LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 401, 16 August 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Coy. are to hold a horse sale at Pukekohe next Monday and their usual monthly itock sale at Tuakau on Thursday next. Police activities are shortly to be renewed at Mercer in regard to Maon'i who have failed to present themselves for medical examination in accordanre with the Military Service Act. By advt. in this issue Mr £. Civil, Hon. Secy, of the Buckland Babbit Extermination Committee, informs property owners of Buckland that iabbit poisen can now be obtained from him.

Polling is in progress to-day for the vacant representation of the Mercer Hiding on the Franklin County Council, the candidates being Messrs James Keith and C. J. Leathern.

Towards the objective of £IOOO the sum of £BB4 has up to date been raised in Pukekohe for the Red Gross fund. The latest donations received are as follows : C. A Masters £i 3s; Mrs C. A. Masters £2 2s; D. R. Hamilton £2 ; A P. Daysh £1 Is; J. Shing Lee, " A Friend," P. Tobin and Mrs W. S. Mills (2nd donation) £1 each.

Mr Henry Goldsworthy, of Paeroi, who died suddenly in the train between Paeroa and Thames last Tuesday, was a brother of Mr William Goldsworthy, of. Pukekohe Hill, and an uncle of Mr James Goldsworthy, of Patumahoe. The deceased gentleman was well-known in the Pukekohe district, to which he had been a frequent visitor. The Railway Department is now prepared to receive goods consigned to Mauku station, carriage pre-paid. The tucks containing them will as a usual practice be brought on from Patumahoe by the construction train of the Public Works Department, but if from any cause that train should not happen to be running the Railway Department will deliver them each Saturday afternoon

Messrs Alfred Buckland and Seas are to hold a special sale of dairy cattle at Pukekohe on Saturday of next week.

On account of the prevailing epidemic of diphtheria in Pukekohe the public sehool (both the primary and secondary departments) will be closed from this afternoon until Monday, the 26th inst. Dr Hughes (the District Health Officer) visited Pukekohe yesterday and although he was of opinion that no actual necessity existed for such a step to be taken he advised that, in view of popular opinion favouring that coarse, school studies should be temporarily sus : ,, pended. ' : the necessary notice has been lodged in the Auckland Supreme Court with a view of obtaining an on the point of whether or not a'confessed judgment in a civil aotion in the Magistrate's Court should be followed by j udgUK itbeing automatically tatered thus putting an end to the action. These Supreme Court proceedings are in respect of a decision given by Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., at Pukekohe in a milk-sharing claim wherein after the defendant had confessed to judgment and had paid into Court the amount of money sued for His Worship gave the plaintiff authority to amend his claim and to sue for a higher sum. The matter will come before the Supreme Court in due course. Of the 13 candidates from the n ukekohe Convent who took part in the recent musical examinations at fillerslie centre all were successful, their names being as follows: Associate: Miss M Webb 76 marks, Miss M. Kelly 72; Senior, Miss N. McDougall 72, Miss M. Pullman 70; Intermediate, Miss 0. Fulton 82 (honours); Junior, Master 0. Maxwell 75 (piano), Master N. Mee 69 (violin), Miss M. Richards 69 (piano); Preparatory, Miss K. Neil 74, Miss S Kae 74, Miss R. Shields Hogan 74, E. Molloy 72; First steps, Miss M. Butler 71. In the preparatory examination Miss G. Brownlee, a pupil of Miss M. Webb, also passed with 72 marks.