THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO With which is incorporated "The Kaipara Advertiser & Waitemata Chronicle." HELENSVILLE, THURSDAY, Feb. 28, 1918. FLASHES.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 28 February 1918, Page 2

THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO With which is incorporated "The Kaipara Advertiser & Waitemata Chronicle." HELENSVILLE, THURSDAY, Feb. 28, 1918. FLASHES.

Special services will be held in the Church of Christ on Sunday next. An address will be given by MrTidman in the morning, and in the evening Messrs Tidman and Garratt will speak.

The usual monthly memorial service will be held in the Star Theatre on Sunday afternoon next at 2.30 p.m. Mr C. F. Garratt will speak, taking as his subject " Main Stays." A collection will be made, and the pioceeds divided between the Helensville and Parakai Womens Patriotic League.

The Rev, R. L. Walker will preach at the Presbyterian Church anniversary services on Sunday next at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. He will also give a most interesting lecture (illustrated) in the Lyric Theatr on Monday evening. Supper will be provided.

The Women's Patriotic League will again conduct their stall outside the Star Theatre on Friday evenings. The proceeds will be equally divided between the Red Cross and the Memorial Fund. During the holidays over £1 was collected, and a good sum is now in hand. The object is a meritorious one, and assistance will be appreciated.

Scenes among the snow wastes of Alaska, and those in the heart of fashionable New York, with its gambling hells, midnight restaurant, and social pleasures, are remarkably well done in "The Lure of Heart's Desire," the big Metro attraction showing on Saturday evening next at the Ftar Theatre. Edmund Breese is just splendid in this vigorous story, which grips the interest and stirs the enthusiasm.

At the meeting held on Monday evening last to devise some scheme to raise a further sum for the Helensville school swim" ming bath, it was deoided to hold a concert on Easter Monday night in the Parakai Hall. A strong working committee (with Mr T. D. Johnson as secretary) are doing their utmost to make the function a successful one. A first-class programme is guaranteed, and the best of talent from the city will, with song and story grave and gay, willingly give their services.

" Ignorance " is without question one of the strongest, if not the strongest picture released this year, and was only allowed to pass by the Censor because of the great appeal made for the film by the Girls' Protection League, under whose auspices it was produced. It is vqry straight in its unmasking of the snares, lures and seductions that befall young girls whose ignorance leads them into the trap. The ideal way the subject is handled, the clever manner in which the story is told, the big lesson it teaches, and the splendid cast, headed by such well-known stars as Earle Metcalfe and Eleanor Black, make it a film which everyone will appreciate. It will be shown at the Star Theatre on Wednesday night.