Versailles peace congress
Versailles peace congress
Within the next few days, and for many days to come, Versailles will be the scene of what promises to be, in its international significance, the most momentous gathering in history.
Opinion
Children's work conditions
Children's work conditions
Miss Coad, speaking at the Teachers' Conference on the subject of the employment of children, said that it was high time that something was done in New Zealand to regulate the employment of...
Staving off temptation
Staving off temptation
The peregrinations of a barrel of ale, a Christmas gift from a local brewery to the constables at a Wellington police station, which, by the order of a "high authority'' was incarcerated in a...
Beer price riots in Darwin
Beer price riots in Darwin
Ahipara, a settlement at the extreme south end of 90 mile beach, North Auckland.
Blond Eskimos
Blond Eskimos
Maori women doing their washing at Ohinemutu, Rotorua.
New Zealand's contribution
New Zealand's contribution
The part which New Zealand, the most distant portion of the Empire, has played in the present war, is one of which that small community may be justly proud (states a recent article in the London...
Staged air travel
Staged air travel
London: A Daily Chronicle representative interviewed Mr Holt Thomas, director of the Aircraft Manufacturing Company, who says the air journey to Australia can now be done at a hundred miles an hour...
Roosevelt — man of action
Roosevelt — man of action
The American barque, John Ena, the largest sailing craft yet to have visited Dunedin.
Starvation in Russia
Starvation in Russia
Kawarau Falls, the only outlet of Lake Wakatipu.
Benmore settlement
Benmore settlement
Oban, Half Moon Bay, Stewart Island.
Pioneer passes
Pioneer passes
In the passing away of Mr Donald Angus Cameron, who died at his residence, Glengalloch Station, Nokomai, on Tuesday, the dominion loses one of its pioneer run-holders and one who was well-known...
South Otago hospitals
South Otago hospitals
One effect of the influenza epidemic in Otago has been to force into prominence the absence of adequate hospital accommodation in certain country districts.
The 1918 year
The 1918 year
In the long procession that marks the march of recorded time there are years that stand out conspicuously - ever to be remembered because of the events to which they give date, and which set upon...
Last rites row
Last rites row
New South Wales, or, at any rate, that section of it which concerns itself with church matters, has been convulsed with rage during the past week.
Busy Christmas Eve
Busy Christmas Eve
The weather on Christmas Eve was fine, tempting large crowds to patronise the principal streets of the city, and the business transacted must have been very gratifying to the shopkeepers.
Horrific voyage
Horrific voyage
The following graphic letter regarding the epidemic on the transport carrying the Fortieth Reinforcements, which resulted in the death of over 70 New Zealand soldiers, was written from England on...
Hampers for troops
Hampers for troops
On September 25, allowing plenty of time for delays in transit, the Otago Harbour Board sent, through the Overseas Club, to each man in its employ on active service a Christmas hamper containing...
Influenza toll
Influenza toll
Now that the dominion is rapidly becoming free once more of influenza the public would be deeply interested to learn the actual extent of the toll which the scourge has levied upon it.
Military Service Board
Military Service Board
Following on the signing of the armistice and the consequent cessation of hostilities between the belligerent nations many of the cogs in the military machine have automatically gone out of...
Germans transferred
Germans transferred
Boat Cove, Lake Te Anau.