The museum has acquired from the same neighbourhood a large adze made of greenstone, mottled and marked in a most unusual manner. From Lower Portobello, also, comes a recently acquired chisel of unusually soft greenstone. This kind of greenstone was worked in the Dart Valley, at the head of Lake Wakatipu, on a site explored by Mr C. Haines, who, some time ago, presented to the museum a collection of axes and chisels from the site in all stages of manufacture. Greenstone is found at a few spots in a belt of country stretching from the Arahura River in Westland to Milford Sound and Lake Wakatipu in Otago, and every scrap of greenstone that is found in Maori villages and graves from the North Cape to the Auckland Islands and the Chathams has been derived from that narrow and inaccessible belt. There is evidence that several of the pieces from Warrington and Puketeraki in the Chapman collection at the museum are from the district at. the head of Lake Wakatipu, and it is probable that the mottled greenstone from which the adze already mentioned is made, was found in the same region. But the little chisel can, with virtual certainty, be tied down to the site in the Dart Valley, and in this respect it is believed to be unique.
Labour candidates chosen
The counting of the votes in the election ballot last week to choose the Labour candidates for Dunedin West, Central, and South electorates was completed yesterday afternoon. It is reported that the votes polled were representative of the local unions, and the successful candidates were Mrs W. Brown. J.E. MacManus and J. Gilchrist. Mr Brown was educated at the Arthur Street School, and for a number of years has followed a seafaring life. He is president of the Dunedin Local Federated Seamen’s Union. Mr MacManus is local president of the New Zealand Workers’ Union, and served with the New Zealand Tunnelling Corps during the war. He was a member of the executive of the Returned Soldiers’ Association in 1919, and represented the association at the annual conference in that year. In 1911 he unsuccessfully contested Dunedin South. Mr Gilchrist is engaged in the insurance business, and was for some years a lecturer in the primary schools. At the last general election he contested the Chalmers seat, but was unsuccessful. Mr J.W. Munro MP has been selected for Dunedin North and Mr J. Stephens for Chalmers.
Greece and Turkey
It is now quite evident that the reverses suffered by the Greek armies in Asia Minor have been of an overwhelming nature. The investment of Smyrna sets a seal upon the Turkish victory. To all intents and purposes the Greeks are already expelled from Asia Minor, and that ignominiously and with heavy losses. The precipitation of a political crisis at Athens is quite in the natural sequence of things. If the Greeks under-estimated the military strength of the Turkish Nationalists they have paid a heavy penalty. The situation is fraught with possibilities of danger all round to the prestige of the Allies, not least so in the mandate territories which accord Muslim sympathies to the Turks. The British and the French Governments, as particularly interested, may find the task before them such as to tax severely their skill and diplomacy. — editorial
Motorists consider AA meeting
At a meeting of the New Zealand Automobile Union at Wellington it was decided to approach the South Island Motor Union with a view to the whole of the motor interests of the dominion being consolidated and unified under one body.
ODT, 12.9.1922
