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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 14 September 1916, Page 2

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Eggs from pure-bred fowls, 4s 6d a setting of 15. The Helensville librarian is complaining about the large number of outstanding books. Subscribers are liable to a fine of 6d per week for each book retained over the 14 days allowed for reading. If you would not have two men with their bayonets touch you on the shoulder and say " come along," be sure and enrol for the Reserve with the Postmaster by Saturday next, 16th inst., and thus avoid being sent right off to the front without further parleying.

After several years' residence in Australia, a private in the Anzacs, who served in Gallipoli (where he was wounded), and in Egypt, was drafted to France, where almost the first person he met was his father, a clerk at a/ base depot. Jji/ ■ '#:"'W The Rev. J. A. Lamond intends g^'.&V a Memorial Service at Wainui next * Sunday afternoon at 2.30 p.m., for the late Private H. J. (Bert) King, o£ Wainui, who has been killed in action. Subject : " One flag, one cross, and we are brethren." Return^ soldiers are especially invited, and all military men are asked to attend in uniform.

Mr Tau Henare, M.P., promises to see that the Parliamentary tour party shall be entertained with any amount of hakas wherever they go. We would entertain them in the mud, too ; in holes two and three feet deep on our public roads. . But the sly dogs intend to see the North in the middle of - summer, hence the holes will not be discernable.

A writer replying to " Belta Mary B." in last issue, wants to know if Belta means that a lot of pretty girls are invited to sit on the Town Board, or is it old women he is driving at ? Because, if the latter, he thinks there have been "old women" in plenty, sitting on the Town Board since it first came into existence.

The Right Rev. Dr. Averill has definitely decided to visit Helensville on Sunday, September 24th. He will conduct all the services in St. Matthew's Church on that' day. At 11 a.m. His Lordship will unveil the tablet to be erected in the Church by Mrs Screaton in memory of her late son, Lieut. Screaton, who was killed at Gallipoli on May 8, 1915. He will also present licenses to Messrs Field, Hill, and Rutherford, lay-readers. At 2.30 the Bishop will conduct the military service in Star Theatre, and will also preach at the Church at evensong at 7 p.m. '} .

A marvellous escape from serious accident: occurred on Tuesday last at the Helensville Railway Station. A waggon and pair of horses, belonging to Mr B. Evans, were standing at the railway ' yards, when an engine whilst shunting frightened the pair, which bolted along the line towards Pipitewai, It was marvellous the way in. which the waggon kept on the track, with the horses going at such a terrific rate. Mr Alex. Hunter, on witnessing the accident, jumped on his pony and galloped along the road, which is parallel with the line, catching up to the runaways just in time to prevent them from being smashed to pieces at the railway bridge, which is without planking. . . " The strange story of Sylvia Gray," in which Miss Helen Gardner plays three different parts, is to be introduced at the Star Theatre on Saturday evening next, and for intense dramatic power it has few equals. In addition to the usual progrogramme, " The Queen of Sheba" will be shown—a marvellous historical picture, constructed, acted and filmed on a grand scale. The film version of that famous book, "Uncle Tom's ' Cabin " (by Harriet Beecher Stowe), will ba screened on Wednesday next, in conjunction with the sensational drama, "The Jockey of Death," which met with such great success when shown in Auckland last week.