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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 10 April 1914, Page 4

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Town Band will play selections at the Springs, Sunday afternoon next.

Meeting of ratepayers at Star Theatre on Thursday evening next.

Librarian wanted, for the local library Salary £26 per annium.

Public meeting of ratepayars, on 16th inst., to consiner a £4,000 loan.

If you have a grievance send it to the Echo.*

Tenders are invited for removing rushes off a portion of the show ground.

Owing to to-morrow being Good Friday, the ECHO is published to-day, religously kept as a factory holiday.

Hon. F. M. B. Fisher, Minister for Marine, will arrive by the 10 a.m express on Tuesday, 21st inst., instead of the 14th.

The. Hon. W. H. Herries, Minister for Railways, went north to Dargaville on Monday.

Should you have anything nice to say abovit yourself, your friends, or generalities, send it to the ECHO.*

Hon. F. M. B. Fisher, who was badly treated in Wellington the other night, will entertain the electors on behalf of the Reform Party, in the Star Hall, on Tuesday evening 21st, and the Town Board has also decided to entertain the talented Minister.

Tango pedometers, showing the mileage danced, are now worn as garter ornaments at fashionable gatherings in Baltimore, Maryland. Fourteen miles was the distance which a yonng woman's pedometer showed after a recent dance.

Several letters have reached the Editor inquiriug anxiously when the drainage and water services are to be generally adopted, but we are unable to give a decided reply. Perhaps it's money the Board may be wanting; anyhow, the matter is urgent for a move on.

The Opunake "Times" states that a woman appeared in Court as defendant in a legal suit, who ploughs her own farm, milks 30 cows night and morning, drives the milk to the factory, attends to the fencing—in fact, owns and manages the farm.

Hon. W. H. Herries, Minister for Railways, arrived by the Naumai this morning, He was met by the Chairman of the Town Board and others, and taken out the Hot Springs. Luncheon at 1.30 p,m., deputations 2 p.m., and left for Auckland by 3 p.m train. Mr Withers of the Public Works Department is jaccompanying him.

A voice from Matakana says, the enterprise of Mr Jackson, who has imported a twenty horse universal motor, deserves every success. Mr Jackson, who intends to plant 100 acres in apples, has already 20 in orchard and will consequently have plenty of work to test the usefulness of the machine.

During a court ball, at which a lady wore a very decollette gown with a big slit, the King whispered to a marshal, who conducted the lady to a carriage, saying : " The King noticed that you've torn your dress. Return home and have the damage repaired."

It is pleasing to note that the Town Board have always an eye to the main chance in connection with the Helensville Hot Springs and their further development, and it is to be hoped a sanatorium for those who cannot get about with ease, or " hard cases " as it were, is tacitly included in the programme of deputations.

The well known Orchardist, Mr H. Hjorth, who is not so young as he used to be, met with a nasty accident one day last week through unceremoniously being pitched out of his cart, owing to the sudden humour of the horse. Though very much shaken and bruised on the left side, Mr Hjorth may be thankful that he escaped without several broken ribs,

A humorist writer describes Mr. James Larkin as a man of Striking personality but often Fiery, and sometimes Cross Invaribly wears white trousers because of his loathing of blacklegs. Missed his vocation as an engineer, being an expert on big Damns. . . . We have not yet heard that he damned the Fiery Cross.

In our report of last week's Musical Society's concert, held on Thursday, 2nd inst, one of the chief characters in the farce " That Boy Pete," Sambo (footman), Mr R. Screaton, was ommitted. That gentleman, both in his actions, wit and humour, kept the house in roars throughout the piece, and was one of the chief characters that made it a success. The Society, intend shortly, to produce another concert in aid of the Church of England fund,and we feel sure the public of Hclensville, as usual in such cases, will roll up strong to a good cause.

When the moon shines bright in Helensville it is all right out on the track with your b e st girl, but terrible are the dark, cheerless nights, when at every step with your hands held out to save you from bumping up against a fence or a fall over a culvert or the side drains, and you shudder. Surely it is time the gas-man were introduced 1 Give us " more light," as the darkness is melancholy ajid dangerous ; encourages wickedness of every description and the guilty to continue his little game with impunity.

As a sample of what ratepayers can do if they like to give their district a good name, we might state that the chairman of the Hikurangi Town Board, Mr T. R. Gager, reports that the whole of Board's rates and revenue for the current financial year ending 3.lst March, 1914, have been collected by the Town Clerk, Mr J. McKinnon. This is the second year in succession that Mr Gager has had the pleasure and satisfaction of announcing to the electors of Hikurangi that there were no ratepayers on the defaulters' list, and that it was necessary to take legal proceedings to enforce payment of rates from any elector.

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