LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 476, 28 October 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wbrday having been a siatutoiy ho ,; day f he Twes : s not up f o the usual standard t--day. However, by "hus 'ing" we have manag d b pub' ; m, many country pap- 1 r r J an '"sc-ue ®'bgot'i6r. )a°' lei De.moad sjn cf M r 0. C:arke, Pukekohe, has be in very cailou'ly i 1! with pneumoo'a, but it's condition h r • improud elight'y. The ti nr ' bn*>n dance of the so?• ou, to which tho nub' ; c ere invi* d, wi" be held in t le Hs'l on Thutrlay, October 30th. Sc; Advt. Little Fr;da Barber, youngest daughter of Mr Hugh Barber, of Pukekohe, wai taken to the Auckland Hospital yesbrday morning, sullering from a nervous omplaint. To tho groat burprise of lccal rosidonh, then wos a f.'ost in Pukekohe on Saturday night, sufficient to nip fomo of "le pjtan r i in the more expo:. J po.-itiors Much more welcome is tae hea\y show.; of rain falling tb 3 ofbrncan 2; we wilt?. Some of tho Waiuku bowlers met with's'igkt mi'jfoiLunes on their way to the torn .lament at Pukekohe yesterday. Mr D. Neil was drhing along the main road when he noticed a car, coming from the oppsite dirrction, which wes hking an erratic couno. He pu"ed well on to the side of the road, but the other car zig zaggei into Irs, nevercheles3, and damaged the front mudguards, though nothing more sarious occurred. It was explained that the steering gear of the car which cair.ed the damage, was defeciive. Another Waiuku car owner had mechanical roubles with bis car and was considerably de'ayed. A particularly contemptible theft, 1 in which a local returned soldier was tho victim, occurred yesterday. Mr Hairy Williams brother of Mrs J. J. Coady, of Pukekohe, had just come oil the Remuera, and being met with a car by his parents from Waiuku. Whilst the party were having lunch, the soldier's kit bag, containing ell his military gear and souvenirs, was stolen, rs was also his father's coat. Tbis 'mpudent theft t >ok place in broad daybght in Queen Sireot, and must have bean witncjsel by many r,2ople, though none would know tuat tho per.on removing the things was not the owner of them It was a grateful kind of a rr option indc:d ' ''That horce has more braios than tome human beings," said one cowboy to another during the m?king of the WiP'cm Fox phobphy, Mr Logan, U.5.A.," which wi". be shown at the Fiomier Ha'l on Monday, November iird, and which Tom M'x : s the st :r. The cowboy was ta"r - jg of Mix's horn Tony, and he witcbhg Mix play w'.th f he •hor. . Tom eta id'ng at Tony's heal, t nd: 'To you lov9 the Germans, Tony?" And Tony rh:ok hin held to i'ld'cita a vigorous no 'We", Tony, whom do you M : x ?nqu : * i, aid the put hi 1 head e 'jv id Tom's m)k and appeared tj gl\-3 h'm a go:d hu^. Perusing a revolt of a speech delivered ri Auckland by BiigadierQenerrl G. S. Eicharckon, in reforeneo to the subject of nr'Puy training, wo note that the successful General Ihs views on the subject to those expressed iu a leading article in tho some weeks ago. He places the Navy first : n importance as far as Dominion defence is concerned, and advocates an aiiplane service. People who hive not had the opportunity of seeing what airplanes can accomplish, and noting lirst-band invaUnble service to both the Fleet end the Army, are prone to overlook 'his now highly impoicant arm of dofence and offence.