THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO With which is incorporated "The Kaipara Advertiser & Waitemata Chronicle." Helensville, Thursday, November 13. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 13 November 1919, Page 2

THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO With which is incorporated "The Kaipara Advertiser & Waitemata Chronicle." Helensville, Thursday, November 13. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The monthly meeting of the Helensville Town Board will be held this evening. Owner of a canvas coat is advertised for. Advertiser has for sale Champion •tove, with copper boiler. The ECHO Office wants a reliable boy to deliver papers. An inset, dealing ■with the Reform Party's policy, appears with to-day's issue.

An advertisement relating to Christmas goods appears on page one of this issue, from Stewart Bros.' stores.

, A gift afternoon in aid of the Presbyterian Church funds will be held in the Agricultural Hall on Thursday next, November 20th. All are invited.

The Secretary of the Kaipara Returned Soldiers' Association has on hand badges for the following : 12/2931, 38566, 17/278, 24/1812, 24/1593, 26840, 44713. Please apply.

Reminder is given of the welcome social to the Key. Clement Houchen, to be held in the Agricultural Hall this evening. Particulars appear in our advertising columns.

The Springs road is in fairly good order at the present time, and a large amount of traffic is going over it daily. It is a< great pity there is no footpath from Helensville right to the Domain, as the present constant dodging of vehicles by pedestrians, and vice versa, is a trying experience for all concerned.

Mr Cecil Bailey, a returned soldier who recently married and settled on «, farm at Aratika, had a pleasant surprise on morning last week, when three ploughmen neighbours turned up without notice and ploughsd up a paddcok for him. This is the kind of quiet, unostentatious act which ia worth 1000 speeches.

By advertisement elsewhere, the Chief Electoral Officer directs attention to the sections of the Electoral Rights Amendment Act, 1919, in regard to persons entitled to vote by declaration at the forthcoming polls. Absent voters permits and seamen's rights are also dealt with, and electors are advised to peruse this important announcement.

An important announcement appears from the chairman of the Helensville Town Board, Mr Jas. Stewart, calling a public meeting for next Monday evening, in the Star Theatre, to discuss the proposed soldiers' memorial for Helensville and district. Everyone is urged to attend this meeting, as it high time some finality in regard to the matter was reached.

Since January Ist of the current year over 16,000 tickets have been issued at the Helensville Domain for the baths (private and swimming). Making allowance for those who have purchased tickets on the card system (one dozen on a card), it is estimated that over 15,000 tickets have been used, a splendid indication of the growing popularity of the baths.

The following is from a recent issue of the Hastings v Tribune :—At last night's welcome home social and dance in the Hastiugs Municipal Assembly Hall, the Mayor told rather a good story regarding a little homesick English bride's disappointment on her first view of her adopted country. She hailed from Liverpool, and on catching her first glimpse of Lambton Quay she tearfully exclaimed: " Oh, what a small little place, I do hope that Otaki will be better."

Many papers record all the world's news : only one chronicles your district affairs. You need that one, for it is unsatisfactory to be dependent - upon gossip—or an occasional read of your neighbour's paper—for information as to stock sales, what the local governing bodies are doing, and the hundred and one matters of local interest that are printed from time to time. A year's subscription costs only six shillings and sixponoe. Postage is free, and so is dejivery. Mabel Monnand will appear at the Lyric on Tuesday evening next in -" Peck's Bad Girl." Tho parent's life is the child's copyIjouk. " The Spirit, of '17," featuring Jauk; Pickford, at Everybody's next Saturday. Mary Pickford excels herself as "Amarilly of Clothes Line Alley," to be shown next Tuesday at Everybody's.

Anita Stewart, the world's favourite, in " A Million Bid," Lyric Pictures on

Friday evsning.

Mr S. Thornley, painter and paperhanger, announces elsewhere in this issue that he is prepared to furnish estimates free, and undertake work in any part of the district in his particular lines of business.

A drama which seems to have been made to order for Mabel Normand, will be screened •at the Lyric on Tuesday next. This is " Peck's Bad Girl," from the celebrated story of the same name. As is well known, the story tells of a young girl who had such an excess of the joy of life that she kept the whole Tillage in a state of alarm as to what her next performance would be. In this story her principal exploit is to close a bank and cause a riot, but she makes amends later by waylaying a gang of burglars who are out to rob the bank. There is a delightful intermingling of laughter with serious situations throughout this fine picture.

The noble equine stood on the railw&v line, disputing the Kaipara train's right to a passage thereon. The train came on, however, and the equine (which was was white) was no more—in the spirit— but still a big proposition in the flesh The tragedy happened at Rewiti, and the passengers saw the animal hurtle down the railway bank, a corpse. The next morning, on the down train, a number of schoolboys who had witnessed the previous evening's tragedy, were on the lookout, as the train rushed through Rewhiti, for the gory remains. But there was nothing there—not a hair or hide of the victim. In the paddock adjoining the line a large white horse was rushing about in a most alive manner. The scholars were surprised, of course, but concluded that the horse had been tougher than the engine, and let it go at that. The real explanation is that the victim belonged to some Maoris, who, fearing retribution for allowing the animal to stray on the line, moved the victim of assault and battery in double quick time. The other lively white horse was merely a coincidence I

Never fret about what you cannot help or cannot understand.

For all Ford Accessories. J. F.Lambert The Accredited Ford Dealer. *