LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 591, 10 December 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Fresh tenders are called for the erection of a courthouse ,at -Pukekohe.

Tenders are called for refreshments, fruit, etc., for the gymkhana on Saturday week.

Railway time-table alterations affecting to\vns from Papatoetoe to Merder, inclusive, are advertised.

The New Zealand Bacon and Meat Packing Company will not be .vying pigs after next week until Janus:ry 3, 1921.

Papakura residents are notified by advertisement that a meeting to decide the form a local memorial shall take will be held next Thursday. The Ponsonby Boys' Brass Band will play at the Franklin A. and P. rvmknana to-morrow week at Pukekohe. The band comprises thirty instruments.

At Tuesday's meeting of the TuaMau Town Board it was decided to support the Piako County Council in its protest against the closing down of the Te Waikato Sanatorium. Prize-winners at the recent St. Andrew's Flower Show can obtain their prize-money by applying at the Borough Council Office from Monday. December 13, until Saturday, December 18.

In reply to an invitation sent by the chairman of the Pukekohe School Committee, the Prime Minister has promised to attend the opening of the Pukekohe Technical High School on February 3. Potatoes have dropped to 18 10s per ton, a ruinous price. If the growers were well organised, instead of only half-organised, the glutting of the market would not be likely to occur.

An auction sale of the Waikato IWver Board's property was held yesterday at Mercer, when the board's gear 'was disposed of. The Priestman dredge and the large punt, we understand, did not induce high enough bids, and were to be negotiated for'privately after the sale.

In an advertisement in this issue, the Pukekohe Bowling Club invites applications for the position of < aretaker of the club's green. Mr. Frank Perm, who has for viany years controlled the Otaki Ma=i. has purchased the Waikato Independent (Cambridge), and will take u?> his residence in Cambridge at the 'ginning of the year. Notices (says a London cable) have been served 'on 25,000 Welsh tinplaters for cessation of work 0.1 the 24th, owing to falling prices ard deceasing demand, with the-objet of the readjustment of wages, and ?.o, if ptssible, to avert unempfoymei.t.

The record of rainfall as registered at Victoria Avenue, Waiuku, during November is as follows: -Rain foil on 20 days, the fall varying'from .Olin. to .80in., and totalling 3.89 in. Fo_r corresponding month in years 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918 and 1919 the re ;ister shows 5.80, 6.16, 2.83. 3.62 and 2.18 inches respectively.

Mr. Masscy states that some ( f the best oflicers of the Customs Department will be engaged from now till next session on tariff revision. The tariff he wants to see agreed to is an extension* of Imperial preference. as he thinks it is time this ivcognition of the bond of Empire was made. He is prepared to negotiate for reciprocity with Australia. Mr. John .'• Coady wishes to intimate to the public generally that he has disposed of his picturofrbusiness of Pukekohe. .tod WaiukiiJlo Messrs. Wheeler and frUFCoady recommends his, asks the public to give patronage tine! courtesy thalJC; been extended to himself in and he also wishes flKudrihc pmtlic many and support extended to him during the long time he h<;.? been in Pukekohe "Waiuku News" please copy. (Advl.) 123

Buckland- Our readers' attention is drawn to the Bazaar and Sa'lo of Work to be hakl in the Public Hall. Buckland, to-narrow. 'IJM opening ceremony will »e pcrfjpned by C. K. Lawrie, Esq.lMayoVof Pukekohe, nl noon. The Whrhmmin Tree will he, in charge »Mjyrcal live Santa Onus. In the aftjpioon Miss BathieStcwart will reiilii few items. .A promenade coWrcrtVwill he held in the Miss Pulman and Mfssft. Richings (comic). Weight-guessing and other competitions galore. Don't forget to bling the kiddies. 122

A mishap, which by the greatest good fortune did not result fatally, occurred on Tuesday to a youth, Geo. Waring, employed on Mr. H. Melville Crispe's farm, "Te Mahoe," Mauku. The lad was driving a catamaran (raft of logs) on which were also somb sheets of iron, when) the load slipped forward. The iron slid on to the lioises, which got out of control, and the youth, who is capable and careful with horses, was thrown by the collapsing load on to the ground, the catamaran and iron being dragged over him. The sharp edges o!: a sheet of the iron abraised the victim's head, and it is marvelloifs how he escaped death from this danger. Dr. Campbell-Smith attended v.ith i nurse, and the sufferer's wounds bad to be stitched. He is now well on the way to recovery.