The City Council’s Reserves Committee has for some time been considering the question of acquiring an area of land in the Kaikorai district for the purpose of a public recreation ground. There is no such reserve in the district at the present time. Practically the only suitable area for such purposes has been placed under offer by Mr Arthur Ellis. The land abuts on Fraser’s road and Kaikorai Valley road, and comprises approximately 9 ½ acres. There are two houses on the land, which are included in Mr Ellis’s offer. The committee, after very carefully reviewing the whole matter, recommends that the offer submitted by Mr Ellis be accepted.
No grey area for khaki
The wearing of the khaki while not in the performance of military duties is an offence according to the military regulations. In the City Police Court yesterday William Wedderspoon was charged with wearing a military uniform — namely, a military overcoat — while not in the performance of military duties, outside Carisbrook Ground. The military authorities had asked that this case be proceeded with as a warning to others.
The Magistrate said that as this was the first prosecution for some considerable time he would deal lightly with the defendant, but he wished it to be understood that similar cases in future would be more severely dealt with. He would be convicted and ordered to pay court costs (7 shillings).
Peninsula weekend host dies
Another of the early pioneers who settled on the Otago Peninsula has been severed by the passing away of Mrs Hannah Chamberlain Green, who died at her residence at Broad Bay on Friday night in her 87th year. Mrs Green came out to Otago in the ship England, which arrived at Port Chalmers on October 1, 1869. She and her husband, the late Mr George Green, for about two years lived in George street, near where Knox Church now stands. They then moved to the Broad Bay property which for so many years was associated with their name. Mr Green went into business as a bootmaker, and on the establishment of a post and telegraph office at Broad Bay was postmaster until his death in 1900. Mrs Green, with her characteristic energy and foresight, was not idle in the meantime, and, sensing the need for accommodation for the ever-growing influx of week-end visitors to the Bay, she opened Koromiko House, a boarding establishment which in after years became widely known as one of the most popular and best-managed seaside houses adjacent to Dunedin. Finding the cares of business too much for her, Mrs Green sold out in 1919, and lived in retirement, enjoying splendid health until Wednesday last. — ODT, 26.6.1926
