LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 379, 28 May 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In order to enable our staff to take full advantage of the public holiday •n Monday, June 3rd (Kiiig'sißirth-. day) there will be no issue of the Tim~es on Tuesday,' June 4th,, No police charges are'so far r dowri for hearing at the Pukekohe Magis~ trate's Court next Thursday. The first of the businesses in Puljiekohe to be affected by the calling up of the married men is that of Mr R. Miller, tailor, of King Street, who closed his establishment prior to his leaving for camp yesterday. • - The repetition of the performance of tho comedy " Jane " was wit* nessed by a large audience in the Premier Hall, Pukekohe, last Thursday evening, the entertainment being in aid of the Pukekohe Fire Brigade. An enjoyable dance followed. > *>' The old and popular musiotff' combination known as the Fisk Jubilee Singers are after an absence of seven years paying, a return visit to New Zealand and will appear in the Premier Hall,' Pukekohe, on Thursday, June 6th. , A clearing sale on behalf of Mr C. Hodgkinson, who is retiring from dairying, is to be carried out on his farm at Glenbrook on Tuesday of next week. The offering includes some choice young Holstein and Shorthorn-dairy cows. For particulars see advt. On behalf of the Red Crqgs the Pukekohe branch of the Women's Patriotic League make an urgent appeal for hospital garments, to be sent te Mesopotamia, the same to be shipped early in June. Garments for sewing will be given out at the Pukekohe Council Chamber next Friday from 1 p.m. "to 4-.30 p.m: v . Meters Civil and Roberts, of Pukekohe, report recent, sales as follows : Mr West's house at Pukekohe ; Mr Civil's house and 3.V acres at Pukekohe ; Mr W. 8. farm, 20 acres, at Buckland ; Mr F. Steenson's farm, 15? acres, on Mauku Road ; and Mr Roberts' farm, 23 acres, at Pukekohe. A social in honour of local soldiers who have recently returned to the Dominion is to bejield next -Friday evening in the tjjifejbier the auspices of the Pukekohe branch of the Women's Patriotic League. The co-operation of lbdfa residents t6 j ensure the gathering b®ingi*.*uioeßt is invited. An official welcome (Mr H. G. R. Mason; and Coun-. cillors of the Pukekohe Borough Council was given on Saturday last in the Council Chambers to the Hon.

J. G. W. Aitken M.L C„ Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, on his visit to Pukekohe in connection with the jubilee celebration of the Pukekohe Presbyterian Church.

Writing under d4le of March 3rd last from Palestine, parents at Pukekohe Pie. Henry Dell gives interesting details of historic places he has seen, including the manger credited as the spot where Christ, was born. He also speaks appreciatingly of the receipt of a cake which had been sent him by Mr and Mrs

Grinter, of Waiau Pa, and which he says came as a very welcome change from bully beef and biscuits.

An old Maori cljiief named Warena Te Tawhana, popularly known as* " Old Warren," J)eejt living alone in a tenement at ratumahoe, was. taken .by the police to the Auckland .last Saturday. He" was found at , bis.' home in a condition. As he ' J^gtyt/with, the natives against The British in the Maori war. .

Income-tax* payers should take notice;that their returns .'Should be sent to the Commissioner of Taxes on or before the Ist of June. A heavy penalty is provided for omission to do this. Farmers who have already filled up their returns will have noted that the deduction formerly allowed of. five per cent upon th« capital value of land used has now been reduced to flee per cent upon the unimproved value. This will bring a great many small farmers in as income-tax payers who up to the present have escaped. The humid atmospheric conditions experienced this season have been responsible for a few cases of sick-' ness amongst children in Pukekohe and district but certainly of nothing of a very serious nature. tJnfor tunately thoughtless reference in' general conversation has a tendency to create alarmist conditions but when statements are made conveying individual reference serious injury is likely to be done. We understand such reference' has been made in connection with the Pukekohe Convent School but we are mfyce than pleased to be able to state there is not an atom of truth in such statements as there has not been one case of contagious disease'of any kind arising in the Convent Bchool this year. Furthermore, the Officer from the Health Department, Auckland, made a thorough inspection of the Convent Buildings and Groundsonly vesterday (Monday') and expressed himself a9-very highly-satis-fied with the up-to-date sanitary arrangements and - general' highly healthful conditions' pervading that establishment.