LOCAL AND GENERAL

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 20 November 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The next Magistrate's Court day at Helensville will be Tuesday, December Kith.

Although previously announced, there will be no social in the Agricultural Hall this evening.

Rev. F. C. Pace is at present in Auckland, attending the annual meeting of the Methodist Synod.

Mr D. Rosy, manager of tbo Helensville Transport Co., accompanied by his wife, returned to Helensville last evening, after an enjoyable trip to Australia.

The official opening of the Helensville Domain bowling greens takes place on Saturday, and a pleasant time is guaranteed all who attend. Afternoon tea will be provided.

A meeting in connection with the proposed soldiers' memorial, called for Monday evening last, was adjourned till Monday next, November 24th. The attendance was meagre,

In conjunction with the Bazaar to be held during the middle of January next the Catholics of the district are running a Queen Carnival, with queens from Helensville, Parakai, Kaukapakapa, and Rewhiti. Full particulars will be furnished later,

On Thursday last at the Auckland Supreme Court, JUeo Arthur Copland Boranoff, charged with obtaining from Tony Antunovich, of Helensville, the sum of £125 by false pretences, was found guilty, sentenced to three years' imprisonment with hard labour, and declared an habitual criminal. A general meeting of the Kaipara branch of the R.S.A., called for Tuesday evening last, was not hold. A general meeting will be held in the Lyric supper rooms on Tuesday evening next, 23rd November. A full attendance of active, intending, and honorary members, and returned soldiers in general is desired. The euchre tqurnamen|; and dance held at Parakai Hall last evening was excep : tionally well attended, and over £7 was taken at the door. The euphre prizes were won by Mrs Farrell and Mr Smith, while Miss C. Aitkenhead and ftjr H. Hart were suitably consoled for gaining the least number of games. A nico supper was provided by the ladies of the | district. Dancing was indulged in and i kept up until midnight, and all present ; loft with the expressed wish - for more gatherings of a like nature. i > A. lost purse, containing school picnic collection, is advertised for. I pind^r of gold wristlet watch is adver- } tised.fov.

Our Kaukapakapa news is held over having arrived too late for insertion in this issue.

The Christmas vacation for the primary schools will extend from 19fch December to 2nd February.

The licensing poll next month will comprise three issues: Dominion prohibition (bare majority), continuance, and State control.

An exchange states that several Pukekohe residents who guaranteed Chautauqua's existence for a week, dropped £3 or £4 each. The guarantee was £300.

The Methodists of Kaukapakapa and district are holding a Summer Fair on Thursday, December 4th, and have a big list of competitions and attractions for same.

The local school picnic will be held on the Show grounds on Friday, December 12th. Funds are being raised for prizes and refreshments for the children, and a generous response to the • call is anticipated.

The Registrar of Electors informs us that a person who has served beyond the seas as a member of an Expeditionary Force is not disqualified from voting or from being registered as an elector on tho ground that he ha 6 not attained the age of twenty-one years.

The newly-launched Wairua had the misfortune to strike a log in the rivev on a recent trip, with the iesult that a propellor blade became embedded in the wood and snapped clean off. The Wairaa was moored in the river near the wharf, awaiting repairs.

It was stated at the last Town Board meeting that several schemes for fiaancftig the electric light proposition had been considered, but up to the present nothing tangible had • resulted. As matters are at present, ratepayers and everyone else are inclined to pessimism over the matter, and anticipate another winter of utter and absolute darkness.

The Registrar of Electors informs us that under the Expeditionary Forces Act 1919, an alien who may have been a member of an Expeditionary Force is entitled to vote under the Expeditionary Forces and Electoral Rights Amendment | Act, 1919, but he is not entitled to become registerod. At the last Town Board meeting it was decided to procure necessary pipes (IGO feet) for drain known as Thompson's. —A defective drain grating at corner of Springs road was pronounced dangerous in its present state. —A member mentioned that it would be a good idea if a monthly report on the state of the roads, drains, etc.,- was put in for the Board's guidance. The entertainment given on Saturday night last by Astras and Sylvester was moderately attended. The whole show was a meritorious one, Sylvester specially being a most versatile person. His acts included conjuring, juggling, hypnotism, vcntroliquism, and telepathy, all of which were woll received by the audience, The telepathy of Astra was a remarkable act, and she completely mystified the audience by the way she accurately answored questions and even thoughts. The Transport Go's, big 'bus had a narrow escape from serious accident on Sunday night last, on the Springs road. Endeavouring to avoid a buggy coming in tho opposite direction, by the Dairy Factory, the driver swerved to the right, and the feus jumped the ditch and footpath, landing in the soft soil on the side of tho road, and bumping a post in it-* progress. Half-an-hour's work on tho part of a number of willing lnfhds got the bus out of its trouble, with only very slight damage. " It's better to be born lucky than rich," say some.

