LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 480, 10 June 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Correspondents Fur the Tim ks are required at Prury and Waiau I'a, respectively. Remuneration i.i at the usual rate?. A farowell to Mr and Mr,« I'avy, will be given in tho Bucklaori Public Hall <>n Friday, dune I ith. ]i dors nit follow twit if a man spend* i'-".' l on !ns Imd tin' value should inrna'-'t.' I y I'M).—Mr K. Morgan, district valuer at tho Assessment f.-otirt on Tlmrhdav,

A considerable amount .if local reading matter, including correspondence, is published in to-day's supplement to tbc Times Saturday last was the second anniversary of the battle of Messines, in wh:ch so many New Zealanders madeth-3 supreme sacrifice. " I havo a process whereby I determine the value of a farm, by nxing the unimproved value first," said Mr E. Morgan at the Assessment Court last week.

The Rev Nixon, at Sunday night's servico, statod that Pukekohe would have the honour of the first visit, outside of Auckland, of the Moderator of tho Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, and he invited all Church people, irrespective of sect, to be in attendance.

The opportunity of a lifetime to ; ; ee all the greatest artists of the English stage appearing in the picture " Masks and Faces " to be shown at the Premier Hall tomorrow (Wednesday) evening. The picture was produced and used in England for patriotic purposes. Tbe date arranged for screening the British Government official film of the groat " German Naval Surrender " ie fixed for Tuesday, June 24 th. Mr Kenneth Carlisle, elocutionist, accompanies the picture, also Madame Marie Power, contralto, will sing several operatic items. Full particulars will be given later. The record of rainfall as registered at " Belle Vue," Victoria Avenue, W'aiuku, during May 1919, is as follows : Rain fell on 16 days, the fall varying from .01 to 1.05 inches : the total fall being 3.53 inches. During the corresponding month of four previous years the fall was as follows : 1915, 425 inches ; 1916, 3.73 inches; 1917, 8.70 inches ; 1918, 3 53 inches.

During the hearing of the Assessment Court on Thursday Mr. E. Morgan, when giving evidence said his opinion was an unbiased one, whereas the owners of the land were biased. Mr H. E. R L. Wily said he did not know so much about that, as he thought it Mr Morgan's duty to get as much tax as ho could for the Government Mr Morgan, apparently admitted the soft impeachment, as he did not deny it. With a view to making slignt improvements to the pavilion at the Pukekohe Bowling Club's green, a small committee consisting of Messrs W. Blake, A. Gill, C. Lusher, Duncan Eoulston, C. Monty Wright, Walter Wright, H. Bockett, R. Fitness and Frank Perkins, has been set up to arrange fortnightly progressive euchre tournaments. Any proceeds from the functions will be devoted to the Pavilion fund.

The building committee of the Mauku " Victory " hall has accented a tender for the building of the hall, which will be commenced at an early date, and is to be completed by the •'SO th of September. The building will be 00 x 32ft, with a height of 1 Tit from floor to ceiling, and will be lined and ceiled with oiled rimu. The ladies of Mauku are already busily employed in preparing for a bazaar in aid of the building fund, which is to form the opening ceremony.

Although influenza has not made its appearance in the district to any marked degree, a great number of people are suffering from severe colds and bronchitis, and persons buffering from these complaints are warned not to neglect them, but to procure a supply of axquick cough balm from Fear's pharmacy, chemists, Pukekohe, and so avoid risks oi complications, and help a speedy cure. —Advt. 511

" Silence," said the court orderly at Dnnedin to a female defendant of a particulary garrulous nature. "Silence," she retorted with a withering look at tha orderly. " Who are you, anyway. You are fit fur a mental hospital.'* The defendant al«o objected strongly to being sent to the Salvation Home, but stated'' Ifive'me the good old Government."

A cutting is taken from a Sydney newspaper, which goes to show how reports gain magnitude as they travel until, in the end, the latest story bears but th'' remotest resemblance to its paient. The paper refered to, evidently as an encouagement to Sydneyites to " keep up their pecker" during the influenza epidemic visitation on that city, says : ' But as things are bad here they have not yet reached the stage of fright attained in New Zealand. The shops were closed and abandoned, and not re-opened until the virulence of the plague had exhausted itself. The principal vehicles seen in the streets were horse-propelled hearses driven by men who called out as they passed :' Bring out your dead ! Bring out yourdead