THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED "THE KAIPARA ADVERTISER & WAITEMATA CHRONICLE," HELENSVILLE, THURSDAY, Jan 10, 1917 FLASHES.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 10 January 1918, Page 2

THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED "THE KAIPARA ADVERTISER & WAITEMATA CHRONICLE," HELENSVILLE, THURSDAY, Jan 10, 1917 FLASHES.

A meeting of the Rabbit Poisoning Board will be held in the Holensville Public Library on Monday next, 14th inst., at 11 a.m.

Some thirty young pheasants' .have been sent to the Helensville district for liberation by the Auckland Acclimatization Society.

Tenders are being called for the erection of station buildings at Haurau and Maungaturoto' For particulars see advertisement in another column.

A fine specimen of ambergris weighing 12oz. -was discavered on the West coast on Sunday last by Mr W. G. Bradly. Before the war ambergris was worth £5 an oz.

•' The Valley of Decision," a Mutual powerful problem play, will be screened at the Star Theatre on Wednesday evening next. There is nothing crude nor harsh in the story, nothing indelicate, but it drives home a great moral lesson, at the same time providing a strong dramatic story of great interest.

In view of the acute scarcity of tinplate which threatens primary industries using that material for containers for meat, fish, fruit, etc., the Commonwealth Advisory Council of Sxionce and Industry is investigating the question of substitutes by such materials as are available in Australia in large quantities.v Experiments have already commenced at Melbourne University.

Advice has been received by the local Defence authorities that no Cl men of the secoud Division will be required to go into camp before April. In respect to Second Division men who have volunteered, no instructions have been received regarding the application to them of the postponement of the Second Division drafts. Failing advice to the contrary, these men will be required to enter camp at the time arranged by them when enlisting.

At the usual monthly .meeting of the Helensville School Committee held on Tuesday evening last, a resolution w.is unanimously carried expressing a hearty vote of thanks to the head teacher and staff for their untiring energy in bringing the recent Garden Fete to a successful issue/and also to the public for their assistance. The function, which was in aid of the school swimming bath, was a decided monetary success, and the Committee has now about £40 in hand. The bath will cost about £200, and on a Government ■£■ for £ subsidy, £60 is wanted to complete the work. .

The Grand Red Cross Evening organised by Miss M.Rimmer, and held in the Lyric Theatre on Thursday, 20th ult., was undoubtedly one of the most successful undertakings ever held in Helensville. The Theatre was crowded and'Hhe gaily decorated stalls illumin; ated with electric lights looked quite enchanting. Needless to say, a brisk business was done, and each stall-holder was kept busy gathering in the shekels. Competitions were well patronised. A short, but most enjoyable musical programme was gone through, including vocal items by Misses Alice and Maud Rimmer, and musical monologues by Miss Pat Yorke. The proceeds which amounted to the sum of £117 have been handed to the Red Cross Fund.

At the seaside sorae people say that the girls' bathing dresses are this year less becoming. Others say they are becoming less. ..