Stop-over privileges will be granted on all through tickets, and visitors who may desire to make acquaintance with the beauties of the Matukituki or Glendhu or Hawea, or even a further penetration to the wilds of the Makarora, the Wilkin or the Haast will be catered for by the subsidiary services centred on Pembroke. The success of the winter season at the Hermitage has been most marked: these attractions will be still further enhanced during next winter.
Pictures by wireless?
Most people are aware that experiments have been made in telegraphing pictures and photographs: few are aware efforts have been made and with a measure of success to transmit photographs and pictures by wireless. It is possible to do by wireless anything which has been done by the telegraph, and moving pictures have been transmitted a distance of 60 feet in the laboratory by wireless. It seems as if it is only a matter of time when pictures will be sent by wireless just as easily as songs and news are sent now. The next decade will bring wonders hitherto undreamt of.
Girls learn baby care
In the Health Week campaign, the programme for the day opened with a most successful demonstration in the Burns Hall to Fifth and Sixth Standard girls brought from all over the city and suburbs and from as far as Mosgiel. The demonstration of how to care for a baby was given, by Miss R.A. Buisson, matron of the Karitane Hospital, and nurses from that hospital. The girls crowded every part of the building and watched with intense interest all that was done by these highly skilled experts. After a brief introductory talk had been given, the nurses took a baby, and with it went through all the processes of dressing and undressing, bathing, and feeding. They also showed exactly how a baby’s cot should be made. While these demonstrations were being given another of the nurses explained to all the watching girls exactly what was being done. Finally, Nurse Matheson gave them a practical talk on physical exercises and their value to health. This most instructive and novel gathering lasted only a little over an hour, and conveyed to the girls a great deal of valuable information that will not be quickly forgotten.
Will Central move to dairying?
While sheep continue to pay as well as they are now doing, sheep farming in the Central is an easy and remunerative business, and so there is a great deal of excellent dairying or cropping country at present used for grazing sheep. But the belief is common that sooner or later the lower Central will consist mostly of dairy farms running from 50 to 200 acres in extent. — ODT, 12.10.1923
