were very satisfactory, the sum of £630 (with returns to come from country districts) being realised, whereas last year’s figure was £554. The Exhibition helped the sale a good deal, for the blood-red symbols were being distributed all over the pavilions and some of the returns from Logan Park were as high as any of the city ones. While the flowers were sold at 1 shilling and 2 shillings each, there were many generous contributors, and in one of the boxes five £1 notes were found. Altogether the
Dunedin Returned Soldiers’ Association imported 31,000 poppies, 1000 of these being the larger ones.
On Thursday night a resident of Anderson’s Bay had his attention attracted by the manoeuvring of a corporation motor bus driver. The driver pulled up near the telephone box in the vicinity of Cavell street, entered and used the telephone, came out again, pulled his machine into the kerb, dimmed his lights, and waited. Some minutes elapsed, and then a privately-owned motor bus came along from Dunedin on the way to the Bay. It was trailed by two corporation motor buses, and the stationary
bus quickly came to life, and joined in the game of “dodge ’em.” Back came a corporation bus with a few passengers; then a tramcar packed to the door, then the privately-owned bus with about seven passengers, and then the two remaining corporation buses, practically empty. The position may be elucidated. The policy of the Dunedin tramways department is that if a privately-owned bus is noticed to be travelling on a tram route steps are to be taken by the corporation buses to combat the impending
competition. The Dunedin tramways department intends to continue to carry out this policy with the utmost vigour. If, however, the privately-owned buses ply for hire off the tram routes they are not shepherded by the corporation buses. It is said that a game something akin to ‘‘hide and seek” is indulged in at times by the drivers of the privately-owned buses and the drivers of the corporation buses. The former start off with the object of reaching their picking-up place by devious ways or with
the sole object of fooling the opposition, and some exciting incidents have resulted as a consequence. One tramway official said that no one would suggest for a moment that the Dunedin Corporation was going to put down good roads and tram lines, and run on them at enormous cost, and then permit privately-owned buses to come along, use these roads, and “pirate” the passengers from the tramcars without a stern fight.
It’s Anzac Ave’s day
Colonel H.E. Barrowclough, who will control the Anzac Day parade tomorrow, expresses the wish that the public will keep to the footpaths on the Main Highway. The march is on act of reverence on the part of the returned soldiers and territorials, and any interference by the public would be very unseemly. . — ODT, 24.4.1926
