Dancing cossacks
We may rejoice in the possibility of a Labour Party in the city council, a Labour Party in the harbour board, a Labour Party in the hospital board — rejoice with trembling. The Dunedin Presbytery next will develop a Labour Party, and we may yet hear the "Red Flag" sung in the chamber of commerce.
In each and all of these institutions the socialising of the means of production, distribution, and exchange may be discussed with fervour; also the iniquities of the Massey Government and the merits of the Soviet.
Free tram rides, free harbour excursions, free hospital beds, will become a tenable proposition — all financial burdens, actual or possible, to be saddled on the "capitalist."
— by ‘Civis’
Cuts to train services
It was inevitable that the decision of the Railways Department to revert to the restricted time-table of which the community had experience last year should evoke some protest. The travelling public reasonably raises its voice when it considers that its interests and convenience are not being sufficiently studied. It may be acknowledged that those who rail against the department sometimes place their own interests in advance of those of the general body of taxpayers, overlooking the fact that it is essential that the railways should be made to pay their way.
There is solid matter for consideration, however, in protests against the reduction of facilities for travel between Dunedin and Christchurch and Invercargill and Dunedin.
The amended time-table will touch the public convenience very closely. No doubt it represents a step to meet a reduced passenger traffic, or, at any rate, an anticipation of a reduced traffic. — editorial
Cold work on Highgate trams
The necessity for attaching side-screens of some sort to the platforms of the Maori Hill electric tramcars has been a matter of comment among passengers for some time, and it has been emphasised by the recent biting winds and wintry weather.
There is nothing to prevent cold draughts from blowing right across both platforms, and as it is often a case of necessity for passengers to travel on those portions of the cars on account of the extremely heavy traffic, it is only right that some attention should be paid to their comfort.
But the passengers are not the worst sufferers by any means, the discomfort is much more pronounced in the case of the motorman, who is compelled to endure all climatic conditions for the eight or nine hours during which he is continuously on duty.
Salmon abound in Fiordland
Some 12 or 13 years ago Mr Ayson, the Government inspector of fisheries, liberated some fry of the Atlantic salmon on the shores of Lake Te Anau.
The fry was obtained from Scotland, and it should be mentioned that this salmon is distinct from the quinnat salmon caught on the west coast of America, and also acclimatised in New Zealand.
For a number of years no trace was obtained of the fish placed in Lake Te Anau, and it was generally considered that they had died or been eaten out by other fish.
The fish did not die, however.
They evidently made their way to the sea, and indisputable evidence is now available that they have returned to their first haunts.
Mr H. Lyn, of Christchurch, has just caught 25 Atlantic salmon in the Upukerora River, which runs into Lake Te Anau. and Mr Eustace Russell has caught 11.
One salmon weighed 11 pounds.
The Atlantic salmon is a very fine sporting fish, and it is confidently expected that fishermen from overseas will visit New Zealand to indulge in the sport of catching them.
— ODT, 14.4.1923
Compiled by Peter Dowden
