THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED "THE KAIPARA ADVERTISER & WAITEMATA CHRONICLE" HELENSVILLE, THURSDAY, DEC. 5, 1918 FLASHES.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 5 December 1918, Page 2

THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED "THE KAIPARA ADVERTISER & WAITEMATA CHRONICLE" HELENSVILLE, THURSDAY, DEC. 5, 1918 FLASHES.

The Library and books having been thoroughly disinfected by the Health Inspector will re-open on Saturday, 7th December. The N.A.I Farmers' Co-op, hold their next Helensville sale on Tuesday, 10th inst., when they will also sell the grazing rights of the Kaipara Dairy Company's ■ection. Orders have been received by district headquarters that the Military Service and Medical Boards are be disbanded forthwith. i ■ The Chief Inspector of Fisheries recommends the Government to encourage fishermen by State aid, and to foster municipal markets. The Licensing Bill, providing for a prohibition poll in April has been passed in the Lower House; incidentally it makes 6 o'clock closing a permancy. Cabinet is considering a scheme to provide relief for widows and children rendered destitute by the epidemic. It is announced from London that the Imperial War Cabinet, including the Overseas representatives, has unanimously decided to presi Holland for the extradition of the Kaiser. Herr Eisner, the Bavarian Premier, says that the old Government machinery is still working in Germany, and that the Socialist Government has no real power. Don't fail to see Miss Dorothy Dalton in the great Triangle drama, " The Dark Road," at the Lyric on Saturday evening. Patrons attention is drawn to the new prices for admission—circle, 1/6; stalls, 1/- ; tax included; children to stalls, 3d. Mothers, sisters, and wives of soldier* may be interested to know that, on sending Is 6d to the Secretary of the Women's National Reserve, Brandon Street, Wellington, they will receive a neat silver badge, which they are entitled to wear. An official Berlin announcement asserts that the food situation in Germany is desperate owing to the dearth of harvest labour following the repatriation of prisoners, and also the cessation of supplies from the East. Owing to so many of the workers being ill of the prevailing epidemic, the sale of work in aid of the Presbyterian Church funds had to be unavoidably postponed from December 6th to December 20th. Friends are cordially invited to come and see what is offered for sale at reasonable prices. A naval officer who participated in the surrender of the German destroyers, states that in one case a junior officer presented himself. When asked, "Whera is your commander ?" he said: " I command; the commander gave us gome trouble, so we just threw him overboard." The Ekaterinburg correspondent of the London Daily Chronicle states that a judicial [commission found that there was no evidence to ' prove that the exTsar was executed, and that circumstantial evidence points to the belief that the ex-Tsar and his family are still alive. V Your attention is drawn to the Ideal Drapery's new advertisement of great Christmas sale. Owing to slack season they have decided to clear their up-to-date stock of general drapery, clothing and millinery regardless of cost for the next month. Inspection invited. The Washington correspondent of the New.^ork Times says that according to figures given in the Federal Reserve Bulletin, the war, up to the signing of the armistice, had cost the principal belligerents £40,000,000,000' This does not include the damage done by the armies. The closing of the hairdressing saloons in some of the larger towns had a strange, almost weird effect upon many residents who were unable to wield a razor (says an exchange). Some were adorned with a vari-coloured growth that even their best friends scarcely knew them.

A cable message states that owing to the cessation of hostilities, a Presidential Committe, after investigation of the prohibition of brewing throughout the United State of America, recommends the cont:nuance of the order. Every brewery in the Untied States closed on November 30 as a step towards nationwide prohibition.

The Inglewood Record advertises in a New Plymouth paper as follows—"The proprietary tender their sincere apology for the non-appearance of the Inglewood Record, for the first time in its liife. Although the staff all left alive and well on Saturday evening, only two showe d up this morning, and one had to be taken home per motor-car within an hour, the editor and boy being the only ones left, rendering publication impossible."

Five dozen Ladies' Handbags, suitable for Christmas gifts, at half-price, at the Ideal Drapery Stores. ♦

The grazing rights for one year of paddock at the Hot Springs (about.23 acres) will be offered for sale on Tuesday next at the N.A. Farmers' Co-op, stock sale. The result of the Helensville A. and P. Association's Milk Test Competition is advertised in another column, the winner being Mr J. Grey's Polly. New Zealand prisoners of war are arriving in England. Sir Thomas Mackenzie and the New Zealand military authorities are arranging for their reception and, comfort. , Itfpj Canadian Clubs and other organisfts**^ tions throughout the Dominion have P> sent cablegrams to the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Borden, in London, insisting upon exemplary punishment of the Kaiser and every other German criminal. Smokers are smoking more now than \ ever they did, and many who have not, "* in the past, burnt at the shrine of My Lady Nicotine have taken up the cult, for it is a general opinion that tobacco smoke does a deal of service against this x epidemic. + s The Northland Age says—Arrangements are being made to hare . some nozzles made in Kaitaia for the purpose of attaching them to a ateam pipe at the factories at Kaiteia and Herekino, and thus setting up a cheap inhaling plant for the use of residents in those districts. Not a bad suggestion for Helensville. A request for the restoration of excursion fares for Christmas was made by Mr R. W. Smith (Waimarino) in the House on Tuesday. In reply, the Minister for Railways said that everything depended on the number of men who returned to the service. He would look into the matter and see what could be done, hut he did not expect that much could be done by Christmas. He thought they would probably be able to do something for Easter.