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John Arnold_The Evening Post_, 30 March 1925: LOCAL AND GENERAL … Another instance of the recovery by railway officials of an article lost from the train by a lady passenger has been brought to notice, and with it a further example of the value of forethought is provided. During a trip by train to Auckland recently a Wellington lady was in the act of washing her hands when a valuable ring slipped from her finger and passed into the waste pipe of the basin before it could be recovered. The train was then some distance from <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Taihape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Taihape</a>, and, on arrival at that station, the loss of the ring was made known to the station officials there. An examination of the pipe failed to reveal the missing article, which had evidently fallen right through to the railway line. The lady passenger informed the officials that she had taken a note of the time when the article was lost, and with this information as a guide, that portion of the line over which the train had passed at the time stated was subsequently searched. The result was that the lady had her ring returned the other day. <a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250330.2.29" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250330.2.29</a><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PapersPast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PapersPast</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Railways" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Railways</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/LostAndFound" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LostAndFound</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/MainTrunkLine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MainTrunkLine</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewZealand</a>

John Arnold_The Evening Post_, 29 March 1924: HARBOUR FERRIES In view of the approach of the winter months the Eastbourne Ferry Board has decided to withdraw the <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Muritai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Muritai</a> from the harbour service next week, and the time-table will be maintained by the <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Duchess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Duchess</a> and <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Cobar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cobar</a>. The Muritai will resume during the Easter holidays should the weather warrant. The service to Seatoun and Karaka Bay will be discontinued as from Tuesday next. Negotiations are still in progress between the Ferry Board and the Seatoun and Bays Progressive Association for a resumption of the service in the early spring. <a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240329.2.94" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240329.2.94</a><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PapersPast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PapersPast</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Ferries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ferries</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Wellington" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wellington</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewZealand</a>

John Arnold_The Evening Post_, 28 March 1925: A STOVE WHICH TELLS TIME So much wisdom is in an oblong box set on sturdy legs! After food is prepared for cooking of any kind—baking, broiling, toasting, poaching, roasting, stewing, frying—it has only to be placed in the electrically heated well and a clock set for the particular hour when the process should be complete. The cook may then leave her kitchen far behind in fact and thought, and, lo, when the dinner is done to a turn, off goes the current. The idea resembles that of the fireless cooker. Heat is supplied not only from under the oven but also from a reversible top which browns foods appetisingly, and which when turned over becomes a frying pan or toaster. <a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250328.2.82" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250328.2.82</a><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PapersPast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PapersPast</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Cooking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cooking</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Ovens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ovens</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Stoves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stoves</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/ElectricalAppliances" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElectricalAppliances</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewZealand</a>

John Arnold_The Evening Post_, 27 March 1925: DRUNK IN A MOTOR-CAR (BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, 26th March. William <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Hayes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hayes</a>, a farmer of West Melton, was charged before Mr. Cruickshank, S.M., with having been found in a state of intoxication while in charge of a motor-car. After hearing evidence the Magistrate said: “One has to make an example of a man like this. He is quite a decent man, but he had a glass of beer. After that it’s much easier to accept another, and gradually he got five beers into him.” The sub-inspector: “There’s nothing suggested against his character.” The Magistrate: “He is fined £5 [ca. $630 today], and disqualified from obtaining a driver’s license [sic] for six months from to-day. Six months is not a very long time, and he will have to use a <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/buggy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#buggy</a> or something when he comes in.” <a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250327.2.146" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250327.2.146</a><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PapersPast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PapersPast</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/LawCourts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LawCourts</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/DrinkDriving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DrinkDriving</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/WestMelton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WestMelton</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Christchurch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christchurch</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewZealand</a>

