LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 542, 22 June 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

A meeting of ihe Tuakau Patrioti. League and Soldiers' Memoiial Committee is advertised to be hclci on Friday evening.

Mrs. Jas Wylie, of Buckland, announces her intention of starting he) dancing class again this season, on •July 1. See advt.

A local, resident considers that the verses, "Paerata," are the best ever published in the "Times,'.' and has sent six copies o'f that issue to rein tives and friends in Canada.

The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Co., Ltd., Hamilton, will hold a sale of pedigree Jersey "attle at the Hamilton saleyards on Wednesday, June 30, at noon. Fuller information will be found in the "Times'.' advertising columns. The death occurred at Cambridge on June 18 of Mr. Robert Johnston, husband of Mrs Elizabeth JohnstQn, at the ripe age of SO years. Deceased formerly resided at Buckland. The funeral took place yesterday at Tu kekohe.

Aii advertisement in reference to the provision of farm labour, by sup plying ex-Imperial Service men to tanners requiring laboiu. i> inscrtcti to-day by the secretary <>f the Farm ers' Onion, Auckland. Further reference to this important matter will appear later in the editorial culumns of the "Times.''

Owing to the apathetic attitude taken up by the public Inwards the proposal t<> erect a monument in Ngaroawahia dedicated to the. sol diers of tlie district who lost, their lives in tin; war, the memorial com mitleo (says the Xiraniawaliia Advocate) lias deliniti'h dec ideel lo ajrtidon the project. The money e< I'.ecled will, therefore, iv lcLrnied to the donors, less a small amounl which has been inclined in expenses.

Tenders arc invited for the purchase ol Iniltcrmilk at the I'ui-.ekohc factory for the coming season. At one time it was on the cards that no buttermilk would be available .:l the l'ukekoln factory next season, owing to certain new developments in prospect. We are now authoritatively informed that these new developments will be effected at Fraflkton factory instead of at l'ukekono, and that buttermilk available from ihe local facto^Jijwpbal. In ronnexTOh with the application made by Charles Fukekohe, for the ejectment ot a tenant, Mrs. McLennan, and possession of a tenement, heard at the Magistrate's Court on Thursday before Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., when Mis Worship reserved his judgment, the Magistterial judgment has now come to band. Plaintiff was non-suited, but was given judgment for the amount of rent due, which was paid into Court. Mr. P. Basley appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. 11. G. K. Mason for defendant,

"With the Mounted Rifles on the I Desert" is the title of a lecture to be delivered in the Patumahoe Public Hall next Monday by Major Mj< Aldred, of Waiuku. At Mauku and elsewhere this lecture has heen extremely popular, many people having been unable to crowd into the hnils. After the lecture the air.is nf the Returned Soldiers' Association will be explained, partly with the object of showing why returned men should join up with the VVaiuku organisation instead of with Auckland. All returned men are especially rsqnested to be present, they beinu' admitted free, while other.- \\ill pay the small j charge of one shilling.

A highly-skilled piece of workmanship has recently been accomplished by a well-known Waikato resident, Mr. T. T. White, of Taupiri, who has made, from start to finish, a violin of excellent quality. The instrument is wholly composed of New Zealand woods, the back being of mottled totara, the face of kahikatea, and the neck of kauri. Experts have examined and played the violin, and pronounce it to be of beautifully mellow tone of pronounced purity, combined with great volume and power. The maker, who is a builder and cabinetmaker by trade, is passionately foul of music, he and his family constituting a very popular orchesua in the district. His skill in repairing violins has long been well and favourably known, -instruments being brought to him for repair from many miles distant. His latest achievement is one that he may lastly, feel proud of. A district correspondent informs us that people sometimes complain to him because certain events have not !>e,en chronicled in the "Times." He states (and wo can well believe it from our experience in Pnkekohe), that these people seldom have the thought fulness or the courtesy to i.ivite him to the gatherings, the proceedings of which they wish to lie leported, nor do they even take the trouble oT informing him that such are to take place, and yet they come to him several days afterwards and grumble because a full account has iiot appeared in the District News columns of the "Times." This paper is willing to publish all matters of interest to any part of the district, and especially such things as are likely to help the district places to make progress, but there must be reciprocity. If the people interested do not take the trouble to kee;) the 'Times'' correspondent posted as to what is going on we cannot help them my more than one man can help another who is not willing tc try and help himself. One reason for the hesitation of

builders and others in erecting houses for ietting purpose; has been the impression that the Rent Restric-

tion Law limits all rentals to per centum of the capital value. It has in fact beer, stated that by this result the law has tended to defeat its own object. On reference to the War Legislation Acts we find that? the eight per <jentum provision does l'ot apply l'i now nouses. The effect of the law is as foilows: -(1) Whe e the rent charged fur a dwelling let before August 3, 1914, v. as less than

eight per ten turn of its capital va.'ue it may be increased by the landlord, hut not to an amount exceeding eight per centum. If the rent already exceeded eight per centum this rert may be maintained, hue cannot be increased: that is the "standard" rent. But (2), in the case of a dwelling let for the first tiu'.e on or subsequently lo August 3, 1914, the eight per centum of the capita! value does not apply and the only restriction is that the rent at which i.t was first let. whatever its proportion to the capital value, may not be increased.