Tentacle grip on tourists
The Exhibition has been called many names, most of them of a laudatory nature. It is the Dunstan Times, however, that comes out with the latest. Speaking of the Easter holidays the Times says: ‘‘Locally it has been quiet, but despite the octopus (the Exhibition) there has been very considerable motor traffic.’’ For a sinister monster engulfing a daily supply of tourists, many of whom would otherwise pass through the Dunstan district, the Exhibition seems altogether too attractive and easy going, for once its victims are allowed to escape they come back again only too eagerly.
Larrikins make night hideous
At the fortnightly meeting of the City Council last night, a petition was received from the occupiers of premises abutting on Bathgate Park praying that the merry-go-round recently installed by the council should be removed to another site.
Cr Hancock said he thought the council should deal with the matter at once. They had thought that the trouble might die down, but this had not been brought about. There was no doubt that larrikins created trouble at nights. He thought they could shift the merry-go-round to the other side of the park, as requested. It was a source of great pleasure to the children, for whom it had been installed.
The Mayor said he had been told by one of the residents that the larrikins made night hideous with their horseplay on the merry-go-round. It was decided that the merry-go-round should be removed at once to the other side of the park, where there were no houses.
A wee dram ... of clay
Cr Larnach said he wanted to know what was wrong with the water on the previous day. The water had been discoloured.
Cr Begg: Where was that?
Cr Larnach (emphatically): At my house!
Cr Scott (significantly): What did you have in it?
Cr Larnach: Clay.
Cr Begg, in reply, said he would make a note of Cr Larnach’s complaint.
No love for Mosgiel
The Mosgiel Borough Council has received the following letter from the Minister of Railways: ‘‘With reference to the representations urging that improved railway facilities be provided for Mosgiel, I have to inform you that the position has been carefully investigated, but I regret that I am quite unable to see my way clear to authorise any extension of the present services.
‘‘Present train connections — The Outram service is admittedly unsuitable for a workers’ train connection from Mosgiel Township, but to make it suitable an earlier start would require to be made and another train provided from Outram on the present time-table to suit branch traffic. This, however, is not warranted by the present or prospective traffic.
‘‘Workers’ 7.12am train — My inquiries do not bear out the statement that the 7.12am Mosgiel-Dunedin train is now so crowded as to become unmanageable.
The council expressed itself as very dissatisfied with the reply.
— ODT, 8.4.1926
