LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 574, 12 October 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

The St. Andrew's Flower Show will he held again this year on dates to be announced in the "Times" shortly. Charlie Chaplin in "Triple Trouble" will be the leading feature in the programme to be shown at the Premier Hall on Monday next. -Advt. The optica! parlour at Fear's Pharmacy is now open again, and persons suffering with eyesight troubles should make their appointment without delay. Further particulars will appear in next issue. 745 The Franklin County Council advertises notice of intention to take a poll of the -ratepayers on a proposal to borrow K18,0()0 for the purpose of purchasing plant and machinery. Expended reference to this important matter will appear in >wl editoiial columns latei * Complimentary references to the

"Times" printing department uenmade by the president and member.of the Jersey Breeders' Association at the annual meeting at Pukekohe on Saturday, the opinion being .frcelj expressed that the sale catalogue wa'well produced and a credit to the printers.

The unsatisfactory results of Maun labour were alluded to .by an aiuusin;: illustration iriven to a meeting ol Ihe I'ukekohe district Produce Growits' Association on Saturday night. The speaker admitted that thorough grading would well repay the growers, but they (guild nel Maori Inborn only, and il the owner turned his back the Maoris were as likely as not to put a few clods into the bags. A good many papers have publish ed the information that the smallest cheque drawn on account of the sharing of wool-prolits between the Imperial (iovcrnmcnl and the produc its was sevenpence, but we believe it falls to the lot of the "Times" i.o ••jvc !m'.-'1 information as lo the hir:;«\ t clicqii'" paid out. Ii amounted I" i/umcthim: o\cr t'iY.OW. Wc have nut heard that the fortunate re-

•.••_rer h-u Uiadc up his mind te pay it into Mr L Newman's fund for the benelit of the "idows and orphans who fell at Jutland as tjie recipient of the small one did.

In Pukekohe at the present timer the public has an opportunity of i getting a close inspection of some- j thing that millions of people depend on for part of their pleasure, but which comparatively few people have j had an opportunity ,oi' inspecting; closely at their leisure. In Mr, W.; T. | Jones' saddlery shop-window in King : Street is one of the latest and most | ingeniously contrived cinematograph machines invented; it was recently imported from America by Mr. J. J. Coady, proprietor of the Premier Pictures. The machine, which stands on a massfre trunk with a triangu' lar base, is complex far beyond the ideas of the uninitiated, and carries the very latest devices for the perfection of screening pictures. It can, while running, be adjusted up, down, or to either side to the thousandth part of an inch to get a perfect focus, and possesses among other virtues two excellent qualities which recommend it to picture lovers, quite apart from its especial qualifications in the eyes of the expert; namely, it is the one and only machine equipped to neutralise what is known as "'flicker*," and will reduce this irritating occurrence so that it is scarcely noticeable. "Flicker," it may be men-' tioned, is due to faulty operating when the film is being produced, and not to any. defect in the picture showman's machine or the handling of it; that trouble lies with the company originally producing the film, and not with those who show the picture afterwards. The second virtue, from a layman's viewpoint, is that there is no danger of fire, the machine having a "fire trap" which so encloses the film that only about a foot of its length is exposed at any one time, and this short piece is all* that could possibly be burned. The new machine wffl'be installed in the Premier Hall next week, when patrons will have an opportunity of benefiting oy Mr. Coady's enterprise.