Since that time the work of the college has steadily developed. More than 200 students have taken its course of training and gone out into the Christian ministry at home or abroad. It is splendidly housed in Knox College, and its staff of full-time professors numbers four. Fitting celebrations of the jubilee of the college have been planned and these opened in First Church last evening, when there was a large and representative attendance.
Gallery likely to stay gallery
It is now fairly well assured that the Art Gallery will remain where it is, and that the Festival Hall will be pulled down. There is only one thing not yet clear, and that is whether the Art Gallery is to be used for its original purpose or is to be turned into a dressing shed. Probably it will remain as an Art Gallery.
Fish amped to spawn
Spawning fish have already put in an appearance at the mouth of the Water of Leith, and a good many of them have made their way some distance up the stream in the direction of the spawning beds. Such an early run promises well for a good spawning season.
Pavlova on the face
Auckland, May 25: Madame Pavlova had a very enthusiastic reception on her arrival here from Sydney today.
There was a stir in the ranks of many young girls who crowded the outside of the railing in the wharf shed when madame was seen coming down the gangway with her husband and the members of the company.
At the foot of the gangway two tiny girls met her, and each presented her with a bouquet. For the rest of their lives they will be able to boast that they have been kissed by Pavlova.
Palestine can’t get a win
No country on earth can boast such romance and tragedy as Palestine. Besides being the birthplace of three of the world’s religions — Judaism, Christianity, and Mohammedanism — it has suffered the drums and tramplings of innumerable armies, and might well be called the cockpit of Asia.
Bushmen love ‘the hump’
My friends laugh when I say that at the end of my travels I had ‘‘the hump,” but please don’t do that, for “The Hump,” or “The Big Hump,” was a very serious proposition to me. This mountain is a long ridge extending seven miles, at least, from the coast near Port Craig in a northerly or north-westerly direction. It is very heavily bushed, only about 5500 feet high, and clear of trees for a few hundred feet on the top.
It lies in a very remote situation 22 miles from the township of Tuatapere (near the mouth of the Waiau), and eight miles from the big sawmills at Port Craig. All the surrounding country is covered with virgin bush. There is no settlement anywhere near it; and 1 suppose that there are very few places in New Zealand from which a man can overlook a vaster area of untouched, unbroken forest than he sees from The Hump. This is very fine to look at, of course, but far from reassuring to the amateur bushman, who intends to travel there alone. — ODT, 26.5.1926
