Pirates come back
The game was a keen and briskly contested one, in which Alhambra, though eventually the losers, did almost all the attacking. Their forwards quite outclassed the Pirates pack, but received very little support from the backs, who seemed to have no idea of attack at all. The Pirates' rearguard executed some nice concerted movements, but the winning try of the day resulted from a fine individual effort, by Morgan. The final whistle went with the scores Pirates 9 points, Alhambra 6 points. Directions from highways board
With the object of bringing some uniformity to the signposts on New Zealand roads the Main Highways Board has issued the following recommendations:
(a) The site to be such as to secure (after considering the objective of the sign) the maximum visibility, the full length of post and signs to be visible.
(b) The arms shall not project front the signposts over the actual roadway or so near thereto as to cause danger of collision therewith when vehicles are passing one another on the road.
(c) Direction arms shall point along general direction of the road indicated.
(d) Lower arms should indicate the more important roads.
(e) The height of the lowest arms above ground shall be a minimum of 6 feet, and a maximum of 6ft 6in.
(f) The length of arms (including route number) minimum 3ft and maximum 4ft.
(g) Depth of arms (including route number) minimum 7in.
(h) Separation between arms, 2in.
(i) Lettering: Black on cream (made with good white lead and Italian ochre). Depth of letter for single line, 4in; for double line, 3in. Division between lines, 1in. Route numbers, 4in, block figure on cream ground in black line oval.
(j) Posts to be of dressed hardwood not less than 4in x 4in, treated from base and for 1ft above ground line with a wood preservative and painted similarly to arms.
(k) The arms or notices on signposts to be of durable dressed timber (preferably kauri) one inch in thickness and fixed to signposts with galvanised coach screws not less than 3in long or with square headed bolts with washers underneath. Arms to be scarfed into signposts to thickness of arms.
The Main Highways Board has allocated members for all declared main highways, and anticipates that each of these main highways will, in time, come to be known by its number. The board has issued maps of both the North and South Islands on which are shown all main highways with their respective numbers. South Dunedin booming
The progress of Dunedin is evident to any person who cares to look round and note, among other things, the new buildings that are being erected and the improvements to existing buildings. The latest example is in Cargill Road, South Dunedin, in the vicinity of St Peter's Church. In this portion of the city several handsome shops are now approaching completion. It is also noticeable in this quarter that a part of the large area hitherto used for the raising of vegetables is being brought into requisition for building sites and, when there is still a demand for ground for houses, one wonders why some of the land at the rear of the Benevolent Institution is not put to better use than it is today.
— ODT , 29.6.1925 ( Compiled by Peter Dowden )
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A crowd of about 3000 assembled at Carisbrook to witness the match between Pirates and Alhambra. The game was a keen and briskly contested one, in which Alhambra, though eventually the losers, did almost all the attacking. Their forwards quite outclassed the Pirates pack, but received very little support from the backs, who seemed to have no idea of attack at all. The Pirates' rearguard executed some nice concerted movements, but the winning try of the day resulted from a fine individual effort, by Morgan. The final whistle went with the scores Pirates 9 points, Alhambra 6 points. Directions from highways board With the object of bringing some uniformity to the signposts on New Zealand roads the Main Highways Board has issued the following recommendations: (a) The site to be such as to secure (after considering the objective of the sign) the maximum visibility, the full length of post and signs to be visible. (b) The arms shall not project front the signposts over the actual roadway or so near thereto as to cause danger of collision therewith when vehicles are passing one another on the road. (c) Direction arms shall point along general direction of the road indicated. (d) Lower arms should indicate the more important roads. (e) The height of the lowest arms above ground shall be a minimum of 6 feet, and a maximum of 6ft 6in. (f) The length of arms (including route number) minimum 3ft and maximum 4ft. (g) Depth of arms (including route number) minimum 7in. (h) Separation between arms, 2in. (i) Lettering: Black on cream (made with good white lead and Italian ochre). Depth of letter for single line, 4in; for double line, 3in. Division between lines, 1in. Route numbers, 4in, block figure on cream ground in black line oval. (j) Posts to be of dressed hardwood not less than 4in x 4in, treated from base and for 1ft above ground line with a wood preservative and painted similarly to arms. (k) The arms or notices on signposts to be of durable dressed timber (preferably kauri) one inch in