LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 547, 9 July 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

The "Times" wishes remind its customers that advertisements classified as (see announcement top of next to leading article) afe digged Is extra if booked. Except in the case of M'ithrwhom Ve have acCdUfits, cash Ibe sent with order. We tanriQ.t fecept, per 'phone or ad\%tisements from perwith whom we have no account in our ledger, unless payment is made in advance. Dates of annual meetings of New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company Limited suppliers are advertised. The Pukekohe Returned Soldiers' Association intends holding a ball on August 24 An ollicial announcement will appear later.

A dance, under the auspices of the Pukekohe Lawn Tennis Club, will be held in the Oddfellows' Hall on Thursday next. See advt.

Ollicial notice is given in this issue that all cattle or stock running on the Puni Estate (late Coghlan's) are to be removed forthwith.

Unanimous support was given by the Franklin County Council to a proposal by the Hamilton Borough Council that the duty should be taken off cement.

A meeting of farmers interested in the proposal to form a produce growers' association will be held in the Oddfellows' Hall on Wedncsdav, July 21. at 8 p.m.—See advt.

It is reported that the principal banks operating in New Zealand arcto announce an increase of interest on overdrafts, from 6 to G'j per cent., this increase to take place f.-om July 15. The receipts of the Waiuku Town Band for the past year amounted to tl2!) 0s 4d, and the expenditme 5:108 9s Ud, leaving a credil balance of .'.20 Ins r»d. Collections and the earnings of the band by engagements amounted to i :f>l (is 10d for the year. The super-feature definitely booked for screening at the Premier Hall are "Riders <>l ihe Purple Sage," July 20: "The Return <>f Tarzan" (sequel to Tamil of the Apes), July 27. Other pictures to follow shortly are "The Miracle Man,", "(linger \II< k Mid "The Hoodlum."

Giving evidence before the Roadii.g Commission al llamillon. a representative of the Waipa County

'.■. anted to know by what lieht the Waikato County Council had anv existence at all. It did not shoulder the responsibilities of a county • ouneil, and merely collected hospital and charitable aid rales. "Any child could do that," he sarcastically concluded.

Correspondence with a most exalted Source by the Franklin County Council is presupposed by one of its ratepayers, who reouested, in a letI»'*r received yesterday, that the council I >illll apply 1o the Minister of "Eternal" Afiiairs re the appoint--1 • ■ i'l oi ccnieiery li'ii-'l'-es. The rete.iest, which was considered as being remarkably appropriate, was acceded to. It was suu»e?ted that the council should oiler up a prayer; but, > i"> lis csmd caution, the chairman (Cr. W.Claud Motion) preferred to wait and see which place the councillors were ultimately admitted to.

The taking" of a division on a no-i-onlidence amendment, in Parliament on Thursday went in favour of the present Premier by 45 votes to 23.

The cost of living index number for the three food groups, says the Government Statistician, lor the month of May is 1746, an increase of eight points as compared with the April number, and an increase of 03.18 per cent, on the number for July, 1914.

The following is the record of rainfall as registered at Victoria Avenue, Waiuku, during June: Rain fell on 16 days, the fall varying 'from .Olin to 3.1 lin., making a totat for the month of 7.77 in. Foi the conesnonding month during the years 1915, i 916, 1917, 191S and 1919 the register shows 7.3 lin., 5.10 in., 4.19 in., 10.42 in, and Olin. respectively.

A motor collision of a minor nature occurred in King Street on Tuesday evening last. It appears that a car driven by Mr. Curd, of Messrs. Cooper and Curd, was about to enter the garage when another car driven by Mr. J. McClune, of Puni, crashed into it. As the car was tioing at a very moderate pace, nothing more than a damaged mudguard w«.s the lesult.

The death occurred at Dannevirke on Thursday evening of last week, at the age of 92 years, of Mr. Charles James Hansard, who had_ resided in the Dominion for about 50 years, 16 of which were spent in the Dannevirke district. He was a descendant of the famous family of printers in England who had the distinction of first printing the Parliamentary debate* for the British Parliament now known the world over as "Hansard. Making reference to incompetent motor drivers, as mentioned in a circular letter from the Manawatu County Council to the Franklin County Council yesterday, the chairman (Cr. VV. Claud Motion) said that a driver once convicted of carelessness should not be allowed to drive again. One local bot}y had a 16-mile an hour limit, which he had found out to his cost at one time. He was driving at exactly 23 miles an hour. The policeman must have been a good judge, for he stated that the speed was between 22 pnd 23 miles an hour.