemplated retirement but it is expected that they will accede to the popular request to allow themselves to be again nominated.

Interest in billiards in Pukekohe has been largely revived by the recent inter-town contests with Waiuku and Tuesday night witnessed a series of matches at Mr Mclntyre's saloon between six members of the team that defeated Waiuku on the first occasion and an equal number of players styling themselves "the scrap iron combination " that fancied their chances against " the cracks." Only in one instance, however, w ere the challengers successful. The following were the scores, the " scrapiron" cueists being mentioned firfct in each case, viz: J. J. Coady lost 1o M. Mclntyre 177-200; J. Blake lost to kL H. O'Loughlin 176-200; D. Blake lost McOullagh 106-200 ; N Clews beat O. Clarke 200- 170; H. G. Lysnar lost to M. Butler 161 —2OO ; and R. Brownlee lost to J. Roulston 138-200. That " Jack is as good as his master" May be ail very well as a jest, Despite such patter/'in men as in matter, The best will be always the beat, In the keen competition for trftde, Worth alone can succeed and endure— For coughs and coWs this piiiicii»le holds In Woods' Great Peppermint Cure