THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED "THE KAIPARA ADVERTISER & WAITEMATA CHRONICLE" HELENSVILLE, THURSDAY, JAN. 16, 1919 FLASHES.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 16 January 1919, Page 2

THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED "THE KAIPARA ADVERTISER & WAITEMATA CHRONICLE" HELENSVILLE, THURSDAY, JAN. 16, 1919 FLASHES.

The State Schools in the Auckland Province will reopen for the year on February 3.

A new list of properties for sale (Messrs Hand and Ellett, Estate Agents) appears on our fourth page.

Householders are warned to attend to leaky taps, so as to prevent undue waste of water.

Mrs W. F. F. Raisher's Para Fern unbeaten for the past seventeen years •will not compete at the forthcoming Helensville Show, but she is sending up a fine collection of maidenhair ferns.

The main rolls for the Licensing Poll to be taken on A.pril 10, closed, on Monday last, and the Supplementary Roll will close on March 5.

Owing to there being no Show in Auckland and Waikato last year the Committee are expecting large entries and a record gathering at the Helemville Show on 29th inst.

Sir Thomas Mackenzie, the High Commissioner, is forwarding to New Zealand the silken flags which the battle cruiser New Zealand has borne in her various engagements, as war memorials.

The Registrar of Electors has installed a telephone in his office in Victoria Street, Dargaville. The number is 130. Enquiries re electoral matters will b» promptly attended to if 130 is rung up.

The estimated deficiency in the Australian sugar crop owing to cyclonic disturbance is 40,000 tons. The Government has purchased 10,000 tons from Mauritiuß and Java.

Four silver cups are being presented to the Show. The one for Milk Test Competition was won by Mr J. Grey and is now on exhibition in Mr F. Tucker's window. ' The President's (Mr N. W. Rimmer) Cup for most points in dairy classes, is on vi^w in Mr H Coulter's window. !

Visitors to the Wairua Falls from Dargaville a day or two ago state that not half the Falls are harnessed for electrical purposes, and yet here we are throughout the district paying as much as 25s and 30s for benzine. It would appear that many of us have been born too soon to see the intelligent development of the district's natural resources. —Bell.

The authorities of the Women's Land Army (England) have approached Sir, Thomas Mackenzie in regard to the land conditions in New Zealand. Some five thousand women do not desire to return to their pre-war occupation, and a large number are anxious to work on the land overseas if the conditions are favourable.

The U.S. National Industrial Conference Board asserted that the cost of living between July, 1914, and July 1918,, increased in the United States 50 to 55 per cent. The increases found for the different items go to make up the budget of the average family were:— Food, 62 per cent ; rent, 15 per cent clothing, 77 per cent; fuel and light, 45 per cent; sundries, 50 per cent.

The Dublin correspondent of " The Times " states that the Sinn Feiners have abandoned a proposed demonstration in the House of Commons. Their leaders are exercising restraint in ,the hope that Irish representation will be allowed at the Peace Conference. If this is refused, they will resort to desperate measures, including a general striked They are collecting £80,000 to establish a daily newspaper in Dublin.