FLASHES

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 22 July 1915, Page 2

FLASHES

Butter should come down in price soon.

Fire brigade dance in the Star Theatre to-night, in aid of the brigade funds.

The warm weather and welcome rains are a blessing to the dairy farmers.

A sitting of the Helensville S.M, Court will be held on Wednesday next.

For amusement without any gains, is to run an ECHO without any games.

Cheap cooking apples from Nelson (freight free) are offered.

Wong Wing wants fungus at 5d per lb, Used to be 2d a few periods ago.

Tom Scott repudiates an insinuation made by some person or other.

The Parakai Euchre Club hold a dance' on Monday next, and intend to toll the bell monthly.

Railway excursions to the Pakuranga Hunt Steeplechase meeting at Ellersile on 31st inst.

Most successful sales were held during the 'week by the Auckland Farmers Union and Buckland and Sons.

The township was full of the men off the land, Wednesday, attending stock sales and the Dairy Factory meeting.

Bishop Averill had large congregations at St. Matthew's Church, Helensville, on Sunday last, but promised full particulars of his visit have not yet reached us.

At a meeting of directors of the Kaipara Dairy Factory Company, Ltd., after the general meeting of shareholders yesterday, Mr Charles Thomson was re-elected chairman for the ensuing year.

Mr C Ansell, postmaster at Helensville, informs us that so soon as the second 1 Telephone Exchange Clerk arrives, the local office will be open for the transaction of business from 8 a.m. till 8 p.m.

A most successful crowded meeting in connection with the Kaipara Dairy Factory Company, Ltd., took place in Becroft's Star Theatre, yesterday, the full report of which will appear in next issue.

For some time past efforts have been made to get the extension of telephone hours, but the number of subscribers did not reach the top-notch, therefore the matter had to be officially delayed. Things are different now.

You or the writer cannot get away from the fact tnat some people in the Dominion are coining money by exploiting ever j-day commodities while the war is on and our brave defenders are getting hell fire from liquid blazes, asphyxiating gases, etc.

The enormity of the price of butter was dwelt upon from the Presbyterian pulpit on Sunday, but what about Massey and his food supply commission, and the sending home of a shipload of butter and bringing it back again to New Zealand, because higher prices prevailed by about 6d per pound than in London ?

A lad about 19 years was conveyed to Auckland by Const, Driscoll, this morning, to be returned to the Burnham Industrial school. The lad was licensed out to a farmer at Dunstable, Canterbury, and ran away from there early in May last. When arrested, the lad was employed by a farmer at Parakakau, about 8 miles from Kaukapakapa.