THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED "THE KAIPARA ADVERTISER & WAITEMATA CHRONICLE" HELENSVILLE, THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1918. FLASHES.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 20 June 1918, Page 2

THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED "THE KAIPARA ADVERTISER & WAITEMATA CHRONICLE" HELENSVILLE, THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1918. FLASHES.

The annual general meeting of the Helensville A. and P. Association takes place on Monday, June 24. Tenders have been accepted for the extensive alterations and additions to the Agricultural Hall, and when completed will be one of the most convenient in the iistrict. Mr T. A. Cooper, organising secretary. Df the N.Z. Farmers' Unoion, paid a visit to this district last week, with a view to establishing a branch here. A meeting of Farmers will be held, when Mr Cooper will give an address. The date will be announced later on. Amongst a Gazette list of 26 names of the enemy aliens, the naturalisation of whom has been revoked, appear the names of Carl Seegner, Paul M. A. Hansen, and other well-known Germans in. the Dominion. Good lecture, depicting some of the sufferings of this war, the trying time men have to go through, the bravery and endurance of the soldiers, their self-sacrifice and comradeship, will be given by Captain-Chaplain Shaw at the Lyric Theatre on Monday next, June 24th., at 8 p.m. One of a Beries of entertainments under the auspices of the Church of England will be held in the Star Theatre on 27th June. A fancy 'dance, pas de seul, will be given, also instrumental and vocal items by the best available talent. The short concert will end about 9 p.m., when dancing will be indulged in. Supper will be provided. Refeiring to the grave disadvantagee under which many settlers in the Far North lived on account of the absence of passable ro^ds, the Vice-President of the Kaipara Chamber of Commerce stated last week that he knew of a family, the members of which had not been near civilisation, meaning a township, for nine years. The woman had not seen one of her own sex for 14 months. Several acts of individual gallantry in connection with the resistance by the New Zealariders to the advance of the Germans at the end of March and in the early days of April are recorded in a recent issue of the Chronicles of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. It mentions that Captain Gordon Coates, M.P. for Kaipara, also of the First Auckland Battalion, has again distinguished ili mself. in the March-April operations. After weary-ifrarohes, with little rest or sleep, he led his company into action in splendid style, and when! several of his men were killed or wounded by shell fire he went, under heavy machine-gun fire, to their assistance, and on his own broad shoulders carried one out to safety. A report regarding work on the Northland railway was received at Friday's meeting of the Railway League from its commissioner. He stated that the Maungaturoto tunnels were still closed down, though there had been a slight increase in the number of men employed on other work during the past month, one cutting having been recommenced. It was stated that there were enough experienced tunnel workers now available in the district to make up one shift and thkt many more were ready to come, but the writer had heard that orders had been sent from Wellington to take no more men on. The Secretary was instructed to write to the ActingPrime Minister on the subject, and also to Mr Dickson, attending to the electorate in the absence of Captain Coates, calling attention to the matter.