—Neal (Nelson), E. Gillespie (Otago), W. Gibbs (Nelson), Mahoney, Mander, Morriss (Canterbury), R. Sherriffs (Canterbury), E.H. Calder (Otago), S. Bell, W. Bell (Canterbury), W. Dee (Nelson).
The first Waitaki dam?
Remnants of an ancient natural dam that once stretched across the Waitaki Valley, near Wharekuri, are described by Mr A.J. Rutherford. The dam probably was a moraine of the Waitaki Glacier, which flowed along a course of some 112 miles. In places it was about 30 miles wide. Its ice was many thousands of feet thick. Its main course was down the Waitaki Valley, but it found smaller outlets across the Lindis Pass, Burke’s Pass, Mackenzie Pass, and Hakataramea Pass. North Otago and South Canterbury, in those times, were covered by a continuous sheet of ice, through which only the higher dividing ridges projected.
Cable news
The Stephan has made an admirable job of laying a duplicate cable between Suva and Auckland for the Pacific Cable Board, being her fourteenth cable-laying trip since 1919. The Stephan arrived in Auckland from Suva on August 4, having dropped the ocean end of the cable about 1000 miles out at sea and, after taking on board the shore end and coaling, she left again early on Thursday last to complete the work. At 5pm on Friday evening the ship, having got the shore end successfully laid, and then being about six and a-half miles from the shore, began paying out a somewhat lighter cable than the heavy 2-inch land end. Sixty miles of this intermediate cable was laid, and then 36 miles of a still lighter type. On to the end of the latter 10 miles of the ocean type (not quite an inch in diameter) was added, the end being buried in 600 fathoms of water, a depth that gives the landsman some idea of the tremendous depth to which cable layers work.
The buoying took place at 7 o’clock on Saturday evening, and then the big steamer grappled for the ocean end that she had dropped just a week before. Everything went like clockwork, and at 10 o’clock last night the final splice was completed, and the duplicate cable was an accomplished fact.
The route was 1170 miles, but in cable laying a certain amount has to be allowed for the hills and hollows of the ocean bed, and the actual amount of cable laid between Suva and Auckland was 1247 miles.
University memorial unveiled
There was a large attendance of students and their friends at the Otago University on Sunday afternoon when the roll of honour of 94 graduates and undergraduates who fell in the Great War was unveiled by the Rev Hector Maclean. The brass tablet will be displayed in the vestibule of the Students’ Union Building. Mr Maclean referred to the contribution of the universities of the British Empire in science, medicine, research and so on. They also supplied considerable man power, members of the various faculties taking part. They set a great example in leadership, which was what was naturally expected from university men. Sergeant-Bugler Napier played the "Last Post" and "Reveille" most impressively.
— ODT, 14.8.1923 (Compiled by Peter Dowden)
