![Racegoers crowd the summer meeting at Forbury Park Trotting Club. — Otago Witness, 12.2.1924](https://www.odt.co.nz/sites/default/files/styles/odt_landscape_extra_large_21_10/public/story/2024/02/forbury_park_1924.jpg?itok=tLFgeZTz)
Racegoers crowd the summer meeting at Forbury Park Trotting Club. — Otago Witness, 12.2.1924
Auckland eyes up Dunedin jewels
To Mr Massey, coming back from Imperial interests and broad horizons to be immersed once more in parochialism, the wish of Auckland to despoil and dismember the University of Otago is no new thing. Just as little is Mr Massey minded to lose Dunedin politically as Dunedin is to surrender its Dental School: and lose Dunedin he assuredly would if this spoliation had his approval. Neglecting things of the spirit, the Aucklanders have battened and fattened in worldly prosperity; it never occurred to them to found a University; and now they would filch ours piecemeal. Is there any other Dunedin institution they would like — Knox College, or the Ross Home, or the Railway Station (they have a wretched one of their own), or the Exhibition that is to be? Perhaps we
should present them with the Burns Statue. — by ‘Civis’
Paved with gold
The streets of Dunedin were stated by Mr Charles W. Bayliss, vice-president of the Barber Asphalt Company, of Philadelphia, to be the best paved in Australasia. Mr Bayliss, has visited many countries, but he was eulogistic at the splendid workmanship shown in the construction of the roads, which, he said, was far above that seen in other cities.
NZ: just add people
While speaking of the present anything but satisfactory state of trade in Great Britain at the New Zealand Club luncheon yesterday, the Prime Minister referred to the wonderful possibilities of expansion of population in almost every British colony and dominion. He believed that while in England he had done much towards arranging for a large number of immigrants of a suitable type for New Zealand. In Ulster, a deputation had, they said, a surplus of 250,000. "Give me 250,000 people from Ulster and I'll take the lot," said Mr Massey, "because they're stickers." — ODT, 2.2.1924
Compiled by Peter Dowden