" Rating on unimproved values," says the Pukekohe Times, '.' does not appear to have the unmixed blessings some of its champions claim for it. In Ngaruawahia, where the system has been in vogue many years, some of the ratepayers are considering the advisability of changing over to the capital value basis of rating. Conversing on the matter with a member of the Times' staff, a prominent business man of Ngaruawahia contended that he, as owner of a dwelling house and sectiqn, had to pay as much in rates as the owneus of the N.Z. Dairy Factory qr some of the large business concerns, the rate being levied on the land, aqd nqt qn the property. This meant that he was paying as much for the upkeep of the roads, though his only vehicle was a bicycle, as were the great business firms with their waggons and lorries. He considered rating on capital values mvich the more equitable, notwithstanding the fact that the rating on the unimproved system was supposed to be the inoro democratic method.

Statements for and against and for again indicate that the date of the election will be December 17th, although Mr Massoy plays safe by announcing that it will bo between the 10th and 18th of December. Applications for the position of caretaker of the Helensville Domain are advertised for. Successful applioant ' must understand the upkeep of bowling, >3 tennis, and croquet playing areas, and must be a competent gardener. Applications close on Friday, Noyember 11. Charles Ray, Thos. H. lince's "wonder boy," will apear in his latest picture, "His Own Home Town," next Tuesday '*& at Everybody's. Driven forth from the /! town as a "black sheep," he eventually returns, and, inspired by a girl and backed up by a printing press, he cleans up the gang who had prosecuted him and . " makes good " with a vengeance. The matter of the establishment, of a cold storage plant for Helensville, for »s which a large amount was placed on the • Estimates this year, was the subject of an interview between the Hon. J. G. Coates and the fishermen at Helensyille to-day. From what we can gather, the «-,- Government is willing to advance the money, but want to see some form of reliable control before committing themselves to the expenditure.

A resident not a hundred miles from Helensyille had an unexpected visitor on a recent afternoon, but was unfortunately not at home to entertain the caller, A cow, tiring of the restrictions of its paddock, strolled on to the verandah of the residence adjoining, and entered the dining room by a side door, After surveying the scene, and finding nothing congenial, the visitor left without doing any very material damage. This cow is considered much more ladylike than another in the town, who walked into a kitchen and sampled the pots.

The name of Willard Mack is ' famous - both as a writer of stage plays and of screen plays, and he can always be depended upon to deliver the goods. In " The Witch Woman," to be screened at the Lyric on Saturday, he had provided an unusual plot with fine dramatic situations. The play is a World production, and Ethel Clayton takes the part of Marie, a simple French peasant girl who is wronged by an artist, driven from home in disgrace, and loses her reason, Living in a care, she acquires the reputation of being a witch, and the story reaches a high pitch of interest when she eventually encounters the twin brother of her betrayer, in the hands of a skilled psychopathist she recovers her reason, and eventually wins to happiness after a very trying interlude.

A provision in the land legislation passed by the Reform Government last session which is of benefit to soldiers was referred to by the Hon. Mr Coates in his address at Paparoa. Th« 1919 Act, he said, conserved the right of holders of settlement land on lease in perpetuity to purchase the fee simple as conferred by Section 60 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913, in all cases where the owners of such leases have served beyond the seas, in any of His Majesty's forces in the war with Germany, and such right may be exercised at any time within iive years after the passing of tho Act. Another provision that was passed nets out to improve the conditions of settlement of lands in the kauri gum districts, the area which may be taken up under the Acts of 1912 and 1913 being increased from 25 to 200 acres in the case of each individual settler.

The death occurred at the Auckland Hospital on Monday last of Miss Frances McLeod, a well-known Helensville resident, who for a number of yeari now has conducted a boardinghouse in Garfield Road. Deceased, who has been ailing for some considerable time, lately became worse and her removal to the hospital was ordered by Dr. Meinhold, where she passed away as above stated. Deceased, who was 51 years of age, had resided in the Kaukapakapa and Helensville districts practically all her life, and her demise will be greatly regretted by a large circle of friends an 4 relatives. The funeral, which was largely attended, took place at Kaukapakapa c.ernetery on Tuesday last. The schoolchildren as a mark of respect, were lined t}n on both sides of the road as the cortege passed the school, and flags in I;he settle-; ment were half masted. A service* was held in the Presbyteriau Church.

Alice Brady in "■ The Spurs of Sybil," Lyric Pictures, Friday next.

Advertiser has vacancies for tvyo young lady boarders. '_■■"'.

For ajl Ford Accessories, J, F.Lambert The Accredited Ford Dealer, ♦' Lovely Ethel Clayton in " The Witch Woman," at the Lyric on Saturday.