LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 372, 3 May 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr John Beatty, on behalf ol Messrs W. and K. Fletcher, Ltd. will be purchasing pigs next Wed nesdav at Waiuku and Aka Aka.

Mr H. R. Mackenzie, who recently disposed of his Mangere property, is now in residence at Norman's Hill road, Onehunga. His new telephone number is o7 Onehunga. The usual bi-monthly meeting of the .Raglan County Council is to be held at the Council's offices at Ngaruawahia on Wednesday next. The N.Z. Farmers' Op-op. Bacon and Meat Packing Co., Ltd , will be buying pigs next week as follows : At Pukekohe on Tuesday, at Papakura and Runciman on Wednesday, and at Buckland on Thursday.

Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons are to hold their next horse sale at Pukekohe on Monday, the 13th inst, and also their ordinary monthly stock sale at Tuakau on the following Thursday, 16th inst. Entries are invited.

It is notified in our' advertising columns that the An/ac Service, as held last Sunday evening in the Pukekohe Methodist Church, will, by request, be repeated next Sunday morning when the Rev J. F. Martin will preach on "The Spirit of Anzac."

Charges against a Pukekohe farmer for keeping pigs within 43ft of a public road and for allowing his stys to become a nuisance were yeserday adjourned to the next sitting of the Pukekohe Magistrate's Court, the defendant being away from home and not having been served with the summonses. As a result of the recent heavy rains the disease styled " watery eye" is again affecting the autumn grown seed potatoes in the Pukekohe district. Last year, it will be remembered, its outbreak caused a good deal of concern to growers and it was made the subject of investigation by a Government expert. His researches have, however, apparently failed to arrest its spread and the disease is now even more prevalent than last year. Its seriousness arises from the fact that ii can hardly be detected on the surface of the potato. An apparently sound tuber suddenly becomes a mass of pulp, whose sinister influence extends to other potatoes with which it is in contact. Whilst the dry weather lasted the scourge was not existent but moisture evidently promotes its growth. Making enquiries last weeek concerning another matter the Pukekohe police on interviewing a coupln of Maoris found a tumbler in a gig belonging to them. This said tumbler was subsequently traced as belonging to Miss W. Sears, proprietress of a fruit shop in Pukekohe, and as a result the Maoris, whose names were Joe N:pier and Clark P< titau respectively, were charged at the Pukekohe Magistrate's Court yesterday with having stolen it. Th« accuse, it appeared, had purc'iased some hop-heer at Miss Sears' shop and subsequent to their departure the glass was missed, Mr C. 0.

Mahony defended. Clark was discharged but Napier was convicted and fined 10s in addition to having to pay an interpreter's fee of £1 os I'd and witness' costs ss. Stonethrowing by boys would seem to be a popular Sunday after noon pastime at Patumahoe judged by the fact that at a Juvenile Court h< Id yesterday at Fukekohe before Mr Wyvern Wilson S.M. no less than thirteen representatives of Pafuniahoe's rising generation answered to a roll call on charges of baviug either wilfully broken telephone insulators, the property of the N.Z Govrrnment, or having thrown stone« to the danger of insulators It was stated for the prosecution that a rally of insulators in Patumahoe h- d bern taken with the result

that 75 were found to have been broken and the suggestion was that the havoc had been wrought by the defendants on Sunday afternoons when on their way back from Sun day school. Mr J. Q. Haddow defended and admitted the facts but claimed that all the damage done had not been committed by the boys charged. The . case against the eldest member of the party was dismissed as there was no direct evidence that he had been concerned in the recent occurrences, the parents of four lads were ordered to pay lis 8d each, a total of £2 6s 8d the estimate of the damage of 20 insulators as assessed by His Worship, and the parents of the remaining eight boys were called on to share be'ween them seven shillings the amount of Court cost 9. His Wrrship pointed out that parents were responsible for the actions of their children and the Telegraph Department had to be protected against the depredation of boys.

THE FLETCHER MILKING MACHINE.

has set a new and higher standard for eitiiciency and service. Besides possessing distinct advantages in regard to simplicity, directness of action and thorough reliability, tho "Fletcher" is essentially a clean milker. In this machine air drawn from the back of the cup inflation does not come in contact I with the milk, but is exhausted into the ! atmosphere thus preventing possible impurities from contaminating the milk. This saves ' Fletcher " users from byfar the commonest reason for milk being rejected at the factory. Whether in the flush or end of season, whether used on small-teated heifers or hard cows. " Fletcher" teat cups do not fall off. They can be assembled or taken to pieces without having to unscrew any cap or connection. Write for full particulars to tho FI.F.TfHER MILKINO Machine, company, Hamilton.

The Franklin County Council meets on Thursday of next week. * On the strength of having overseas, although he had not seen service, a returned soldier, an arrival from Auckland, engaged in a cadging mission for beer in Pukckohe on Tuesday but was detected by the police. Brought up at the Pukekoho Police Court on Wednesday he waa sentenced to seven days' imprisonment with hard labour on a charge of vagrancy. The practice of vehicles being driven at night-time without lights is receiving attention from the Pukekohe police and some offenders are to be called upon fto] appear at the next Magistrate's Court. Attention is akso called to the regulations requiring the rear number plate of motor -cars to be distinguishable at night-tice.

The rainfall in Pukekohe for April as recprded by Mr Stanley Sinclaire on the Rosemont gauge, totalled 3'69in as compared with 6 67in. for April of last year. The heaviest fall was ,62in. on April 28th. The total fall for the four months ending April 30th is 13.8 Tin as against 20-81 for the correspond* ing period of last year. "The Circus of Death," a sequel picture to " The Jockey of Death," is booked for screening at the Premier Hall on Wednesday evening next. This is absolutely the most remarkable, sensational and spectacular picture of its kind ever shown in the Dominion. It is produced by the Cines Company, the makers of" Quo Vadis"

With yesterday's sitting of the Magistrate's Court at Pukekohe Mr Wjvern Wilson, S.M., concluded his control of the Courts in the Lower Waikato. As previously announced, Mr Wyvern Wilson is to act as relieving magistrate in the city of Auckland for the next couple of months in the absence on holiday leave of Mr E. C. Cutten, during which time Mr F. V. Frazer will preside as senior magistrate in Auckland. On Mr Cutten'a return to duty Mr Wyvern Wilson is to be transferred to Wanganui. Mr J. £. Wilson, S.M., late of New Plymouth, is to succeed his namesake in charge of the country circuit and will make his first appearance at Papakura next Friday. Mr Frazer 8.M., being still Chairman of the Manukau and Franklin Licensing Committees will, according to existing arrangements, preside at the annual licensing meetings at Onehunga and Pukekohe on Monday, June J Oth, and Thursday, June 13th, respectively as also at those Courts on the same days.