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Lights-on moment
Only a few years ago, adequate and correct lighting was considered by the majority an expensive luxury.
100 years ago
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Scout hall opened
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Scout hall opened
The ceremony of opening the new hall for Boy Scouts was held on Saturday afternoon outside the hall, which is close to the St Kilda tram terminus. It is a substantial wooden structure 50 feet by...
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Failure breeds success
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Failure breeds success
Situated high up among the hills of Teviot, Otago is an artificial lake. In olden days its site was known as the Dismal Swamp, but some 30-odd years ago the idea was conceived of converting it into...
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Tramway profits well up
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Tramway profits well up
The results of the operations of the trading departments of the City Corporation for the financial year which ended on the 31st March last afford a great deal of satisfaction to the ratepayers.
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Gratitude due Knox founder
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Gratitude due Knox founder
Professor Hewitson, master of Knox College, acknowledging on Sunday last the presentation to the college of a tablet in memory of the Rev. D. Cameron, first chairman of the college.
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Births
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Births
Haley: — On April 12, at Nurse Cupples’s, ‘‘El Nido,’’ Duke street, to Mr and Mrs W.H. Haley, 12 Greenock street, Kaikorai — triplets, two sons and a daughter.
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First leg of Arctic attempt
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First leg of Arctic attempt
Captain Amundsen’s airship the Norge has arrived at Pulham. The Norge’s flight occupied 30 consecutive hours. The best speed was 70 miles hourly.
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‘Dunedin’ tugs ‘Dunedin’ in Dunedin
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‘Dunedin’ tugs ‘Dunedin’ in Dunedin
His Majesty’s warship Dunedin, flagship of the New Zealand Naval Division, and HMS Diomede arrived at Dunedin on Saturday afternoon.
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Railway station worth a look
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Railway station worth a look
The flower garden at the Green Island Railway Station, which was bracketed with Wingatui for second place in the competition recently promoted by the Otago Women’s Club, presents a very beautiful...
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Mussolini survives — by a nose
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Mussolini survives — by a nose
Rome, April 7: While Signor Mussolini was leaving the International Congress of Surgery, an elderly woman fired a revolver almost point-blank, wounding him slightly in the nose. Signor Mussolini...
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They’re having a baby
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They’re having a baby
London, April 6 (Received April 7, at 5.5pm): The Duke and Duchess of York have moved to 17 Bruton street where the Duchess lived prior to her marriage. This will in future be their town house. — A...
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Baptist rivalry
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Baptist rivalry
Temuka, April 6: Members of the Baptist Young Men’s Bible classes have been camped at the Temuka Domain for the Easter holidays, and favoured with fine weather, have had an enjoyable time. The...
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Varsity records beaten
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Varsity records beaten
The athletic meeting in connection with the New Zealand inter-university tournament proved a most successful affair. The weather was fine, but a fairly brisk southwest wind blew down the Caledonian...
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‘Christies’ marks 50 years
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‘Christies’ marks 50 years
Yesterday (Easter Sunday), mass was celebrated at St Joseph’s Cathedral at half-past 8 o’clock for the ex-pupils who had assembled from all parts of the Dominion to co-operate with those resident...
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Architect has bust up with uni
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Architect has bust up with uni
The bust of Lord Lister in the Exhibition Art Gallery has been admired by thousands of visitors. It is an exquisite piece of sculpture and it is pleasing to know that it is to be retained in Dunedin.
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When the carnival is over
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When the carnival is over
The Exhibition months have sped by on lightning wings, and in another four weeks the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition will have run its course. Dunedin without an Exhibition seems now almost...
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Octagon litter disappoints
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Octagon litter disappoints
‘‘I wish the corporation would do something more than it is doing to stop the waste paper nuisance about the streets,” said the Hon G.M. Thomson at the annual meeting of the Amenities Society...
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You’d be a nutter to work here
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You’d be a nutter to work here
On Fanning Island there are over a quarter of a million palms bearing good fruit or just coming into profit, while different parts of the island are being cleared and thousands of young trees are...
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Phone cable laid across strait
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Phone cable laid across strait
Wellington, March 26: At 9 o'clock this morning the final touches were put to the splicing of the new Cook Strait telephone cable and at a point a little distance from Blind River the last loop of...
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Expo treat for Queenstown pupils
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Expo treat for Queenstown pupils
Upwards of 50 of the children attending three or four of the schools in Queenstown and the immediate district set out this morning on their pilgrimage to the Exhibition.