LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 545, 2 July 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

In this issue the Whangamariuo Road Boaru invite tenders for various road works in the board's c.istrict.

For the quarter ending June 30, i 920, tnere were 35 births registered at the Pukekohe Post Office, 11 marriages, and 11 deaths. A bridge in Hamilton Road, between Pukekohe and Buckland, is closed for a few days while a new temporary structure is being put in, pending the erection of the proposed new bridge.

Early yesterday morning a colli sioti between a general goods train and a special meat train from Horotiu occurred at Onincwai. Twelve empty trucks were partly smashed, both 'engines damaged, and one .neat truck was derailed. There was no injury to human beings.

Yesterday morning the residents of Pukekohe gazed frigidly on one >f the heaviest fiosts experienced foi years past, a thick white carpet covering the ground, but ending, as though by some magic intiutnee, at the foot of Pukekohe Hill. As far as we know the early potatoes have not suffered. The weather lately has been extraordinarily crtld. There are golfing memories pos-. sessed by .a well-known Te Kuiti. player who conies to 'le Awamutu often to play. This man has had the honour of doing the ninth hole on the Te Awamutu links in one stroke: he does not know how he did it: and incidentally he does not wish to do it again! It was too expensive

supplying the necessary refreshment to bring those round who had fainted!

In an advertisement in this issue Messrs. Hart and Brown, carriers and contractors, intimate that they are prepared to undertake all classes of tarrying work, including the removal of furniture, which will always be undertaken by experienced hands. They are also firewood and coal merchants, while fencing materials and house blocks can be supplied in almost any quantity. They are igents for the North Auckland Co-operative Lime Co., Ltd.—See advt. At Invercargill the other day a man was charged with following his usual occupation as a carrier on Sunday, June 5. A constable gave evidence that he had seen the defendant carting furniture on the Sunday in ouestion. The defendant pleaded ignorance of the law, and produced a copy of the carriers' award, in which it was set forth that for Sunday work double pay should be received. The Magistrate stated that he could do what other work he liked en Sunday, but must not i'ullow his own trade. A lino of 5s was imposed. Beware l'ukokoheites who work >n Sundav.

The eo.il shortage gives rise occa-

sionally t" strange incidents. One day recently (says the Dominion) a small party of women, carrying empty kit*, stood beside a railway line not far fioiit Wellington. They appeared to oe waiting for something. Presently a. train lumbered along, and just before it reached the group a small avalanche of coal slipped over the side of the engine'V&mder and scattered, like black mrdjpi from Heaven, on the railway tra<*k. The women, not vividly impressed by the unexpected, proceeded to Ii 11 their bags. They did not .--eem to be getting very much coal apiece, but they presumably were glad to get any luel at all. Just how they had come to

anticipate fortune ; <> neatly remained unexplained.