LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 459, 26 August 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr H. F. Knight, who has had twenty-five years' experience in the dental profession, has commenced a practice in Fukekohe. Mr P. Hogan, of Paerata road, who has been indisposed for the past fortnight, is now making satisfactory progress towards recovery. Private J. Graham and Trooper N. Lucas will bo welcomed home at a social and dance to be neld in the Puni hall on Wednesday, Sept. 3rd The following additions have been made to the Pukekohe telephone exchange:—2B, M. A. Hardy, Pukekohe hill; 149, F. 11. Keuyou, *ing street.

Attention is drawn to the screening of "Thais" at the Premier Hall to-morrow (Wednesday) evening. "Thais" is the rival picturo to " Quo Vadis." The annual and extraordinary general raeotings of the shareholders of tho New Zealand Dairy Association will bo held in the Premier Hall, Pukekohe, on Friday afternoon, at 1.30. kSoo advertisement. In another column, Mr J. Ball announces that he has acquired a latest model Studebaker car, and i* open to do all kinds of taxi work, day or night. The rates are reasonable. Any particulars can be obtained from Mr Bob Hasting?, tobacconist. A case was brought before Mr F. E. Hunt, S.M., last week, at Papakura by the Stock Inspector (Mr F. H. Brittain) against H. Smales, farmer, of Tamaki, for having failed to destroy rabbits on land owned by him at Karaka. A fine of £5 was inflicted, costs 21s being allowed. His Worship intimated that owners must understand that they would have to keep down the rabbits on their properties. The staff at the local Post Office i present busily engaged purging the Electoral Rolls, in readiness for the forthcoming Parliamentary elections. The main roll contains 6,994 names of electors, and we have been informed that quite a large number have made application for enrolment, while hardly any names have been deleted. When the purging is completed, the roil will, in all probability, contain well over 7 000 name* for the Franklin electorate. The Raglan County Council has issued a statement of its intention to institute a generous scheme of road formation, and, to that end a poll of ratepayers of the Pukekawa- Whangape special rating district of tho County of Raglan will be taken on the 13th of next month, with a view to raisiug £21,000 for road formation A special rate of 1] in the £ upon the rateable property in the special rating district is proposed to be levied by way of security for the payment of interest in I jthor charges upon the loan. Humour—of tho unconscious <<idj; —is displayed by railway officials in these days of restricted «eoomm> datum When tho time amved fjr tho departure of the m ruing Waikato train from Auckland yes '■■ rday, tho carriages woro all full, and tho carriage platforms were also crowded As tho guard wa • about to blow l>i < whistle hecallodout "Seats, pleaso " Tho standing passengers th mght this was "rubbing it in," and that it would havo boon much more tactiul to havo used ini ■•ijually familiar command " All a'» unl " Mis Louise Mack the li'i. m novelist and lecturer, who motNurs* Edith Cavoll while a pnsotor in Brussels, mot with a serious accident in Fiji, while en route for he; touof New Zealand. She wis thrown out of a carriage on a .-.oicy hill road, and injured both kuoos so badiy that she wis obliged to lie up for several months Miss Mack will arrive in NewZ'alsnd, thTallin^ l , at the hogii.ui i," of September, and will make tur ijijuar ance in this town on a date in be duly advertised in nu- columns Coincidental with h.r tour, Mil* Mack intends writing; a book o;> th" Dominion—" Now Z n 'a id ':f f»r tho war."