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Port Chalmers Foundry Society cochairwoman Kris Smith replies: The DCC is currently working on decontaminating the site and stabilising the bank. The PC Foundry Society has recently contracted an organisation to clean the bricks of plant and windblown soil, cap the exposed tops of bricks to allow them to dry out and prevent further moisture impacting the mortar and wrap the steel trusses and exposed timbers to provide further protection. This work has been completed. We are also working with our architect to stage the development work. We are working closely and constructively with the DCC on this project.
University values
WE must ask what value universities have in this country.
When the government pays for young people to become tradies but not university students, this belies what the government thinks of
Boer War peace observed
THE Peace of Vereeniging was signed 21 years ago, terminating, to the joy of the Empire, the Boer War. Yesterday marked the anniversary of the peace, and in celebration, or rather in commemoration, a service was held in the afternoon in the shadow of the monument in the Oval that stands an enduring reminder of the men whose names it bears — the names of those men from Otago who made the supreme sacrifice in the war. It was fitting that the service should have been held at the monument, and it was also fitting that
Carry on capping
In the 1990s Otago students made a classic TV comedy series Back Of The Y.
Last week I attended the Back to the Flat (Back to the Future spoof)
Capping Show. It was both honest and hilarious. The Sextet, the Sexytet and the Selwyn Ballet and the band and the Star Wars drama deserve to be on TV. Carry on the Capping Show. Anthony Skegg
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The Lord hears the needy and does not despise his captive people. — Psalms 69.33.
it should not have been a service of exultation, but one, short and impressive, in memory of the fallen.
Three Mile Hill blocked
The Otago Motor Club has forwarded the following note re the “black” bridge: The bridge over the Silverstream at the North Taieri is closed for all traffic owing to the approaches being washed away. Motorists’ attention is called to this, as many cars have had to turn back after reaching the bridge.
Pruning season underway
Roxburgh: Fruitgrowers are busy with winter work, and pruning has commenced in most of the orchards. After the experience of the past season, when it appeared as if the district had reached the point of overproduction, and when it was evident also that there was an undue proportion of second grade fruit, growers will no doubt endeavour by judicious use of the pruning shears to limit the yield and produce better fruit. This, combined with the thinning in the spring, should prevent an overplus of inferior fruit.
Education in 2023
The education of their children is costing the people of New Zealand £2,000,000 yearly in salaries to teachers, inspectors, and officials.
The Minister of Education is not at all perturbed, however, over an increase of 150 percent in the cost of education in the last 10 years, and most zealous educationists consider the outlay paltry enough in comparison with what they would like it to be. Is the product of the primary school today as satisfactory as the product of 20 or 30 years ago? “The answer,” says the Minister, “is that on the whole we have made progress.” This is not a very confident or satisfying assurance. Perhaps a hundred years hence his successor will also be repeating the formula — “on the whole we have made progress.” — editorial