100 years ago

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...

History of NZ wars

The Dart River from Paradise, showing Mt Earnslaw on the right.

N.O. memorial oaks

Dalmore and Gladstone, Dunedin, from the Botanic Gardens hill.

Problematic pig

A small party which went after a big pig that had been making himself a nuisance had a quarter of an hour or so packed with incident at the Stone House up the Reaby Gorge last week (the Mataura...

Country midwives' pay

Midwives have not to any extent settled in country districts (runs a passage in the annual report of the Health Department). Few after completion of training have the necessary capital to pay...

Epidemic nears end

The epidemic has reached its diminishing stage to such an extent that it must, with reasonable care, soon become non-existent.

First OGHS principal

Princes St, Dunedin, looking north from Manse St corner. — Otago Witness, 11.12.1918.

Northern Association Football team, winners of the third grade cup competition in Dunedin. Back row (from left): S. Riach, J. Steel, C. McCallum, O. Moller. Middle row: W. Brundell (committee), G. Dryden, H. E. Taylor (captain), E. Esquilant, W. S. Roberts (secretary). Sitting: Reddington, M. Faithful, Guthrie.

Discharges at risk

A cheery group of our boys on a captured German 4.2 inch gun taken during the British advance in...

Discharges at risk

The most extraordinary clause in the Bill is that which proposes to make it possible to cancel the discharge of a man for misconduct, and to take him back into camp again.

Six o'clock closing

The Duke of Connaught inspects the victors of the Messines battle: greeting a New Zealand general...

Six o'clock closing

By the narrowest of majorities in the House of Representatives, an amendment providing for the permanence of the six o'clock closing of hotel bars has now become part of the Licensing Bill as it...

Squalid homes

Cologne on the Rhine, one of the German cities to be occupied by the Allies.

Influenza waning

Some of the motor cars placed at the disposal of the Central Bureau (Dunedin centre for co-ordinating the influenza battle) by local owners.

Plea for orphans

The town of Roye as it appeared when the French had forced its evacuation by the Huns.

Dr Margaret Cruickshank dies

The newly-formed Photographers’ Association of Otago and Southland. Back row (from left): J. Stedman, C. C. Armstrong, Guy Morris, H. Luscombe, H. C. Gore. Second row: J. J. Webster (Hon. Treasurer), R. Rodgers (Gore), W. Esquilant (Vice-president), S. Wootten (Invercargill), G. Palmer, K. Parkes. Third row (sitting): T. Girvan, C. E. Merry, H. Beauchamp, J. R. Morris (President), H. J. Gill, C. W. Patillo, Miss F. Niven, H. M. Morris.

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