LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 345, 15 January 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Pukekohe Borough Council takes place to-morrow evening.

Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons, Ltd, are to conduct a sale of horses at Pukekohe next Monday. Additional entries are solicited.

The Town Clerk of Pukekohe acknowledges the receipt from Miss E. M. Eweo,of Glen Murray, of the sum of £ 5 as a donation to the Red Cross Fund.

Constable Wolfendale has been transferred from Auckland to Pukekohe jn succession to Constable Thornell, promoted to Houhora. He will take up his new duties this week.

Mr J. H. Waters, late of Palmer - ston, Otago, assumed duty as postmaster of Pukekohe yesterday in succession to Mr W. Coster, who left last evening for Hamilton on 'promotion to the Relieving Staff.

Capt. and Mrs Elford, at present in charge of the Salvation Army branch at Pukekohe, have been transferred to Opotiki and leave for their new sphere of labour next week. «

A reminder is given of the social, organised by the Pukekohe branch of the Women's Patriotic League, to be held in the Masonic Hall tomorrow (Wednesday) evening as a reception to returned soldiers. Local residents are asked to assist in giving the " boys " a fitting welcome.

Picture patrons are reminded to be present at the Premier Hall to-morrow (Wednesday) evening to witness Robert Warick in the first product of his own Company, •' The Argyle Case." It is the story of a real detective and a girl who was game. A stirring, virile story worth going a long way to see.—(Advt).

Notice is given in our advertising columns that application for outstanding p»ze money won abthe recent flower show held in Pukekohe under the auspices of St Andrew's Church must bo made at the office of this paper on or before Saturday next, failing which the same will be treated as donated to the Church Funds.

At the recent musical examinations for the Auckland centre of the Associated Board of the Royal Academy and Royal College of Music Master Fred Payne, of Pukekohe, (instructed by Miss Millicent Taylor) secured fourteenth position in the rudiments of music.

Within the last ten vears or so London offices have borne pithy admonition signs of Transalantic origin. None of the notices has attained the rich directness of the sign in a cer tain garage : " Don't smoke around the tank ! If your life isn't worth anything, petrol is!"

A Taranaki boy, who had to milk several cows every morning, generally went to school smelling strongly of the stock-yard. The lady teacher complained to the mother. This was the reply sent in a letter : " Dear Miss,—You are not paid to smell Johnnie. Just larn him."

To-morrow (Wednesday) evening will be the only and final opportunity of witnessing the remarkable production " The Argyle Case." This is the first production of RoberJ; Warick's own Company which is sufficient guanantee that it is right. It is a real story told by real people. Greater than any Sherlock Holmes. It should not be missed.—(Advt). Mr. James S. Bond, of Hamilton, and Mr. John Patterson, of Pukekohe, have been nominated to till the vacancy in the west ward of the Education Boasd, caused by the death of Mr. James Auld. The election takes plane on February 1. Votes forwarded bv post must reach the office of the Board on or before that date.

As a result of the absence of holiday excursion fares and of race trains the railway receipts at Pukekohe for the Xmas and New Year holidays fell a good deal short of the takings of a year previously. In the similar holidays of 1916 27-10 tinkefs were issued to the value <>f £SSI 17s lOd as agains*- 2>!li o t.iokots, representing £ 151 in value, f>r tin recent holidays, People desirous of seeing the picture " Intolerance " are reminded that it will ho screened at the Premier Hall, Pukekohe, on Friday of this week. The first interval will ho at !) p.m. This will allow the business people who come late to see more than two-thirds of tho picture. (Advt.)

The steady rain experienced in the Piikekoha (liatiict since Sunday is joyously welcomed by farmers although it comes too late to arrest the falling-off in the tirlk supply. Late crops of potatoes will particularly benefit by the moisture. On Saturday a!':ernoon Runciman had thedistinctit 11 of securing a really tropical down f ill, the ruin being of a purely local character and its area beiug limited " Fither," inquired the litt'e brnin twister of the family, "when will our littl<! baby brother be able to talk y" ' Oh, when he is about three, Kthel." " Why can't he talk now, fithor " llh is only a baby yet, Ethel. Babies can't talk.'' " Oh yes they can, f idler," insisted Ethel, ■' for Job cmld talk when he was a baby." "Job ! Whit do you mean '• Yes" said Ethel ' Nur.-o was telling in to-day that it says i'i the Bible : ' .Tub cursed the d iv he was burn.' "

1 Men on tho British lighting fronts are said to he greatly amused at the statements in aoim papers that the war has practically killed sport, and that the space foinierly given to footlull and other games will later on he occupied by articles on education and other improving things. " There will lie more sport than ever when the hoys come home, stys one who is in an excellent position to judge, " Thousands of chaps who never played a game of any sort before g"ing into training are now athletes. Sporting lixturns behind the lines are extraordinary in number, boxing being particularly popular. Next j to letters from home, there is nothing j our soldiers are interested in as sportnows." i

Dates and places of sheep fairs to be held by Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons, Ltd , are advertised in this issue.

The 34th Infantry Reinforcements, who have resumed training at Featherston, will commence their march to Trenthan Camp on Wednesday next, proceeding by road over the Rimutakas. They will bivouac at Kaitoke on Wednesday night and should reach Trentham on Thursday. The men are looking forward to the journey with evident keenness, hoping to put up an even better performance than the the last draft which went " over the hill."

The " Wanganui Chronicle" states : " It is often said that the New Zealand trains are not out for speed records, and an instance of this is recorded by a well-known settler, who states that he was a passenger by the late train to Wanganui on Wednesday. The whole outfit consisted of about fifty trucks and carriages, and was going at such a slow pace that the guard was Able to get off and run along by the side of the train and release the Westinghouse brake by pulling the wire at the side of the carriage, and jump on again, as if the effort were the most natural thing in the world