FLASHES

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 2 March 1916, Page 2

FLASHES

R E. Ramsay, baker, Helensville, vhas a public notice elsewhere. Sale of timber, fencing posts, etc., on Show Ground, Tuesday, March 8. It never rains but it pours, and goodness knows we can do with a " downer " now. We have just been notified that all printing papers have gone up 100 per cent in price. Thanks. All the larger schools are to be fumigated, as a preventative against infantile paralysis. > . The Tort Albert A. and P. Association paid out the handsome sum of £100 for the Wounded Soldiers' Fund. A penny match-box was sold recently in Rome for £2000 for the benefit of crippled Italian soldiers. Mr W. Cullens, of Helensville, went to Wellington on Wednesday to see his son, of the " Silent Tenth," off to the front. Waikato Farmers' Co-operative ,'Bacon Company announce they are buyers of baconers and porkers. Dates are to be found in another column.

A quantity of timber and fencing posts also a first-class pump are to be auctioned on the Show Ground, next Tuesday, March 8.

Those interested in golf are reminded that the annual meeting will be held on Monday evening next in the Star Theatre.-

Mr C. H. Spinley has sold his farm, together with stock,, plant, etc., at Te Pua, and intends to reside in Helensville. We wish his successor (Mr Collins) a good innings.

In conssquence of the increase in the number of infantile paralysis cases in Auckland, it has been decided by the Bo ard of Education to close the primary schools.

Constable Driscoll has a new contract on, and when not generally seen about the Helensvill beat, is out in the backblocks collecting statistics for the Agricultural Department.

Numerous reports agree that great activity is noticeable at Kiel, and the possibility of a surprise submarine, destroyer, and Zeppelin attack on the Grand Fleet is always considerable.

We have just received from London an expensively got-up report and proceedings of the New Zealand War Contingent Association, and the speech delivered by the Hon. Thos. MacKenzie, at a meeting held on December 14th., at the Westminster Hotel, London.

The Farmers' Union Sheep Fair at Mangawhare passed off successfully, there being a big yarding and prices being high. Lambs' sold at 16s, culled c wes at 26s to 27/6, and Romney rams at trom 5 to 6 guineas.

Bagpipes figured at a Maori tangi held at Mangatapu, ne%,r Tauranga, last Sunday, to pay a tribute to the late half-casts chief, Taipari, otherwise known as Hone Makaraoti (John McLeod).

" Joe Pawelka is here at the Dardanelles," writes a soldier to his father, in the Mangaweka district. As the writer of the letter and Pawelka knew each other fairly intimately in their boyhood in Kinbolton, there should be no question of mistaken identity.

The local school has been closed until Monday, March 13th., owing to the epidemic of infantile paralysis. The children of Standards. VI and V are, however, expected to atttend the cookery and woodwork classes at the Manual Training Centre, on Fridays at the' usual time, 10.15 to 12.15.

That fine old melodrama, " The Ticket of Leave Man," which was played with gree.t success by. the loca! dramatic company a few years ago, will be the principal feature at the Star Theatre to-morrow (Friday) night. On Saturday night at the same theatre "The War Baby" (a new production), and "In the Vale of Sorrow," two fine dramas, will be screened, also "Gussle's Day of Rest," a hilarious Keystone farce, featuring Syd. Chaplin (Charles Chaplin's brother) for the first time in this town.

The development of Northern Wairoa lands is well shown by the extensive progress made dn the Paerata Estate, a few miles above Tangiteroria. Thirty years ago the territory Avas practically denuded of its kauri, and for two decades was a no-man's land, given over to exploiting gum-diggers and wandering cattle. Mr George Niccol then acquired its purchase and converted it into a modern pastoral property. It was later purchased by Dr, 'Fox, who, twelve months ago, disposed of it to Messrs Ward and Hailes. The property "is now carrying 5000 sheep and 500 head of cattle.- Dargaville Times.