New regular cargo link
More than ordinary interest is attached to the sailing of the Commonwealth and Dominion Line’s new motor ship Port Dunedin from London on June 26 for Dunedin direct, inasmuch that she is the first motor ship to leave London for New Zealand, and the first vessel to load in connection with the now direct cargo service to South Island ports under the arrangement entered into by the Commonwealth and Dominion Line, the New Zealand Shipping Co, and the Shaw, Savill and Albion Co. The Port Dunedin was launched two months ago, and is coming out via Panama Canal, expected to complete the voyage in 38 days. The vessel should reach Dunedin on August 3 with a large cargo for discharge at Dunedin. This would indicate that local importers fully appreciate the new service, and are taking full advantage of the first direct steamer from London. Sailings at three-weekly intervals thereafter from London of steamers representing the three oversea companies named above will prove of immense benefit to importers and merchants of the South Island.
Down with this sort of thing
The effect of the war upon morals was referred to by the Hon G.M. Thomson in the course of the Address-in-Reply debate in the Legislative Council. "Many of the lessons of the Great War seem to have been lost on the rising generation," observed Mr Thomson. "Dishonesty, for example, is rife to-day. That dishonesty which means that a man does not give fair value for the money he receives for his work." The motto of the employee should be: "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do with all thy might." Mr Thomson was also of the opinion that the modern young girl had too much freedom, an amount which would have shocked her grandmother. The girl in employment was getting more money than was good for her. The majority of girls spent their money foolishly. On juvenile crime he advocated more birchings as a corrective measure and less moral suasion and reformative treatment. — ODT, 2.7.1925
Compiled by Peter Dowden
