THE Pukekohe and Waiuku Times PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1914 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 222, 18 August 1914, Page 2

THE Pukekohe and Waiuku Times PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1914

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

" We nothing extenuate, nor eet down auaht in malice."

The English ladies' hockey team, at present.ou a tour of the Dominion, paid a visit to tin Flelvetia Ostrich Farm on Friday. Mr J. W. Black man, consulting gasworks engineer, was expected in Pukekohe to-kay to begin his report on the proposed gasworks scheme for the borough. A special patriotic meeting is to be held in the Pokeno hall on Saturday evening next, 'J2nd iust, at 8 p.m. Mr Sam O'Leary is the secretary of the movement. Residents within the borough of Pukekohe who wish to burn rubbish alter sunset must obtain permission lrom the Town Clerk; otherwise they render themselves liable to prosecution for a breach of the by-laws. Mr R. R. Martin, for some time

manager of tbe Helvetia OsUicli Farm, captain of the Pukekohe Rifles, and Uter organiser of the Reform Party, was a member of a party in a fatal motor car collision last week. Colonel ILayhurst, who was driving, was killed and Mr Martin was rather badly injured. The car collided with a cyclist.

At the request of several farmers, Messrs Alfred Buck laud and Sons, the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, and Messrs Dalgety and Co , Ltd., will, at the ordinary fat stock s.iles at Westticld to-morrow, sell a number of stock presented by the farmers for the benefit of the Patriotic Fund. The gross proceeds of the gift stock will be handed over to the fund.

That the war lias nut upset the financial arrangement's or the courage of the Auckland dairying companies is proved by the fact that some of the companies in the VVailcato are offering an advance of from Is to Is Id per pound for the new season's supply of , but'er-fat. This is one of the many I indications that while temporary dis- ! location of some industries cannot be | avoided the producing interests of ! New Zealand must provide openings j for increasing employment during j the period of the war.