100 YEARS AGO
FROM OUR ARCHIVES
Wakatipu wonderland
QUEENSTOWN has been looking very beautiful over the autumn. Falling leaf and fading tree, signalling the approach of winter, have vested Nature in a garb that is not approached in richness and variety of tone colour at any other season of the year. Autumn has its triumphs in every place, but it is not in every clime that its nameless graces make such appeal as they do in a wonderland like Wakatipu. Few places afford such a setting to the riot of autumn tints.
Look in what direction you will and you will find as a background a cloudcapped hill or snowclad mountain with fretted pinnacles reaching up to the profound of heaven. When the sun lingers about their summits, bathing them in hues of pink and gold, the sight is one which would not fail to inspire the poet or the painter.
Lift to memorial service
The executive of the South African Veterans’ Association is making arrangements to enable disabled veterans both of the Boer and the Great Wars to be present at the memorial service to be held at the Oval on June 3. Mrs J.K. Macfie, of No 5 Burwood avenue, Newington, has been asked to assist in arranging motor cars for the disabled men.
Bring back Southland
Mr C.S. Longuet strongly urged the League at its last meeting to take up the matter of getting Southland restored as a provincial district. He pointed out the absurd anomalies that existed in consequence of Southland being included in the provincial district of Otago. Each provincial district represented a legal division, and the term Southland could not be used on a deed, for example. It seemed absurd that banks and Government offices in Invercargill should close down on the anniversary of Otago, yet such was the case. Southland was now strong enough and sufficiently important to stand alone as a separate province, and he would move that the matter be referred to the new executive to be dealt with. —The motion was carried enthusiastically.
Gearing up for Winter Show
The Otago A and P Society’s buildings presented an exceptionally busy appearance yesterday morning, when a large number of men were employed in cleaning up the place and fixing the necessary tables for the display of exhibits. The Hon W. Nosworthy (Minister of Agriculture) and the Hon W. Downie Stewart have notified the committee that they will both be present at the show.
Brewery merger likely
The details in connection with the amalgamation of breweries in New Zealand are now nearly completed, and it is expected that the prospectus of the new company will be issued throughout New Zealand in the next few days. An important meeting of proprietors and directors of brewery companies is at present being held in Wellington to deal with factors which require settling, but it is not expected that any delay will occur in this connection. The combine will consist of £1,000,000 worth of debentures, each debenture being of £100. The companies included in the combine are: Speight and Co, Strachan and Co and McGavin and Co — all of Dunedin; Ward’s, The Crown and Manning’s — Christchurch; Staples and Co, Wellington; Barry’s — Gisborne; Lyon and Co and Hancock and Co — Auckland. — ODT, 29.5.1923