LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 518, 30 March 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Owing to next Friday being Good Friday, the "Times" will be published on Thursday of this week, and on the following Tuesday as usual. Permanent advertisers will oblige by iefraining from sending in replace matter for the next two, issues.

Dairy farmers are directed to announcements in this issue by several candidates to represent them for the northern ward on the directorate of the New Zealand Go-operative Dairy Company Limited.

Owing to the inclement weather on Saturday the inaugural meeting under the auspices of the Tual.au Athletic Club was postponed. The sportsWvill eventuate on Saturday, April .10. The next skating session will be Ik Id on Thursday night. The doors will be open at 7.30 p.in. The hall will be free from 2.30 p.m. to !j p.m. during the afternoon, when leu: ners and others may come along iVr practice.

A demonstration of fancy and trick skating will be given by the instructor, Mr. Fi'ed Thomas, durir.g Thursday evening's session. Mr. Thomas will show what with jonfi(lence acquired by practice can be done on skates.

The price of paper is hitting country newspapers very hard. Some fi w months ago we chronicled the demise of the "Tuakau Press.'* Now we learn that the "Marlborough Express" has ceased publication. We understand that other snpoll papers a:e in a bad wav.

It is reported that thick shooting is being carried on near Merer, though it is now out of season, and that already the birds are very wild. J'his illegal shooting is iatho> hard on genuine sportsmen, and it is to be hoped that an example will be made of some of the pothunters.

On Friday afternoon, at the Premier Hall, Messrs. Civil and Roberts, auctioneer's, submitted a number of residences and sections, situated in Pukekohe, at auction. There was. a fair attendance of the public, bet very few intending buyers. Bidding was anything but spirited, and nothing was disposed of under the hammer - .

One day last week, when a local auctioneer was soliciting bids for a rather up-to-date residence and section of land, he became slightly lost. The concern was started at £2OOO, ami by tIOO bids the selling jvice was raised to K3OOO. The auctioneer remarked, "I'm bid two thousand ten hundred for this line residence." He hesitated, and with a smile, said, "Oh, that's C3OOO, isn't it." Had he continued without admitting his unusual terms no one would have noticed. The audience laughed heartily,