FLASHES

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 3 June 1915, Page 2

FLASHES

King's Birthday to-day, but no celebra-

tions,

Keils, who murdered his sister-in-law and her baby, has been sentenced to death.

Little Gisborne has already raised £100,000 for the benefit of the various war relief purposes.

There are now 7000 men at Trentham. This strength will be maintained for a period of about four months.

The membership of the National Provident Fund continues to increase. The amount to the credit of the fund is now approaching £60,000.

The son of Mr. George Bennett, of Helensville, Private Alexander Bennett, who joined the Otago Battalion, has been severely wounded at Gallipoli.

A letter of condolence has been forwarded by the Town Clerk (on behalf ofc\ the Board), to Mrs. Marshall, who 'jUJP;"' lost her brave boy at the front. * i ■■■■..

The butcher of Helensvilie South, James Hand, is offering on behalf of W. Demmock & Co., bacon curers, 4V£d per Ib. for good, fat pigs (dressed).

The proprietor of the Helensville Theatre, intends to devote the whole of the proceeds of to-night's picture show (without deductions), to the N.Z. Hospital Ship Fund. .; ' .

Helensville deeply sympathises with the Marshall family on the loss of their "boy," Joe, whose death was reported on Monday, he having died from1 wounds received at Dardanelles.

It is said that a dozen yards of ''good" flannel could not be purchased in Auckland on Monday, all such commodity having bern secured or given for the Hospital Ship.

It is stated that when a member at the late Auckland Farmers' Union Shivoo, proposed " they all" refrain from liquor while the war is on (and it was carried), he was the first one to say— "let's go and 'aye one" on the strength of it —the resolution.

It was stated at the annual meeting of the Wilsons Portland Cement Company, Ltd., by the chairman, Mr. George Elliot, that every one of the seven members of the company's staff who had enlisted had been injured. Two were killed, and the other five were wounded. Their names were:—Lieutenant Screaton and Private Morris, killed; and Privates Witters, Warm, Tomlin, Smith, and Clay, wounded.

There was some talk here during the week of " rushing through " another subscription list, this time on behalf of a memorial stone or monument in memory of young Joe Marshall, who was recently killed at the Dardanelles, but if the promoters take the advice of the ECHO, they will await the termination of the war before moving further in the matter, when there may be occasion to " remember and include" other brave lads who have lost their lives, and erect ONE monument in memory of Helensville's tribute.

The generosity of the Cucksey family, Helensville South (Helensville Hotel), is sometimes omitted from ' newspaper recognition. Not long since a presentation was made by Mr Cucksey of a number of rope suspenders over the baths at the Springs for invalids, and now Mrs. Cucksey has presented half-a-dozen mirrors for use in dressing departments of the swimming bath, so that they (the ladies), can attend to their toilet and look " just as nice as they used to be." It is to be hoped the mirrors will not be wrenched down by larrikins and thrown away as "other furnishings" have in the past.