THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO With which is incorporated " The Kaipara Advertiser &Waitemata Chronicle." Helensville. Thursday,. Dec:-2, 1915. END OF CARNIVAL

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 2 December 1915, Page 2

THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO With which is incorporated " The Kaipara Advertiser &Waitemata Chronicle." Helensville. Thursday,. Dec:-2, 1915. END OF CARNIVAL

SOUTHERN QUEEN WINS NORTHERN QUEEN GOOD SECOND

After the great excitement of the past few week^, we feel sure the majority of the public are heartily glad the election for the Carnival Queen is now happily settled. Though the North takes second place, the Echo is justly proud to think that the stigmatic term of the "Poor North," which used to leave a nasty taste on the palate, can no longer be cast at us. Perhaps the writer's thirty-four years of strenuous journalism in the Bay of Islands^ and whose Luminary newspaper represented the four Northern Counties, may have had something to do with the altered state of affairs for the better; when the mails were carried by pack-saddle .from Kawakawa to Wliangarei in connection with the Auckland mail service, and the late genial Captain Farquhar, whose heart was also in the North, carried the various other mails round to each port. It was not only in those by-gone days, the " Poor North/ but 4CEoadless North,' 5 when the settlers humped their flour and sugar threw gh. cattle tracks and over the ranges. But this by the way. Granted that Mrs A. E. Harding was somewhat popular as Queen of the North, and worked hard to encourage.the people to give, give, it was scarcely anticipated she would ever reach second place. Ev Ten so late, as Saturday last, and polling over 1,000,000 votes " our queen " was then only in fifth position, against the Southern Queen's (Mrs Bollard) 2,400,000 votes. 'But by Monday ,closing; day, a big jump was made, over '£24,000 for the South, and £12,612 for North reaching Auckland in time for the finale,and bringing the votes up to—South 4,416,020, and North 3,226,427, while the Queen of the East managed 2,9*3,125. Then followed the Soldiers, Wholesalers, Professions, Licensing Victuallers, Retailers, Sports, Public Service, Labour, and Waitemata (last, with 568,0u0 only.)

It was thought that the North Auckland exhibit at the late Exhibition, taking first prize as jit did, was a tremendously good advertisement, but the Northern Queen taking second position is a bigger one still for one and all, and everyone who contributed towards the main object aimed at, i.e., the raising of a quarter-of-a-million for our wounded soldiers and their dependents, have to be whole heartedly congratulated. , The goal—£2so.ooo—has been realised, and over subscribed, and v/ill probably reach £350,000 by the time ail the delayed functions now being vigorously wound-up all over the country, and the fund is closed.