LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 440, 10 January 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The N.Z Loan and M.A Coy's sales for next week include their ordinary monthly sale at Pukekohe on Tuesday. For particulars of the yarding see advertisement. The main rolls for the licensing poll to be taken on April 10th closed on Monday last. The supplementary roll will close on March sth. Tenders are invited by the Tuakau Town Board for the purchase of the temporary bridge now standing in George Street, Tuakau. For partitulars seeadvt, A record as regards sobriety was achieved in the Pukekohe police district during the Christmas and New Year holidays, for not a single individual entered tho portals of the police statim. The Pukekohe Bowling Club will be represented by Messrs Perkins, Karter, Duncan tioulston, and M. Wright in the Dominion Tournamont rink competition, which commences in Auckland next Monday. Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons Ltd. are to hold a clearing sale on Monday next on behalf of Mr W. H. Butler on his farm at Auckland. The firm's other sales for next week , include stock sales at Clevedon on Monday, and at Tuakau on Thursday. Particulars are advertised in this issue. ( A new shearing record has (says j an exchange) been created by Mr ( W. Yella, who established what is 1 claimed to be the world's record last ( year, when he shore at a Taihape 1 station 339 sheep in nine hours. f His now record, which was made a j ( few days ago, was 317 sheep in nine , ] bours. The new record was estab- i g ished under the supervision of the j station manager, by whom the time ' was taken and the tally checked. J e

Subscriptions to the " Times " for the current quarter paid before the 31st inst will be charged 3s 3d delivered or 4s 3d posted After that date a hooking fee of fid will ho added. The usual monthly meeting of the Manukau County Council will be held on Tuesday next. Miss C. M. Webb, by advertise meut in this issue announces that she will recommence teaching music in Pukekohe on the 18th inst and at the Buckland Hall ou the 22nd

inst. The NZ. Farmers' Co-op Bacon and Meat Packing Coy. will be buying pigs next week as follows: at Pukekohe on Monday, at Buckland on Tuesday, at Pokeno on Wednesday, at Te Kauwhata on Thursday, and at Patumahoe on Saturday. "Enrol at once "is the cry now being heard in connection with the licensing poll to be taken next April and canvassers of the rival parties are already bestirring themselves in the way of distributing enrolment orms. Pukekohe bowlers will be deprived of their anticipated journey to Rotorua to take part in the forthcoming tournament at that tourist resort as their entry for the competition h is not been accepted owing to the number of rinks being already full, preference having been given to applicants in order of date as received. By advertisement in this issue, the Pukekohe Hospital Committee express thanks to donors of cakes etc, presented to the hospital kitchen and they invite owners of baskets, dishes, etc. lent to call for the same at Mrs Martins' residence. In view of the fact that the barque Narwhal arrived at Wanganui direct from San Faancisco this week an endeavour is being made, through the Waikato River Navigation League, to bring a cargo, probably of benzine and manure, direot from America to Port Waikato. The Franklin County Council do not meet again until Thureday, February 6th, but the Finance Committee will sit next Thursday to pass accounts for payment. Farewell services to Captain and Mrs Palmer, who are leaving Pukekohe after a stay of twelve months, 1 ore tn be h°ld in the Solvation Army ( Hall, Pukekohe, next Sunday morn- . ing and afternoon, aid at Carlton in the evening. A telegraphic blander of a startling kind caused anxiety to a Dunei din family recently. Two brothers, ; one of them named John, are with the New Zealand forces, and the parents received a cablegram from the other brother containing the i words " John killed.'' Base Records ( had not announced the apparent casualty, and knew nothing of it. ' A cablegram of inquiry was de- ■ spatr.hed to London, and after some 1 delay the family learned that the , original message had read " J'hn sailed." Carelessness or bad writing had been responsible for the dis- ) maying statement. Early in Noveiubor a London I pressman met an inspector of munir tion factories, who told him th>:t a * fortnight ago he went through one 1 of the Coventry factories, where he - was shown a machine being secretly , worked by two men on piece rates. Theso two men, he said, were earn--1 ing £9 lis a day between them, and ■ thought they ought to have more r Afterwards, lie ;nid, ha went to one of the best restaurants in Coventry, where a boy and girl, munition " workers, entered, neither of them : more than 18, and oidered the best [ lunch possible, ar.d two bottles of , champagne, which they consumed in less than half-an-hour. ' Mrs A J Heighway, of Pukekohe, has received advice that her brothsr, i Lieut. Edward Arrait, of the Austra- . lian Imperial Forces, has been awarded the Military Cross for gallant behaviour before St. Quentin. I The circumstances are thus described . in an official document : Lieut Edwaid Napier Armit.-This officer showed marked courage and initiative 1 on the morning of August Ist, 1918, before and during the attack on Mont St. Quentin, near Peronne. He guided the battalion to the jumping-off position under the most difficult circumstances; this task, which entailed the crossing of a ! single plank bridge which was , heavily shelled, being successfully t accomplished in the darkness and over hitherto unknown ground. His splendid work in placing the companies in positton in the very short time at his disposal was an important factor in the success of the attack Frequently during the day Lieut Armit went forward under extremely heavy machine-gun and shell fire and while heavy fighting was in progress, in order to ascertain the position of our front line. In each instance ho obtained and brought back information of the utmost value. Recommended by E. F. Martin, Brig.-Gen. sth A.I Bde. (Signed) Chas. Rosenthal, Major-Gen., commanding 2nd A us. Div." Lieut, was born at the Thames 32 years ago, and before the war was engaged in journalism both in New Zealand and Australia.