LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 454, 4 March 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We beg to apologise to our readers for any inconvenience arising from the late delivery of our issue of Friday last, the same having been caused by a temporary breakdown of our machinery. For the same reason some #f the awards in the industnal section at the Pukekohe are unavoidably held over until our next issue. The usual monthly meeting of the Franklin County Council takes place next Thursday.

Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., are to hold their usual monthly stock sale at Tuakau next Friday. Ihe attention of students concerned is called to an advertisement in this issue relative to attendance being compulsory at the Pukekohe continuation classes.

corned is called to an advertisement in this lßSue relative to attendance being compulsory at the Pukekohe continuation classes. The recent prolonged spell of hot weather has been responsible for a drying-up of pastures, and a couple of days' steady rain would now be appreciated by farmers. The supplementary electoral rolls to be used at the forthcoming licensing poll will close on Thursday next, so claims for enrolment must be lodged before that date. Copies of the main rolls are open for inspection at post offices. A final reminder is given of the social and dance to be held, in honour of returned soldiers, in the Premier Hall, Pukekohe, on Thursday next. Arrangements are well in hand, and present indications point to the function being the most successful of its kind yet held here. A pleasing little ceremony took place at Messrs Cooper and Curd's factory, Pukekohe, last Friday afternoon, when Mr G. W. Mayes, who is severing his connection with the firm after being with them for nearly five years, was presented by his fellowemployees (in conjunction with the firm) with a brief-bag and pipe, as a slight recognition of their esteem. Despite the large crowds that flicked to Pukekohe on Saturday, the police report consistently good behaviour on the part of the public. Sergt. Cowan had a good force of constables present under his command, but not in a single instance bad action to be taken for any form of offence. A form of dip in a " lucky bag, the contents of which were tickets bearing names of articles displayed on a table, led to the arrest of an itinerant showman at the Pukekohe Show on Friday afternoon, on a charge that he was conducting a lottery. According the police evidence, given at a J P., Court later in the day, the showman was on a good wicket, as Is was charged for each dip, and the average value of the "prizes" was only about ;Sd each. A fine of £1 was imposed. Motor and cycle users aDd enthusiasts will be pleased to learn that the well-established firm of Messrs Gallagher, Howe, and Moore of King Street, Pukekohe, by having added to their staff a fully-qualified cycle and motor cycle mechanic are now more than ever capable of undertaking all this class of work at a minimum of cost and time. The firm itself is re-organising its policy and altering the premises in order to cope with its over-growing trade, and all classes of motor and general engineering submitted to thorn will be promptly and efficiently carried out Past patrons are thanked for their support which has been so unstinted that it has been responsible for the steady growth of the firm's business Future patrons are reminded that the adoption of tho maxim " satisfaction guaranteed or no payment' applies to everything the firm handles be it new or second-hand ' cars, motor anl push cycles, machinery or repairs. This in itself should suffice to encourage anvone to give thorn a trial

The usual midweek change of programme will be shown at the Premier Hall, Pukekohe, to-morrow (Wednesday) evening when Antonio Morreno will play the leading role in a big eastern story " The Naulahka " or " The Jewel of Desire." In connection with the campaign of the New Zealand Political Labour Party to enlighten the people upon the aims and objects of their organisation the Franklin electorate is to receive a visit next Friday from Mr W. J. Savage, who will deliver an open-air address at 8 p.m. at the Post Office Corner, Pukekohe. Mr Savage, who is Secretary of the Auckland Labour Representation Committee and who was prominent in the work of combating the recent epidemic in Auckland, is said to be an effective speaker and will doubtless interest all those who take any interest in politics. In the report, in our last issup, of the meeting held at Clevedon on Feb. 22nd, in connection with the proposed amalgamation of dairying companies' interests, it was made to appear that Mr Dynes Fulton, one of the Directors of the Waikato Co-op. Dairy Co, Ltd,, in the course of his remarks. advocated that if amalgamation was brought about a practical Managing Director should be appointed out of the elected Directors as General Manager. We are requested by Mr Fulton to correct this inaccuracy, and to say that his statement was that he advised that a Chairman of Directors should be elected out of the Board, and that a General Manager should be appointed who was not a Director. Included in a draft of returning soldiers due to arrive in Wellingon, by the Hororata on the 15th inst., are the following:—Second-Lieut. A E. L. Allan (Waiuku), 2nd-Lieut. 0 E Burton, M.M. (Papatoetoe), Cpl. G. A. Atkins (Clevedon), E. J. Bogue (Waiuku), W. Coldicutt (Drury), T. C. Codlin (Waiuku), C. T. Fearon (Pukekohe),' A. E. Hayes (Waiuku), W. G. Hclt (Mercer), A. W. Madden (Otahuhu), A. S. Moore (Pukekohe), L.-Cpl. G. E. Munro (Clevedon), C.Q.M.-Sergt. J.J. Pike'(Otahuhu). Sergt. E. J. Pratt (Paerata), A. E Prew (Otahuhu), L.-Cpl. J. G. Quarrie (Otahuhu), L-Cpl. H. J. Short (Pukekohe), J. A. Smart (Pukekohe), L. B. Wilson (Pukekohe), and W. J. Wilson (Pukekohe.) The attendance at the Pukekohe Bhow, last Saturday, is authoritatively estimated at between 9,000 and 10,000, which surpasses that of any previous year. The railway statistics show that close upon 2,000 passengers arrived by the special trains, of which total some 1,200 came from Auckland or intervening stations, and hOO (including 300 from Tuakau) from the opposite direction. The gate receipts amounted to £209, or £9 less than last year, but this variance arrives from the fact that as the result of an energetic canvass carried out, 260 new members have been elected since last year, two tickets of admission being issued to each of them, in accordance with membership rights.