THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO With which is incorporated. "The Kaipara Advertiser & Waitemata Chronicle" HELENSVILLE, THURSDAY, April 18, 1918. FLASHES.

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THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO With which is incorporated. "The Kaipara Advertiser & Waitemata Chronicle" HELENSVILLE, THURSDAY, April 18, 1918. FLASHES.

Mr C. Ketterer has a very important re-place advertisement in this issue.

To-night, Star Theatre, grand concert for V.M.C.A. Trench Comforts Fund. Good programme, and dance to follow.

The Kaipara Steamship Company's Otea is now on the slip in the Helensville yards, undergoing a thorough overhaul.

We are pleased to say that steps are being taken to abate the trolley-box nuisance on our footpaths. Not only is it a menance to pedestrians, but the noise is anything but pleasant,

The golfing season opened on Saturday last. The weather was fine, and a most enjoyable afternoon was spent. The Club is to be congratulated on having such splendid links.

The public are notified that all cable traffic is subject to indefinite delay, and it is therefore urged that only messages of urgent importance be sent.

The Catholic Church Committee has decided to postpone the euchre social which was advertised for Monday next, and the date will appear later.

Those wishing to attend the School Committee Election on Monday evening next are requested to do so at 8 p.m. sharp, in order that an early adjournment may be made to the farewell social in the Lyric Theatre.

The " Journal de Geneve " states that Constantine, ex-King of Greece, is living in luxury on £80,000 a year, which the. German Emperor pays to his credit into a Zurich bank. Constantine has regular interviews with German agents.

The following appeal case, was heard before the Auckland Military Service Board on Tuesday :—George H. Bennett, fisherman, Helensville (Mr Field), stated that he was the sole support of his father and mother and three young children. One brother had been killed in action, another had retured and was discharged, and another was now in camp. He sent to the Auckland market between 200 and 300 dozen fish weekly. He had a launch and plant valued at £400, which would be idle if he went to camp. He gave his parents an average of £1 a week. The appeal was adjourned sine die.

The patriotic concert held at Parakai on Tuesday evening last was an undoubted success, and resulted in the sum of £8 10s being handed to the Red Cross Fund. Professor Clement Wragge's address was listened to with intense interest, and the vocal items contributed were also greatly appreciated. The organiser, Private R. B. Pinchin, (late 11th Bat. Australian Forces, and now of 38th Reinforcement N.Z. Expeditionary Force), is a versatile comedian and impersonator, and has toured the world under the stage name of R. Sarsfield. He hopes, at the conclusion of the war, to open a combined vaudeville and picture show at Parakai.

A representative meeting of the citizens of Helensville was held on Tuesday evening last in the Lyric supper room to make arrangements for a presentation to Mr and Mrs H. W. Stringer, who are leaving the district Mr Aitkenhead occupied the chair, and a committee was formed of representatives of the many organisations of which Mr and Mrs Stringer had been members. It was decided to hold a social on Monday evening next in the Lyric Theatre, 'when a presentation will be made on behalf of the citizens. Musical items will be given, intermingled with dancing. An advertisement appears elsewhere in this issue inviting all to be present. In .the purpose of Wood' Great Peppery' ' mint Cure, ' There's nothing uncertain and nothing : obscure; It will vanish a cough, it will banish a cold, And its powers to comfort are manifold. In gastric complaints it unfailingly brings A soothing relief where the malady stings There are no narrow limits.of action be sure, In the uses of Woods' Great Peppermint 1 Cure.