LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 497, 16 January 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A collection of the annual cash subscription to the Times if published elsewhere in this issue. % ■ .&■ r:f, A tixs(d#nd dancrwill be held in <■ .the Odafwlows' "22nd fewrelsof the Order will, be presented to Bros F. R. and A. E. Young; also emblems Bro. T Thompson. A rousing and virile western cow?* boy drama entitled " Uutaraed " produced by the Triangle Company and featuring the famous cowboy, Hoy Stewart, is the feature for tomorrow (Saturday) night's screening at ths Premier Hall, Daring tho past faw daya there has been a welcome-renewal of rainfall. With tho Ifffjtof rni still in the groimd, A- ut rains will ensure an of winter feed, and tenu ' • t .■ • aiity i'i *hioh the farmers will u. .ctlj, e,n! indirpctly benefit from. Those interested are rer]t;p'-tfiu to . -tot® that the annual smoke concmt ■'atftf' presentation of caps t) the Pukebohe Football Club's Junior 1.5, pinners of Franjcl'u Rugby Union's ■:J[unior Championship will be held ilfctbe Oddfellows' Hall, on Wednesjffy, January 28rb. Sei ment Fond as flappers and little boys sweats, the latter, at anyrate itfeuia a:ill- greater liking for pici£S. Two little bare-leggnd chaps Swimt ijoto a local confectioner's shop a few days ago to buy chocolate bars. "You had better keep the miney for the pictures," gravely advised oue lad. " For iui?e,'' answered tha other, " I can wfuymree bars ot thocolate and still lave enough money left for the pictures." The boys were evidently studying thoir co3t of. luxuries problem as intensely as their elders puzzle their trams about the cost of necessities. Speaking to a Napier Telegraph reporter, a land agent expressed the often-expressed wish that he had a d< zen houses to let. Hie other day, for the fir'st time iu nine months, he put out his ' to let " board worded something like this "To lot: oneroomed whare. Apply withio." '* Pdon't know how long that board ,was up" continued the agent, " but «dma£t before I was settled down again no less than 40 people had made a hasty applict'ion for that wharp, and some of them had families ranging from one to five children. A fatality occurred on the railway line near Drury, the victim being Roland Morris, a married man, residing at Newmarket. It appears that he was coming down the line on a jigger and steppeji off to get some materials from a hut While in the hut a train cam* along down the incline, and as a strong wind was blowing at the time the man did not hear the train until it was close up He dashed out and attempted to rescue the jigger, but too late. The engine s'ruck the jigger, smashing iWo pieces, and throwing the man off to a heap of atones. He was Kter found unconscious. Dr Campbdll Smith; of Pukekohe, rendered medical aid, but the man idied before he reached the Auckland