Now and then emerges a clear-cut incident. Recently a band of about one hundred schoolboys in black clothes, came off the Peihan train and made the Normal School their headquarters. They inspected all the shops in the town and seized all the British and Japanese goods they found, destroyed the cheaper stuff, and kept the more valuable for their own use. The General next day proceeded to fine the merchants.
If there is anybody who comprehends these incomprehensibilities it will be Zinovieff, sitting at Moscow as the Head Centre and chief boss of Bolshevist propaganda — a bloated spider with nerve threads running out into all lands. Listen to him: "Canton now resembled Moscow. China was becoming Red daily. The Chinese upheaval would mark a real beginning of a world revolution, which would be impossible unless the Third International obtained the support of 100,000,000 of the yellow proletariat."
The "yellow proletariat" in China are over 400,000,000, all of them in Zinovieff’s view possible Reds. — by ‘Civis’
OBHS benefactor remembered
A memorial to that indefatigable friend of the Otago Boys’ High School, the late Dr Robert Valpy Fulton, was unveiled at the school shortly after 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon in the presence of a large number of past and present pupils. The memorial takes the form of a clock presented by the Old Boys’ Society of the school, placed over the main entrance door of the new Fulton building.
Dr G.E. Thompson, chairman of the High Schools’ Board of Governors, said that among the old boys no one had been more enthusiastic and vigorous in his support of the school in very many ways than the late Dr Fulton. He had great powers of organisation, and devoted them to the interests of his old school. The building beside them was the Fulton building, and the clock over the doorway was the Fulton clock.
Platform tickets introduced
The charge of three pence to non-passengers who desire to obtain admission to the Dunedin railway station before the arrival of the expresses did not prevent a very large number of people from meeting the first express from the north yesterday. The greater number of the non-passengers proved to be parents to meet their children from the Waitaki High School.
What? Train wheels have tyres?
Regarding the wheel tyres standard, the practice followed is to fit all new tyres to Main Trunk passenger rolling stock, and to main line passenger cars from which they are removed as they wear down, being placed under less important vehicles until, having reached a certain minimum thickness, the worn tyres are totally discarded.
Besides regular examinations of the Main Trunk rolling stock at the terminal stations, a constant vigilance is exercised at intermediate stopping places by train examiners to detect any flaws. — ODT, 19.12.1925
