The Franklin Times WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1935. Local and General.

Franklin Times, Volume XXV, Issue 129, 6 November 1935, Page 4

The Franklin Times

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1935. Local and General.

PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTBRNOOJL Office and Works: ROULSTON STREET, PUKEKOVJE. ’Phone No. 2. P.O. Box 14. “We nothing extenuate nor aught set down in mayoe.”

Ladles’ Cricket Club. The annual meeting of the Pukekohe Ladies’ Cricket Club will be held in Middlemiss’ hall to-night at 7.15 o’clock. Subsidy on Rates. Information was received by‘the Franklin County Council on Monday that the 12i per cent subsidy on rates on farm lands would be available again this year. Donations Made. The Franklin County Council at its meeting on Monday voted £2 2s to the St. John Ambulance Association and £1 Is to the Royal Humane Society. It declined to make its donation to the Crippled Children’s Society an annual one. Light Not Noticed. “I have never noticed a light there,” remarked a member of the Franklin County Council at Monday’s meeting when the question of road lights was being dealt with. “You don’t go out at night, much,” was the rejoinder of another member. Presentation of Medal. A social, and charity dance, will be held in the Oddfellows’ hall on Saturday evening when the presentation of a bronze medal, awarded by the Royal Humane Society, to Mr E. Reynolds for gallantry, will be made by His Worship the Mayor, Mr C. K. L&wrie.

Potato Digging Operations. Potato digging operations are proceeding apace on Pukekohe Hill, and some very satisfactory results are being obtained, up to 10 tons an acre being harvested, Mr A. G. Rowles reports he has dug 18 tons from If acres, the produce having realised £J7 per ton. “What Were You Doing ?” “But you only mentioned it to me on Saturday,” stated the engineer, Mr J. F. McArthur, at Monday’s meeting of the Franklin County Council on being asked by a member whether he had inspected a certain road. “What were you doing all day yesterday (Sunday) ?” Cr. 11. P. Garland asked the engineer with a smile. No Action at Present. A proposal to apply to the Local Government Loans Board for its tion to the Franklin County Council' borrowing £SOOO for works on a schedule of 20 roads, including reconditioning, metalling, forming, culverting, legalising and fencing, was discussed in committee at Monday’s meeting. The decision was reached

to take no action at present. Tuakau Card Party. A card party arranged by Mesdames G. N. Asher and IT. J. Woodbridge to raise funds for the tearoom at the forthcoming Tuakau Anglican church bazaar was held on Monday evening at the residence of Mrs Asher. In spite of the unfavourable weather there was a good number present. Prizes for bridge were won by Mrs E. W. Fielder and Mr F. G. Bagnall, the hidden number being obtained by Mrs W. A. Srneed. Mrs W. Gubb, senior, and i Mr E. B. Wild won the five hundred j prizes and .the hidden number went co Mrs If. Bush. In the absence of the vicar, Mrs Durrant thanked the people for their support and Mr and Mrs i Asher for the use of their residence, j

Pinnacle Hill Road. ! A deputation of Pinnacle hill road . residents wailed on the Franklin Conn- ! Iv Council on Monday afternoon with : the request that metalling be carried out. It was stated that tor three , months of the year the road was iin- j passable, household supplies having to j lie taken in by horse. During the , autumn an average of 0000 cattle pas- j sed over the road each week. The chairman, Mr J. N. Massey, M.P., in- j formed the deputation that £2MI was ; available for metalling the road ami : at least CD chains —possibly more if , -d'l metal was used —would be put in hand. After the end of the financial , year it was possible that more metal- . ling could he carried out. Crs. H. -J. j Flay. Dean and the engineer were! asked to inspect the road and to meet residents.

People at Political Meetings. ( “They are like some of the people j going round to political meetings; they . think there is something to be got but they don’t know where the money is j coming from,” remarked Cr. .1. Dean i when a deputation waited on the j Franklin County Council at its meeting on Monday. ! Wheelbarrow Race. Permission was granted by the Tuakau Town Board on Monday evening to the Anglican ladies’ guild to conduct. of a wheelbarrow race on the occasion of its bazaar. “Do they want members of the board to sit in the barrows?” asked Mr A. Boyle, who added: .“I won’t guarantee to wheel Mr Morgan.” (Laughter).

Threat of Japanese Enterprise. The extent to which Japanese goods were winning markets in British possessions overseas was commented on by Mr Gerald Morrison, on his return to Christchurch from a tour of eight months in England, on the Continent, and in America (states the “Press”). Mr Morrison said that on the return journey he had tried at Colombo, Aden, Suez, and Port Said to buy British-made silk and cotton goods, but only Japanese goods were available, and it seemed impossible to buy anything British in these lines. The lack of British-made goods was most noticeable, and the Japanese appeared to have won the whole of the trade in these goods at the ports he had visited.