It is expected that the entrance to the tomb will be filled with tons of limestone in order to keep out robbers, the Egyptians being convinced that there is fabulous wealth in the tomb.
Clydevale damns the dam
There was but a small attendance at Clydevale on Saturday night at the public meeting called to consider the advisability of lodging an objection to the erection of a dam at the Kawarau Falls.
Messrs J. Smith and E. King were the conveners of the meeting, and Mr King was voted to the chair. In a forcible speech he pointed out what in his opinion should lead them to protest against the proposed dam. It might not only be a menace in flood time if there was any flaw in its construction, but would limit the water in the Molyneux very materially in winter time, and render the navigation of the river impossible.The meeting agreed, and it was unanimously decided to lodge a protest against damming the outlet from Lake Wakatipu and to help the Clutha River Board in the attitude of opposition that body had taken up.
Anglicans on a mission
There is much activity in the Church of England in New Zealand in regard to missions at the present time. Eleven missionaries will leave within the next two months, including a doctor, several fully qualified nurses, teachers and workers. The majority of these go from Christchurch to North and South China, India, Melanesia, and the Maori Mission.
Joyriders blight Christchurch
Joy-riding with cars taken without authority from parking places in the city is a form of illicit pleasure that is on the increase (remarks the Christchurch Sun). The police are receiving many complaints from owners of cars, whose machines have been taken and subsequently found in some back street with very little petrol in the tank. A new phase of the trouble is that even the locking of the car does not always ensure their being left when the owners return.
New cable for Rattray St here
The 5000 feet of new rope which the city corporation purchased in Melbourne for the repair of the present Roslyn cable reached Dunedin by the Moeraki yesterday afternoon. The tramways engineer has made every preparation for its installation and the work will be put in hand in such a manner as not to interfere with the running of the service. It is intended to have the rope spliced and ready at the earliest moment.
Exhibition for 1925 agreed
A telegram was received from the Mayor (Mr J.S. Douglas) last night stating that the New Zealand Industrial Corporation had agreed to support Dunedin in the proposal to hold an imperial exhibition . It would appear therefore that the deputation which went to Christchurch on Monday to ask that the Dunedin Manufacturers’ Association should be relieved of its obligation to the Corporation to hold an industrial exhibition in Dunedin in 1924 has been successful, and that the minor exhibition will now be superseded by the imperial exhibition of 1925.
— ODT, 21.2.1923 (Compiled by Peter Dowden)
