LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 406, 3 September 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The quarterly meeting of the Franklin Licensing Committee) takes place on Thursday next at noon in the Pukekohe Courthouso.

The j>ast reason is said to have been an exceptionally good one for and judging ] y ;}:•« number nf people now going in for lines, the industry promises to assume large proper;' r is in the near future.

Particulars of entries are advertised in this issue of the N Z Loan and Mercantile Agency Coy's dairy sale to lie held at Pukekohe next Monday and of tho Coy's usual iii.-uni.v stwk sale on the following day. Ratepayers of the borough of Pukekohe are reminded that the poll on the proposal of the Porough Council to raise, in conjunction with the Franklin County Council, a loan of jC'J.'.no for the purchase of a site for a technical high school is to be taken to-morrow.

Jii-raii. v-a-ill tr.iilfsp"opl»> generally have loss trouble in getting in tlieir account w here N ttional Prohihi'ion is in vogue in Canada. Mr W. I'nmdfoot, Liberal leader of the Ontario legislature, says: " Retail morchaiits and butuhen are i|uit n sfmng in their statements that ihpii who previously were in the huilit of letting their accounts run and iroin whom it was only with the gre ite-l dilli • ull y ill' y wen 1 ahle to seciin> jMV'urr.'r, now pay regularly witlioii' p\'"!i hoing du nnod '' This ;ilia -e of natvrs icc-">nh a very valid reason why the Alliance Monsti'i Petition for the abolition of the tiiin!-: i .!li'' in X a Z'Ti!and should

receive tie' irt of the trad"s- | ii i "j11 -■. lie sine you sign it. lie -lire von sign the ri<.rhf Petition! I. ilc .t'Oiillv, or \ mii 111alie indui'ed to nialco a proposal asking for nationalisation of the I>rinK - Tim Hi' 1 with all its attendant

• v.!: Th' l >Mi<\♦)".» IViti m h 1 ii"ic l that i'V'Tv patri'tie ' -lionl I s'lpp .!•' Sign it an 1 >i ■ ''• i■ I' llK't .

Messrs Palgety and Co are to hold their u«unl monthlv stork sale ar Tuak-ti! »ie>:t .Friday. KntriPK are invited.

Of Pukekohe's allotted .quota of £IOOO in connection with the Bed Cross appeal not mora than £OOO 'ias so far been obtained. With ft view of raking steps towards raising the wanted balance of £IOO a meeting of tbe local Patriotic Committee is to be held this evening. Tu view of preparations having to be made for the Waiau-Karaka loan pf 11 to take place on Friday next the September meeting of the Frank lm County Council will be held on Thursday, the 12th inst, instead of rust Thursday. At the N.Z. Loan and M. A. Coy's sa'e at Papakura yesterday cattle showed an advance in price. Rolstein cows brought as much as £2O ai d £27. A line of small heifers passed in at £7 at the last Runciman snle realised £l 1 .Is.

Messrs. Wright Stephenson and G>y. Ltd. intimate that in the abac tire of Mr A. J. Heighway upon nr.litary service their interests in the Fianklin and Manukau Counties will be attended to by Mr P. J. Robertson, who has now airived in Pukeki lie.

A Hamilton boy, writing home from Palestine, states that the heat in the Jordan Valley is intense, often registering 120 degrees in the shade and there is little shade about. It is even too hot for flies to live and quite a number of the boys are sick, the majority of cases being malarial fever. With regard to the conditions existing in the Valley a good story is told of a Tommy telling his mate that it was too hot for any white man to stay there, so that was why the Indians and colonials were stationed at the Jordan. At the conference held in Auckland last Friday to endorse the proposal for the development of hydroelectric power as a Government scheme an organisation was formed, to be known as the Auckland Hydro Electric Power League. With Mayors of boroughs and chairmen of local bodies being ex-officio members, others appointed to the Executive included Mr Henry Dell as chairman of the Pukekohe Chamber of Commerce

The following additional donations have been received towards " the great effort" in Pukekohe for the Red Cross fund, viz. Mr and Mrs H. G. Lysnar, £-5 ss; Mr and Mrs J. Hooey, £5 ; Mr and Mrs P. Hogan, £2 2s ; Miss Wake (c/'o Mrs Penny), £1 Is ; F. E. Simpson and R. Carter, 10s each; K V. B Stevenson, 2s 6d ; and results of sale of pig donated bv J. H. Keith, £7 2s.

At the fortnightly sitting of the Magistrate's Court at Pukekohe next Thursday a Dalmatian is to be prosecuted for shcoting native pigeons. Two ] 'almatians will also be charged for making disloyal utterances, whilst two persons will be proceeded against for failing to register under the Aliens Registration Act. On the civil side three defended actions are down for hearing. The reptile caught, as mentioned in our last issue, near the Pukekohe railway station on Friday was exhibited during the week-end at a small charge for the benefit of the Red Cross fund and was the subject of much curiosity. It was yesterday sent on alive to the Auckland Museum and is announced by the Curator of that establishment to be a lizard of a type fairly common in South Australia, the scL-utific name of the species being Trachysaurus Rugosus. It is of a harmless variety. Its presence in Pukekohe is explained by tho fact that it was included among specimens of reptiles that were exhibited at the Fukekohe Show in Fehrimv, 1917. It escaped on that Decision, ;t< o\noi f tiling to find it despite a prolonged search He reported his less to the Show authorities. Evidently it has remained in hiding ever since in the railway embankment near by. Potatoes in the coming season are almost certain to realise high values, especially the early crops. In the Pukekohe district a much smaller area than usual is being devuted to raising the tubers, due to so many growers being at the war and to fear of a shortage of labour prevailing at digging tiun. Last year the Maoris, who are manly responsible for the digging, also drimauded excessive rates and with numbers of available natives now being curtailed by military conscription the scale of pay wanted is almost certain to be further raised. For tome reason or other modern appliances in the industry are not to anyJarge extent taken advantage of around Pukekohe, machine planters and diggers, and even horse sprayers, rarely being seen in operation If these were in general use the labour difficulty as far as potatoes are concerned would be capable of solution The main body of growers, however, appear to lack enterprise and hence Pukekohe's chief product is year byyear dwindling away. The National Efficiency Board states that world-wide shows that where Prohibition is in operation increased national thrift has followed, and the diversion of the money to productive trade channels will " more than counteract the Kss of public lovenue now received from this strvice." Th<* money now spent on liquor will be spent in some other direction, and hence directly or indirectly will produce increased revenue to tho S:at«. This provide.- the answ t to thosp who ask how the revenuo now derived from the liquor traffic will be made up. Surely the electors should have an opportunity of voting on so important a proposal. The Alliance Monster jVn'ion will us the poll Sign it. Be sure you sign ihe r glit Petition ' Look carefully, or you may be induced to support a pro pi.sal asking for nationalisation of I the Drink Trallir with all its attend- | ant evils. The Alliance Monster! Petition is the one that every patno- ! tic citiy -n should support. Sign it | and no other. (Advt.l . j

The rainfall last month in Pukekohe, as recorded in the gauge at Rosemont liy Mr Stanley Sinclair©, totalled 2.665 in. as compared with 4.95 in. for August 1917 and 7.51 in. for August, 1916. The rainfall for the eight months pnding August 31st last aiuoun'a to 33.45 m. as against 17.80 in. for the corresponding period of last year. By instructions of Mrs Rossiter, who is leaving the district, Messrs J. T. Stombridge and Co." will carry out next Saturday on the premises at the junction of King and Edinburgh streets. Pukekohe, a sale of her stock of lollies, confectionery, etc. as also of her household furniture etc. Particulars are advertised in this issue.