100 years ago

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...

A few months ago there was a vigorous local discussion over a proposal to establish works at Bowen Falls, Milford Sound, for the extraction of nitrates from the air.

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. 

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...

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

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. 

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.

It is many years since Dunedin people have been offered anything ambitious in the way of a fireworks display and undoubtedly the promised £500 demonstration was one of the outstanding events at the...

The two-day professional sports meeting of the New Zealand Athletic and Cycling Union was commenced yesterday at the Caledonian Ground.