New liner visits port
The New Zealand Shipping Co's new steamer Tongariro, which berthed at Port Chalmers yesterday afternoon to discharge 1300 tons of general cargo and to load 600 bales of wool, is a powerful carrier of the flush steel-deck type.The trip from London, via Panama and Auckland, was marked by everything running smoothly, which is not always the case on a maiden voyage.
The vessel's oil fuel machinery produced on average speed of 13.8 knots to Auckland, and her officers are satisfied that but for the heavy head swell encountered since leaving Auckland she would have averaged over 14 knots down the coast. Captain White-Parsons has been entrusted with the command of the new liner, and as he is a resourceful New Zealander, and started his seafaring life in this company's sailing ships,
the new Tongariro is starting her cargo-carrying career under conditions which command success. She arrived here on a draught of 25 feet, and cargo was quickly pouring from her holds into the railway trucks. To Wānaka and back
A Dunedin resident, in conversation with a Daily Times reporter yesterday, stated somewhat reluctantly that until quite recently he had never been through the Central Otago district. However, he decided to view the country with his own eyes, and he returned greatly impressed with its future possibilities.
The trip he undertook was to Middlemarch, via Outram, thence to Naseby, Wedderburn, Oturehua, Blackstone Hill, St Bathans, Becks, Lauder, Omakau, Ophir, Alexandra, Clyde, Cromwell, Pembroke, back to Cromwell, thence to Roxburgh, Miller's Flat, Beaumont, Lawrence, Waitahuna and Milton. Every minute of the trip was a real pleasure, as all the time he saw before him the great possibilities of this wonderful country
— a country rich in almost everything. An octagon in the Octagon
The Information Kiosk, where visitors to Dunedin may find out all they want to know about the Exhibition, and where they may also ascertain what accommodation is available, has now been erected in the Octagon. The building is a neat little structure, made in the shape of an octagon, and was brought up bodily from Logan Park and placed into position yesterday. Please give . . .
The Superintendent of the Dunedin Hospital (Dr Falconer) is making an appeal for blood for transfusion purposes. The list of voluntary donors, on which the Hospital has been working, is now exhausted, but there are still many patients requiring this treatment.
It has been the custom for the relatives of patients to offer their blood, but there are those in the Hospital who have neither friends nor relatives to be called upon. It is for these unfortunate sufferers that this appeal is being made, and, as a healthy person can spare the blood for which many patients are in such need, it is hoped that all who are able will come forward and help their less fortunate brethren. . . . generously
The head teacher of the Paparoa Native School, which is a gum-field school in the far north, informs us that owing to the slump in gum prices the children have not sufficient clothes to cover them this winter, and he would be very grateful to receive oddments of flannel and clothing of any description. Thanks a million
The amount to credit of depositors in the Dunedin Savings Bank has now reached for the first time over £1,000,000. That fact was reported at the meeting of trustees this week. The exact total was shown as £1,007,468 5s 9d. — ODT, 23.5.1925
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