100 years ago: August 1909

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This scene by J. Permin, entitled A Misty Morning, Dunedin, won first prize in the recent University bazaar photographic competition. The Avon, Christchurch, at Fendalton. A successful flying machine: M. Bleriot's monoplane which crossed from France to England in 33 minutes. The front runners taking the brush fence in the straight for the first time during the Grand National Steeplechase run by the Canterbury Jockey Club at Christchurch. The New Zealand Sugar Refining Company's works at Chelsea, Auckland. Two of the early miners of Blue Spur, Messrs John Ponsonby and David McIntosh, engaged in sawing wood in a friendly way for a neighbour. A moveable exercising pen for the babies. This pen is an idea of Dr Truby King's. The babies get exercise without any danger from draught. The pen can be folded up, and so easily moved about. A Stewart Island scene looking across halfmoon Bay. Photo by F E Duncan. Some of the 600 scholars of Dunedin schools who visited the British second class protected cruiser, H.M.S. Encounter, at Port Chalmers on Saturday August 7. Lake Ella, Mount Elliott and the Jervois Glacier from the top of McKinnon Pass on the Milford Track. Karitane babies on their way to bed with (from left to right): Nurses Hancock, Grey, Mitchell, Jacobs and McKenzie. Mr G. P. Keddell, Dunedin, who won the 120 and 440 yards hurdles at the Australasian amateur athletics championships at Brisbane. Ladies' evening at the Orphans' Musical Club, Dunedin. Mintaro Hut on the Te Anau - Milford track. Quinton or Beech huts, Sutherland Falls, on the Te Anau-Milford track. Miss Scaife, representing the Union Steam Ship Company, in the dress designed by Miss Lawrence of the D.I.C., won first prize in the University bazaar poster competition. Nasongo, a Fijian mountain village, situated in a grove of coconut palms, 2500ft above sea level. A view from the Green Island end of the new Caversham tunnel in connection with the duplication of the railway line to Mosgiel. The coal mining industry: View of the open face at Coal Creek, Roxburgh, Otago. The Redwood Ramblers: the first Dunedin young ladies' team of harriers, pictured at Normanby on the occasion of a recent run from Knox Church to Sawyer's Bay. Students in the antique room of the Otago School of Art. The Otago University School of Mines. The building on the left, from the NZ and South Seas Exhibition, was the old school and the one at right is the new school, designed by Mr Anscombe, architect, Dunedin. The crowd at the opening of the St Clair Golf Club's new pavilion on August 21, 1909. A view of the Neck between Lakes Hawea and Wanaka. The Waihi gold mining company's battery at Waikino, one of several mining operations in the districts around Thames. In the bush at Whakatane, Bay of Plenty: a bullock team with a load of logs ready to start for Waimana sawmill. A view from St Kilda showing the results of the Ocean Beach Domain Board's reclamation work. For some years prior to 1900 St Kilda was liable at any spring tide to be flooded by sea water. It is now protected by this bank of sand and marram grass, which is from 8 to 10ft high and about half a mile in length.
 

Photos from the archives of the Otago Witness, August 1909. Photo prints available from otagoimages.co.nz.

 

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