The Kaipara & Waitemata ECHO With which is incorporated "The Kaipara. Advertiser & Waitemata Chronicle" Helensville, Thursday. Sept. 23rd LOCAL AND GENERAL

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 23 September 1920, Page 2

The Kaipara & Waitemata ECHO With which is incorporated "The Kaipara. Advertiser & Waitemata Chronicle" Helensville, Thursday. Sept. 23rd LOCAL AND GENERAL

Reminder is given of the fancy dress social in the Woodhill Hall to-morrow (Friday) evening.

Skating at the btar Theatre this evening, and every Saturday afternoon and Thursday evening.

A general meeting of the Helensville Cricket Club will be held in the |Star Theatre this evening.

Enid Bennett, Australia's star in the moTie world, in "Partners Three" at Everybody's on Saturday.

"I think these local elections make profound Ham of people," declared a candidate who scored a small number of votes at a poll held less than a thousand miles from Helensville. "More electors asked me to stand than the number who voted for me !"

Five hundred and eighteen two-year-theroughbred horses were sold at the last annual sales at Buenos Aires for a total of £364,132 11s 6d, or an average of £702 12s 5d apiece. This figure was only once beaten, viz., in 1911.

Messrs Stewart Bros, have just landed a very fine range of sample English and Dutch crockery, some of which is now on show in their windows. Inspection is cordially invited of the exceptionally fine assortment the firm have opened up, including as it does dinner ware, tea sets, and fancy crockery of all kinds.

A recent paragraph in an exchange: "The sermon on Sunday night will be ' sewing the wind.' " Some job ! Sufficient inducement offering, Mr A. Riddell advertises he will run his motor bus to the Avondale races on Saturday next. Fares are reasonable. The expenditure in the Mairetahi riding of the Waitemata County Council for the month of August, 1920, was £125 5s 4d. Wages amounted to £56 16s Id, and material, etc., £68 9s 3d. The annual meeting of the Awaroa Bowling Club will be held in the Town Board Office on Tuesday evening next, (September 28th. A full attendance of members and prospective members is desired. Mr A. Mills, the travelling representative of Messrs Arthur D. Riley and Co., Ltd., Auckland, N. Z. agents for the Albion motor trucks, etc., visited this district during the week. Mr Mills was at one time a resident of Heiensville. Master J. J. (Boy) Hand recently passed his exams, in the higher division in Royal Academy of Music, being the only boy in the particular class to qualify. Master Hand ;is » son of Mr and Mrs J. Hand, of Heiensville, and i& 12 years old. The following new books have been added to the Helensville Public Library list:—" The House of Baltzar," by Wm. J. Locke ; " Top of the World," Ethel M. Dell; "The Butterfly Man," Marie Conway Oemmer; " Peter Jackson, Cigar Merchant," Gilbert Frankau At the final meeting of the late Town Board it was decided that the Board engineer's (Mi Munro Wilson) offer to prepare plans and specifications in connection with the water storage, and to supervise work to a finality, at a remuneration of 5 per cent on £5000, be accepted. The appearance in the streets on Tuesday of a Charlie Chapjin impersonator caused great excitement amongst the sohool children, who followed " Charlie" and his stick through the streets, being attracted somewhat after the manner legend has it the Pied Piper of Hamelin attracted the children to Koppelberg Hill with his pipes.

The Domain grounds are looking very well at present and there is a wonderful growth of grass on the bowling and tennis greens. The caretaker is awaiting the repairs to the lawn mower and roller to commence the cutting of the greens in preparation for the coming season's play. Mr Clement Wragge, who was a recent visitor to the Springs, complimented Mr Snow on the appearance of the grounds in general.

A. very good attendance was present at the Anglican Ladies' Guild social on Wednesday evening last. Euchre prizes were won by Miss Williams and Mr J. Ferrall, and consolation! were awarded Mrs Cohen and Mr W. Roberts. Supper, good and plentiful, was provided, and dancing was kept up with vigor till midnight, Miss Vercoe being the pianist. Rer. Houchen presented the prize* for euchre, making several appropriate remarks while doing so.

We have received the following letter: —;i •Dear Sirr-I-s-sra young man of 35 years of age, of good standing, and was never married. Height sft 4in, weight 1351b5., brown hair and eyes. There seems to be more women in your district than men—over here it is different. If you can and will put m« in touch with som« of them I will be thankful to you. I will send my picture and full details of myself and will be glad to answer all letters. lam a farm hand by trade and earn very good wages but am awful lonesome." He comes from the Maka-rau-Glorit district.

The North Auckland Farmers' Co-op, ia a very progressive concern, and with dovelopements in sight it should rapidly come into its own. A fine suite of offices are now occupied by the management and clerical staffs at Whangarei, and the erection of a store on the same site is now in progress. The locality ia an excellent one, being hard upajrainst the railway station, and having also on one boundary a creek frontage. The sile comprises four acres, and when in full commission will give convenient housing to the Company's whole local business, practically under one roof. This will be a solid advance upon the present method of having several store houses and separate places of business and will spell great economy in handling of goods, etc. The Company undoubtedly has a valuable property Lt this point.

