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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 27 July 1916, Page 2

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Next Court Day, Wednesday, 2nd

August-

Stewart Bros.' new replace advertisement will be found on our front page.

Latest news states that Pozieres has been captured, New Zealanders taking a prominent part.

Captain Sellars, who has been laid up with influenza, has again resumed command of the s.s. Wairua.

The Craig steamer, Joan Craig, is due shortly in the Kaipara, from Newcastle with coal.

Graham, the Universal Provider, now notifies his sole agency for Carson's Starch Tablets.

There will be an "In Memoriam '' service in the Parakai Hall on Sunday, next, July 30th., at 2.30 p.m., for Private Lloyd Russell, late Secretary and Treasurer for the Presbyterian Church in that district. Friends and the public generally are cordially invited to attend.

The Manager of the Kaipara S.S. Co, states that Captain Menzies, of the s.s. Ruawai, is progressing slowly after the recent operation performed on him at Dargaville, for acute appendicitis. Captain Ross is now in charge of th c s.s. Ruawai.

The firing off by the Helensville Rifle Club :cor the presentation Gladstone bag is progressing slowly. A good number of men turned up at the range on Saturday afternoon last, but the shooting was very poor, the light being extremely bad. Captain Turley and Rifleman Vercoe made the highest scores.

The proceeds of the last Patriotic Concert amounted to £19 nett, which sum was handed over to the Women's Patriotic League. This included the sum of £2 Is V/ 46. (flag collections) by the following : Miss Thelma Flannigan, T2s 3d ; Miss Nita Flannigan, 15s 6d ; Misses Edna Donovan and Madge Simcock, and Masters, Tom Hughes and Tom Geldard,^3ssHd.

On .the departure of the express for Auckland, on Saturday afternoon last, the Helensville Rifle Club assembled at the railway station to bid farewell to Privates R. Hunter and A. Constable, who had been home on their final leave. As the train moved off, Q.M.S. Fosbroke called for three hearty cheers for the x men going to the front" - Pte. Hunter, alert to the occasion, called for three cheers for the men who were left behind. Needless to say, everybody laughed at the joke.

Mr Henry White, junr., informs us that' his son Captain 0. S. White, in writing from France under date June 16th, states that he has been transferred from the .15th North Auckland Company to the command of the 6th Hauraki Company. He reports that the New Zealanders are all well in his sector. Whilst in the trenches there had been a few casualties, but excepting one soldier who had died from wounds, the rest of the Company had so far escaped serious wounds. Previous to taking over the 6th Hauraki Company, Captain White had been training Reinforcements that had just arrivedin wiring, etc., at Armentieres.

Nothing constitutes a better entertainment than a bright and varied picture programme, and such a one is to be screened at the Star Theatre on Saturday evening next. The chief attraction is an emotional drama entitled " When the Light Came in " —a story powerfully and vividly describing a girl's great sacrifice in renouncing happiness that her friend may marry the man whom they both love, while she suffers in loneliness and despair until, once more—"The Light Came In." Wednesday's big star feature is a wonderfully impressive human drama "Alone in London " —a true story of a woman fighting against great odds, depicting life and scenes in the great city, the poorest, the richest., the brightest, the deadliest city in the world, and dramatizing with startling frankness the pitfalls that beset the lives of the innocent. Characters that make you love and hate ; scenes of beauty, pathos, and humour; with talented Florence Turner in a brilliant role.