Signs to obviate jostling

That notices should be exhibited on the footpaths urging pedestrians to “keep to the right,” was suggested by Cr R.A. Wright, MP, when speaking at last week’s meeting of the City Council at Wellington. “We used to have them at one time,” he remarked, “but they seem to have disappeared. Strangers are always coming into the town and people are always jostling one another on the wrong side.” The Mayor said he saw no objection to the proposal, but the only trouble was: would it tend to educate drivers of vehicles to drive to the right instead of to the left, as was the rule in New Zealand. Cr Wright replied that the notices would have no such effect. — ODT, 2.11.1920.

The crowning of the Invercargill Labour Conference queen Miss Maude Croucher with (from second left) trainbearers Misses Youngson and Crowther and princesses Dorothy Tall, Rene Heads and Annie Dickson. — Otago Witness, 9.11.1920.