LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 468, 30 September 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tenders aie called for the erection of a tfrhnical high school at Pake, kohe. A welcome home conceit and dance will be held in the Tuakau Town Hall to-morrow night, particulars of which are advertised. A lively interesr is being taken in the Sports Hall, to he ho'd on Thursday ni(;ht, and tho affair promises to be very numerously patronised. The restrictions affecting railway tratlic havo been removed, and from yesterday the ordinary timetable, existing piior to July'Jnd has boon resumed. I ticonscioiH humour is often mingled with the pomposity of oIIh ial gatherings In a weekly paper th"'"e recently appeared phot > graphs of the opening 1 of the Muni i ipal at Wellington, the front row figures being, according to tho index numbers, tli'i (JovernorQenoral and the Prime Minister in tho front row Hut the photo depicted (hese two digintatie<i t nor in the front row. »«111 m the s*ionil one anil in ironi ill theiu was that ot ivii Harold Wilson, l:i(<> of Papaknra, and now clerk to the Newmarket Borough 'Vuir.' il

/Wo understand that two candidates will contest the scat on the Pukekohe Borough Council, rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr J. Dent. The R"Kntrar of Ek-tors for Frankliu uotilio.-i i'i this issuo tho various plaros in the electorate whore cupioa of the roll may be inspected by the public, and where enrolment forms may also be obtained. • Mr Eadie, of the Auckland R S.A. Land Buroau, and Mr C. Spragg, vice president of tho Lower Waikato R S A, will addrorstho locjl members of the Lower Waikato R.S.A , in the Carnival tearooms on Saturday, October 11th, at 7 p.m. Everyone is invited,

Cabinet has authorised the expen diture of £7500, on important alteration', and improvements to the Otahuhu railway station and yards The increasing traffic, as f<>r as Papakura which it is expected will eventua'ly necessitate the duplication of the line over the whole distance, has rendered improvements at Otahuhu necessary. Two young men were arrested at Otaua on Sunday, by Constables Christiansen and Wolfendale, on several charges of theft. From the meagre details available, it appears that on Saturday night, when an entertainment was on in the Waiuku Hall, a number of traps were left in the grounds of the Hall. The two young men were seen to go to the gigs and take lamps and rugs, eventually biding them They were afterwards seen to go to the " plant," and recover the articles, but in the meantime, Constable Christiansen had managed to get on to their trail. He accosted them, and attempted to arrest them, but he was rather brutally assaulted. Eventually'he managed to get the young miscreants to tho lock up, but when he attempted to put them in, they bolted. On Sunday morning he and Constable Wolfendale went to their homes at Otaua, and arrested both. They were released on bail, and will appear before the Magistrate, Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M. on Friday next, at Waiuku.