Teaching sex hygiene
The South Dunedin branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union met on Thursday afternoon. The president (Miss M'Carthy) gave an address on the teaching of sex hygiene as part of Nature study.
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Port Kembla sunk
Port Kembla sunk
A never-ending supply of ammunition: loading shells on a trolley, to be taken to the guns at the front.
School medical checks
School medical checks
Owaka, the principal township of the Catlins River district, where sawmilling, dairying and farming form the chief occupations of the settlers.
Custody of war bonds
Custody of war bonds
An aeroplane presented to the Royal Flying Corps by residents of Otago, who raised £1500 to buy it.
School dental service
School dental service
In the prominence that is being given to the need for the care of the teeth we can welcome cheerfully a symptom which suggests that a hitherto too much neglected subject is beginning to receive the...
Messines letter
Messines letter
A Dunedin soldier, who was well known as a front-ranker with the Union Football Club a decade and a half ago, and who has been in the thick of the fighting at Gallipoli and France, writes in plain...
Waitaki River islands
Waitaki River islands
There are a number of islands in the Waitaki River, which stream forms the boundary between Otago and Canterbury. These islands comprise a fair quantity of grazing lots, which have been under the...
Exempting clergy
Exempting clergy
The Technical School swimming class at the Dunedin Municipal Baths. - Otago Witness, 12.9.1917.
Middlemarch memorial service
Middlemarch memorial service
A group of Otago signallers at Sling Camp, England. Top row (from left): P. Peacock, G. Thurlow, A. E. Bate. Front row: J. Reeves, R. Moffatt, J. Taylor, H. Madden, J. W. McKeich.
Promoting infant health
Promoting infant health
If the voice of those who in this and other communites have long urged, ‘‘Save the Babies’’, has not gone altogether unheeded, it has on the whole been too readily comparable to that of one crying...
Salmon industry?
Salmon industry?
One of our heavy tanks at Flers: British Tommies with one of these modern military machines.
Insurance mix-up
Insurance mix-up
To be told in effect that he was dead, and that the insurance policy on his life had been paid over, was the experience that a well-known resident of Hokitika had a few weeks ago (says the...
Children's bad teeth
Children's bad teeth
In compliance with a request from the Otago branch of the New Zealand Dental Association, Dr Margaret McCahon, medical inspector of schools for Otago and Southland, has communicated to the Otago...
Baby week
Baby week
The Dunedin City Corporation Tramway Cricket Club, winners of the Baker Challenge Cup for 1916-17 in the Otago Cricket League. The team played ten matches, won eight and lost two. Back row (from left): J. Bond, G. S. Smith, B. Luskie (secretary), W. G. Paine, V. Robinson. Middle row: A. Berland (scorer), A. Ferguson, C. Hayden (captain), W. H. MacKenzie, J. E. Jephson, C. F. Alexander, Esq (president). Front row: M. Hayden, E. Seon-Brown, A. M. Webster, W. A. Clarke.
War Loan success
War Loan success
One of a fleet of drifters attached to the British Navy for war service. They patrol harbour entrances, carry mail, tranship officers and men and convey messages, among other activities.
Hebridean poverty
Hebridean poverty
A New Zealand howitzer battery on the march in northern France.
War Loan subscriptions
War Loan subscriptions
The Newfoundland Regiment marching back to their billets after an engagement at Monchy-le-Preux.
Steamer's supply trip
Steamer's supply trip
Mr C. J. M'Kenzie (district Public Works engineer) returned to Dunedin from Wellington on Wednesday night. He left the Bluff in the Government steamer Hinemoa on Thursday, August 16, for the...
Bootmaker assaulted
Bootmaker assaulted
The crater lake on the summit of Mount Ruapehu, some 600ft in diameter and 300ft below the enclosing peaks, is quite inaccessible except by means of ropes.
P&O, USSCo fusion
P&O, USSCo fusion
A group of residents of Otekaike, North Otago, who recently participated in a hare drive, bagging more than 120 hares in aid of the Red Cross. The photo was taken at the residence of Mr and Mrs Mitchell, who entertained the party at the close of the day. - Otago Witness, 15.8.1917.