John Arnold_The Evening Post_, 26 March 1925: BURGLAR CAPTURED EXCITING CHRISTCHURCH INCIDENT A BOLD BID FOR LIBERTY … CHRISTCHURCH, 25th March. Masked by a silken scarf Whitefoord Jukes <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Curtis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Curtis</a>, aged 17 years, was arrested while crouching behind a counter in the premises of the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative Association of Canterbury, Ltd., at 3.30 a.m. to-day. Curtis, though handcuffed, made a great bid for his liberty, but was recaptured after a splendid break, which traversed several blocks and ended at the back of the municipal chambers. It was found, eventually, that Curtis was arrested on his third job, as the information he gave to the police led to the recovery of a large quantity of stolen property, associating him with the operations at two other business premises. [Details of his capture, escape and recapture are recounted]. … Eventually Curtis was cornered after a long chase, and even then he unsuccessfully endeavoured to break away again. Curtis appeared in the Court this morning charged with theft, and was remanded for a week. The <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#police</a> said that there were other charges to be preferred against him. <a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250326.2.134" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250326.2.134</a><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PapersPast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PapersPast</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Crimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Crimes</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Christchurch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christchurch</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewZealand</a>

John Arnold_The Evening Post_, 25 March 1925: HEAVY CATCHES OF FISH While the question of a regular and plentiful supply of fish is engaging attention of scientific and commercial men, <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Wellington" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wellington</a> harbour as a fishing ground furnishes food for thought. On Tuesday last a party of three, fishing from a small boat, landed a catch weighing approximately 2 cwt. [ca. 100kg]. Last Saturday the same party, augmented by three additional fishermen, landed a great haul. The catch for the two days was 70 moki, 220 terakihi, and several fine schnapper [snapper], all caught on hand lines. The weight of the total catch was quite 5½ cwt. [280kg]. In the local market it would have realised a good round sum. The party distributed its catch to friends, after satisfying its own needs. Other amateur parties are also reporting large catches. These large hauls are being taken over the ground now being dredged. The buckets stirring up the bottom evidently release large supplies of feed, attracting moki, schnapper [snapper], and other fish. Usually good as the fishing in the harbour may now be, it is not generally so abundant as in former years. <a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250325.2.142" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250325.2.142</a><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PapersPast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PapersPast</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Fishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fishing</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Angling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Angling</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/WellingtonHarbour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WellingtonHarbour</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewZealand</a>

John Arnold_The Evening Post_, 23 March 1925:                  NELSON NEWS         YOUTHS AND AQUATICS (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)                 NELSON, 21st March.   The aquatic proclivities of the <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/youth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#youth</a> of this city are always to the fore in the summer months. Canvas <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/canoes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#canoes</a> used to be much in evidence, both on the river and harbour, and were nearly all constructed by the boys themselves, some of them exhibiting great skill, both in design and workmanship, and when the tides were high the fleet used to leave its rendezvous—the river—and adventure on the harbour, and in some cases out on the open bay. Various were the means of propulsion… the mosquito fleet would be found in units all over the harbour bobbing on the waves, and, to the astonishment of the boat and yachtsmen frequently passing them…. Seldom, if ever, was an accident reported, and as the tide receded the fleet again reassembled in the river.… this summer… the graceful canoe seems to be superseded by a multitude of tiny craft of a type similah [sic] to a wharf construction punt.… Our Iron Duke Sea Scouts, who recently won Lord Jellicoe’s trident, were, no doubt, recruited from this perennial band of adventurers. <a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250324.2.108" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250324.2.108</a><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PapersPast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PapersPast</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Recreation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Recreation</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Pastimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pastimes</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Boys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Boys</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Nelson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nelson</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewZealand</a>

John Arnold_The Evening Post_, 23 March 1925: PRICE OF BREAD PROTEST TO GOVERNMENT Holding that, on the figures adduced, the recent increase of 1d [ca. 80c today] in the price of the 2lb [900g] loaf is not justified, the three local <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a> members of Parliament, Messrs. P. Fraser, A. L. Monteith, and R. M‘Keen, will wait on Sir Francis Bell to-morrow morning to protest against the rise. <a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250323.2.103" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250323.2.103</a><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PapersPast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PapersPast</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Bread" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bread</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/FoodPrices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FoodPrices</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewZealand</a>

