THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO With which is incorporated "The Kaipara Advertiser Waitemata Chronicle." Helensville, Thursday, Sept. 2, 1915. FLASHES

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 2 September 1915, Page 2

THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO With which is incorporated "The Kaipara Advertiser Waitemata Chronicle." Helensville, Thursday, Sept. 2, 1915. FLASHES

Four-roomed cottage to let,

Town Board desires to purchase section for Fire Brigade station.

Big sale of dairy stock at Parakai next Monday.

Fire Brigade dance to-night at the Star Theatre.

Sittings of eggs (black Orpington and white Leghorn) for sale.

At the Westfield market last week two bullocks, offered on account of Mr A. Totman, Okoroire, were sold for £42 and £39.

The members of the Helensville Fire Brigade had their photos taken last week at the Show Ground, by Mr J. Lambert, jnr.

Messrs Ball and Son refute the rumour that they intend to retire from the. milk purveying business, as they intend to continue to supply the best at a most reasonable price.

On the arrival of Lieutenant Fletcher, (who was wounded at the Dardanelles) at the Helensville station on Wednesday morning, there was no lack of handshaking, but never a cheer.

Mr F. Tucker, who recently underwent a serious operation on the right ear, is now about again and on the convalescent list, as is also Mr Ketterer, who had a bad fortnight's suffering.

Gunner Pulham, who put in 111^ weelcs on Gallipoli without getting a scratch and has written his people some excelleut accounts of his experiences, recently forwarded a Turkish shrapnel shell, which is now on view in Warkworth.

Referring to the fact that one of the Stratford factories paid out £20,000 to its suppliers last' month (the dullest period of the season), an exchange remarks: "Small wonder that the farmers of Taranaki swear by Her Majesty the

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A meeting is called for to-morrow at 3 p.m., by Mrs Field, for the purpose of devising ways and means to procure a number of war.n leather waistooats for our soldiers at fie front during' the coming winter.—There is no time to 1 jse either.

The local agint for the Victoria ins irance Company, Ltd., Mr'L. L. Bailey, a inounces lo .v ratas under the new tariff, wish prompt settlements on fire, marine, a id accident risks, motor car and motor cy^le, and live stock, and inurance risks of every description. The Company in question is an old-established one of reliability and large capital.

No less than two people have discontinued taking the Ectjo since last quarter, on the plea that owing to the war they have to economise. Three half-pence a week ! Not the price of a pint of beer a month ! We feel truly sorry for those who cannot afford to take in the local paper, and can travel o.i other people's brains and patriotism " by borrowing."

The peculiarly dangerous type of mine which is being used by the enemy in the Dardanelles operations is the invention of a Swedish scientist. It was offered some two years ago to. bptly England and France and rejected, hut wa,s eagerly snapped up in Berlin. It floats automatic^ ally with the ebb and flow of the tide, and a very slight concussion will cause it to explode.—Just like slow-going dear old Mother England.

A Euchre and Dance will be held in he Star Theatre on Monday evening next, the proceeds to go the Church of England Ladies' Guild.

Daffodil Day on Tuesday, conducted by a number of ladies in Auckland, on behalf of our boys at the front, resulted in the handsome sum of £780 being collected,

Westland, with a population of 15,000, has sent a thousand men to the front. If the Dominion had enlisted in proportion we would have had nearly 70,000 men under arms.

The brain is divided into two parts. If you are right-handed you I think with the left side of the brain and go right away and subscribe to the ECHO (unless you already take it), while if you are left-handed you think with the right side of it and borrow all you know, papers, money, furniture and sugar.

Mrs Gxley will be pleased to receive cast-off garments for-the use of the poor and destitute. As the garments are for shipping away, and for those who will soon have winter upon them with all its hardships, please send as early as possible to—Mrs C. E. Oxley, Cliff House, Helensville.

A number of residents have been clamouring to the Editor, since our last issue, on the stray cattle nuisance, as they have been great sufferers therefrom, and want to know especially why Her Majesty the Cow cannot be summoned for doing damage, etc? Our answer is that the cow-owners can always be got at, no matter whose fault or'how they annoy property owners.

A soldier writing from Egypt says— "This expedition is a wonderful advertisement for Australia. We are so well equipped and paid that the 'Tommies' say it must rain money out there. Everyone I see is 'going to Horsetralyer -after this 'ere brawl is settled.' One chap said, 'Why, you fellows get as much as our bloomin generals.' "

Councillor Edward Morris, one of the best-known farmers in North Herts, was addressing a recruiting meeting, when he was interrupted by a labourer who said: "You've been talking a lot about joining ; why don't you go yourself ?" " Will you go if Igo ?" Councillor Morris asked. " Yes," replied the man. ''Right," said the councillor. Both faced the recruiting officer, and are now privates in the County regiment.

Mr Coates (Kaipara) asked Government the other day why it is that certain English-trained nurses, of long-standing surgical experience, who have been practising in Naw Zealand for some time and who volunteered to go to the front at the commencement of the war, were refused, when nurses were so urgently required. In reply, Mr Russell, Minister in Charge of Hospitals, said: "While there have been and still are so manyNew Zealand-trained nurses offering their services for work at the front, it has been thought only right that preference should be given to them."