THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED "THE KAIPARA ADVERTISER & WAITEMATA CHRONICLE" HELENSVILLE, THURSDAY, June 13, 1918. FLASHES.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 13 June 1918, Page 2

THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED "THE KAIPARA ADVERTISER & WAITEMATA CHRONICLE" HELENSVILLE, THURSDAY, June 13, 1918. FLASHES.

A number of Maoris were brought before the Court at Helensville on Monday last, for. disorderly conduct, and eacVfined £2 7s and costs. ; \ :

An interesting lecture on "My life on a Hospital Ship," will be given by Chaplain-Captain Shaw, M.A., at the Lyric Theatre on Monday, June 24.

The annual general meeting of the Helensville A. and ;R Association takes places on Monday, June 24.

Tenders are invited per advertisement in this issue for alterations and additions to the Agricultural Hall.

A special meeting of the Helensville branch of the Women's Patriotic League is called for Friday (to-morrow) in the knitting-room, Misses Becroft's shop.

What is grocer's most prominent feature nowadays ? Why, his noes, of course! No margarine, no sugar, no manners, no nuffink!—Lady's London Pictorial.

In the latter part of Mr R. Nicholl's letter, which appeared in our issue of the 30th inst., it read " one of whom tohold a dual membership on the Town and Domain Board." it should have read "none of whom," etc.

A farewell social will be tendered Mr and Mrs McGarvey and family in the Agricultural Hall to-night (Thursday). Gentlemen will be charged 1/1, while ladies are requested to bring a basket. The proceeds will be devoted to the Red Cross Fund.

Charged with selling bacon that was bad, a firm of grocers pleaded that the stuff had been released by the Government. At first sight it looked as if it had merely escaped from custody.— Punch.

The Ideal Drapery Store, Commercial Road, announces mammoth purchase of warehouse samples of drapery, clothing, clothing, millinery, hoisery, men's, wonien'a, and children's underwear, and a thousand and one other lines, at a great discount. Now is your time for bargains. ♦

There, is now being distributed in Manchester a card begging recipients to send 500 books to 13, MosleV Street. The card, comniences: "A new convalescent camp' has just been opened in France. It contains 15,000 soldiers recovering from wounds and 100 books." Whatever author's books can it be that the poor fellows are recovering from ?

The announcement by Lord Rhondda that he io the son of a grocer has elicited considerable • interest, in the grocery trade, and when complimented by a leading Welsh grocer on not being ashamed to admit the fact, the Food Controller at once replied that he was proud of it. "Napoleon once said," added Lord Rhondda, " that Englishmen are a nation of shopkeepers, but what was not generally kown," His Lordship proceeded to say, " was that Napoleon followed up the remark with the statement, 4 and the extraordinary part of it is'they are ashamed it.' "

The formal language of official documen.t?." Pan at times ; be turned to good account with., a little ingenuity and modification.' There used io be a certain 'sub-department of the Air Board which was notorious for its dilatory methods. Some humorist;: in • another.. department, liaving in the course of duty to pass an important document on to the department, sent it in with the usual minuteslip attached, on which he wrote : " Passed to you for your inattention and unnecessary inaction, please." The result was the most startlingly rapid movement which the department had known in its existence.—London Opinion. Some of our Government departments would do well to take the hint. The American language is nothing if not picturesque. It is the habit of aviators flying across country to visit other aerodromes on their journeys, and it is then generally a matter of courtesy for the visitor to find the CO. of the visited aerodrome and ask his permission to leave his aeroplane on the aerodrome. The American aviator is not less courte^ous, even if his language is different, as was shown by an American aviator Jwho landed recently at a strange aerodrome, discovered the C.O.s office, walked in and remarked, " bay ! Are you the Big Noise in this constituency ? Guess you are ! Well! Will it interfere with your habits if I leave my gasoline kite in your pasture ?"

For Children's Hacking Cough at night Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. 1/6, 2/6