LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 520, 6 April 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

The ;uinu:il meeting of the Mauku !■■ •iincli of the New Zealand Farmers' i iiidii v\ - ill 1)0 held on Thursdav in Til- I'atnmahoo Hall. ('lasses in book-keeping. short hmd ,id typewriting ale advertised to r nnmonce at t'no Pukekohe Technical " liool litis week. Mrs. Ma tin v. ill : t as instructress. The swollen inland which neeessit- ; oil Ihe recent operation on the hi.;lit lion. W. I''. Alassey became i: ther prominent while the Prime Minister was attending the Pence (' .nl'erence at Paris, but he was so ! sy there that the operation, which !i d even then become necessa.y. was di laved till his return to New Zealand, says the Dannevirke News. Students of rt range happenings in \ iture will find much to interest th 'in at Lake Coleridge (states a CI ristchurch paper). Although the w: tor undertake is finely meshed, it is a common occurrence for eel? to iii d their way into the pipe line and tinally into the water turbine, where lli-y a;e chopped up into convenient lei uths and ejected into the outfall tanks. Small fish the size of white]i i t are on occasions found in great quantities in those outfall tanks, ha 'ing made the journey from the lal.e per tunnel, pipe line, and Pel tor. wheel without mishap. Two professii ,ial men from Christchurch, who were recently on n visit of inspection to the lake, discovered a largesized trout in the surge "iiambe! which connects up the tunnel with the pipe line. He must have got ill when small and grown up there.