A town airport?
The Harbour Board’s Standing Committee will have before it this evening an application for the use of an area on the south side of the Leith Canal as a seaplane base. The same applicant is seeking from the board an area on the southern foreshore to be used as a landing ground for aeroplanes.
Putting the cats among the pigeons
The Young Bird Show, in which poultry, pigeons, canaries, cats and children’s pets will be shown, is creating quite a stir this year, and breeders from Christchurch to the Bluff are exhibiting. The judges have been specially selected for the various classes, and can be depended on to give every satisfaction The show will be of special interest to ladies, as there is a fine display of cats and canaries.
Exercise your mandate
A reminder is given by the Dunedin Citizens’ League that those electors who have not already enrolled, or whose names do not appear on the new main roll, should do so without delay, as the supplementary roll closes on April 1.
Naseby polio patient dies
The case of infantile paralysis which occurred at the end of last week was brought to Naseby Hospital from Cambrian, some 26 miles away. This is the only case which has occurred throughout the whole Maniototo Hospital district, and it is much to be regretted that it proved fatal. Miss McGregor, the victim, was buried at St Bathans on Tuesday. It is a matter of congratulation that the local hospital was fully prepared for such an emergency, and has been so since the outbreak, and everything possible was done by Dr Eudey, the medical superintendent, and the hospital staff.
A serious visitation
Otago is now faced with a serious problem in the form of the alarming increase and depredations of the earwig.
This pest now exists in countless millions, and although in the early stages it confined its attentions only to decayed or blemished fruit, it is now attacking the fruit in the sound, and, in many cases, the hard, green stage.
Guilty plea
A member of the whaling crews who recently returned from the Ross Sea pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness when brought before Mr J. Tait JP at the Port Chalmers Court yesterday.
As a first offender he was convicted and discharged.
Wax off
London, March 18: Fire broke out in Madame Tussaud’s famous waxworks exhibition in Marylebone road, the flames reaching a great height. The buildings were nearly burned out in an hour. — ODT, 20.3.1925
Compiled by Peter Dowden
