There are already 223 blooms, and the spectacle is very pretty. The usual time for hyacinths to bloom is towards the end of next month.
Trammies head off-track
Trade unions have in their time carried numerous resolutions that have been fantastic in their terms and misleading as to facts. One which was passed by the Otago Tramways Union on Sunday last, a copy of which we have received for publication, presents a curious mixture of fancy and fiction.
The resolution is as follows: "That, the Government being the initiator and perpetrator of unemployment by its excessive importation of coal, with consequent hunger to thousands of women and children, this union urges the immediate cessation of such a disloyal and Christless policy."
It may be necessary to read the resolution more than once in order to understand exactly what the union means. Having arrived at an understanding, the reader will certainly not be any wiser.
To suggest that the Government initiated unemployment when it procured coal from abroad to save the industries and keep the railways running so as to prevent unemployment betrays either the existence of a perverted imagination or a wilful disinclination to face facts. — editorial
Politics relieve rugby excess
Nothing very novel or exciting in the common round of life just at present. Barring football, of course — which, though reasonably exciting, is assuredly not novel. Indeed, there is a disgruntled minority who are ready to hint that enough is as good as a feast. Well, the season will be over in time for us to get to work at talking (I hope, not betting) about the General Election and the liquor poll. — by ‘Wayfarer’
Dunedin’s oat cuisine
It is often alleged that the Scotsman’s national beverage is whisky, and that his national food is porridge, and many amusing stories are told to drive home the assertion. Dunedin being a Scotch city, many people assume that porridge constitutes the main part of breakfast in all families here. The captain of the visiting hockey team,, speaking at the civic reception yesterday, said that they had been advised before they came here to be sure to accept porridge when it was offered to them. He and the manager did this, but to their annoyance found that neither host nor hostess took it, and that they were alone in their endeavour to eat it. Dunedin’s weather is another matter on which a harmless, if old, joke was made by an Australian. One of their number said that he had been told on one occasion that a local resident had been asked what kind of summer had been experienced in Dunedin. The resident had replied that it had been a very
bad one; both days had been wet.
Legislating for postal tubes
An amending Bill dealing with certain clauses in the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, was introduced today in the House of Representatives. It is proposed to obtain authority to lay pneumatic tubes under streets for the carriage of postal matter.
ODT, 13.9.1922
