There was a little difficulty in dealing with unripe fish, and in order to obviate this in future a concrete pound has been erected a short way below the trap on the edge of the University ground. This pound will save labour and time, as well as avoiding handling fish so frequently as has been necessary in the past.
‘‘Mum, don’t strike! Let us arbitrate,’’ was the remark of the precocious youngster who was being extended over the maternal knee with a view to a maternal spanking. Lightly expressed it is the lesson of the industrial convulsion which has shaken the Home Country since the beginning of this month. — by ‘Wayfarer’
Proof in the pottery
In February excavations at Murdering Beach, Otago, were carried out by the archaeological section of the Otago Institute. Tho owner of the ground, Mr H. Thomson, generously made over to the museum his right to all finds. Three occupation levels were distinguished, but almost all the material recovered came from the topmost level, the burnt village, the ashes of which lie immediately beneath the turf. That this village existed in early European times was proved by a small piece of English pottery decorated with seaweed pattern in blue and dating from about 1810, found bedded in the top layer of the large midden beside the excavated area.
A lecture on the finds at Murdering Beach was delivered at a joint meeting of the Otago Institute and the Archaeological Section, and a paper on the same subject was read before the Anthropology Section of the Auckland Institute.
A gallery in a sports field?
The question of the disposal of the Exhibition Art Gallery building is whether it remains there as a public art gallery or as a building used for purposes connected with sport. As a structure its suitability for the purpose of a permanent home for the valuable art collection owned by the citizens is unquestionable, and it is a matter of common knowledge that the present art gallery building in Cumberland street is nearly everything that it should not be. The representatives of the sports bodies seem to resent the idea of an art gallery on Logan Park.
The case in support of the transference of the Dunedin public art gallery to Logan Park cannot be regarded as seriously prejudiced by the circumstances under which the sports bodies object to the scheme.
The plea of the Art Gallery Society and others for the retention of the Exhibition Gallery is in our view a particularly strong one. — editorial
Eyes to the sky
The Beverly-Begg Observatory is now open to the public on Wednesday and Saturday evenings when the weather is favourable. Members of the general public are charged a trifling fee. — ODT, 19.5.1926
