LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 541, 18 June 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

The rates to be struck in the Tuakau Town District for the current year are officially advertised.

Prize moneys in connexion with the Franklin Winter Show will be paid on and after Monday, June 21.

At the Waikato Winter Show Messrs. Shipperd Bros., Puni, secured first prize in the open class for swedes

An announcement in re/erence to examination of plumbers, under the Plumbers' Registration Act, 1912, is advertised.

"I don't know what I want to say, but I'm going to say it," was a remark passed by Mr. W r alter Seavill, a director of the Farmers' Co-opera-tive Auctioneering Co., Ltd., at a meeting at Te Aroha on Saturday afternoon. It need not be wondered at the "Irishism" causing roars of laughter. The Taotaoroa schoolrooiw (M.-ita-mata County) was recently used as a polling booth in connexion with a power board election, but not one ratepayer voted, the reason being that the election was not advertised in a district paper, and therefore no one knew it was to take place. Moral: " It pays to advertise."

The death occurred at the Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, on Tuesday last of Mrs. Marie Mclntyre, wife of Mr. Malcolm Mclntyre, farmer, Aka Aka, at the early age of 41 years. Deceased was well known in Pukekohe, having resided here for some time. The funeral took place at Hamilton yesterday. The Rev. M. K. Gilmour, who went to New Guinea (Papua) from this district 20 years ago, is visiting New Zealand as Methodist Missionary Deputation, and will speak in the Pukekohe Methodist Church on Monday evening. As Mr. Gilmour comes direct from Papua, he will no doubt have an interesting story to tell.

The Rev. W. H. Holloway, who has been appointed by the Gener il Assembly to visit the various parishes ir the interests of Home Mission work, will preach in Pukekohe charge on Sunday next. He will conduct service in Bombay in the afternoon, Mid in St. James' Church in the evening.

It .vas mentioned at the tanners' Co-operative Auctioneering Com pany's meeting at Te Aroha on Sat urd.iy last that through the firm's publicity campaign the sum of t!?0(Ki had come across from Australia for , investment in shares. Other sums, i; is understood, have been promised from other countries on account of the publicity department's olVorts. "It pays to advertise" is the maxim most applicable. The Rev. J. L. A. Kayll, Anglican minister, Auckland, will give an adcress at a parish social to be held in the Oddfellows' Hall, Pukekohe, on Wednesday, June 30, at 7.30 p.m. The Rev. Kayll is an interesting speaker and possesses accomplishments outside strictly ecclesiastical spheres. For instance, he has a profound knowledge of the science of criminology, and possesses personal letters from Professor Lombroso and other great leaders in the science. Than the reverend gentleman there is no greater authority on criminology in the Dominion; he was at one time associated with this branch in the Gov- | eminent service; also, readers of the New Zealand Herald supplement may have noted, some months ago, an able article »n this subject from his pen. Ruckland is blessed with a new resident of talents, in the person of Miss Hat hie Howie Stuart, the noted soubrette entertainer and comedienne. Of her abilities the New Zealand Sporting and Dramatic Review [ writes: "Miss Bathie Stuart has re-1 turned to Auckland after a tour of the dominion with Charles Smythe's ' Concert Company. Maori songs and I j chants are Miss Stuart's particular forte, and those who have beard her prophesy a rosy future for the young New Ze dander if she carries her talent in the Old Country. Her work is distinctive as well as enique, and she seems to get inside the spirit of Maori songs whether it is a haunting melody or a wild war whoop." Miss Stuart, who is residing with her mother (Mrs. Hedley Loft), is the ; possessor of several carti'icates for - successive yea's' triumphs at elocu- t tionary contests held under the aus- ] pices of the Dunedin Competitions f Society. I (