LOCAL AND GENERAL

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 455, 12 August 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

4*. Advertising and printing customers of the Times are reminded that Wednesday, August 20th, is the last day upon which the usual a per cent discount will be allowed on accounts contracted during July. Subscribers to the Times gain a considerable concession by paying yearly in advance—no great outlay now that the paper is reduced to one penny p«r copy. The Times does not preach one thing and practice another: our own debts are settled promptly, on or before the 10th day of each month In order that we may be able to continue acting on this mutually sa'isfactory policy wo must insist on receiving our dues regularly. Hook dobtn fyprcfaont capital on which interest is paid by us, and also, boyoi.d a certain, reasonable margin of profit, it represents money already paid out by us for goods, labour, otc,, and—w. 11 we cannot afford to do b isin- is on such lines, A public f irewtll so In I and dance will be given in the Bucklaud hall on Friday night, to Mr and Mra Johnstone and family. *n an advertisement in another column, Miss McDonald announces thi't she has opened a small business in King street and solicits public patronage. *» " A man who thinks he is unworthy of a position is the right man to have in that particular p isition." Rev S. Nixon, at 'he •inniial inciting of paii-thiomrs of St James' church. Whilst breaking in a young horse on Friday last, Mr Con. Koop.ev, 1 fanner, residing near Faemta, had lhe misfortune to fraeMiro his leg. The horse, it appears, was attached to a sledge, on which Mr liocney was standing, when a sudden inovj'i ent by the horse caused him to lose his balance, and in falling he sus laic.ed a broken hg jti-t above the ankle. He was admitted to the Auckland Hospital on Friday night, and latest information discloses that ho is progressing as well as can be expected W hen cliildron come home from the pictures I'll rough Hie damp of ;i winter's i lift lit, All parents wlm care ami of roldn he w are, 'Take mt-:i- io-c In ke-o llii'lu ric.lil Tin y luck I la-ill warm ami -mi" in lie I, I'W .'l' croii|o c 01.1.. lli-y'v ,|f„| drea.l ; A I filth's ol such In make I hing- su if The\ i;i\e them WoouV IVppenmnl Cure I'V Children's Hacking (\nigh Worn Is' ( I real repperminl Curt-

The Royal Togos, acrobats and jugglers, assisted by a troup of clever entertaineis, will visit Pukekohe shortly. The Premier Hall has heon engaged for a two-nights' season. Full particulars will appear in Friday's issue of the Times, A schoolmaster living less than one hundred miles from Pukekohe was lately airing his superior "education " to the scholars by telling them of the defects in '• newspaper English," which, he pompously asserted, was uncivili>;ing the world. Of course, this learned pedagogue, having played the circumscribed role of Minor Caesar over school children all his life, cou'd not be expected to know that the average newspaper makes no pretence of drinking from " the well of English undented ": the Press, for the most part, follows the chatty, conversational style of ordinary work-a-day folk. He might, however, have refrained from being the first to cast a stone, as ho himself is not without sin. A representative of the Times heard this same pedant declaim, in pubiic, that Nelson died at the battle of the Nile. Also, he referred to Nelson as a captain, yet any child in the third or fourth standard could have informed him that Nelson died at Trafalgar, and held the rank of admiral. We may add, too, that if a stenographer reported one of this schoolmaster's speeches verbatim, and we were to publish it as delivered, the Minor Caesar referred to would find that, compared with the average of British journalism, even in the smaller papers in country districts, his English would prove to be a very tattered and torn literary garment, quite incapable of covering his grammatical nakedness. And as for the ' English " one hears spoken by high school pupils travelling, say, to and from Hamilton (or any other tow a), well, we will be charitable enough to be silent, beyond stating that it does not reflect credit on their teachers.