I know that it was suggested to prominent members of the committee several days before the match that feeling might be introduced, but so far as I can gather no steps were taken to give the teams a word of advice before they took the field. Mr G. McKenzie, the referee, gave two cautions during the afternoon, and the fact that the men were playing the last match of the season was no doubt responsible for him not taking more drastic action.
Old couples get radioactive
How many (if any) married couples in Dunedin have celebrated their radium wedding? Don’t all speak at once. At any rate the term may be welcomed, with a view to future use, by any Darbys and Joans who are optimistically looking forward to the completion of the seventh decade of connubial bliss. So moderate are our expectations of longevity that popular parlance has no label for a 70-year wedding. When the playwright Frederick Dugue celebrated a similar anniversary with his wife in Paris in 1910, the Petit Parisien coined the phrase, "radium wedding" for the purpose, which, perhaps, serves the purpose as well as any.
Blind people receive support
Now that the city council has taken steps to place the latest literature in the Braille and Moon types at the disposal of the blind, it is of interest to know that an honorary teacher has been appointed by the authorities of the Jubilee Institute for the Blind (Auckland) to instruct those who wish to make themselves acquainted with the reading and writing of the above types. There is also a social movement on foot with the object of bringing the blind of Dunedin and surrounding districts into closer touch with each other. This movement has long been needed, and its success will depend greatly upon the support given by those so afflicted. The honorary teacher is prepared to give any information regarding the training and welfare of the blind. Those who are interested can assist greatly by making the above known to any blind person, or by communicating with Mrs F.A. King, of Clarendon Street.
Getting voters to enrol
A registrar of electors with some years of experience in that arduous capacity complained, in the course of conversation with a Daily Times reporter, regarding the unreasonable attitude taken by a considerable section of the public who will not put themselves to the least trouble to see that their names are enrolled. "We send them application forms and envelopes with prepaid postage, but they will not even go to the trouble of filling in the form, placing it in the envelope, and dropping the package in a letter box. Yet those are the people who, on the day of the election, make the loudest noise because they are not on the roll."
All things bright and beautiful
The anniversary services of the North East Valley Presbyterian Church Sunday school were held in the church on Sunday. The church was beautifully decorated with large quantities of spring flowers and the effect was very pleasing. After the evening service these flowers were sent to the hospital, the Benevolent Institution, the Ross Home and some to the sick of the district. The most attractive feature of the services was the special singing of the junior choir of 90 voices, comprising girls from the senior Bible school and girls and boys from the Sunday school.
— ODT, 27.9.1922
