The Kaipara & Waitemata ECHO With which is incorporated "The Kaipara Advertiser & Waitemata Chronicle" Helensville, Thursday, Oct. 21st LOCAL AND GENERAL

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 21 October 1920, Page 2

The Kaipara & Waitemata ECHO With which is incorporated "The Kaipara Advertiser & Waitemata Chronicle" Helensville, Thursday, Oct. 21st LOCAL AND GENERAL

Both banks and all the local business premises will observe Monday next (Labour Day) as a full holiday.

The Plumbers1 Board of New Zealand will hold an examination in the different centres for the purposes of registration on Friday and Saturday, November 26th and 27th, 1920.

The aims and objects of the Helensville Agricultural Society are set forth by advertisement in this issue. The society is co-operative, and a perusal of their announement will explain fully ju3t what the Society exists for.

The prospectus of the New Zealand Publishing" Coy., Ltd., has been circulated. The company, with a capital of £300,000 is being formed for the purpose of establishing another daily newspaper in the city of Auckland.

A final reminder of the Savage Club's concert on Saturday evening is hardly necessary. Everyone is going, and we are convinced that everyone will be more than satisfied with the entertainment which is to be provided.

The Auckland office of the Chautauqua Associatton advise the local committee that arrangements will be made to have the Helensville dates fit in at the end of the forthcoming season.- The secretary (Mr E. W. Wiley) anticipates visiting: Helensville this week end.

The Commissioner of taxes draws the attention of taxpayers to the notification appearing in to-day's issue that the due date of payment of land tax for the current year is on Monday, the Bth day of November, 1920, and that the demand will be posted on or about the Ist day of November.

Letters received by the last English mail give an indication that the cost of living in New Zealand is not altogether so far out of proportion as we are apt to believe. According to these advices sugar is still rationed, the issue being eight ounces per week. The price is lsl^dperlb. Butter is4s per Ib.

When the question of getting a revaluation of the town property was brought up at the last Town Board meeting, the high cost of every material used by the Board was mentioned. One item alone —shell —now cost 9s per yard, whereas .one time it could be procured for 4s 6d per yard.

Writing to a local business man, an Auckland resident, associated with the Savage Club, states: " The Savage Club have got some great stuff for the Helensville concert. Helensville folks will certainly have a very good time. All the members are keenly looking forward to going and alae receiving a very happy week-end".

A slightly-scalded flavour is noticeable in milk that has been pasteurised to a high temperature. Boiled milk is rather aweeter than raw milk and a trifle darker in colour. These changes are due to the milk sugar becoming converted into a substance resembling caramel. After being heated to a high temperature the digestibility of milk is impaired.

In connect ion with the Commission to sit at Maungaturoto shortly to hear evidence regarding the Auckland-Kaitaia main road, it was mentioned by the chairman,at the last meeting of the Town Board, that arrangements would be made for an inspection of the proposed western route from Helensville, through Glorit, Tauhoa, etc. Such route would bring these places considerably nearer Helensville, and the road would be an easy one right through.

The vicar of Tenui, Wairarapa, devoted his Easter offerings one year to the purchase of a bath and articles of furniture for the vicarage. He subsequently proceeded on active service, and the vestry purchased the bath and had it installed. On his return he found that the vicarage had been sold,but he resided there until the date arrived for giving up possession, when he wanted to take his b-.ith and other articles with him, but the purchaser refused After hearing both stories, the Magistrate ordered the return of the vicar's bath within 14 days or the equivalent in cash.

At a recent meeting of the Kawakawa Town Board, the following epistle was received :—" All hail, Mr Chairman and newly-pledged commissioners, -I pray you will do what your predecessors failed to do in regard to pigs and' sanitation within the Town Board area. Pigs, and smells arising from pigstyes, arc noticeable in many parts of the town. The remedy is simple enough. You have your by-laws. Why don't you get your clerk to take the by-laws to the pig people—be they priest, publican, or policeman—and say,' Look here chummy, you get those roosters of yours outside the town boundary in terms of the legislation contained in this bundle ?' In short we want no pigs about the town or unsanitary back yards with filthy pigstyes. Enough said." The Board dedided to "enforce the by-laws.

J^oy wanted for blacksmithing. Goorj. wages,