LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Puke Times, 20 July 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Prize money won at the recent Winter Show will be paid out next Saturday, and not on the 31st inst as formerly advertised. Mr James Lockington, one of the pioneer settlers of Katikali, has disposed of his farm of 175 acres at £30 per acre, and lias taken up his residence in Waihi. The sum of £13 7s 3d, the amount of the proceeds from the Patriotic Stall' at the Winter -Show, has been handed over to Mr Bobt. U-qu'hart. Secretary of the War Memorial Fund. All local business people have consented to close their premises from 1,30 to 3.30 on Saturday next in o r der to allow their employees to witness the Te PukeGrafton football match. At the meeting of the Town Board last evening Mr Palmer drew attention to the state of the water channels and the main street generally, which required a thorough cleaning. It was decided to ask Mr Bradford to put on a man with a cart and horse for a day or two,

In the House of Representatives on Friday the Tauranga Harbour Board Empowering Bill was read a first time. Mr G'org-e Willcock notifies clients that on Saturday next his usual auction sale at the Mart will commence at 12 o'clock sharp instead of 1.30, on account of the Te Puke-Graf ton footoall match. Father, our girl's birthday is next week ! What do you think about a necklet, pendant, or bangle ? Say we make a call at Geo. Sweetman's, the jeweller, and have a look round-he is certain to have something suitable.* Tickets for the Travellers' Concert to be held on the 28th inst., the proceeds from which are to be donated to the local Hospital fund, may be obtained at Messrs Washer Bros. 'An exceptionally good programme is promised for the occasion. The death occurred at Tauranga. on Saturday morning of Mrs M. Rhodes, relict of the late Mr Richard Rhodes, after a brief illness. The deceased lady is survived by five sons and five daughters. One of the former is MrT. W.Rhodes, M.P., for the Thames. At the Farmers' Auctioneering Co's sale on Tuesday next, the following stock, on account of Mi A. C. Massey, will be offered :- 40 3£yr forward steers/ 40 2J to 3yr steers, 8 fat cows, 12 forward cows, and 5 cows and calves. These cattle are right off the turnips,

Mr W.Roberts of No. 3 Road, has handed in the sum of 108 in | aid of the fund that is being raised throughout the Dominion for the relief of the children in those European -countries that have suffered through the recetit War. We will be pleased to acknowledge any further subscriptions. A large tangi has just been held at Pukehina and Maketu # over the death of Miss' Te Ngarokitawhiti Te Uara ■ Rangihoro the daughter of Mr and Mrs Te Uara Rangihora. .Miss Rangihoro was a girl of high rank both on her mother's and father's side, and was a young chieftainess of the Ngatimakiro and Ngatiawa tribes, sub-tribes of the Arawa, located at Whakatane. She was a grand daughter of a well known chief named Timi Waata. She was buried outside the Maori Mission Church at Maketu, last Saturday afternoon. Mr Hemana P, Mokonuiarangi, officiating at the graveside.

A pleasing little ceremony took place on Saturday evening last, when Mr A. Ratford, manager of the local branches of the Farmers' Union Trading Company, was presented by the combined staffs at re Puke, Paengaroa and Maketu with a gold mounted walking stick and a case of pipes as a mark of esteem, and of regret at his impending departure. The presentation was made by Mr E. Young, who,alluded to Mr Ratford's unfailing courtesy and to his kindly' consideration, for all in the Company's employ. It was. he stated, with the keenest regret that the staff had learned of that gentleman's decision to leave Te Puke. Mr Ratford in responding, thanked the staff for their gifts and Mr Young for -his appreciative remarks. The change he was making was purely owing to private circumstances that made it desirable that he should be nearer Auckland. Personally he very much regretted, leaving Te Puke.

An American paper is not.far wrong in the, following estimate of things in general: "Half the world has been sulking and slacking, and the other half has been clacking and jazzing. Labour has been on a joy ride every morning. The railway brotherhoods have been raising their wages and incidentally the car. penters' and bricklayers' cost of living. The carpenters and bricklayers have been ' boosting' their own pay, and incidentally the brotheihood's rent. Capital has been tacking the new cost on prices and sometimes a trifle more for luck. Bootblacks are asking more than professors, and cooks more than teachers. Everyone has been letting down a little, wasting a little, and saving mighty little."

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