John Arnold_The Evening Post_, 22 March 1924: HYDRO-ELECTRICITY TAUMARUNUI WORKS OPENED "COMING CITY WITH A GREAT FUTURE." —— (BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) TAUMARUNUI, 21st March. The hydro-ele[c]trical works erected by the borough at a cost of £521,000 [ca. $64M today] were officially declared open by the Prime Minister this afternoon in the presence of a large gathering of townspeople at <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Piriaka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Piriaka</a>, about five miles from <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Taumarunui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Taumarunui</a>. The works are said to be the second of the kind erected in the Dominion. The power generated will… supply the town and the district for many miles around. The power is obtained from the Wanganui River… Mr. Massey… said that Taumarunui had made wonderful progress and was no doubt a coming city with a great future before it. He referred to the general development of hydro-electricity throughout the Dominion… later [in the power-house] the Prime Minister switched on the electric current amid loud applause.… To-night the Prime Minister will be entertained to a dinner… and will later address citizens in Main street, which has been festooned with coloured lights for the occasion. <a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240322.2.114" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240322.2.114</a><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PapersPast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PapersPast</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/HydroElectricity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HydroElectricity</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PowerGeneration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PowerGeneration</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/WhanganuiRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhanganuiRiver</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewZealand</a>

John Arnold_The Evening Post_, 21 March 1925: SUPREME COURT (BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) GREYMOUTH, 20th March At the Supreme Court, Mr. Justice <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/MacGregor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MacGregor</a> admitted George Aldridge for forgery to one year’s probation, provided he enters the Salvation Army Home. For forgery and uttering and two charges of theft, William Robert Leeming was sentenced to twelve months’ reformative treatment. On a charge of horse stealing, Edward Brown was acquitted. His Honour congratulated the district on the lightness of the calendar. <a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250321.2.86" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250321.2.86</a><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PapersPast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PapersPast</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/LawCourts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LawCourts</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Greymouth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greymouth</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewZealand</a>

John Arnold_The Evening Post_, 20 March 1925: UNDESIRABLES EASY ENTRY TO THE DOMINION DEPUTATION TO MINISTER OF JUSTICE. … AUCKLAND, This Day. A complaint regarding the ease with which <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/stowaways" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stowaways</a> gain admission to the Dominion was made to the Minister of Justice, Sir James <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Parr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Parr</a> by a deputation from the Southern Cross League. Mrs. Nicol said there had been cases where stowaways had been taken before local Magistrates, and as the charges were dismissed they were allowed to remain in New Zealand.… masters of vessels were now not taking the trouble to prosecute. … The Minister agreed that the question was of importance, and when admitted the careers of deserters and stowaways should be watched very closely for the first year.… he had to consider the question seriously, when, as stated, a responsible police officer had said that some of the worst criminals reached the country in this way. … Mrs. Nicol asked whether the Minister could not tighten up the jurisdiction given to Magistrates. Sir James replied that as Minister of Justice he could not, and would not, interfere with any Magistrate. <a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250320.2.100" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250320.2.100</a><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PapersPast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PapersPast</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/ConstitutionalConventions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ConstitutionalConventions</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/SeparationOfPowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SeparationOfPowers</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/LawCourts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LawCourts</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewZealand</a>

John Arnold_The Evening Post_, 19 March 1925: SLIP ON RIMUTAKA HILL ROAD (BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) MASTERTON, 19th March. The <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Rimutaka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rimutaka</a> Hill road was blocked an at 2.30 this afternoon through a slip coming down where a Public Works gang was widening the road. One car, with the assistance of ropes, got round the edge of the slip this evening, but it is doubtful if heavy traffic will get through until to-morrow night or possibly later. It is expected that the obstruction will not be removed for 48 hours. <a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250319.2.117" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250319.2.117</a><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PapersPast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PapersPast</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/RimutakaHillRoad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RimutakaHillRoad</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Roads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Roads</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/RoadClosures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RoadClosures</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Slips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Slips</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Roadworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Roadworks</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Remutaka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Remutaka</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/WellingtonRegion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WellingtonRegion</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewZealand</a>

