LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 594, 21 December 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Holiday excursion fares are. advertised in to-day's "Times." Samuel John Thorn, found guilty of the murj|»f of Sydney Seymore Eyre, was ejtecutted at Mouril Eden Gaol yesterday. He protested his innocenei to* the last.

Applications are called for the position of headmaster of the new Pukekohe Technical High School, at a salary of £SOO a year; also, for i first and a second assistant. A social and dance will held in the Premier Hall on New Year's Eve. Patrons will have an opportunity of dancing the old year out and the new year in.

A team of tennis players representing the Pukekohe Club journeyed to Huntly on Saturday, and were defeated by .the 1 Huntly representatives by. eight matches to 6. Detailed results available. "Mr. M. Shaw, .who has been K&vcrnnicnt Dairy Instructor in this distj fct, lcavHi for Hamilton to-day, to commence ?r new appointment at the .hew Year, as organiser of the outside staff of the Sew Zealand Co-op-ciativc Dairy Mr. T. Alexander, of East Tnmakr, temporarily succeeds Mr/ Shw. A Peninsula ijjoder of the "Times" states that cattle-tick has made its appearance in.Awhitu Central. Own.crs of cattle would be well advised to examine along the bellies and udders of their cattle to see If they are afflicted with this pest. It is assumed lhat the cattle now Infested got thanks in the first place ofF iow-lying paddocks. „. ,-? Christmas D§y and New Year's Day will be observed as close holidays at. the Pukekohe Post Office In all branches, and no mails will be despatched on either day. On Boxing

t)ay (December 27) the office will be open in all branches from 9 sy.m. to 10 a.m. (except money-order and savings bank). All mails on this day will be closed for despatch at 8.30 ajn.

■Funerals by motor hearse are now the ordoV of the day in Pukekohe, the largfe number of motor-cars in the district making a motor hearse necessary,' as anyone may observe by noting fne many cars which are included Jn a funerai procession anywhere In this district, The motor hearse, which is the property of Messrs. Cooper and Curd, is suitably painted in a subdued grey, with hlack margins and ornamentation. *

Two accident cases were admitted to the Auckland Hospital yesterday afternoon. An elderly farmer, Mr. John Sharp, of Ramarama, fell from a reaper and binder he was using, and sustained injuries to his head, : arm, and hand. He was brought into Auckland and admitted to hospital at 2.t}o p.jn. The second accident occurred at Mr. George Rob)M*t Ratcliffe, aged 59, a married man, who resides at Papakura, was painting in a house at Papakura, when he fell from the steps he was standing on and fractured a leg. The meaning ot the word "will" was disputed before Sir Robert Stout at the Supreme Court at Hamilton in a case in which the words •*'will accept" were attached to a bill of exchange. Counsel on the one hand said the word ngt constitute a promise, 'ior the other side held that it did. His Honour said it depended on whether an Englishman or a Scotsman used the term. A Scots***"" used the word "shall" where an Englishmen used "will." I