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Otago Daily Times
28-07-2025
- Otago Daily Times
Finest walk in the world
Arthur River, near Sandfly Hut, where the Milford Track arrives at Milford Sound. — Otago Witness, 6.10.1925 The Te Anau-Milford track was at the start of the season placed under the control of Mr L.M. Cheriton, formerly chief guide at Waitomo Caves. This season, taking all things into consideration, has been very satisfactory. The new wharf erected at the Head of the Lake has proved a great help in the landing of stores and passengers. The track from the wharf to Glade House has been maintained in good order. The work throughout the season has bean efficiently carried out by the staff at Glade House, the hut keepers, and track hands. Although good work has been done on the track itself, much has been left at a standstill owing to the fact that trackmen and horses have been engaged packing stores over the pass to Quinton and Sandfly huts, due to the late arrival at Milford Sound of the Government steamer Tutanekai. Five new bridges have been erected between Glade House and Pompolona huts, and one between Sandfly huts and the boat-shed, the lastnamed taking a good length of time as the required stringers (50 feet) were hard to convey to the site. The track itself has been chipped and cleared of overhanging grass, etc, from Sandfly huts to Arthur River, crossing Arthur River, crossing to Quinton huts, Quinton huts to Mintaro hut, and from Pompolona huts to Glade House. Work on the pass has been practically ruined by frequent crossing of packhorses. Drains and culverts have also received much needed attention. The telephone line over the track has been kept in splendid order and condition. It has not been unworkable for more than one hour at a stretch throughout the whole season. This has proved a great help in the successful working of the track generally. The drainage has been carried into the river, this in itself making the sanitary conditions around the house much more satisfactory. Bonzol lavatory pans have also been installed. The track is gaining popularity. With the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition at Dunedin in sight, the coming season should prove a record one. Great improvements were effected by the Public Works Department in the road access to Te Anau which has so long been a cause of trouble, and this work is still being gone on with. Before next season it should be put in first-class order and be the means of increasing traffic. Cook Strait cable Telephonic communication between the North and South Islands will be made possible in a more general way than is at present the case early in the new year by the linking of the two islands with a telephonic cable which is being specially made by Siemens Ltd in England to the order of the New Zealand Government. The new cable, which will be some 40 miles in length, will be 1 inches in diameter, with heavier armour for the parts which will be in the rockier current-swept parts of the Strait. The cable will take off at Lyall Bay, and will land on the beach at Seddon, a route which is some six miles shorter than the Lyall Bay-White's Bay line. The steamer bringing out the new cable will have to be fitted with a makeshift tank to provide for even coiling. On its arrival in Wellington the cable will be paid out into the Government steamer Tutanekai, which will lay the cable under the supervision of the chief telegraphic engineer. It's what he would have wanted The Government has planted 561 pohutukawas and 600 taupata trees on the hillside around Mr Massey's tomb. — ODT, 29.7.1925 (Compiled by Peter Dowden)
Otago Daily Times
24-07-2025
- Business
- Otago Daily Times
Expo keys handed over
Building contractor Jim Love hands the keys for exhibition buildings 1 to 5 to New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition president J. Sutherland Ross, accompanied by general manager C.P. Hainsworth. On the right, building contractors John Fletcher and Bob Love look on. — Otago Witness, 4.8.1925 Late uni chancellor honoured At noon yesterday a milestone in the history of the Exhibition was passed when buildings Nos 1 to 7, which comprise the main pavilions in which the exhibits will be housed, were officially handed over by the contractors to the Exhibition authorities. Mr J.Y. Love, who was accompanied by Mr Robert Love and Mr John Fletcher, formally handed over the keys to the president, Mr J. Sutherland Ross, who was accompanied by the general manager, Mr C.P. Hainsworth. Exhibitors will now be able to go ahead with the erection of their stands and get them completed before the rush of the last few weeks. A large number of orders for display stands have been placed with various city contractors, and a start has already been made in a few cases. The Reserves Committee of the City Council proposes that the reserve at Anderson's Bay, fronting Highcliff road and Jeffery street, be named ''Cameron Park'' as a slight tribute to the memory of the late Dr Cameron. WW1 booty drips in As to war reparations, New Zealand will receive 1.75 percent of the British Empire's