LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 567, 17 September 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Messrs. Blake and Burred, surveyors and road engineers, insert a card in this issue.—Advt. Miss K. Rogerson, teacher of pianoforte, has changed her day for visiting Pukekohe from Wednesday to Friday, every week.-Advt. Thanks to those who voted for him, and "those who didn't," are returned per advertisement by an unsuccessful candidate for a seat on the Tuakau Town Board.

A retort of the Onewhero footballers' annual ball will appear on Tuesday, the same having come to hand just too late for publication in to-day's issue of the "Times." "Not a local body in the Auckland Province got. metal on their roads cheaper than the Tuakau Town Board did during the last year or so." -Mr. Dynes Fulton at a meeting at Tuakau on Tuesday night. The "American Order," instead of "M.U." is what a paragraph in the "Times" of last issue, in reference to the valediction to Mr. W. J. King, should have read. The American Order, 1.0.0. F., has had a branch in Waiuku for over half a century.

A picture of special interest both from an educational and an interest point of view is "The Panama Canal." This has been secured for a special screening at the Premier Hall on Monday, September 27. Full particulars will appear in next week's "Times." Advt

At a meeting of ratepayers at Tuakau on Tuesday night, Mr". Dynes Fulton, chairman of the Tuakau Town Board, said that the reason the work on Harrisville Road had not been gone on with, was because the board was negotiating with the Government for an overhead traffic bridge at George Street railway crossing.

The ladies of Pukekohe East are giving a return grand ball in the Pukekohe East Hall on Thursday evening, October 7. With good music, a good floor, an excellent supper, and the duties of M.C's in capable hands, patrons are assured of spending a very enjoyable time. Our advertising columns supply further parfiei»lars. z

A concert by the well-known elocutionist, Miss Bathie Stuart, and Mr. George Craig (steel guitar player), assisted by local talent, is to be held in.the Buckland Hall on Friday, September 25. If the fare proves anything like that provided at a previous entertainment held under similar auspices, it will be the best two shillings' worth obtainable anywhere.

In regard to the Pukekohe Borough coal supply, the engineer has been successful in securing a promise of a truck of Waipa coal, which should now be on the rail. Also, a consignment of Hunua coal is being secured in order to test its suitability for suction gas production. Under the circumstances, the proposed "cut" will not be imposed for the time being. i'he Hamilton Chamber of Commerce has set up a committee to arrange for an excursion on the river steamer Manuwai, which it is hoped to have in commission about the middle of. next month, possibly on Labour Day. Mr. Stevenson stated that it was proposed to run regular exclusions from Cambridge to th» Waikato Heads, the return trip beinn a two days' i tin. 11 is company also hoped to further cater for the tourist trade by establishing eventually an Up-to-date hostel at Port Wai"katu, with the object of making this the watering place for Waikato residents.

An inquest was held by the District Coroner, Mr. R. F. Webster, on the 13th inst at Mr. H. Rutherford's estate, Wairamarama Downs, in respect to the death of Mr. Robert Adainsfui. The verdict was that deceased iiad committed suicide by taking arsenic while temporarily insane. The evidence showed that the man bore a good character, and was well behaved. He had recently sprained his wrist and was unable to work, and this was considered as a contributory cause for the action. He had secured some arsenic kept on the estate for um: as a remedy for foot diseases in sheep, and the deceased had, according to the medical evidence of Dr. Campbell-Smith, who held a post-mortem ex;\nination, taken sufficient to kill a hundred men. The Rev. Foulkes, of Tuakau, proved himself a piacticaj Christian, for he took off his coat and made a coffin, and afterwards conducted the burial service.

PERSONAL.

Nurse G. Smith, of the Auckland District Hospital, is on a short visit to the home of her mother, Mrs. W. M. Smith, "Fairview," Totara Avenue, Pukekohe.