LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 507, 20 February 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

The Pukekohe Borough Council's loan proposals are advertised in this issue.

A dance will be held in the Oddfellows' Hall on show night, Friday February 27. Dates and places for the inoculation of calves against blackleg infection are advertised in this issue. The Puni annual bachelors' ball will be held on Monday, March 1, the function hitherto being one of the most attractive of the season. In reference to a case in Pukekohe wherein a purchaser of a house took possession during the absence of the the tenant, we are authoritatively informed that the purchaser was not acting on the advice of his solicitor. The latter, when he arrived on the scene, advised the purchaser to vacate the permises. The five Pukekohe patients in the Auckland Hospital, suffering, according to reports, from enteric fever, are all improving in condition. fheir names are: Messrs. Fred Maunsell, W. McDivitt, W. Watson, G. Hart and R. Maxwell. A sixth sufferer, Mr. T. McCormick, did not survive The picture, "Queen of the Sea,' : which was shown here last evening, did not nearly reach the standard that was to be expected. It has been largely advertised throughout New Zealand as a wonderful production in many respects. It was wonderful, and certainly Annette Kellerman's swimming feats were wonder- 1 ful, also some of the lighting and toning effects were very beautiful, but from an entertainment point of view it was a disappointment. There is a great difference in the price of household coal purchased for cash at the Greencastle Coal Mine, Aria, and the prices ruling in other places. In an advertisement in the "Te Kuiti Chronicle," signed by A. Morgan, mine manager, t is stated that "oiwing to increased cost o£ production, I am compelled to raise the price of coal to £1 2s 6d for steam coal, and £1 5s for screened household coal." The Pukekohe Borough Council pays EI 5s for steam coal, plus 5s freight, which is reasonable enough as prices go. But there is a different position in respect to household. At the Greencastle mine household coal, screened costs £1 5s cash, but in Pukekohe the housewife pays £2 3s or £2 5s booked.

The best known car in the Pukekohe district, and probably in the Waikato, Mr. S. Mills' Daimler, has, we understand, been sold. So reliable and easy riding was "the" Daimler, that it was greatly in demand for the conveyance of patients to the Auckland Hospital, especially during the epidemic period of 1918, when severrl hundreds were carried, to the great relief of sufferers and their relatives and friends. So highly did Mr. Mills prize his Daimler, and so well did he keep it in order that the sale, though at a good figure, will be learned of with surprise by people far and wide, but Mr. Mills has another car on order, and it may safely be predicted that the new car will be an even finer production than th? well-known one just disposed of.