LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 478, 30 May 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Next Tuesday, June 3rd, will be King's Birthday, and a Statutory holiday. The Times therefore, will not be published on that date.

Trains for Ellerslie races are advertised in this i33ue.

The Pukekohe Savings Bank now opens at 10 a.m. instead of 9 a.m. A case of typhoid is reported at Waipipi, the Health Inspector paid a visit to the locality yesterday. The Right Rev. Gray Dixon, M.A. Moderator of the Presbyterian Church will preach in St. James' Church on Sunday, June 15th. A reminder is given of the choral service at St, James' Church on Sunday, for which the choir have been praticing assiduously for seme time.

William Duncan, the popular screen artist, plays the leading role in the big Western drama, "The Tonderfoot,'' to be screened at the Premier Hall to-morrow 'Saturday) evening.

June :Ird, King's birthday, will be observed as a close holiday at Pukekohe post office. The telephohe exchange will be opened between 9 and 10 a.m. and 7 and 8 p.m. Mails usually despatched on Tuesday will be closed at s p.m on Monday, 2nd. On the 21st inst., the .New Zealand Dairy Association Ltd. distributed amongst its suppliers the sum of £50,060 18s fid. This covered 720,816 ,' lbs of butterfat during tho month of April l'« 19. Farmers and stock-buyers are directed to an alteration in the date of Mr J. Johnston's sale (Buckland and Sons), at East Tamaki, the date being changed from Saturday, May 31st, to Tuesday, June 10th.

Very great interest was exhibited at a sale of pedigree stock, held by Messrs Buckland and Sons at Westfield this week, when a number of cows, sired by " Kismet " (bull owned by Mr H. Dell, Waiau Pa, Pukekohe), fetched OOgns, and some calves by the same sire, out of Ajex Queen, brought 30gns, one going to a Tuakau buy or Tickets for the " Victory " ball, to be given by the Loyal Pukekohe Lodge, M.U., I 0.0. F., on Tuesday, June 10th, iu the Premier Hall, are selling like the proverbial " hot cakes." The revival of this popular annual function is looked forward to with keen pleasure. An open invitation is extended to all (see advertisement, and a highly enjoyable evening should eventuate Farmers will be interested to learn that Mr Frank M. Winstone, seeds and manures merchant, Auckland, expects a cargo of slag to arrive shortly. Mr F. O'Hara, who is Mr Winstone's agent in Pukekohe, is prepared to take orders immediately Intending purchasers are advised to place their orders at once, otherwise they may be too late. Prices on application to F. O'Hara, P.O. Box 30, Pukekohe Advt.

Oq Saturday next in the match against Tuakau, Pukekoho senior will be represented by W. Adams, Aiken, Sutton, G. Lucas, D. Maloney, O. Wilson, L. Reynolds, J. Blake, E. Luca*, Marshall, L Wilson, W. Reynolds, Bork li, \V. Jonas and J Pratt The above team i* requested to be at the Post Olfice at 1 -0 as the motor bus leaves at 1.■!••"> pm.—'lhe Pukekohe juniors will be represesetited by the following in their match against Tuakau juniors, at Pukekohv, to morro.v : Costello, Jiai Adams, Lysnar, Mart, Blake, Maloney, Fulton FI. Bilkey, nowse, Cronin, Schlaepfer, Perkins, Daisley and Stewart: emergencies Rvan and Watson.