Soldiers unhappy with memorial
Apparently some of the soldiers who went from the West Harbour district are not pleased because their regimental and reinforcement numbers are not being inscribed along with their names...
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Doctors targeted by students
Doctors targeted by students
A seismic disturbance of peculiar force and intensity struck the city early on Saturday morning, and, strangely enough, its effects appear to have been confined to the districts affected by the...
Public servants’ wage win
Public servants’ wage win
Mr Massey’s reference to the Public Service in the Financial Statement presented to Parliament last night is of considerable interest to the public at large.
Agricultural education needed
Agricultural education needed
The Board of Agriculture is strongly impressed with the necessity for increased production and the fact that it must come largely from the land. Realising that a high standard of scientific...
New water supply for Balclutha
New water supply for Balclutha
Thanks to the progressiveness of the present Mayor of Balclutha, Mr H. Simson, the town can now boast of a water supply, which for quality and purity and quantity promises to be all that could be...
Coincidentally timed deputations
Coincidentally timed deputations
WELLINGTON, July 16: Deputations continue to descend upon Ministers. Today the Prime Minister had the whole of his morning occupied, and other Ministers also had much valuable time taken up. It is...
Yale offers astronomical equipment
Yale offers astronomical equipment
A very remarkable and most significant offer from Yale University was considered at the general meeting of the Otago Institute held at the Museum last night.
Trinity Church jubilee marked
Trinity Church jubilee marked
For Dunedin Methodists July 10, 1920 is “a day in golden letters to be set” for it marks the completion of a full half-century during which greatest influences have streamed from the portals of...
Smallpox vaccination exhorted
Smallpox vaccination exhorted
Some 7000 vaccinations have now been performed in Invercargill city. In the country districts of Southland fewer have been done. During the last three weeks no case of American smallpox has been...
Girls’ rest rooms in Dunedin
Girls’ rest rooms in Dunedin
Some time back the YWCA established a hostel for girls — a much-needed accommodation which could even now be extended with advantage.
Smallpox outbreak stationary
Smallpox outbreak stationary
It is satisfactory to be able to state that the outbreak of smallpox in Otago and Southland is stationary. The fever hospital at Logans Point is still full, but the majority of the patients are...
RSA spells out stance
RSA spells out stance
Mr George M. Smith, secretary of thelocal Returned Soldiers’ Association, told a representative of this paper yesterday that the recent National Conference of the association was unanimous in the...
Profiteering and selfishness slated
Profiteering and selfishness slated
A cynic might be pardoned if he divided present-day society into two classes — those who are profiteering and those who are not. It is no defence to plead that some of the latter class...
Labour dominates May Day
Labour dominates May Day
Accounts now available in Home papers to hand of May Day proceedings in the Old World make interesting reading. Since England ceased to be a mainly agricultural country and became industrialized,...
Chinese have right to operate
Chinese have right to operate
It has been made fairly evident that the consumers, that is to say the general public, would not feel any resentment at the entry of Chinese retailers into the local fruit trade, if that meant an...
Horse trading criticised
Horse trading criticised
Mr A. Reid, of Knapdale, when speaking in support of a remit to the Southland Farmers’ Union conference, which urged the Government, when making new appointments of stock inspectors, to...
West Coast sawmills planned
West Coast sawmills planned
A considerable extension of the sawmilling industry seems likely in the near future and already projects are in hand for opening eight or nine new mills on the West Coast, mostly in South Westland....
School of Art to close
School of Art to close
The Dunedin School Of Art, which has had a fairly long as well as a creditable history, will shortly be to all intents and purposes a thing of the past unless there be still local energy and...
Admiral praises Australian Navy
Admiral praises Australian Navy
London: Speaking at a Western Australian dinner, at which the Agent General Mr J.D. Connolly presided, Admiral Beatty, who proposed the toast of Western Australia, referred to the work of the...
Tuberculosis treatment needed.
Tuberculosis treatment needed.
One of the saddest aspects of the aftermath of war consists in the evidence which surrounds us of the dreary struggle of many returned soldiers to regain physical health and well-being....