thickness and fixed to signposts with galvanised coach screws not less than 3in long or with square headed bolts with washers underneath. Arms to be scarfed into signposts to thickness of arms. The Main Highways Board has allocated members for all declared main highways, and anticipates that each of these main highways will, in time, come to be known by its number. The board has issued maps of both the North and South Islands on which are shown all main highways with their respective numbers. South Dunedin booming The progress of Dunedin is evident to any person who cares to look round and note, among other things, the new buildings that are being erected and the improvements to existing buildings. The latest example is in Cargill Road, South Dunedin, in the vicinity of St Peter's Church. In this portion of the city several handsome shops are now approaching completion. It is also noticeable in this quarter that a part of the large area hitherto used for the raising of vegetables is being brought into requisition for building sites and, when there is still a demand for ground for houses, one wonders why some of the land at the rear of the Benevolent Institution is not put to better use than it is today. — ODT , 29.6.1925 ( Compiled by Peter Dowden )
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-62), American naturalist and author. The human mind is a restless thing. One minute you are idly flicking through the newspaper, the next you've got a head full of questions. So it was this week when I read about the search for some missing mountaineers in the Italian Alps. Involved in that search was a rescue dog belonging — and I am not making this up — to the Alpine Rescue Branch of the Italian Financial Police. How can you not ask questions about that? Of course, there was no need for me to read this story. The news you need to know comes to find you, and the rest is titillation. As dear old Thoreau put it, "if we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter — we need never read of another." Indeed so, in theory, but human nature doesn't run on theory. We are inquisitive creatures. We want to know about the world around us and we can't help asking questions. Consider, for example, Thoreau's cow run over on the Western Railroad. One would have thought that the story wouldn't be about the cow but about the train. For surely a cow run over would mean a train derailed, and a train derailed would mean disaster. Hence those strange metal devices like giant moustaches attached the front of American steam trains, known, I believe, as cow-catchers. Though therein lies another puzzle — see the mind at work — because surely the purpose of the device was not to catch the cow, but rather to strike it a blow at an angle that would fling it aside, no doubt with horrific injuries. And with no prospect of the train stopping to render first aid, one has to feel sorry for those old-time cows. A literal cow-catcher would have been both more humane and less wasteful. If the front of the train could be engineered in such a way that it scooped the offending beast off the track and somehow transferred it to a cattle truck alive and well, the train could arrive eventually in New York or Los Angeles with a small herd of astonished cattle that the rail company could sell at a profit to the nearest abattoir. Nevertheless, one has to wonder why a cow would ever stand in front of a train. The Western Railroad ran through the vast open prairies of the USA where the buffalo roamed until the white man shot them all. And given the narrowness of the railway and the vast breadth of the prairie, and given the inedibility of one and the magnificent grazing of the other, it seems improbable that any cow would ever choose to stand on the line. And even more improbable that it would continue to do so with the rails humming at the train's approach and Casey Jones a-tooting of the whistle to try and scare the thing off. Which thoughts I record only to demonstrate that it is all very well for high-minded Thoreau to assert that we don't need to know the news, but it is human nature to do so and to become engrossed. As I am by the Italian Financial Police Force's alpine rescue dog. Being a financial policeman in Italy would be no cakewalk given the vigorous proclivities of the Mafia. Press a little too forcefully for a GST return and suddenly you're in bed with a horse's head. As for the alpine division, what sort of financial crimes happen in the Alps? Fraudulent skifield operators? Or maybe there's a stream of financial criminals who try to flee over the Alps to Switzerland, where they are famously uninquisitive about wealth so long as you stick it in their banks. And could it be that because the pursuing officers are nerdish types, expert with the calculator and the spreadsheet but rather less expert with the crampons and the snowshoes, it is necessary for the force to retain a rescue dog to haul them out of the snowdrifts from time to time? I ask these questions only to illustrate the restless nature of the mind, and I don't pretend to know the answers. Though I am confident about one thing, which is the breed of the rescue dog in question. It just has to be a ciao. • Joe Bennett is a Lyttelton writer.
