LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 484, 25 November 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Train services to the Auckland A. and P. Show are advertised.

The annual statutory meetings of the Franklin and Mauukau County Councils will be held to-moirow.

A welcome home social and presentation will he tendered to Pvte. Fra.ik Graham at Puni on Tuesday, Decenib r 9th. Mr J. Rei, Independent Liberal candid;;' i' >r Franklin, will aduios.s e!e tors in the Premier Hall, Pukekohe on Thursday uight, 27th

£OO (-ixty pounds' is no" to he fluffed at Read the B'ranklin Winter Show advertisement in this issue Then grow root crop;, and y u have a change of winning cash an 1 value bordering on sixty pounds

The ,<baiing sale on account of Mr fim Roger*, which was to have been held at Puni, '.n Monday, Decemb r 1.-t, will now take place in the Pukekohe saleyards on Tuesday, Di" ember 9th See advt Page 4."

In a letter signed R F.W. under the heading of ''Lost wo Forgot" appearing in our last issue, a slight error occurred. n.lii the letter stater-: "1 fully expocred that shame at past n« gleet would havo caused the Minist'r to get a move on." The word' Minister " should havo lo.id " Mayor."

Or.'» of the best concert parties in N'nw Zealand, the Commercial Travellers, are the artiste for the grand concert in aid of the Lower W.iikuto R.S A. to bo held in the Prembr Hall on Thursday, December 4th. The Commercials have a good name wherever they have been, and are certainly among the front rankers that Pukekohe is fortunate in having an oppoitunity of enjoying.

At the Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Messrs J T. Stemhii Igo, atii F. Perkins, Js P, Roger James Coyle, who was alrestod on Saturday by ConataMe Wolfeuda'e, at Pukekohe, pleaded guiltv to a charge of being an idle and disoiderly p"rson, without sufficient lawful mans of support lie was convicted ind sentenced to one month's free hoard, at the expense'if the State, toother with hard labour.

The quality of work a man or woman does roa ts on the iharac'er.

Shoddy work milk-S shoddy charac tors. . . . The doctrine of the go slow policy, the I.W.W. man and the Bolshevik, as well as the graspbig ot the profiteer, au> alien to the great purpr.se everyone should be contributing a shire towards the fulfilment of. Sotiiiuient-. u\pressed by the Key S. Nixor at St. Jam ■, s Chimb on ■' unday i'iy;h!.

Through the omission of u p.w't graph in t'to c mdease ! import of tlio (jUusiiuiix ami answers during tin' address \>y Mr I'iggott, Laboucandidate for Frankuu, at I'uak m i u riiursd iv niiihf, ii appeand tin; M l J iggott w.is in favour u c nuti unlising tlic iiquwr trallie. Tins is irit corree , a- Mr L'igg t T , wUI" f-ivoii--ir.g [iari.mii!is:i'i"ii ■>!' Mh.ppir;^ 3 Id ••, lliM VI"W til tl ill l;i|U(>r i|!K>!j ion shi'liM Im< settled CIiIII'hIv dv a referendum of tl-.o pß>>j)li>. Patriotic I'll' uls :.,;vi ig com ■ '•> a stand.-till, tli" retailing uf the J illowing ntury, the i-cme of which is said to he Bomha , should no,: ruffl-i anyone's feelings The Ma -lis, ostensibly 1 i-■.-< 1 with p >nio'i~m, got Up a i >ii i-i i'. h ill' tiiii j'i 'ili's from which worn to I, ■> giv. n to C o 1 cal secte' al'y of til'! |i II in! i eoiilllii ••■<>. Being for a r d <■ iiis •, the how was m II patronised, L'S heing taken at the ii,,or Si.mo days afterwards the local si i r f»ry njipr a<hel the Maori manager foi ha f the funds, expecting alioiit X I 'No, no "replied the Maori Idi ho have to buy te trousers and tc coat to go to concert, and mo play to music I/)t o' sponses, py corry." "And how inut.h do the patriotic committer get:'' asked tho secretary. "I tink 'im git ton bob, "replied the native ' !

A correspondent writes: " If the allusion to our ' government '' 1 a " Prussian (Jabal " contained in y r I Piggott's manifesto wa9 meant for a sly dig at Mr A. M. Myers, I really think he ought to unreservedly withdraw it now that the Litter has explained that ho is a natural-born Britisher, audthat hia uncle'o tombstone bears a most laudatory epitaph I may be thin-skinned, but it always appears to me that attacks by inuendo are more objectionable than direct charges." At the recent Waikati A. and P. Show, held at Hamilton lcoal exhibitors competed successfully. In the harness horse section, Mr W. Townsend, with his horse Mons, obtained two firsts and a championship, while in the pony harneei classes he was awarded two firsts for his pony Spectator, the latter also gaining a first prize in the pony class 11.2 to 12 2, ridden by a boy 13 years and under. In the vegetable section, Mr A Fred. Brown, stationma9ter, was successful with his potatoes In the cattle classes, Messrs C. A. Fawcett, of Clevedon, and W K. Lawton, Waiuku, were awnrded prizes in the Pedigree Friesians and Pedigree Ayrshires, respectively Detailed particulars will appear in our next issue.

Iu "Adam Bede" and other works of lenown. the octopus, " a genus of cephalopod molluscs, with eight suckered arms around the mouth,'' has honourable mention, but iu malign capabilities are far more highly extolled by modern aspirants for seats in 'he " national gas generator " than by the ancient scholars. For example, Buckland once bo istH of a parliamentary de bating society, or something equally weird - though the speeches delivered at the regular kderos we*e, by all account", anything but par hamentary. Anyhow, a speaker at one of the meetings referred to the radical element of the community as having the commercial prototype of the octopus "up a tree." We cannot tind any classical precedent for that flight of oratory, and apparently the speaker alluded to has since improved upon his knowledge of the ways of the denizens of the world of molluscs, and has learned that one way to grapple with an octopus is to thrust the thumbs into its eyes. At a recent political meeting he affirmed that the radicals had now got the octopus under its thumbs. " Ob," interjected a member of the audience, " he must have climbed the tree and hauled the brute down "—Roars of. laughter.