share, but, owing to the many uncertain factors involved, it is impossible to estimate with any accuracy what amounts will come to hand from time to time. Two instalments, however, amounting to £103,669 6s 5d have recently been paid, and it is intended to apply these receipts to reduction of the war debt. Dunedin's radio delayed The announcement made by the Postmaster-General (Sir James Parr) in the House early this week that a contract had been made under which broadcasting stations are to be in operation at Auckland and Christchurch, to be followed by stations in Dunedin and Wellington, came as a surprise to the majority of amateurs. The trustees undertake to order forthwith two radio broadcasting equipments designed to deliver 500 watts, and to erect one station in Auckland and one in Christchurch. When these stations are in operation the licensees must, if requested, erect a station in Wellington and one in Dunedin. The agreement stipulates that the company shall take all reasonable steps to provide and maintain an efficient broadcasting service, and will also make any necessary provision for new apparatus to keep the stations up to date. From the point of view of Otago and Southland listeners-in, they will not approve of having to wait for a local station six months after their establishment in Auckland and Christchurch, and then only if the Government requests. The listeners in both Wellington and this city may justly contend that they have paid their license fees, and are accordingly entitled to a proper return for their money. — by 'Magna Vox' — ODT, 25.7.1925 Compiled by Peter Dowden
Otago Daily Times
06-05-2025
- General
- Otago Daily Times
Wakatipu dam site busy
Rapid progress is being made with the construction of the piers of the Kawarau Gold Mining Company's dam. The first pier is almost completed, while a start has been made with the second. The blasting operations in preparation for the third pier are also in hand. Two concrete mixers and up-to-date machinery have been installed, and about 65 men are working on the site. The five gates, forming part of the second shipment from England, are on the site, and are in readiness to be fitted when the piers are in place. The final shipment, including the remainder of the gates and gear, arrived in Port Chalmers last week, and it is expected that they will be on the site next week. Be prepared for exhibition Among the manifold attractions of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition will be included one of unusual character in an assembly of Boy Scouts. All being well, there will be a large scouting pilgrimage, not confined to the dominion organisation. Arrangements are being made for the visit of a contingent from Australia, and the New Zealand Government is very properly giving material encouragement to the project. It is seventeen years since Sir Robert Baden-Powell, happily inspired, started the Boy Scouts' movement, to which the Girl Guides' branch was subsequently attached. The enterprise quickly engaged public approval, and though it has had its incidental ups and downs, there can be little doubt that it is permanently established. - editorial Where rubber hits the road The review of the operations of the City Council during the past two years, which was given by the Mayor on the occasion yesterday of his re-installation in office, necessarily covered the ground that was traversed by retiring members of the Council in their election speeches. The period was one of progress in all respects, more particularly, it may be suggested, in the adoption by the Council of a policy of tramway extension. The extensions that have been approved leave still unsatisfied the claims of the residents in various parts for facilities of conveyance to and from their homes. The opinion has been expressed that the system of electric tramway traction, modern although it may be said to be, will in the near future be superseded by other systems. That is a view that cannot be wholly ignored by the Council, though it may not be one that at present should greatly influence them since the Corporation itself supplies the power by which the electric service is operated and does so at a relatively low cost. The introduction of motor buses which shall serve as feeders to the tramway service and also ''try out'' the revenue possibilities of additional extensions of the tramway system that have been suggested, has been an event of only the past few weeks, but it is interesting to learn from the Mayor that the bus service to the Anderson's Bay cemetery has already proved profitable. That being so, it is reasonable to suppose that a service of a similar nature to Maori Hill during the hours of the day when the traffic is heaviest would be not less profitable. The Mayor promises that the policy of the new Council will be one of advancement. The personnel being substantially the same as that of the past four years, the community may anticipate that the affairs of the city will be conducted for the ensuing term upon the same lines as those with which it is familiar. — editorial — ODT, 7.5.1925 (Compiled by Peter Dowden)
