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Otago Daily Times
21 hours ago
- Business
- Otago Daily Times
Momona cheese makes judges smile
Cheeses on display at the Otago A and P Society winter show, in Dunedin. — Otago Witness, 9.6.1925 Ponga frond claim staked The Otago Winter Show was continued yesterday, and there was a good attendance throughout the day and evening. Yesterday's admission takings amounted to £342. The Taieri and Peninsula Milk Supply Company offered a challenge cup, valued at 15 guineas, for a cheese grading competition, open to bona fide cheese-factory managers. The cheese was graded by Government officials, and the particulars of points allocated lodged with the secretary. The cup was awarded to the competitor whose grading card was the nearest to the points allocated by the Government graders. On this occasion J.G. Wilson, third assistant at Momona Dairy Factory, won with 98 points. Wellington, June 4: At a meeting of the New Zealand Football Association to-night the Secretary reported that he had written to the New Zealand Rugby Union stating: "The association has no desire to use the title 'All Blacks,' and considers that as you represent the original holders of such a title you should now have the role right to use it. My council does, however, feel that the fern leaf, being the national emblem of New Zealand, should be worn by any person or persons representing New Zealand bodies in any field of sport. The uniform is a black jersey with a silver fern leaf, white knickers, black stockings, and black cap with a silver fern leaf. Our colours, black or white, have been in use for 30 years, and we contend we are entitled to use them for all time." Intermediates explained Mr J. Caughley, Director of Education, addressed members of the School Committees' Association last evening on the subject of Junior High Schools. There was no English-speaking country that had not adopted the principle that primary education should finish at 12 years and higher education commence at 12 and proceed onwards; it was remarkable that New Zealand was the last to adopt this principle. At about the age of 12 boys and girls were entering upon that period which was described as adolescence. They were becoming youths and maidens. . Boys and girls at about that age should be learning the elements of the subject they were going to take up later on. To those taught in their teens it became tedious, whereas taken at an earlier age it became easier and more agreeable. We should not wait till 13 or 14 years of age before commencing. It was too great a jump to tackle all at once. The junior high school would mean that the primary school course would end at about the Fourth Standard. Three schools in Auckland had had their Fifth Standards cut off to form the Kowhai School, and the head masters had reported that the work in the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Standards had never been better. The remaining pupils were getting just as good education as ever. This form of high school had been such a success that there had been pressure to secure more. There was a junior high school at Matamata now. Instead of having 60 pupils with two teachers the school how had 180 pupils from nine adjacent schools with five teachers. That school was working very satisfactorily. At Northcote there was a system with only three schools. In the smaller country districts he did not see how the scheme could be carried out, but there were places in Otago whore there could be a type of junior high school if arrangement could be made for collecting the children. — ODT, 5.6.1925 Compiled by Peter Dowden
Otago Daily Times
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Otago Daily Times
A&P show radiates energy
Hon William Nosworthy opens the Otago A and P Society's 1925 Winter Show in Dunedin. — Otago Witness, 9.6.1925 Once again Winter Show Week has been auspiciously ushered in, and the community cannot but respond to the stimulus of its quickening influences. It may be said with accuracy that Winter Show Week is like no other of the fifty-two that comprise the year. It has an atmosphere of its own and is the more welcome because it introduces an agreeable break in the monotony of the season of short days and low temperatures and brings brightness and bustle in its train at a time when most people are in the mood to appreciate a variation of the normal routine. Only the dullard can fail to be alive to the acceleration of the city's activities which Winter Show Week introduces. The Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Society's Show becomes at this time a radiating centre of energy and animation. Our visitors will of course have opportunity of judging for themselves of the promise of the forthcoming Exhibition from the magnitude of the buildings that are now erected and should find sufficient evidence during the present week of the existence of a progressive and confident spirit in the principal city of Otago. There is much to see and much to do in Dunedin within the pleasant limits of Winter Show Week, and in all manner of re-unions, gatherings and conferences, agreeable scope for the sociability which is the indispensable lubricant of the whole machinery of the Fair. — editorial Licensed premises The annual meeting of the Dunedin Licensing Committee was held in the courthouse yesterday afternoon. New licenses to old houses were granted as follows: Crown Hotel (William Ernest