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    French visitor

    rench naval sloop 'Cassiopee' arrives in the Dunedin steamer basin, Otago Harbour. — Otago...

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    French visitor

    An interesting arrival at Dunedin yesterday morning was the French sloop Cassiopee, which entered port at 6am and steamed to a berth at the Rattray street wharf shortly after 8am. 

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    Animals killed for food

    A display of South Otago lamb at Whiteley’s department store, London. Otago Witness, 1.12.1925

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    Animals killed for food

    To the editor: Sir, I sat at the SPCA conference the other day and listened to the discussions, and what struck me most forcibly was that in discussing means of slaughtering animals by a body of...

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    Sailing dinghy impresses

    Racing dinghy Colleen on Otago Harbour. The Takapuna class later became known as Z class or ...

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    Sailing dinghy impresses

    Colleen, Carl Moller’s Takapuna one-design boat, visited Ravensbourne on Sunday morning and her appearance caused quite a flutter of excitement among the youths and boys sailing small boats. 

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    Scout jamboree opens

    Opening ceremony for a Scouts jamboree at Tahuna Park, Dunedin. — Otago Witness, 19.1.1926

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    Scout jamboree opens

    The Exhibition Jamboree which was officially opened at Tahuna Park yesterday morning is a big event not only in the history of the Scout Movement in these lands, but — so there is good reason to...

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    Digging for doubloons

    Public treasure hunt held at the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, Logan Park, Dunedin. —...

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    Digging for doubloons

    Hunting for treasure in the time-honoured way is usually a futile business, right from the time the get-rich-quick adventurer charters his yacht and sets sail for the islands of the blest until he...

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    Cometh the man

    L.J. Williams (front), of West Coast, swings his axe to win the 12-inch standing chop event in an...

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    Cometh the man

    The Axemen’s Carnival again drew a large crowd last evening when some keen contests were witnessed.

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    Queenstown busy

    Queenstown’s waterfront. — Otago Witness, 5.1.1926

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    Queenstown busy

    Queenstown has been revelling in blue skies, brilliant sunshine and midsummer warmth. Every day dawns fine, and at the close of each we can refer to it as "a perfect day."

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    Record tonnage at port

    A busy day at Port Chalmers on January 5, 1926: Maimoa is in the drydock (left foreground) while...

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    Record tonnage at port

    Complete figures compiled by the secretary of the Otago Harbour Board disclose the fact that shipping berthed at Dunedin and Port Chalmers on January 5 constituted a record for the port. 

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    Eton is a mess

    Wading home through flooding after a shopping trip in Eton, west of London. Otago Witness, 2.3.1926

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    Eton is a mess

    London, January 4: After a rise of nine inches during the night the Thames to-day is still rising.

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    Sarcophagus of value

    After 3500 years underground, the coffin and royal mask of King Tutankhamun (then written as...

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    Sarcophagus of value

    Cairo, January 3: Eight men were required to carry the golden coffin and royal mask of Tutankhamen, which was brought here from Luxor, and is now in the Egyptian Antiquities Museum in Cairo.