John Arnold_The Evening Post_, 18 March 1925: HOME FOR THE AGED NEEDY VICE-REGAL ENTERTAINMENT Last Wednesday week Their Excellencies the Governor-General and Lady Fergusson, invited the inmates of the Home for the Aged Needy to an afternoon in the grounds of Government House. Their Excellencies, Miss Fergusson, and the staff entertained the old people at tea in the ballroom, and a concert was given by Lady Fergusson, Miss Fergusson, and the members of the staff. The old people thoroughly enjoyed themselves, and went away very grateful to Their Excellencies for their thoughtfulness and the kindnesses extended to them at Government House. The trustees also received a letter from Mrs. W. F. Massey on behalf of herself and the Prime Minister, forwarding a cheque for £30 [ca. $3,700 today] as a donation from Scottish friends who have been visiting New Zealand, as an appreciation of the kindness received by them in the Dominion. The trustees resolved to express and convey to Their Excellencies and the donors their hearty thanks and appreciation of their kindly interest in, and practical support of, the institution. <a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250318.2.94" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250318.2.94</a><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PapersPast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PapersPast</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OlderPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OlderPeople</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poverty</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/SocialWelfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialWelfare</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/GovernmentHouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GovernmentHouse</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Wellington" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wellington</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewZealand</a>

John Arnold_The Evening Post_, 17 March 1925: WOMEN IN PRINT. … <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Wellington" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wellington</a> turned out in full force this morning to welcome the All Blacks, and members of the gentler sex paid their tribute to the travellers in enthusiastic fashion. It was not all hero worship, for in the players they recognised Imperial ambassadors who, in fulfilling the highest traditions of the game, had also helped to foster feeling between the Mother Country and her Dominion. <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Women</a> have a particular pride in their New Zealand, and while not all professing to understand the football game, they were keen to participate in to-day’s welcome to the conquering All Blacks, and this they did in no mild manner, assisting to give the lie to Wellington’s reputation of “inarticulateness” in public welcomes and special occasions. <a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250317.2.110" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250317.2.110</a><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PapersPast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PapersPast</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/AllBlacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AllBlacks</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/TheInvincibles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheInvincibles</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewZealand</a>

John Arnold_The Evening Post_, 15 March 1925: DISASTROUS BLAZE ON CASH- MERE HILLS. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Fire on <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Cashmere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cashmere</a> Hills yesterday, started apparently by picnickers, swept an area of fifty acres [20 hectares], damaging thirty thousand young pine trees and blackwoods, owned by the City Council. <a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250316.2.136.2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250316.2.136.2</a><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PapersPast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PapersPast</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Fires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fires</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Christchurch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christchurch</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewZealand</a>

John Arnold_The Evening Post_, 15 March 1924: SENSATIONAL MOTORING N.Z. RECORD BROKEN BY ESSEX CAR —— AUCKLAND – WELLINGTON IN 13 HOURS 19 MINUTES. DRENCHED to the skin, plastered in mud, and shivering with cold, Norman Smith, better known as “Wizard” Smith, of Sydney, reached the Wellington Post Office at 6.34 on Thursday evening in an Essex racing car,…498 miles [800 km]…from Auckland in 13 hours 19 minutes…the new record has been achieved in the worst possible conditions as regards the weather,…slippery, mountainous, and winding roads…. the strain was necessarily enormous, and, although both he and his mechanic, Ben Campbell,… were in the pink of condition, they were both feeling the effects of the marvellous feat.… His car was a four-cylinder Essex, 18 h.p., two seater.… [Details of incidents] CAUSES OF DELAY That Smith is capable of clipping at least 2½ hours off his present record may be believed from the…avoidable delays which occurred:—Attention to exhaust, 15 minutes; accident, 47; wrong turning, 18; punt at Mokau River, 17; bad roads and rain between Levin and Wellington, 30; motor-lorry on road between Paraparaumu and Paekakariki, 40—a total of 2 hours 47 minutes… <a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240315.2.183" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240315.2.183</a><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PapersPast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PapersPast</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Automobiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Automobiles</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Cars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cars</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewZealand</a>

