Town meets country

No-one could have wished for better weather than that which favoured people’s day at the Summer Show yesterday.

The townspeople responded in very large numbers to the invitation of the bright sunshine and fresh breeze and the steady drift to Tahuna Park set in shortly after noon. By 3 o’clock the grandstand and grounds were thronged with gay sightseers, who were obviously keenly enjoying the outing. The sky darkened over late in the afternoon, but the weather continued fine to the close. The Dunedin Pipe Band and the St Kilda Band were both in attendance, and discoursed music throughout the afternoon. The side shows seemed more numerous than ever, and were certainly as insistent and aggressive and it was easy to see that it was not only for the junior section of the visitors that they formed the most attractive part of the show. The use of a watercart about the grounds served to keep the dust from rising. The gate takings for the day of £603 7s are only a very little behind the record made last year of £625 6s. Yesterday’s figures indicate how firm a hold the Summer Show continues to have on popular interest in the city.

Parsimony beats profanity

At last night’s meeting of the Otago Hospital Board an anonymous letter was read from a body of students. The letter was as follows: “Enclosed please find 4 shillings, the proceeds of an anti-swearing pact lasting a fortnight. The treatment having been successful, the parties being Scottish, there will be few, if any, further payments.”

Validation of physiotherapists

The Masseurs Registration Board wrote to the Otago Hospital Board stating that for some considerable time the board had been in communication with the masseur in charge of the Otago School of Massage in connection with the extension of the massage course from 18 months to two years. The board was of opinion that this extension should be made compulsory, and the opinion of the Crown Law Department was sought whether this could be done, but the Crown solicitor advised that whilst the board could make an additional course it could not enforce any length of period over 18 months. It was then decided to write to the Australasian Massage Association in Sydney and whether it would recognise for the purposes of registration, trainees of the Otago Massage School, who had had the two years’ course. This they had agreed to do. The Masseurs Board had, therefore, advised accordingly, and asked that the additional six months’ training be initiated next year; and also that the school should do all in its power to endeavour to persuade all candidates to take the additional course.

Sowing good neighbourliness

A very neighbourly action was performed recently by six residents of Wyllie’s Crossing — Messrs Park, McKenzie, Bradbury, Williamson, Lyall and Mitchell. Mr T. Bamford was ill in hospital, and the time for planting was passing by, while the state of his health was only slowly improving. The neighbours mentioned worked up his ground with six teams, and the 10 acres were sown the next day by Messrs Bradbury and Lyall. Needless to say, the action was much appreciated by Mr Bamford, and he will not readily forget his neighbours' thoughtfulness. 

Big loads on trains

The express which arrived at Dunedin at 4.45pm yesterday from Christchurch was a heavy one, comprising 13 passenger cars, three luggage and one postal van, drawn by two large engines. Over 450 passengers made the trip, 250 booked for Dunedin. A large number of the travellers are race visitors. The express which left for Christchurch at 11.16am was also a fairly heavy one — 11 coaches and the usual vans. Four extra carriages were attached to the express on arrival from Invercargill, one reserved for the Otago Boys' High School cricket team for Oamaru. The number of travellers for the north was close on 400. 

— ODT, 28.11.1924  (Compiled by Peter Dowden)