New cheese store

One of the wonders of the war: the caterpillar tractor which goes anywhere and everywhere and draws enormous loads. This is one of the latest types used by the French army. - Otago Witness, 27.2.1918.
One of the wonders of the war: the caterpillar tractor which goes anywhere and everywhere and draws enormous loads. This is one of the latest types used by the French army. - Otago Witness, 27.2.1918.
The cool store which is being built by the Otago Dairy Producers' Cool Storage Company at the end of the Victoria wharf is now practically completed, a portion of the roofing only remaining to be finished.

A start has been made to store cheese in the new building, and as the place can hold some 16,000 crates, much-needed relief will be given to the dairy factories at the present time, when the flush of the season and a not too plentiful supply of overseas ships to carry the produce have brought about a rather acute position.

The site on which the store is built is 162ft by 61ft. The constructional walls of the building are of brickwork, the floor is of concrete, and the roof is tiled. All the walls and the ceiling are insulated with pumice.

Provision has been made for ventilating the cheese during the cool hours of the night time by providing a large number of vermin-proof ventilator openings and five electric fans, these latter being calculated to replace 11,000 cubic feet of air per minute. The building is lit by electricity, but during cool weather light is obtained from windows on the south side.

Miners' picnic

The Kaitangata-Taratu miners held their thirty-fourth annual picnic and sports on the Domain ground on Saturday. The day was dull, and a chilly breeze prevailed. There was a good attendance, and everything went along with a business-like swing from start to finish.

A ''baby-show'' brought 18 entries, Mr T. S. Cairns (Mayor) and Mrs Robert Lees acting as judges. Many racing and other events were arranged for the benefit of the children and adults, besides which there was an abundance of sweets.

The committee spent 18 upon toys for gifts to children up to seven years of age, but, as the coming generation of men and women appeared to attend en masse, the supply of gift toys did not fully meet the demand.

The committee tried to arrange for the presence of the local brass band, but in this they were unsuccessful. The bandsmen, with one or two exceptions, attended the picnic, but without instruments or music. The fine protection and shelter provided by the pavilion and hedges was all that could be desired.

Telegraph girls

In continuation of the announcement that, owing to not sufficient boys offering, the Post and Telegraph Department was employing girls for the purpose of delivering telegrams in Wellington, Sir Joseph Ward (Postmaster-general) states that the girls are carrying out their work most satisfactorily.

Arctic shipping

London: The British Press Bureau narrates some remarkable war adventures of British crews in the Arctic seas in connection with German mining and the clearing by the British of icebound ports. ''When expected merchantmen,'' it states, ''do not arrive, trawlers search for the starved and frostbitten crews, who are often exposed in open boats to the fury of the Arctic seas. Sometimes they are not found at all. Upon occasion a submarine meets the fate it has prepared for another.''

Snippets

A sword-fish 11 feet long and four feet across the back with the sword nearly four feet long has been washed up on the beach near Kumara Junction.

- ODT, 22.2.1918.

 

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