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Plea to pull over for sirens

Christchurch, June 16: Apropos of last night’s tragedy, in an interview to-day Superintendent Warner, of the Christchurch Fire Brigade, stressed the necessity for the public to show consideration...

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Unmarked road hazard

Mr and Mrs Walter Taine have returned to Dunedin from a motor trip through both islands, the pleasure of which was interfered with by only one untoward incident.

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Anzac Ave width tussle

The Works Committee of the City Council will present a report on Wednesday evening.

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Roof takes wing

Wanganui, June 12: A rather sensational happening occurred in Hatrick street this afternoon.

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New wing at Plunket facility

The official function of the laying of the foundation stone of the nurses’ new quarters at the Karitane-Harris Hospital drew a large gathering to the site of the new building yesterday afternoon.

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GG visits exhibition site

The first public engagement of the day yesterday for the Governor-General, Sir Charles Fergusson, was a visit to the Exhibition Buildings.

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Paris, June 9: A bulletin from Fez reports that contingents of rebel tribesmen were proceeding in the direction of the Tanouat heights, where they were outflanked by the French cavalry and friendly...

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Passenger service to Central

An ‘Aard’ service car operated by Dunedin-Pembroke Motors encounters snow on the Crown Range. —...

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Passenger service to Central

Aard through passenger service, Central Otago and the Lakes: Dunedin, leave Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, for Pembroke, via Roxburgh.

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Highway bosses may look at South

An awkward moment on the Kawarau Gorge road between Arrowtown and Gibbston (future SH6) as cars...

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Highway bosses may look at South

The South Island Motor Union recently wrote to Mr M.H. Wynyard, motorists’ representative on the Main Highways Board, suggesting that he should make a tour of the South Island.

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New life for British youths

Young British men gather with New Zealand high commissioner Sir James Allen (centre) at Waterloo...

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New life for British youths

Some 320 assisted settlers are travelling to New Zealand by the SS Corinthic.

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Momona cheese makes judges smile

Cheeses on display at the Otago A and P Society winter show, in Dunedin. — Otago Witness, 9.6.1925

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Momona cheese makes judges smile

The Otago Winter Show was continued yesterday, and there was a good attendance throughout the day and evening.

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Dancing of unusual merit

Norma Douglas, of Oamaru, winner of sword dance, Irish jig and Austin memorial cup at the Dunedin...

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Dancing of unusual merit

The championship competitions of the Otago Centre of the Piping and Dancing Association of New Zealand were continued yesterday morning and afternoon.

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Murder a WW1 loose end

Cyril Cromar, a New Zealand soldier murdered in the German city of Cologne in 1919. — Otago...

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Murder a WW1 loose end

An echo of the war which principally affects Dunedin has now reached finality.

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A&P show radiates energy

Hon William Nosworthy opens the Otago A and P Society’s 1925 Winter Show in Dunedin. — Otago...

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A&P show radiates energy

Once again Winter Show Week has been auspiciously ushered in, and the community cannot but respond to the stimulus of its quickening influences.

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Canada to exhibit

A building frame awaits cladding at the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition construction site...

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Canada to exhibit

The Canadian Government will accept the invitation to be represented at the New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition.

Reel heavy load

Steam traction engines haul a drum of replacement cable up Rattray St to the Roslyn cable car...

Reel heavy load

A large cylinder, containing about 17 tons of wire rope for the Roslyn cable car service, drawn by two traction engines, held up traffic for some time yesterday whilst being taken from the Victoria...

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Pacifist leader scorned

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, known by the honorific title Mahatma, demonstrates spinning with a...

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Pacifist leader scorned

Mr Gandhi’s prestige suffered a serious check when the Mahratta Provincial Congress decided that it had no faith in his panacea of spinning as the sole medium of salvation for India.

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Tuapeka memorial unveiled

Tuapeka District fallen soldiers’ memorial at Lawrence. — Otago Witness, 23.6.1925

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Tuapeka memorial unveiled

There was a large gathering at the Peace Garden in Peel street, Lawrence, at 4.30pm yesterday afternoon.

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Rival proposes to help Amundsen

Roald Amundsen loads equipment before his sea and air expedition to the North Pole. — Otago...

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Rival proposes to help Amundsen

Mr Grettir Algarsson, who proposed to race Captain Amundsen to the Pole by using an airship is now hurrying his preparations forward in order to help Captain Amundsen.

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Thrown from Main Trunk Line . . .

A derailed AB steam locomotive and its tender lie upside down in a gully at Kakahi near...

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Thrown from Main Trunk Line . . .

Taumarunui, May 25: Shortly after 7 o’clock this morning a big AB engine weighing over 70 tons was thrown from the line on a bluff near Kakahi salmon hatcheries, about nine miles from Taumarunui.

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