LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 553, 30 July 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

The increased wist of postage for newspapers has obliged us to make in alteration to our postal subscription rates, which are advertised in this issue. Subscribers are advised to purchase direct from our agents, where such a course is feasible.

The borough rate notice is advertised.

Levels are being taken in connexion vvith a drainage scheme for Waiuku.

Attention is drawn to Messrs. Burnside Bros' advertisement on page 3.

The monthly meeting of the FrankSin County Council will be held on Thursday, August 5. House-building in Hpakuia seems to be going great guns. A contractor of that town is just completing his seventh house within eight months.

Properties are still changing hands freely in Papatoetoe. In one toad alone four houses have been sold within three weeks.

Train seivices 'for the football match, England v. New Zealand, to be held at Auckland to-morrow, are advertised.

There is some talk of a sawmill being erected near the river bank at Cambridge to cut pinus insignus. This will not be the only industry to be established close to the great waterway.

Intense indignation is felt in outlying districts of PukekAe in regard to certain of the increases in the telephone charges. This matter will be deait with editorially in our next issue.

We have pleasure in announcing the opening of a new and up-to-date pharmacy on the corner of Edinburgh and King Streets, to be in the capable hands of Mr. W. G. Brosnahan, late of Ellerslie.

Some Papakura.residents have very taking ways. A "Times" representative happened t« notice the following announcement in a confectioner's window in that town: "Will the person who took the two boxes of chewing gum kindly call again and take the third and last box." Papakura is not the only place in which tie light-, lingered gentry is prominent, several Pukekohe shopkeepers having complained of much petty thieving.

A very interesting and instructive lecture was given by Mr. J. Wylie, lecturer of the Sheldon Institute, on Friday evening. The lecturer, who is a forcible speaker, dealt with the principles of business building, and the art f.f constructive salesmanship, pointing out the necessity for increased man-power and greater efficiency. »Ve understand that as a result a local business science circle has formed, and lectures will be delivered to the members every four weeks.

Christchurch boot retailers, dis- | cussing a reported fall in leather | prices in Australia, stated that, though the position was not satisfactory, they had received no news of a decrease. A recent consignment of footwear received from Melbourne had not contained a single pair showing the slightest decline in cost. Some lines had advanced. Suedes, for instance, were higher' than ever all round. In addition, the latest cabled lists from Home showed that 1920 quotations were all well above the quotations of 1919. One shopkeeper said that it would take a stiff decline in values to make up for the increased wages now paid to repairers r-nd salesmen. The only remedy that he could think of was to place m*re workers in the New Zealand faitories, and that could not be done unless the housing problem were settled. j