LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 336, 7 December 1917, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Pukekohe Borough Council, by advi in this issue, invite applications for debentures to the extent of £4OOO, the same being for nine years and bearing interest at the rate of 5 J per cent per annum. Mr Charles Clarke, the respected proprietor of the Pukekohe Hotel, has found is necessary to become an inmate of a private hospital in Auckland for treatment for eye trouble. A relic of the war in the form of a massive German revolver has reached Mr Richard Maxwell, of Pukekohe, from his son. Pte T. L. Maxwell, who picked the weapon up on the battlefield of Messines in which engagement he was wounded. With the turnip sowing season at hand a critical situation has arisen inasmuch as owing to the shortage of imports snper-phosphate, bonedust and blood, and other like manures are practically unprocurable. It is feared that it will be well into the New Year before further stocks will be laaded. The Farmers' Co-op. Auctioneering Coy are to submit to public auction on Wednesday next at the Chamber of Commerce Auckland, by instructions of Mr J. H. Parker a farm of 1501 acres, with house, etc., situated at Maungatawhiri Valley. For particulars see advt.

A reminder is given of the display of Technical School work to be held in the Pukekohe schoolgrounds next Tuesday at 1.15 p.m. The public are invited to attend and to examine the handiwoik of the students. The greatest film spectacle ever conceived and executed, - Intolerance," has now been definitely booked for screening at the Premier Hall, Pukekohe, on Friday, December 28th. The prices will be 2s and la plus tax, children half-price. The box plan will be at the Bookery.

Arrangements were made at a meeting held in the " Times " office last evening to enterta : n Constable Thornell, who will shortly be leaving Pukekohe ou promotion, at a smoker on Tuesday, the 18th inst. The gathering, subject to the Bowling Club's permission, will he held in the pavilion on the bowling green. Messrs F. Perkins, H. Dell, H. G. Lysnar and J. P. Asher were appointed as a sub-committee to Ciirry out the necessary details, which will include a presentation to Constable and Mrs Thornell.

When thinking of Christmas presents parents should remember the duty they owe their offspring in the way of the encouragement of outdoor physical exercise. If in miking a present they can give something that will be of real use as well as a means of providing a most fascinating form of outdoor exercise, they will be doing themselves a good turn as well as the children. Messrs Skeates and White announce in this issue that a bicycle is a sensible Xmas present and that they have bicycles to suit every purse and every purpose, from their famous Juvenile bicycles uDwards.

The Raglan County councillors spent nearly two hours on Wednesday of last, week discussing the advisability of providing the engineer with a motor-car. They vied with each other in complimenting Mr Civil (the Engineer) upon his conscientious work, and all recognised that he had more to cope with than he should have, but tae bone of contention was whether an assistant or a more rapid method cf transit would pr.ive the more efficacious method of affording relief. Mr Civil, upon being app^alec 1 t \ stated that most of tho office work in connection with the h r ger works was finished and for the next few months supervision of tho operations would be his chief duty; this would necessitate flinch travelling over all the ridings, and i k was desirable that he should in :;ble to do this in an expeditious m:i<iner. In view of Mr Civil's exi!.*.uation, the councillors decided, by a substantial majority, to purchase a two-seater Ford car.

A couple of young would-be desparadoes started off from Auckland last week-end on a career of crime. Tri"r to quitting the precincts of the ci f y they broke into a Inus? at Point Ch?valier and annexed some provision®. Then the" made thfir 1 way by road to Papatoetoe, where on j Monday night they entered a church I and purloined some mour-y an I a ! silver spoon. The morning at j Wiri tiny surreptitiously visited a 1 cottage tenanted by MrE. Sykes and made a haul of a watch and chain, valued at £-5, and some " tucker." Proceeding on to Pa;>;tkura they I during the night broke into two | churches and enriched themselves I to the entent of about 30s. B -ing !

now in funds they took the morning j train on WeHnetdiiy on to Pukekohe, j where they made a search of ; the Roman Catholic Church and then j of the Presbyterian Church, but I their booty was limited to a box of matches " lifted " from the former. Then a walk was undertaken to Tuakau aril in the course of the evenii uiey entered the Methodist Church there and in addition to abstracting the contents of tlii Po:)r 15.'X they regaled themselves with the fcirramental wino. In the meantirno tho Fukekolie

police had been ii fanned of the various ac'B committed and the young culprits were traced by Constable Thornei to Tuakau, and thcr.i thoy were arretted rarlv ves'pidiv morning by Constables Thornell and Taylor just 'as they wore i'>out to leave tho hot--', wh >re th-y iiad taken quarteis f'>r the Brought up at the Pu.Tekuha Police Court yesterday morning before Mr 0. K. Lawrie j.P., they made a full con fessiou uf their misdeeds and w ere remanded in custody to appear before day. Their names respectively are Joseph Reidy and Noel Hodges, each being about 18 years of age.

Fear's Pharmacy, Pukekohe, is making a specialty of Kodak cameras for 'Xmaa presents. A replace advt. in this issue deals with the same. A further list of dates and places is advertised in this issue for the attendance of a Government officer to inoculate calves against blackleg. Advice has been received by Mrs Hawke in Pukekohe has her husband, L.-Corpl. W. H. Hawke, who voluntarily enlisted with the 25th Reinforcements, is ill in hospital—not severe. A dislocation of the railway service occurred to-day as the result of a collision of two goods trains early this morning near Westfield. The first train from Auckland accordingly did not reach Pukekohe until just on noon. The police report that many aliens in the Pukekohe district have failed to register as necessitated by the Registration of Aliens Act, passed last session, which requires that all aliens residing in New Zealand should apply to the police or Customa authorities for registration, not later than Saturday last, Only by speedy compliance with the Act can they hope to escape the penalties provided. The authorities say it is clear that many aliens are not aware that they may register at the police stalion nearest to which they reside. An alien is defined as any person of either sex, over the age of 15, who is not a British subject by birth or naturalisation in New Zealand. In all cases the wife assumes the nationality of the husband. Papers taken out by an alien parent will also cover under-age children, who have been living with him up to the time of bis naturalisation.