Opinion

The effects of the recent southerly gales at the Ocean Beach. The esplanade between St Clair and St Kilda undermined by heavy seas.

In the good old days of sailing ships: Port Chalmers wharves fully occupied with coastal and overseas shipping.

Intercolonial and overseas shipping at Port Chalmers waterfront, with the commodious new graving dock at right.

Panorama of the town of Port Chalmers looking across the Otago Harbour, showing Quarantine and Goat Islands and Otago Peninsula.

D. Company, 18th Reinforcements rugby team which played Otago at Carisbrook on September 2. Back row (from left): Privates Dryden and Moir, Corporal Swan, Pvte McIntosh, Lance-corporal Butcher, Pvtes Angelo and McCauley (selector). Centre row: Pvtes Beckett (line umpire), Edwards, McColl and Alexander. Corporal R. Fairmaid (captain), Sergeant Scott, Pvte Deuchrass, Lance-corporal Goudie. In front: Pvtes Leith and Martin.

German prisoners carrying their wounded to the rear of the Allied lines in France.

A captured German mine-laying submarine of the latest type in the dockyard basin at Temple Pier, London, where more than 50,000 people have viewed it.

Group at the golden wedding of Mr and Mrs Alexander Jenkins, Timpany’s Siding, Southland. Inset on left: Messrs W. and H. Jenkins. Inset on right: Mrs E. Maxted. Back row (from left): Mrs J. B. Senior (seated), Mrs C. Maxted, Mrs D. Saunders, Messrs J. Jenkins and A. Jenkins, Mrs T. Dysart, Mrs D. Moor and Mrs J. Buchanan (seated). Front row: Mrs C. Le Conteur, Mrs A. Jenkins, Mrs S. Wilson, Mr A. Jenkins (sen) and Mrs T. Miller. Mr and Mrs A. Jenkins were married on July 4, 1866 at Warrnambool, Victoria and had a family of 15, of whom 14 have grown to maturity. There are 40 grandchildren.

Indian cavalry getting ready to advance on the Somme.

Black Head, a coastal landmark at the northern end of Green Island Beach, has some fine basaltic columns, of interest to the geologist. - Otago Witness, 13.9.1916.

Hop-picking at Riwaka, Nelson District.

The Wanganui Steam Packet Company’s Stormbird, wrecked at Wanganui was the oldest iron vessel afloat, prior to the incident. She was built by Lawrie and Company of Glasgow and launched in 1854.

The soil in the Meuse Valley at Verdun has lost its cohesion owing to the impact of high explosives, so troops use everything handy to build up the trenches, including sandbags and gun carriage wheels.

The British advance on the Western Front: ammunition boxes used by one division alone during the bombardment of Fricourt.