John Arnold_The Evening Post_, 14 March 1925: The Wireless World … A TIMARU EXPERIENCE During a holiday in the South, "Grid-Bias" called on a <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Timaru" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Timaru</a> amateur, who demonstrated the character of reception in that town.…Static put on one of its finest performances…. In spite of the din, the party listened to 1YA, 2YK, 2YM, KGO, 2BL, and 2FC…. The strength of KGO, second only to that of 2YK, was remarkable. A curious feature of the performance was that 2BL, Sydney, was as strong as 2FC, and at times stronger. The apparatus used [technical details follow].… The owner states that in the winter he regularly receives 2YK and 4YA on a short indoor aerial. This is a ridiculous appendage to the set—about four yards of copper strip suspended across the room. The Timaru amateur takes his hobby seriously. Besides using his apparatus consistently for entertainment, he is systematically recording the weather and radio reception conditions, particularly the nature and intensity of static.… The nature of the static observed on a given date and the weather which follows may suggest similar weather after a similar outburst of atmospherics; and… may be found very useful in the work of weather experts. <a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250314.2.146.3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250314.2.146.3</a><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PapersPast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PapersPast</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Radio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Radio</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/AmateurRadio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmateurRadio</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/WeatherForecasting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeatherForecasting</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewZealand</a>

John Arnold_The Evening Post_, 13 March 1925: "POPPY DAY" FLOWERS LOCAL MANUFACTURE URGED A new avenue of employment for returned disabled soldiers, that of manufacturing the paper <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/poppies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poppies</a>, which are at present imported from France and sold on “Poppy Day,” was touched upon at a meeting of the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association last night. Mr. Harrison, general secretary of the New Zealand R.S.A., said that “Poppy Day” was first inaugurated with the idea of making returned soldier organisations practically self-supporting. If the flowers could be manufactured in New Zealand, it would mean that from fourteen to twenty disabled men could be permanently employed. The contract with the French people for the supply of the poppies expired after the next "Poppy Day"… Until two years ago the British Legion obtained its poppies from France, but since then had made its own by the employment of disabled men.… Australia, until last year, got its flowers from France, but since then had made its own. The proposal was carried unanimously, and will be forwarded as a remit to the Wellington Metropolitan Returned Soldiers’ Association’s Conference at Palmerston North. <a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250313.2.143" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250313.2.143</a><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PapersPast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PapersPast</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/ReturnedSoldiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ReturnedSoldiers</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/RSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSA</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Fundraising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fundraising</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewZealand</a>

John Arnold_The Evening Post_, 12 March 1925: RATEPAYERS PROTEST A SHORTER ROUTE THE WAY TO KARORI The chief subject under discussion at a meeting of members of the <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Karori" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Karori</a> Progressive Association last evening was… the urgent need of a shorter route to Karori and the western <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/suburbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#suburbs</a> generally.… Councillor J. Aston said that the council was really no further forward in the matter of providing a shorter route to Karori than it was months ago… Mr. R. B. Sim maintained that the time for politely-worded resolutions had gone past… he had not been very long in the district, but he had been disgusted with the lack of decent facilities for communication with the city. … Councillor B. G. H. Burn answered in spirited fashion that [the Mayor] Mr. Wright was most certainly not marking time in the matter…. [and] not a foot of [tram] track could be laid anywhere without the approval of the Government. … It was finally decided… by unanimous vote, that a deputation… should wait first upon the Mayor and later upon the Prime Minister, or Acting-Prime Minister, to lay before them the necessity of a shorter route via Bowen street, and to press for a definite statement as to what was intended.… <a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250312.2.153" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250312.2.153</a><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PapersPast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PapersPast</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Roading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Roading</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Transport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Transport</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Wellington" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wellington</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewZealand</a>

John Arnold_The Evening Post_, 11 March 1925: LOWER HUTT AFFAIRS MEETING OF BOROUGH COUNCIL … The Public Works Department forwarded the revised draft of the proposed motor lorry <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/regulations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#regulations</a>. Councillor Hobbs considered that the fees for motor <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/buses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#buses</a> were quite outrageous. They were out of all reason, and it was quite evident that the regulations were drawn with the idea of stopping bus competition with <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/trains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trains</a>. The Mayor said that the regulations were drawn after consultation with the Mayors of cities owning trams, and personally he considered it right that tramway enterprises should be safeguarded. In reference to this matter it was decided to fall into line with the request of the City Council… <a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250311.2.144" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250311.2.144</a><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PapersPast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PapersPast</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Transport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Transport</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Taxation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Taxation</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Trams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trams</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/LowerHutt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LowerHutt</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewZealand</a>

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