Trinity Church jubilee marked
For Dunedin Methodists July 10, 1920 is “a day in golden letters to be set” for it marks the completion of a full half-century during which greatest influences have streamed from the portals of...
100 years ago
Smallpox vaccination exhorted
Smallpox vaccination exhorted
Some 7000 vaccinations have now been performed in Invercargill city. In the country districts of Southland fewer have been done. During the last three weeks no case of American smallpox has been...
Girls’ rest rooms in Dunedin
Girls’ rest rooms in Dunedin
Some time back the YWCA established a hostel for girls — a much-needed accommodation which could even now be extended with advantage.
Smallpox outbreak stationary
Smallpox outbreak stationary
It is satisfactory to be able to state that the outbreak of smallpox in Otago and Southland is stationary. The fever hospital at Logans Point is still full, but the majority of the patients are...
RSA spells out stance
RSA spells out stance
Mr George M. Smith, secretary of thelocal Returned Soldiers’ Association, told a representative of this paper yesterday that the recent National Conference of the association was unanimous in the...
Profiteering and selfishness slated
Profiteering and selfishness slated
A cynic might be pardoned if he divided present-day society into two classes — those who are profiteering and those who are not. It is no defence to plead that some of the latter class...
Labour dominates May Day
Labour dominates May Day
Accounts now available in Home papers to hand of May Day proceedings in the Old World make interesting reading. Since England ceased to be a mainly agricultural country and became industrialized,...
Chinese have right to operate
Chinese have right to operate
It has been made fairly evident that the consumers, that is to say the general public, would not feel any resentment at the entry of Chinese retailers into the local fruit trade, if that meant an...
Horse trading criticised
Horse trading criticised
Mr A. Reid, of Knapdale, when speaking in support of a remit to the Southland Farmers’ Union conference, which urged the Government, when making new appointments of stock inspectors, to...
West Coast sawmills planned
West Coast sawmills planned
A considerable extension of the sawmilling industry seems likely in the near future and already projects are in hand for opening eight or nine new mills on the West Coast, mostly in South Westland....
School of Art to close
School of Art to close
The Dunedin School Of Art, which has had a fairly long as well as a creditable history, will shortly be to all intents and purposes a thing of the past unless there be still local energy and...
Admiral praises Australian Navy
Admiral praises Australian Navy
London: Speaking at a Western Australian dinner, at which the Agent General Mr J.D. Connolly presided, Admiral Beatty, who proposed the toast of Western Australia, referred to the work of the...
Tuberculosis treatment needed.
Tuberculosis treatment needed.
One of the saddest aspects of the aftermath of war consists in the evidence which surrounds us of the dreary struggle of many returned soldiers to regain physical health and well-being....
Nauru takeover due on July 1
Nauru takeover due on July 1
The Prime Minister was asked at the conference of producers at Wellington last week for any information he could give about the Nauru purchase, and especially for information as to when phosphates...
Remedial work on sandhills
Remedial work on sandhills
Several thousand people journeyed to Saint Clair to view at first hand the damage which has been wrought there by the sea.
Smallpox outbreak measures
Smallpox outbreak measures
The district health officer, Dr McKibbin, has communicated the following statement to us: The incidence of American smallpox in both Otago and Southland is on the increase.
Electric vehicles
Electric vehicles
It is undoubtedly the age of the motor, and during his tour of America the Wellington city engineer was impressed with the fact that in some cities the motor had completely displaced the horse ...
Kelsey-Yaralla kindergarten opens
Kelsey-Yaralla kindergarten opens
The official opening of the Kelsey-Yaralla free kindergarten, the handsome new building destined to carry on the work which was performed in the Albany Street gymnasium and in other places for a...
Higher levees recommended
Higher levees recommended
The report of the commissioners who were appointed by the government to collect evidence in regard to the cause of the silting up and flooding of the Molyneux River from Barnego to the sea and to...
Misappropriation of Maori land
Misappropriation of Maori land
The explanation of how Princes Street comes to be so wide in all its southern part though no doubt well enough known to the elder generation will yet come as something of a shock to many present...