LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 500, 27 January 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

A social, under the auspices of the Pukekohe East Tennis Club, will be held in the PukekoheP East Hall on Thursday, January 29. The loftiest of our race are those who have had the profoundest grief, because they have had the profoundest.—:Henry Giles.

The buyer for the New Zealand Bacon and Meat Packing Company, Mr. A.* E. Newson, Robinson Road, Mangere, informs us that he is paying ninepence per lb for bacon pigs. On February 12 Mr, J. Rack will be in his new premises, Hall Street, opposite the Masonic Hall, where he will carry on his horseshoeing and general smithy business. There will be no pictures to-mor-row (Wednesday). Thursday being a holiday, the Lyceufti management will show the programme on that day instead of Wednesday. Tenders are invited for the purchase and removal of a seven-stall stable, cowshed, etc., at Papakura, also alternate tenders, including the purchase and removal of the concrete - foundation.—See advt. A farewell social and dance will be held in the Premier Hall on Friday evening to Mr. and Mrs. J. Costello, who are leaving the district. A large attendance is requested.—See advt.

At a meeting of a local body, not a hundred miles from Pukekohe, one r.iember stated that the cause of the sugar shortage in New Zealand was that the price in Australia was ET l()s a ton more than it was in New Zealand.

Rain fell in torrents in this district on Friday and all day Saturday, supplying, for the first time for many months past, a sufficiency of moisture to the parched earth. A number of cereal and hay crops must have suffered, but the balance will be a heavy credit one. Owners of dogs are notified that the fees for registration are now due, and receivable by Mr. G. N. Simms, at his private residence in Albert Street. Two shillings and sixpence is payable on all dogs used solely for destroying rabbits, or for herding cattle or sheep, and 10s on all others. It is announced that the Mauku Stores will in future be conducted conjointly by Messrs. W. J. Garvie and B. C. Ward, who have both seen considerable service during the late war. The new firm deserve the support of the Mauku district for their enterprise in inaugurating a motor service for delivery, general cartage, and passenger work, which should fill a long-felt want in the district. The handy little epitome of the record of the Dominion soldiers at the Dardanelles and in Flanders, written bj Ex-Second-Lieutenant 0. E. Burton, M.M., M.d'M., is now on sale at "The Bookery," King Street, Pukekohe, at the modest price of two shillings. It is the best two shillings' worth of war literature obtainable. You pay for good reading matter, and not for expensive binding.

A final reminder is given those interested in the national game of Rugby of the smoke concert and presentation of caps to the Pukekohe junior 15, winners of the Franklin Bugby Union's junior championship, in the Oddfellow's Hall, to-morrow night. Roll up, and give the boys some encouragement for next sea»on.