The Times. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1917 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 331, 20 November 1917, Page 2

The Times. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1917 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

" We nothing extenuate, nor iet down auaht in malice. 1 '

Particulars of special entries for Messrs Alfred Buckland and Son's dairy sale to be held at Pukekohe next Saturday ar« advertised in this issue.

" Small profits and quick returns" is the keynote of a replace advt in this issue relative to King's new boot store, McClintock's Buildings, Pukekohe.

The attention of persons concerned is called to a Government advt. in this issue requiring every alien to make application for registration not later*than December Ist.

A correspondent, writing from Runciman, says : " Will you kindly, in the interests of ratepayers, stir up the Franklin County Council, and urge them to get to work at once on the roads, while the weather is good. Already a month has gone by and there is no sign of work being started. The roads in this district are a disgrace to civilisation and are even as bad as they are 200 miles from Auckland although we are only 25 miles distant from the city. Please do your best to S'it the Council going." At the Auckland Supreme Cour on Saturday Robert James Brj'don, who was recently captured by Serjjt Cowan near Bombay after an excit ing cha.-e, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a horse at Drury and also to two charges of breaking and entering. lie was sentenced to two and a-half years' hard labour on all the charges concurrently, and being 1 out on license was ordered back to gaol to serve the balance six months) of his former sentence as a preliminary.

On their way to Tuakau yesterday tlie Prime Minister (the Rt. lion \V. F. Massey, M.P) and Mrs Massey, who travelled by the Rotorua express from Auckland, alighted at Pukekohe and motored to Puni to pay a visit to their son, Mr J N Massev. The Premier was welcomed' at the station by the Mayor (Mr H. G. R who with Cr Stembridge formed a deputati in ( n behalf the Korough Council to remind Mr Massey of his f' rmer promiso to put before the Minister of Railways the necessity of acquiring land to secure an adequate approach to the station in view of the future duplication of the Tailway track. Mr Massey and party then left in Mr fam Mi :s " Daimler" car for Puni an 1 thence for Tu ikau

The death too'; place on Saturday, No vein hj» r lOili, nt "I'rini," I'aupiri, after a short illi ess of Mrs Klizthetli McConiit'H, wife of Mr \\ . Me Council, and ehiest daughter of Mr James Fulton, late of Putekohe. Mrs McConnell, wtio was in hero Ith year was born in County Down, Ire land, and timeout to New Zealand in (he ship I '.inntless some years ago with tier parents who settled in the Pukekohe district. Tue deceased lady with her husband and family have re-ide 1 in t)e> T*'U >iri district lor the pas' t*'ii \i ii s wlie they arc well-knowu aim highly respected. She is survived by a widower and 11 children (six sons and five daughters), the two eldest sons beine °n active service. 1 lie funeral too< place at Tanpiri retiioiuiy, being ,»no of the largest s ,r n in '1 < 1 dis'Mrt. Tli 1 Kev M Campbell, T M mister, officiated.