FLASHES

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 20 April 1916, Page 2

FLASHES

Half-holiday declared for next Tuesday —Anzac Day.

Alternative tenders are required for re-decking Awaroa Creek bridge.

The dog-tax is settled at last, 7s 6d all round.

Steps are being taken to induce Government to give the farmers cheap lime and freight free.

Notification is given elsewhere of the coming Easter and St. George's Day Bank holidays in connection with the Union Bank of Australia Ltd.

Mr S. White, of the Te Awamutu Post and Telegraph Office, arrived at Helensville on Saturday evening last, and is now spending a week's holiday with his parents in Garfield Road.

Dame rumour hasn't a leg to stand up on, by stating Mr Cucksey was seriously ill in Auckland, as appeared in our last issue. He is home and as lively as ever. Says he won five bob at the trotting races.

It is said that the Kaiser spends half his time in prayer. Judging by the answers hfs has been setting of late, it would seem that the wireless operator at the Great Exchange has switched him on to the wrong number.

Mr Pemberton Billing, member for East' Herts, speaking at Newcastle, said : " Instead of Zeppelins we have the finest aeroplane in the world, and within hal a year may regain and retain supremacy of the air. We are able now to defend ourselves better than ever by anti-air craft guns,"

There is no getting away from facts,' and the production of the soil in this part of the country is growing more apparent every season. There is at present on view at the rooms of the North Auckland Farmers' Co-operative Ltd., Dargaville, a sheaf of maize fully 16 feet high, grown on Mr W. -Bradley's farm, Raupo.—Times.

A single gallon of petrol will" do wonders almost anywhere, but nowhere lias it been applied to better purpose than on the farm. It will milk 300 cows, bale 4 tons of hay, mix 35 cubic yards of cement, , move a 1-ton motor waggon 14 miles, or a motor car 20 miles, plough three-fifths of an acre of land, or generate sufficient electricity to illuminate the farm' house for 30 hours.