The work is now nearing completion, and so quickly have the lupins gown that the great part of the seven acres and a-half, which have been levelled up, is carrying a dense growth of this quick-growing tree.
That part of the area running alongside the road which leads to the ocean has been planted with cabbage trees and pinus trees, and these are making good headway.
It is not so many years ago that the beach now reclaimed was a lagoon, in which small boys and girls loved to wade, but the well-judged operations of the Domain Board have turned the locality into what should some day be a beautiful park.
That is when the young trees have grown well on the way to maturity and the lupins have been removed and given place to grass.
A large-sized level plot of well-sheltered grass land has always been a felt want by picnickers to the beach, and this want will now be remedied.
St Kilda people should be proud of the prospects of their end of the beach, as a well-known St Clair resident, who is keenly interested in the work of the Domain Board and the beautifying of the ocean foreshore, yesterday morning gave voice to the following opinion: ''St Clair is not in it with St Kilda so far as the respective beaches and prospective recreation grounds are concerned.''
Since Tuesday of last week students of the Dunedin Training College have been undergoing a course of training in the new system of physical drill introduced into the schools of New Zealand by the late Mr Royd Garlick - the ladies in the Arthur Street School gymnasium, under Miss Larsen and the men in the Normal School gymnasium, under Mr A. P. Roydhouse.
The work is founded on pure Swedish movements, and has been in use in the schools in London and several other large centres in the Old Country for some seven or eight years.
More recently it was introduced into Australia, and proved very successful, and since its introduction into the New Zealand schools in 1913 it has proved very satisfactory, and very beneficial to the children.
The forcing of the Dardanelles goes on apace.
The war vessels are now operating 10 miles from the entrance, and the work of the guns and the ships is destroying everything on each side of them that is in the form of fortifications.
ver 30 vessels are at work, and the Turks have nothing that can compete with 12in guns or the 15in guns of the Queen Elizabeth.
The sending of a capital ship of the Queen Elizabeth type shows the British margin of strength in the North Sea must be very satisfactory to the Admiralty, and the guns of that vessel preclude the chance of the Turks offering any serious opposition to the progress of the operations in the Dardanelles.
These guns can outrange and destroy everything in sight - and out of sight as well, if the enemy's gun positions are indicated by aeroplane or seaplanes.
The scientific precision of big gun fire is what is going to open the passage, and that is the reason that no great landing forces are wanted at present.
It is said that Essad Pasha is at the Isthmus of Gallipoli with 100,000 men.
The isthmus is barely three miles wide, and any troops within seven miles of the isthmus can be shelled from the Gulf of Saros.
These troops will, if they venture on the isthmus, be killed without being able to do the slightest harm. - ODT, 5.3.1915.
