LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 445, 28 January 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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i A reminder is given of the sale o household furniture and effects to be carried out by Messrs J. T. Stembridge and Co at Mr W. H Butler's residence at Buckland nest Saturday. For particulars see advt. Good entries of pigs, poultry, fruit, produce and sundries have been secured by Messrs J. T. Stembridge and Co., for the usual weekly sale at their Pukekohe auction mart next Friday. Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons Ltd., are to submit to public auction at the Pokeno Saleyards on Monday, p ebruaiy 17th, the accommodation house situated at Pokeno and belong lug to Mrs Walden. For particulars see advt.

Although to-morrow (Anniversary Dayl is a public holiday throughout the Auckland Provmco it is not a holiday as far as the Postal Department is concerned and all post iiilices will accordingly be open for the usual daily hours.

"It is a sort of unwritten law aomngst farm managers that they should not engage in stook dealing," said tiro principal witness for the prosecution in a case of alleged sheep stealing heard at the Pukekohe Police Court yesterday. Schedules of prizes for the Franklin A and P, Society's annual show to be held at Pukekohe on Friday and Saturday, February 28th and March Ist, have now been published and copies cau be obtained on application to the Secretary (Mr D. B. Hamilton).

The schools of the Auckland Edu cation Board district will reopen next Monday. In view of the abnormal circumstances created by the epidemic, and of the long period during which the schools were closed in consequence, the Board has recommended that the schools be kept open full time during the month of February of this year, not for 3J hours as notified in a previous cii cular.

On Saturday night last a Dalmation, named Mijo Lulich, who had recently arrived in Fukekohe, was arrested by Constable Wolfendale on a military warrant for having refused to perform work in accordance with the orders issued by the Commissioner for Juge-Slavs. He was on Monday handed over to the military authorities in Auckland for internment at Featherston Camp. At last night's meeting of Manure wa Town Board it was decided to support a resolution from the Blasting's Borough Council recommending to the Government the urgent and absolute necessity of strengthening the financial position of the Public Health Department so as to extend its powers and functions and enable it at all times to successfully combat and control any epidemic that might attack the community. The possession of a " Ready Beckoner " is not included in the equipment at the Pukekohe Police Court. Giving evidence yesterday in respect to the alleged theft of some manures a witness said that some 7£ cwt. of manures were missing, the value being at the rate of £l6 per ton. He declined to indulge in a mental arithmetic sum in the way of working out the value of the 7£ cwt. at the price as quoted and suggested that the Court should have resource to a " Ready Reckoner." As such a book was not forthcoming the witness left it to the Clerk of the Court "to determine at his leisure what the monetary loss represented. Messrs J. T. Stembridge and Co., report as follows : At our usual weekly sale at our Pukekohe auction mart last Friday we had a crowded attendance, with very heavy entries Pigs came forward in good numbers and sold at good prices. In fruit there were heavy consignments, abou'. 200 cases being sold. Poultry were in firm supply. Of furniture and sundries there was a heavy supply—more than could be dealt with, a large quantity having to be held over for next sale day Some of the prices realised were: Pigs : Stores, £2 10s to £3 ; weaners, good, 30s to 345; others, 15s to 225. Poultry : Cockerels, Is 4d to 2s 3d ; hens, Is lid to 2s 9d ; ducks, 2s 6d to 2s 9d. Fruit : Plums, Is 4d to 2s 9d a case ; peaches, good, 3s to" 3s 6d, inferior 2s; apples, Is 2d qr ; g:od quality 3s 9d bushel ; Gravensteins, 6s case. Furniture and sundries fetched satisfactory prices. Piano £4O.