There was a great attendance of the public, including a good number of country residents. The memorial occupies a prominent position in Thames street, near the junction with Lees and Itchen streets. The archway is built of Gay’s Oamaru stone, of a specially hard type, the lower portion being rock laced, and built on a granite base. The dimensions overall are 15 feet wide by 15ft 2in high by 3ft deep, the actual opening being 6ft wide by 6ft high. The design chosen by the architect Sir Basil Hooper ARIBA, of Dunedin, is that of the Italian Renaissance, which seems specially suited, by reason of its grace of proportions and delicacy of detail, to such a subject. As Sir Robert drew aside the Union Jack covering the inscription, heads were bared and the Fifth Mounted Regiment Band played Beethoven’s Funeral March, always popular with the deceased gentleman. After the National Anthem had been played the crowd went their ways, pleased at having shared in doing honour to one who had earned the grateful remembrance of his citizens.
North eclipses South Island
"The North Island is now in a large minority as regards representation. While only thirty-seven members come from that part of the country, the South sends fifty-one members to this House." Thus Mr S.T. George, member for Rodney in the House of Representatives on November 4, 1879. The passage makes rather painful reading for us Southerners in the year of grace 1922, when the North returns forty-six members and the South only thirty. Where are they, those Southern electorates of forty-three years ago — Coleridge, Geraldine, Gladstone, Waimea, Cheviot, Dunstan, Ashley, Akaroa, Waikouaiti, Caversham, Tuapeka, Mount Ida, Collingwood, Selwyn, Roslyn, Heathcote, Taieri, Riverton, Picton, Waikaia? Gone, all gone, with the songs of Spring and the snows of yesteryear.
Woman persuaded to stand
A deputation on behalf of various women’s societies in the city waited on Mrs Denton Leech yesterday, to request her to allow herself to be nominated for a seat on the city council at the elections which take place in April next. The deputation was headed by Mrs C.E. Statham, vice-president of the Women’s Citizen’s Association, and included Mrs Lindo Ferguson (Otago Women’s Club), Mrs Carmalt Jones (National Council of Women), Mrs Murray, Miss Mackenzie, and Mrs Jackson, representing the city social workers. The latter received a number of letters favouring Mrs Leech’s candidature. Mrs Leech expressed her appreciation of her fellow-workers’ support, and said she would accede to the request to contest a seat on the city council on the broad grounds of general welfare and outside of party interests.
Rude shock in Brighton
Residents of Brighton and cottage owners in that favourite resort occasionally suffer through wandering cattle gaining access to their gardens. On Sunday morning last a resident who takes a keen interest in his garden received a rude shock on discovering that practically the whole of his well-cared-for vegetables and plants had been eaten by a stray cow which had entered his garden during the night.
— ODT, 29.11.1922 (Compiled by Peter Dowden)
