The Kaipara & Waitemata ECHO WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED "THE KAIPARA ADVERTISER & WAITEMATA CHRONICLE" HELENSVILLE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 18 December 1919, Page 2

The Kaipara & Waitemata ECHO WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED "THE KAIPARA ADVERTISER & WAITEMATA CHRONICLE" HELENSVILLE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Owinpr to Christmas Day falling on Thursday next, the ECHO will be published on Wednesday (Christmas Eve).

A number of items (including Magistrate's Court) ar« unavoidably held ov«r.

Advertiser requires a man or youth, must be good milker.

Tenders are invited by the Domain Board for cutting and removing grass at the Domain.

The first express to run on the Kaipara line with the resumption oi the timetable wont through to Ranganui on Monday, and carried a fairly large number of passengers.

Mr Frank Brasier, licensee of the Clarendon Hotel, Auckland, who died from injuries recently in a brawl at the hotel, was well-known in this district having formerly kept the hotel at Silverdale. Before coming to New Zealand he was a prominent public conjuror and illusionist in London.

The Auckland Master Grocers' Association have agreed to close their shops from Christinas Eve till the following Monday,. and also for the corresponding period during the New Year holidays, so as to give their employees the full benefit of the week-end in most cases. We understand there is a movement on foot to induce country shopkeepers to follow suit.

Letters per seaplane were received from Dargaville on Tuesday afternoon from Hon. J. G. Coates, Postmaster General, by Messrs Jas. Stewart (chairman of the Helensvilla Town Board), Jas. McLeod, and the postmaster, Mr Chd6. Ansel). Congratulatory telegramß were also exchanged between the recipients of the messages, Hon. J. G. Coates, and the director of the flying school, Mr Leo Walsh.

• The flight of the seaplane from Auckland to Dargaville with mails, creaUd a good deal of interest locally on Tuesday and a large number of residents were anxiously scanning the horizon for the return of the 'plane, which was timed to pass over Helensville on the return journey to Auckland at 3 p.m. When the machine did appear it was flying at a great height, and looked very fine. A mail was dropped here, and landed in the vicinity of the Agricultural Hall. The bag, which was weighted with a lump of wood, contained letters for prominent residents. Th« seaplane made excellent time from Auckland to Dargaville, completing the trip in 1 hour 35 minutes.

See William Duncan in the great Wubieiii oiory "The Tenderfoot" at the Lyric on Saturday evening.

An advertisement from the Public Service Commissioner invites applications for the positions of assistant accountants in Wellington.

A meeting of those willing to form a voluntary fire brigade for Helensville will be held in the Town Board office .to-mor-row (Friday) evening.

The Helensville school picnic on Friday last was very successful, and a large Rathering of children from all round tho district were given an enjoyable outing.

The Kiwis appear in the Lyric Theatre to-morrow evening, and a firct-rate entertainment is promised patrons. Box plan is at Stewart's Bakery, and there is no extra charge for booking.

In making an order against a Maori debtor at the Helensville Court on Monday last, Mr Hunt, S.M., remarked: "I find they invariably pay. They simply have to do with a little less beer and billiards."

A motor car containing a party en route from Auckland to a concert at Woodhill on Saturday evening last, left the road at Reweti and capsized into a ditch. Fortunately no one was injured, though all acquired considerable mud.

" The man who laughs at that," said Mr G. W. Russell, at Wanganui, re plying to raucous laughter on the subject of the epidemic, " would sharpen his knife on his mother's tombstone iii order to cut his father's throat."

Jack Kendall's happiness was speed in motor car and lass, o! But there came a time when they ruined him. The story of how he wins back is told in "Mile a Minute Kendall" (Jack Pickford) to be screened on Saturday next at Everybody's.

Owing to the prospect of a very dry summer, those connected with the town ■upply are earnestly requested to be careful with the water. Owners of leaky taps should notify the Town Board's turncock, Mr Fifield, as soon as possible.

Owing to permission not having been granted by the Minister for Internal Affairs to raffle certain articles, the Presbyterian Church Sale of Work Committee have decided to refund the money to the competitors. Particulars appear in our advertising columns.

A notice respecting the timetable on. the Kaipara line appears elsewhere from the Railway Department. On Christmas Day only two trains will run from Helen«ville, viz., in the early morning and afternoon. During the holidays the travelling public are well catered for on this line.

One of Mr Massoy's free and judicious electors adopted a brainy scheme the other day. He was posting two letters, and had three penny stamps; so stuck one aud a half stamps on each letter. This was the correct poundage, but was too big a novelty for the postal people to appreciate, and the addressees had to pay fines on the ground that a decapitated king is neither use nor ornament. The eendcr of the letters, too, we understand, was liable to a fine for mutilating the stamp, which goes to show that a man cannot always do as he likes with his own.—Tuakau Press.

Private Arebee was unusually proud of the fact that he was a unit of the Rifle Brigade, and tells this story of barter after this fashion : M I was up in the front line trenches one night, and things were pretty quiet. Some of us were getting a bit of sleep, and I was well dug in in a little 'bivvy' of my own. I'd been asleep for a couple of hours when I woke with a start, with someone skaking me. Rolling over I looked, and it was a big Hun. I asked him what he wanted, and he asked what battalion it was. I told him, half asleep, it was the R.B's, and told him to go away and let a chap get a bit of peace. Just got off to Bleep when I was Bhaken again by the same Hun. 1 told him to clear out. but he wouldn't go till he found out what lot were in the trenches there. I told him again it was the New Zealand Rifle Brigade. "Well," says Heinie, "we want to make a bargain with you." I asked him what it was. " Well," says he, " I'll tell you what we will do. We will give you six Auckland Battalion men, whom we now have prisoners, for a tin of ' bully beef !' "

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