LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 503, 6 February 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

It is understood that extensive alterations are in prospect for Tuakau railway station, and that the station will be converted into an island one.

Those interested in the foundation of an athletic club at Tuakau are requested to attend a public meeting in the Tuakau Hall on Monday, February 9.—See advt. A well- attended meeting- of Morrinsville ratepayers unanimously endorsed the Town Board's proposal to raise a loan of £45,000 for supplying the town with water.

In view of the hot weather, avid the danger of 'flu, the Lyceum management have arranged to have the hall thoroughly disinfected before every performance. This precaution will meet with the cordial approval of the public.

'"Knowing the Te Awamutu people as I do," said a councillor at a meeting of the Te Awamutu Borough Council, "I am surprised that 35 of them voted against the housing loan. I never before knew we had so many citizens who did not want something for nothing." The meeting of the Pukekohe Chamber of Commerce, convened for Tuesday night, lapsed for want of a quorum, only four members, Messrs. R. F. Webster, H. Dell, C. Roadley and V. S. Roberts, putting in an appearance. This made the fourth time the chamber has failed to obtain a quorum. An endeavour is to be made to hold a meeting next Wednesday night. This is how the Manawatu Daily Times explains matters: In case it ally matters curious readers are requested to note that a reference to "human squabbles" in the write-up of the New South Wales Orchestra in yesterday's paper was a false note "in an otherwise excellent notice." The sentence read originally: "To those who were not privileged to bopresent no words of ours can convey even a faint impression of this great performance; those who were there carried away with them something which no human syllables could adequately express." The linotypist, who has a mechanical mind—and also a lurking idea in the back of his head apparently that all that glitters is not gold—altered "syllables" to "squabbles." So that's how it was. To our heated exposulation he made the cryptic—but evasive—remark "I wonder why it is that (expletive) journalists are' such blanky bad writers." So that's how it is!

M• ssrs. McGough and Grant have tak ii over the Pukekohe agency oi' the Royal Insurance Co., Ltd.. resigned by Messrs. Samuel Vaile and Sor<.

1' e Lyceum management have cur 1 another big attraction, ir. "Qu.-en of the Sea," featuring die woi; ler woman of the water, Annette Keil.'rman. The date for this screening is fixed for Thursday. February 1». Tie New Zealand Loan Company inti.iate that, in addition to tie stole enumerated in their advertisement on Page 4 of this issue, another 100 head of Shorthorn cattle will be disposed of at their cattle sale at Puk ?kohe on Tuesday.

Z e, the wonderful boy who is j'.ppea ing with the La France Company at ihe Premier Hall on Monday night, will give a private seance at 3.30 p.m. on Monday afternoon, to which a l.amber of the leading citizens haw been invited.

C .untry students, on account of the distances they live from the cen.res of learning, are often r.t a gre. t disadvantage by comparison with city dwellers. In order to obviate this disadvantage, the system of tuition by correspondence was introdut -d many years ago, and has everywhe -e proved decidedly beneficial In this respect, one of Auckland's wellknc.vn and highly reputable educational institutions, the Remington and Romeo Commercial College, males an announcement in to-day's l"Ti' <es" in reference to the teaching, by correspondence, of Pitman's shorthim J (the finest of all systems of shorthand), and also practical double entiy book-keeping.