LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 538, 8 June 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Buckland is about to secure the fulfilment of part of its demands in regard to school accommodation. Tenders are called in the " Times" today for the erection of additions to the school.

The Waikato Shipping Company's new steamer, the Manuwai, reached the Waikato Heads fro i Wanganui on Friday, and will be brought to Mercer, where the engints, etc., will be installed.

As a result of Saturday's heavy rain, the Waikato River at Merce." rose rapidly, and on Sunday was running bank high. In several places the water was almost level with the main road, but no damage has been reported.

At the Waikato Winter Show Mr. S. Ballard was awarded first prize for early kidney table potatoes, and Mr. J. Ballard secured first prize for table potatoes, nine varieties. Mr. R. Fitness annexed first prize for onions (three varieties), and second prize ior brown Spanish onions.

A correspondent has forwarded the cover of a weekly American magazine that is of interest. The design shows a school-teacher with a cane lightlj grasped in one hand, whiie with the other she is pointing to a map of the world. Her finger is clearly pointing to New Zealand, but that wee spot is evidently quite outside the realm of the pupil's knowledge and he is taking the precaution to slip a schoolbook down the back of his trousers, in anticipation of trouble to come.

Several football teams speak in glowing- terms of the treatment received at che Patumahoe and Tuakau Hotels. The Pukekohe juniors received excellent treatment oy the licensee of the Patumahoe Hotel on May 29, while on Saturday last Mr. W. J. Taylor, mine host of the Tuakau Hotel, treated the Bombay seniors in a similar manner. The day was cold i'f.d wet, and he threw his hotel open n the visitors. They pirtook of a hot bath, and were afterwrrds entertained at dinn?-. !h? tea iis appreciate this tretlm"!l to vhe fullest extent, and are ,i it ' I.tly to forget it.

It is reported that the Arapawa, purchased by the Waikato Shipping Co., Ltd., left Wanganui the other day with the Manuwai in tow. The Manuwai is a river beat secured by the company for employment on the Waikato River, being specially coii--1 nuted for passengei traffic, and provides in ommodation for 400. She ; ms been dismantled ready for bringingl Nmth for some some weeks oiist. but has Oeen awaiting a favourable turn in the weather. It is expected that she will reach the Waikato Heads to-morrow, and will he taken to M"iror, where the engines, etc., will be refitted. It will be three or four months before the Manuwai will be placed in commission.

A correspondent writes—Dear Mr. Editor: Do you think it either kind or tactful at this advanced stage of progressiveness to twit us with what should he allowed to lie buried in oblivion? Last wee'< in describing a local wedd : ng you write that "tbc young couple are widely known in • Mukekohe.'" In the early days when a man who was compelled to drive a vehicle on the Pukekohe roads during the winter first made his will, tsaid his prayers, and took a solemn farewell of his family, or in later Town Board times, when tne Mauku Ro&d used to be taken by strangers to be a section ol the Mamikau-VVaikato Canal, the nan.o '■ Mukekohe," or as I should prefer to spell it " Muckykohe," was applicable enough, but I really think that nowadays it would be kinder to drop it. I