LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 23 October 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Banks will be closed on Labour Day (Monday).

Fruit and confectionery business in Helensville is advertised to let.

Applications for the position of caretaker of the public library are invited by the Helensville Town Board.

Onion plants are advertised for sale by Mr A: J. Skelton, at*s/- per 1000, not per 100, as previously announced.

A re-place advertisement from R. Screaton, Central |>tores,. Helensville, appears elsewhere in this issue.

Mr C. Ketterer, jeweller, has received a small consignment of the " Simplex" alarm clocks. Inspection invited.

About £45,000,000 has been received in the Dominion for wool exported during the last three years, and over £40,000,000 for meat, during the last four years.

The official opening of the Awaroa Bowling Club's greens will take place on Labour Day (Monday next) at 2 p.m. Given fine weather, a pleasant time should be spent by all who attend.

A short sitting of the . Magistrate's Court was held at Helensville on Wednesday of last week. The business of the court was chiefly confined to. civil and judgment cases.

The annual Home Mission meetings of the Methodist Church are to be held on October 39th, 30th, and 31sf Rev. W. H. Speer is to be the speaker, and meetings will be held at Helensville, Kaukapakapa and Woodhill.

At the last meeting of the Waiteraata County Council, the engineer's recommendation that the road iv the vicinity of the Waimauku station be constructed as soon as possible, was approved, and it was decided to call tenders at an early date.

The Commissioner of Taxes draws the attention of taxpayers to the notification appearing in to-day's issue that the due date of payment of Land-tax for the current year is on Friday, the 7th day of November, 1919, and that the demands will be posted on or about the 31st of the month.

The following are successful tenders received by the Waitemata . County Council for various roading works:— Embankment across mud flat between Upper Waiwera and Waiwera wharf, Messrs Forrest and Sidwell, £340 16s; road formation and culverts on BrooklynHuia road, E. McQuaid, £73710s ; formation of Wainui-Kaukapakapa road, C. W. Smith, £304 7s 6d; Wainui limoworks access road, C. W. Smith, £322 13s 9d.

11l episode 9 of "Who is No. 1?" to be screened next Tuesday at Everybody's, Thornton Rayne, seemingly a friend, strikes at Graham Hale. Tommy and Aimee seek to solve Hie problem. Hale, called by a trick, reaches the meeting place of the T.T.T. Trapped, he is forced to send for evidence long sought. Somewhere a friend helps him, A bang-up fight, a clever plot, and still the big question, who is No, 1 ?

A recent visitor to Helensville remarked that in almost everything the city has an advantage over the country towns, but in one particular that is not so—the motion pictures. Wherever these are §hown they can be no better in the large towns than the smaller, for as a matter of fact they are all the same. In some caees, too, the pictures are shown in inland towns before they reach even Auckland. Patrons ar« now beginning to recognise that they can see just as good programmes in their own town as anywhere else in the Dominion.

The Triangle drama entitled " Acquitted," whieb. will be screened at the Lyric on Saturday, is a story with a strong argument in favour of those whom cir* circumstances deals hardly with. The star is Bessie Love, while the supports include Wilfred Lucas and" Mary Alden. The plat centres round an innocent man who is accused of murder and eventually acquitted, but who, as a result pf the notoriety attaching to the case, finds his employers refuse to reinstate him, and for the same reason no one cares to give him work. The story is told with great dramatic effect, and the ending is one of restored happiness to a family that has passed through the. dark clouds of trial and despair. There is a charming love story running through it.

Lord Milner, during his early journalistic experiences, edited for a brief while one of the popular magazines. In this capacity, it is related, he was compelled tq return tq a would r be contributor—a }ady—a stqry she had submitted which was too awful for words, return post Mr Milner was the recipient qf an indigr nant letter frqtn the aggrieved and diar appointed authoress. She had always suspected, she wrote, that editors neg? lected their duties ; nqw she was sure of jt, for befqre subniittiqg her manuscript she had slhfhslypassed together three or fqijr qf tlje inner pages. When it was ; returned to her it was in tl^e san^e con T dition. Obviously, then, her story had not been read. " Dear madam," replied Milner, "at breakfast when I find an egg is bad I do not have to eat the whole of it to make sure." ■ Some interesting reading matter appears on page 4. Woods' Groat Peppermint Curei For Cough? and Colds, never fails. " Th/; Tiger Man "—An absorbing narrative of the. desprt in gold rush days. The Select masterpiece, '•' The Whirlpool," featuring Miss Alice Brady, next Tuesday, Lyric Pictures,