LOCAL AND GENERAL

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 7 October 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The monthly meeting of the Town Board will be held next Thursday evening.

Milking is in full swing in the Glorit district and gooc' results are being obtained from the various herds. There is abundance of feed about and the herds all look well conditioned.

Dr Meinhold has an announcement in this issue in respect to the Helensville Hospital. The hospital property was recently sold, and the doctor is making arrangements for building new premises at once, so that the work of the staff may be carried on with as little interruption as possible.

The next social to be held by |the Catholic community, on Wednesday next, October 13th, will be a long night one. Specially good prizes will be awarded for the euchre tournament, and the ladies' prize—a tea set —is now on view in Mr Cohen's window. A good time is promised all who attend next Wednesnesday. A special attraction is advertised at the Lyric Theatre for Saturday next, when the great film of the Scientific Exploration's doings in "Australia's Wild Nor' West" will be shown. This is something absolutely unique, and should on no account be missed. Mr M. P. Adams will lecture on the film while it ia being screened.

The concert arranged by the Church of England Ladies' Guild in aid of the Memorial Church funds will take placa this evening in the Agricultural Hall. The Devonport Glee Party, who are giving this concert, are all first-class artistsj in their particular line, and patrons can anticipate a really enjoyable evening. After the concert supper will be served, and a dance held.

Mr and Mrs R. Cuthbert, of the Terminus Hotel returned this week from a short visit to Sydney and the Blue Mountains. Mr Cuthbert is greatly improved in health as a result of the trip. While in Sydney Llio visitors were struck by the large amount of unemployment and poverty- apparent in that city, and the many precarious methods of making a living that many resort to,

A Romney-Leicester sheep which had been "hiding" at mustering time for the last fouv years, was rounded up lately on Mr H. Mather's run at Glorit. It is of exceptional size and the wool on its back is 20in. long. It is the intention of Mr Mather to present the sheep to the Helensville A. and P. Association for exhibition and weight-guessing competition at their show to be held next January. Chiefly on acoount of inferior oil fuel, the Agricultural Hall Society have had a lot of trouble with the engine used to generate the nocessary electricity for the pictures, and in consequence no pictures could be shown last Saturday evening. Next Saturday evening a good programme will be screened, including the feature "Pettigrew's Girl," starring Ethel Clayton. In addition will be shown a rapid Mack Sennett comedy entitled "Speak Easy," and the usual good topical and scenic series,

A clothing merchant found his clerk on the floor looking dazed and battered ''What has happened?" h_ e inquired, "An Irishman came in for an overcoat and I asked him if he wanted an ulster,'1 replied the vanquished one.

The following unique challenge appears in a Northern paper:—"l, Bill Kelly, Waipuna, Freezing "Works, will undertake to Peel Potatoes on time with any person within a radius of five miles for£l."

The question of a tax on kauri glim is making astir amongst those engaged in the industry. It is quite generally admitted that the upkeep of the roads must be provided for, but it may take some persuasion to get those digging gum and washing chips to consid-er the question" of a contribution to permanent settlement of the depleted lands.

The South African Government proposes to erect large grain elevators at* Durban and Capetown, and seventy-one inland, capable of dealing with 1,250,000 tons. It is not likely, though, that anything will be done during the current financial year, as all the available/material ii required for works at present, in hand. A writer in a contemporary says :— " The everlasting shortage of bronze coins is partiv due to those frugal souls who save all the coppers they receive in change until they have a pound's worth, and then take the hoard to the savings bank. I know an old bachelor who has never been known to spend a penny. When he gets home from town all the coppers he has received are put into a kerosene tin. He has now two tins full, aud the bottom of the third is nicelycovered. The lot represents the hoarding of sixty years. Said that he keeps 20,000 pennies out of circulation."

There is a great future in front of the district around Glorit. It has both rich and poor lands, nice flats and sloping hills. There is no denying the fact that the richer soil is profitable^ for, dairying and the poorer land could, and no doubt will in time be turned into account for apple growing. The land is ideal for that purpose. At the present time there are hundreds of acres being ploughed up, and after being manured and sown in grass will make ideal dairy farms. There is still one big drawback to settlers —roads and metal —the latter being conspicuous by its absence for miles.