LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 589, 3 December 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

A grand bazaar, to be followed by a promenade concert, is to be held in the Buckland Hall on Saturday, December 11. Details are advertised.

The importance of Pukekohe r.s a centre is being recognised by State Departments. A branch of the Public Trust Office will shortly be opened in Vaile's Buildings, King Street. A meeting of ratepayers is advertised to be held in the Pukekohe Borough Council Chambers on Monday evening, when the council proposes to explain particular in connexion with Roose's Bush proposed loan.

A meeting of the Pukekohe Athletic Club was held on Tuesday, Mr. G. H. Armstrong, president, presiding. It was decided to hold a sports meeting on January 22, 1921, and to give prize-money totalling over £IOO. The chief event will be the Pukekohe Handicap of £2O run over a course of 220 yards. It was also resolved to incorporate under the Friendly Societys' Act.

An entertaining incident occurred the other clay while a party of visiters were going through the vocational workshops at King George V. Hospital. One of the party, a lady, asked a soldier working in the shoemaker's shop how long he had been there. "Six months," he replied. "Oh, well," said the visitor, "Even if you carmot become a tradesman you can learn to mend your own boots." The point of the joke is that she was addressing the instructor, a tradesman of some 15 years' standing.

There were 100 cases of various descriptions set down for hearing at yesterday's sitting of the Magistrate's Court presided over by Justices of the Peace. Fifty-four were summonses for land tax, but by request were adjourned until next Court day. There were 42 claims by the Franklin County . Council for overdue rates, and four ordinary debt cases. Judgment was given by default in eight cases, 54 were adjourned by consent, five adjourned as the justices had no jurisdtcion, 13 had been paid into or settled out of Court, 1!> not served, and one was struck out.

Mr. Ernest Short, in a speech at Fcilding, said that at one farm in America they had seen a Hobtein cow which was after the world's'record for milk production. The cow was under wire gauze, so that not even a fly could get at her. In sixmonths, she had produced 20001b. of milk, and, barring accidents, she should beat the world's record by 30001b at her present rate. He had seen the bull calf produced by this cow. It was a magnificent animal the best be had ever seen in his life. He has ascertained that the price put upon this calf was £SOOO, and when the cow's year's record was published the price would jump to £20,000. He had suggested to the Holstein Breeders' Association that they should between them purchase this calf. Surely the Holstein breeders' between them could find £SOOO The introduction of such an anima' would be a tremendous lift for New Zealand.—Feilding Star.