Metcalf), Carlton Hotel (John Richardson), Provincial (Cecil Henry Street), Bowling Green (Frederick William Rudkin), Rugby (William James Bevis), Criterion (Angus Murray McIvor), Oban (Fred Griffiths Paape), Gridiron (Alfred Walter Brown). A well-dressed woman "What had she on?" is my inevitable query on hearing my husband express the opinion that Mrs Smith or Brown was the best-dressed woman there ("there," by the way, meaning some function or other). The also inevitable answer is — " Well, er, you know what women wear; all the same, she knows what suits her, and how to dress herself." At times, I must own, I feel a wee bit jealous of the Mrs Smiths and Browns, who have the cleverness to arouse such expressions of admiration from other people's husbands. She knows what suits herself. It sounds so extraordinarily simple, doesn't it? Yet how many of us women can claim that distinction? To know how to dress ourselves becomingly and attractively is an art. But the majority of us appear to consider that what proves becoming to another person must in some inexplicable way assuredly be as becoming to ourselves. It is possible not to be out of the fashion, and yet to have a distinct style of one's own. A woman's clothes should undoubtedly express her personality. Voluble 'wobbly' in NZ Lyons, the young and voluble IWW sailor whose deportation is sought for, intends to defy the authorities. He states that he does not wish to leave New Zealand. He likes the people and he wishes to work here. Whether or not the people of New Zealand like Mr Lyons remains to be seen. They showed no very warm enthusiasm for him or his cause at the Sunday evening meeting which he addressed here. "They want to deport me," he told his audience, "But if you people get together, I say they will not dare to deport me." Lyons openly and exultantly declared that he was a member of the IWW. — ODT, 2.6.1925 (Compiled by Peter Dowden)
Otago Daily Times
21-05-2025
- General
- Otago Daily Times
A vision of the future
John Logie Baird peers into a receiving machine to view an image of a living and moving face, in his experiments which later lead to the development of television. — Otago Witness, 28.4.1925 By train to Tahuna Park "I have lately been privileged to witness two demonstrations of television, or seeing by wireless (or wires)," says Rados in an English exchange. "The subject has received a vast amount of attention since the inception of broadcasting, as it is realised what an immense boon it would be, if we could both see and hear at the same time over the ether. Television is an accomplished fact. I have seen it demonstrated. But let me hasten to add that I don't expect to see it in commercial use for at least five years, and then only as a scientific novelty. That it will eventually be made possible for commercial use I have no doubt, but what has been done so far is not in a fraction of the advanced state that was Bell's telephone when he first published to the world the fact that he had been able to speak over a few hundred yards of wire." At the monthly meeting of the Otago A and P Society, the Secretary read correspondence with the town clerk in regard to the question of the society being able to use the railway line from the goods yard to Queen's drive for the conveyance of stock, to which the City Council replied as follows: "With regard to the Ocean Beach Railway I am to say that the committee can conceive of no reason why your society should ever be deprived of the use of this railway, as at present for the conveyance of livestock to the show. Your society need be under no misapprehension in regard to this last-mentioned matter." 'Cold Lakes' To the editor: Sir, I regret to note in your issue of today an account of the activities of some enterprising Dunedin gentlemen in improving the transport and residential facilities at Lake Wanaka and Hawea under the above most objectionable title. For many years the Otago Expansion League has battled against this misnomer and has succeeded in convincing the Tourist Department that the terms "Hot Lakes" and "Cold Lakes" should not be used. When it is pointed out that the temperature of Lake Rotorua is only a few degrees higher than that of Lake Wakatipu it will be seen that there is no obvious reason for the distinctive appellation. The trouble created by such a title is that it convoys a totally erroneous impression to strangers and fosters the almost unkillable belief held in many places in the dominion that Otago and Antarctica are inter-changeable terms. May we, therefore, crave your valued assistance in eliminating the frigid adjective and substituting "Southern" or any other suitable description for the one unfortunately chosen? — I am, etc, Secretary, Otago Expansion League Oil, that is The world's total production of petroleum in 1924 is estimated at 137,642,000 tons. Of this the United States produced 93,378,000 tons, Mexico 21,642,000, Russia 6,000,000, Persia 4,253,000, the Dutch East Indies 2,084,000. Rumania 1,811,000, Venezuela 1,223,000 and India 1,135,000 tons. The Americans have control of more than 80 percent of the world's total output. Holland, through the operations of the Royal Dutch-Shell combination, in which Dutch interests exercise a 60 percent authority, has control of a very large production, much of which is in the United States. This production is estimated at more than 10 percent of the world total. — ODT, 22.5.1925 Compiled by Peter Dowden
