PUKEKOHE

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 524, 20 April 1920, Page 3

PUKEKOHE

MARKET REPORT. The Franklin Farmers' Auctioneering Company Limited report:—At our usual weekly sale on Friday we had a heavy yarding of pigs and poultry taxing our penning accommodation to the utmost. Weaners sold from 12s to 21s, slips 35s to £2. Poultry: Hens, good 3s od. poor 2s 3d to 3s. Turkey hens 6s 6d to 8s oobblers 8s to Us 6d. Roosters, small 2s 6d to 3s, heavy 3s 6d to 4s 6d. Potatoes Us 6d cwt, swedes 4s cwt, carrots Is doz bundles, parsnips Is doz bundles, marrows 5s cwt. pumpkins-7s cwt. Apples: Northern Spy. bushel case 9s (id, half bushel case 4s 9d; Delicious, half cases ss. Furniture and sundries at usual rates. About 20 pairs boots and shoes sold. On Saturday we held a clearance sale at Mrs. 'Ferguson's (Pukekohe Fast) of furniture and sundries. Everything sold at satisfactory prices.

•is canoe anchors. Oldinary people were content to tie them in a flax kit. but. occasionally one is found with a hole drilled through it, or with a roughly chipped groove round it to hold a rope, the property prob■dilv of some county councillor or 'ther truly great personage of those days. These anchors undoubtedly. were lost In fore the forests grew. Then, from the depths have come. ,„„„!.,- other things two large weod- .,, howls. Cue in the winter's pes .rssion is twenty inches wide and leven inches deep, .as large as a.ud twice as deep as an ordinary wash ' ,„d basin. It is carved Crom a block .■ , i „-;, uiih a spout and a handle ..( .ml of the solid. Circular in |, ~,e, the outside clearly shows thi ~. Ic „r the sl' ii" a\es though th< -, . ;,| . |, as her-n carefully smoothed i;,,| ||„. ~,.,. Ire kalile object dis ..,,,., I is j, ,i,,nl.li'-edged wood." v.,,,.,1 ~| il." rapier pattern, of ; t,!,. (ari'Tul ent|ui«y has shown t ',. unknown among the Maoris. 1' ' .-: , found under the two fnr< stt I'-nued perpendicularly into the ehn bed. It would be interestinn to know more about these peopl" who dit-ap ~,...|-,-,| befo «' the dawn of history ic. if thev. were bote when the Maor came, haw not been given nue-.i space in his tradition perhaps b'> cause he was too well bred to talk about what he had nad for dinnv.- - Further discoveries of their relic* may throw a little more light npoii them, but it is to be feared that w( shall lean) wry much about their manners and customs and what they Looked like or even what Maladies paid for their hats, and whether they allowed! the draper to exploit them.