THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO. With which is incorporated "The Kaipara Advertiser & Waitemata Chronicle." HELENSVILLE, THURSDAY, Jan. 24, 1918 FLASHES.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 24 January 1918, Page 2

THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO. With which is incorporated "The Kaipara Advertiser & Waitemata Chronicle." HELENSVILLE, THURSDAY, Jan. 24, 1918 FLASHES.

All exhibits in [classes from 174 to 426 must be in the Agricultural Hall by 12.30 Saturday afternoon. Mr R. Barnes, of Cambridge, has completed arrangements for the purchase of Mr W. McGarvey's farm at TePua. Sir James Alien says that Cl camp has made over 1,000 men fit for active service. Lord Rhondda says that Britain has reached a' state that Germany reached two years ago regarding food shortage. Special train arrangement are advertised in this issne for Monday next, January 28th, which is being observed as Annivesary Day. Mr C. A. Knowles, who met with a severe accident recently by being thrown from his horse, has now sufficiently recovered to leave the local hospital.

New Zealand is now paying out a little over £50,000 a month in war pensions. There are 10,450 pensioners, representing an annual liability of £614,690.

The Northern Wairoa Co-operative Dairy Company is proceeding with its installation of a casein plant, and in a month or two the manufacture of the by-product will commence.

The Germans have erected 400 trading booths on tke Russian front. Russian soldiers, anxious to obtain playing cards, will readily barter a machine-gun for a pack.. All arrangements in connection with the Helensville A. and P. Association Show, to be held on Monday next, 28th January, are well in hand, and it is anticipated that, given fine weather, there will be a record attendance. The entries total 1377.

Advice has been received by the V.M.C.A. National Headquarters that R, A. Kenner of Auckland, one of the New Zealand Field Secretaries in charge of a Red Triangle Hut in France, ha 3 been slightly wounded in the head while on service for New Zealand soldiers.

"If any man can find an honourable and equitable way out of this conflict without fighting it through, for heaven's sake let him tell me. My own conviction is that the people must either go on or go under." —Mr Lloyd George to the Trade Union representatives.

p. Your attention is drawn to the Ideal Drapery sale, Commercial Road. The firm has been fortunate in purchasing a large stock of manufacturer's samples of general drapery, etc., and are now sacrificing at a very big discount, for a short time only. Inspection invited.

The big wash-out in the footpath along Commercial Road is still "untouched. The work has been retarded owing to the lack of necessary material for the job. It is amusing to hear the remarks made by passers-by. One was heard to say : " Oh, is this the place where they are going to have the school swimming bath ?" Another suggested that it would made an excellent rubbish tip.

" Pidgin Island," a charming romance, featuring Harold Lockwood and May Allison, and written by the clever author Harold McGrath. Lockwood, as the Government secret agent, breaks up a powerful opium smuggling gang, and sets out to beat equally strong pearl smugglers whose headquarters were at Pidgin Island, and he meets the mysterious girl, but you must see for yourself— at the Star Theatre on Saturday evening next.

A very pleasant time was spent on Monday evening last at the Helensville station, when members of the railway staff gathered together to bid adieu to acting-driver H. Favell (of the locomotive department), who has been removed to Morrinsville. Mr G. Campbell presided in his usual. able manner, and

numerous were the speeches and songs delivered by the " boys." Mr Hammond in a neat speech, made the presentations which cousisted of a Gladstone bag and cigarette-holder to Mr Favell, and a travelling bag to Mrs Favell.

A true to life picture that cannot fail to impress all who see it, entitled " The Craving," will be screened at the Star Theatre on Wednesday evening next. The hero; is a young athlete who is trapped by a scheming rival into giving way to his inherited craving for alcohol. He sinks lower and lower, till he is entrapped by an evil woman. Finding her false, after a great fight with her lover, he flies to the mountains, Here he fights the great fight, and eventually comes back to life and love with his enemy beaten. In the web of the story is woven the theme of a great friendship, Crooky, the cripple, being the real helper to win out, and the part is taken by the clever boy actor Bobby Miller. w

Over 5,500,000 of Britain's soldiers have enlisted, and as many more citizens are working in callings pertaining to the war. Counting in the women workers, they amount to more than one in four of the whole population. Per head of population, New Zealand has ssnt men in the ratio of one in every eleven, compared with Australia's one in every sixteen or seventeen. In proportion to her male population New Zealand has sent one in every 5\%.