A letter received by a Wairoa resident, from a brother in England, will be of interest to some of our readers who have been lamenting the high cost of living in the Dominion. After dealing incidentally with the increased postage to twopence, he says: "I believe foreign postage ii to b« still further raised later on. Railway farea are to go up to lj^d per rail* third-class next month. Coals are 4s 4J^d per cwt. Free sugar is down to Is 6d lb., dirty yellow lumpy stuff at that, controlled butter at 3« per lb., free 4a to 4a 6d, egg» still 4s dozen. English meat since decontrolled" 3t 6d per lb., English rabbits 2s to 3s each, poultry 3s per pound, milk 9d a quart— all the prices are local, and when obtainable. The tendency is for foodstuffs to rise in price. Wearing apparel, boots, etc., are inclined to drop, but I have no knowledge of the quality of the articles • I believe there will come a slump later on in other than foodstuffs. There is a lot of unemployed labour about, mostly unskilled and a big prospect of much more after the harvest.

There's many a rash young man who just because he has held a girl on his lap fifty or sixty times, thinks he can support her. It is reported that the export of dairyproduce for 1920-21 will exceed in value the export of wool for the same period, this being the first time it will have done so in the history of the Dominion. They do some peculiar things in. Dargaville. A heading in a looal paper last week announced : "Fire at Dargaville. Dwelling Burned while at Pictures." Quite a treat for picture patrons! The commission which reported on the Helensville-Hamilton road, with perhaps a slight change in personnel, will probably be asked to report similarly on the question of the main road from Helensville or Auckland to Awanui, and take evidence at an early date. The Ideal Drapery Stpres have madi^k extensive alterations to their premises ifiß( Commercial Road, to enable the firm to better display the large and assorted stock carried. A special department has been set aside for footwear, of which the firm carry a large assortment of all descriptions. The benefit picture night in aid of the Heiensville Cricket CJub's funds will take place at the Lyric on Tuesday next. A tip-top programme has been secured for this evening, and patrons can be assured of a very good entertainment. The Cricket Club is spending about £50 on a concrete pitch and necessary material, and is endeavouring to plear off the debt before the end of the year. So come along and help. On Sunday last, at St. Cuthbert's Presbyterian Church, Kaukapakapa, the opening of the new organ recently installed in the church, took place before a large congregation. Rev. Butterworth preached an impressive sermon from the text " How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land ?" —Psalm 137, t4. , Miss Sinclair had the honour of presiding at the organ, and the soloist was Mr V. Aitkenhead. It is gratifying to the adherents of the church to know that the organ has been opened entirely free of debt. In and around Te Awamutu there are now building, or about to be built, 50 residences, and in addition several important buildings are projected. The now dried milk factory is expected to cost £35,000, and large premises for the hyro-electric station will be another big undertaking, as soon as the necessary authority to build is obtained. The borough is spending £75,000 on sewage and other works, and the hydro-electric outlay will reach £125,000. A big racing stable and housing accommodation are being erected for a well-khown racehorse owner.

A sudden ded.th occurred at Helensviile on (Saturday evening last, when Fredrick Wellm, aged-61, and of German descent, passed away. Dr. Meinhold, who had been attending him, gave the cause of death as acute gastritis, the heart also being affected. Deceased, who had been spending a few days in Heleneville, was well known throughout th« district -and - afr --wHsr-fcref if "^ -Eort-Aibert. He had the reputation of being a well educated man, and was stated to be able to speak four languages. The funeral took place on Sunday afternoon, Rev. C. Houchen officiating at the graveside.

The following is taken from a late speech by Mr Lloyd George :- "Humanity has be«-.n dashing over the precipice, and is doing its best to steer through the rapids and not crash on the rocks, with excitable people shouting on the banks all kinds of contradictory advice If you followed the advice of one of them you would have a smash. I believe w. are working our way through the whirlpool, but let us keep steady It is sa.d things are getting, worse. They are not, they are getting betterLet us go through, and we shall have done something which will add to the lustre and glory of this great race "

There 13 a good yarn told of a railway guard. One dark wild and stormy ni*ht, when the wind was roaring past the Helensville express, a passenger rushed up to the guard. "I say," he said, "I'm — of Pokuru. Here's my card. There's a case of whisky for me in your van. Open it, and give me a bottle of it. Keep one for yourself, too." The guard quite unsuspecting, did so, and a carnival evening was spent. When the train had ; gone into the destination station, and no passenger appeared to take his whisky case—the guard got soared. Two weeks later, vide local press :—" , a guard i* was fined £10 for broaching liquor." The^ whisky didn't belong to his friend of the tram at all ! It* a sad world, full of dia-" illusion mcnt.