LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 582, 9 November 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

The Papakura Town Board adveitises the appointment of a ranger. Drivers for four motor trucks a>e advertised for by the Franklin County | Council. The counties' elections lake place to-morrow, also the polling on tie Franklin county machinery loan. Members of the late Pukeko) a Town Hand are lequested to retujn instruments to the Borough Council for inspection and overhaul. The meeting of members of the Pukekohe Amateur Athletic and Cycle Club to have been held last evening was adjourned until Tuesday, November IG, pending further information which is not yet to hand. , Notice of intention to borrow S41»0 for the V purchase of Boose's bush, some 22 acres, and for forming the roads leading thereto is 11 advertised b;, the Pukekohe Borough Council. The poll wil] be held on Wednesday. November 24. The buyer of the N\Z. JJpljpi and Meat Packing that 1 i 1 per lb. fur prime Tim This is one ofrrfne highest prices paid in Pukdfldne for heavy pigs, live weight-. over the scaies. 9! 1 By command of His Majesty the King all work and traffic will ceas? for two minutes on Thursday next, November 11. the anniversary of Armistice Day, in honour of the J'alln . In an official announcement in this issue the Mayor requests observance of the command in the Borough of Pukekohe. In connexion with" the commemoi alion of the second anniversary of the signing of the German armistice special services will he held it Si. Andrew's Church, Pukekohe on Thursday. Holy communion will be celebrated at half-past seven; the church bell will be rung a few minutes li<-.< fore 11. Silf-n.cc will then he oh[..(•rved fur two minutes, after wiii'di a i-ei-yire i>r (.l-i.- l.rf.-t.-:.) <lur;it inn u iil he 1.eh.l

hi 'X'ltwxion -.vii|i Ihe report •• tin: I'.neerl held !.;■ I Tucsdav in ■■>■ o! til*' fund, of [he Pu.kekjoiii: T>J< ideal High School our reporter r-i dently mad' « wrong note of the p.-; fie: primarily lysponri'-'iv. for I'" a&cessful perforsiunct Mr. K. I Gunnel wishes to den l , that'hb ()'■•■■ m the function w, r . ainthinv. like ■ important a:; Ihe report made It . ;■ pear. 1m effort . beinu confined u< ; minor role. He slute-j "that the genUc men to whom credit ia due- an Mr. A. Oldham and others associate! « ith him,

I ]„. it the lack id' man power or lad iof efficiency thai lies behind Ihi j •■'-called shorhigc nl' labour? asks tin j Uay of J'le.iiv Tunes. Two receni happenings locally rather strength : '-us the id"a that Ihe labour- oi ralher time of too many men is he mi' wasted. A seo\v wl<s unioad'ne l uuher at the railway wharf at i iie Mount recently, and a loaded slina. had been hoisted to the truck. The ;ioon whistle blew, however, and :..- the time .I'nr receiving it in'.'' I' ■■ i-i'eii back into the scow In ihc other ease a. Maori, as-i-iting !o u •■ li'i'i'l Limber was beinp.'handed h-u'i's tin. by J du. in l2ft.lenKl.ljS, two at a lime. "One at a Mije, p'easiy' was liis polite requesu