The first reports stated that six persons were dead and a score were injured. It is believed that the accident was due to the rails at a sharp curve spreading under the intense heat.
(Received June 26, at 10.40pm) The casualties were eight persons killed and 70 injured.
Where to vote on town hall
A poll will be taken today of ratepayers in the city of Dunedin on the proposal to raise a special loan of £90,000 for the purpose of erecting a new town hall and providing an organ and other necessary equipment. The poll will be taken between the hours of 9am and 7pm at the following polling places: Knox Church Sunday School; Presbyterian Church, Opoho; Old council chambers, Mornington; Oddfellows’ Hall, Stuart street; Coronation Hall, Maori Hill; Albany Street School hall; Mission Hall, Russell street, Caversham; Methodist Sunday School, South road; St Clair Pavilion, Bedford street; St Andrew's Church hall, Carroll street; Oddfellows’ Hall, Kensington; Burns Hall, Burlington street; George Street School hall; Oddfellows’ Hall, David street, Caversham; North-East Valley Town Hall, North road; Wakari Hall, Nairn street, Kaikorai; Salvation Army hall, Highgate, Roslyn; Presbyterian Church, Anderson’s Bay; South Dunedin Town Hall; Barron’s Hall, North road, North-East Valley.
The right to vote is possessed by everyone on the ratepayers’ roll, except those persons with only a "residential" qualification. A husband and wife may both vote if either is enrolled as a ratepayer.
Deadly drones postulated
It is certain that the day is not far distant when it will be possible to send out a fleet of airplanes, either from an airdrome on land, or from the docks of a naval aircraft carrier at sea, without a single pilot going up. Everything will be done with the radio plant which is needed for wireless control. All that will be necessary will be the selection of an objective, whether it be a single building, the headquarters of a staff, or a mighty city, and the airplanes will be sent out to deal death and destruction in their wake. No casualties can be inflicted on the raiders, for there will be no pilots or crew to kill. All this may sound uncanny, like some flight of imagination, but it is the inevitable trend of aerial progress and the application of the forces of wireless to the problem of flight.
Breakthrough in diabetes
The new cure for diabetes, which has been successfully tested both in Canada and London during the past few months, will in due course be tried at the Dunedin Hospital. Insulin is the name of the cure, and arrangements have been made to enable it to be manufactured in Australia. The local supply will be obtained from Australia. Insulin is manufactured from the pancreas of the pig by a simple treatment with alcohol. The drug is injected subcutaneously. Improvement in sufferers treated in Canada and London indicates that insulin is a great advance on the previous methods of dealing with diabetes.
— ODT, 27.6.1923 (Compiled by Peter Dowden)
