100 years ago: From our archives
Wellington drivers' tests, girls' education and bonuses get results
Opinion
Boers' independence bid rebuffed
Boers' independence bid rebuffed
Mr Lloyd George's reply to a South African Nationalist deputation, which claimed the restoration of the independence of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal, and pressed the importance of...
Left luggage auction
Left luggage auction
The astonishingly varied collection of articles piled up in a corner of the railway B Shed yesterday bore unmistakable testimony to the forgetfulness of the travelling public.
Chair of history at Otago
Chair of history at Otago
The establishment of a chair of history at Otago University, the necessary financial arrangements having now been completed, will be an event which all who are interested in education in this...
100 years ago: From our archives
100 years ago: From our archives
Hurricane at Purakanui, car conversion and Kokako at Stewart Is.
Port Pegasus plant dismantled
Port Pegasus plant dismantled
The Otago Fruitgrowers' Association's display which won first prize at the Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Association's Winter Show in Dunedin. - Otago Witness, 11.6.1919
Better pay for infant mistresses
Better pay for infant mistresses
The discussion at last week's meeting of the Otago branch of the Educational Institute upon a motion brought forward by a woman teacher concerning the salary attachable to the position of infant...
'Proper Christian manners'
'Proper Christian manners'
An amusing sidelight on the life of our soldiers in Egypt was thrown by Mr D. N. MacDiarmid in the course of an address last night on mission problems in the Sudan.
100 years ago: From our archives
100 years ago: From our archives
The horrors of war, trucks for Dunedin City and unhealthy footpath sweeping
Experimental farm needed
Experimental farm needed
The suggestion by the Minister of Agriculture that the farmers of the South have not taken the same interest in experimental farming as those of the north have done admits readily of explanation.
Wetherstone diggings
Wetherstone diggings
Readers of the announcement of the death, at Waitati last week, of Mr John Wetherstone may not have connected the intimation with the history of gold mining in Otago.
Land for women's home
Land for women's home
Kaitangata Cottage Hospital. - Otago Witness, 4.6.1919
100 years ago: From our archives
100 years ago: From our archives
Children's home opens, 'Big Lizzie' back in use and killing ferrets illegal.
Mayors' legal status
Mayors' legal status
A legal opinion has been obtained by Mr J. P. Luke, M.P. (Mayor of Wellington), as to the relative positions of the Prime Minister and the Mayor at meetings of citizens called in cities.
Soldiers oppose prohibition
Soldiers oppose prohibition
It is only necessary that the votes of a few soldiers who are returning from Egypt and the votes of the Samoan garrison should be counted in order that the final result of the polling on the...
Eligible school mistresses
Eligible school mistresses
The recently-published report of the Otago Education Board is calculated to produce various reflections in different minds.
Advocacy for mothers
Advocacy for mothers
The twentieth annual meeting of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children was held in the Town Hall yesterday afternoon.
100 years ago: From our archives
100 years ago: From our archives
Plunket Society's progress and Central Otago towns
Dunedin's seamy side
Dunedin's seamy side
The Rev. Vincent King, who by virtue of his ministerial and social activities is in a position to speak of the seamy side of life in Dunedin, gave an Otago Daily Times reporter yesterday some...
Transatlantic flights
Transatlantic flights
Now that the necessities of war have ceased to absorb all the energies which the nations could spare for aeroplane construction and the purpose of air attack and defence, the attention of airmen is...