_The Evening Post_, 11 April 1925:
IMPROVEMENTS AT 1YA
According to the “New Zealand Herald,” #1YA has greatly moderated its broadcast service.
Afternoon broadcasts from 2.30 to 4.30 have commenced, and will be given on four afternoons a week. While mechanical music will be given at first, it is understood that other arrangements are being made for the immediate future. Permission has been obtained to install a microphone in “Dixieland,” and the work is to be proceeded with at once. The long-waited microphones for 1YA have been dispatched from Australia, and upon their arrival it is proposed to immediately broadcast the Lyric Theatre Orchestra and the Dixieland dance music. It is hoped to obtain a room below the studio to receive the artists and to serve as a waiting-room, so that no other than the person being broadcasted will be allowed in the studio.…
The writer of the foregoing (“Thermion”) states that with the increase of 1YA's wavelength to 420 metres, a good deal of interference by ship’s morse on 450 metres has been experienced. The station has reverted to 330 metres, and, although the input power has been raised to 200 watts, … there is no apparent increase in the volume locally.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250411.2.192.3

_The Evening Post_, 10 April 1924:
WOMEN IN
PRINT.
…
A Press Association message from #Christchurch states that at the Christchurch #Presbytery yesterday a motion, “That the Presbytery initiate the necessary steps to amend the Book of Orders [i.e., Book of Order] to admit #women as #elders of the Church,” was lost, only the mover and seconder voting for it.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240410.2.111

#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #PresbyterianChurch #NewZealand

The Presbyterian Church in NZ voted to admit women as elders in 1954 https://teara.govt.nz/en/presbyterian-church/page-2

_The Evening Post_, 9 April 1925:
DREDGE MACHINERY
QUESTION OF PAYING DUTY
(BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
GISBORNE, This Day.
When the #dredge Korua, purchased from the Australian Government, was preparing to sail for New Zealand, the Federal Marine Authorities compelled the dismantlement of a portion of her machinery, which was brought over by cargo steamer. The New Zealand Customs Department have claimed duty on this, and the #Gisborne Harbour Board sought a refund. The board has now been informed that there is no means under the Customs Tariff by which the ladder and buckets can be admitted free of duty.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250409.2.103

_The Evening Post_, 8 April 1925:
AN ARTIST RETURNS
——
FRUITS OF STUDY ABROAD.
After thirteen years’ absence from New Zealand, Miss Maud #Kimbell—now Mrs. #Sherwood—returns to #Wellington…. Pupil of Nairn, a painter who left his definite mark on New Zealand art, Mrs. Sherwood went to Europe to work.… She spent much time and with profit in France, and there met Miss Frances Hodgkins, Sydney Thompson and his wife, and Owen Merton, all friendly New Zealanders, all seeking artistic inspiration and direction far away from home.… Mrs. Sherwood sketched much in England, Holland, and Brittany.
…
“There is a decided advance being made in art in Australia and in the cultivation of the taste for art. From the little I have been able to see on my return to New Zealand I think that holds good here, too.”
Then Mrs. Sherwood began to talk about the “colour” of Wellington. It was wonderful in its beauty and elusiveness. It was her desire, she said, to see painted a really great picture of Wellington and its majestic hills…
Mrs. Sherwood is holding an exhibition of her works at the Whitmore Street Gallery…
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250408.2.121
Biography in DNZB https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/3s14/sherwood-maud-winifred

I see that PapersPast added a few more newspapers to their online collection last month. Great for anyone doing family research. The newspapers are:

- Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune (1937-1950)
- Matamata Record (1940-1950)
- North Otago Times (1919-1932)

#genealogy #PapersPast

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers

_The Evening Post_, 7 April 1925:
DRIFTING SAND
FORESTRY OFFICERS INSPECT
COMBATING RELENTLESS
ADVANCE.
Good agricultural #land in various parts of the Dominion is being seriously threatened by the continuous and unrelenting drift of sand, and although much has been done by the State Forestry Service… to combat this, further experimental work is at present being carried out…. Altogether there are 92,000 acres [37K ha] of dune country in the #Wellington area, and 183,000 acres [74K ha] in the #Auckland district.
The menace… has become manifest particularly along the coast of the North Island between Wellington and New Plymouth, and the north coast of Auckland…
The theory advanced for the spread of the sand dune country is that before the advent of the European population…, the greater part of the sandy land was more or less stable, and Dr. L. #Cockayne, hon. botanist to the Department, declares that over-grazing and injudicious stock of land has caused it to become loose.
… settlers along the coast… refuted this suggestion…
As the waste sandy country is privately owned, very little action is being taken…, but… the Government, by… the Sand Drift Act… has power to undertake the work itself.
…
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250407.2.141

_The Evening Post_, 6 April 1925:
“CLEAR BREACH OF LAW”
MAGISTRATE’S DECISION REVERSED.
(BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
GREYMOUTH, 4th April.
An interesting reserved judgment was given to-day by Mr. Justice #MacGregor in the case in which the police appealed against the dismissal by the Magistrate (Mr. Meldrum) of a charge against Charlotte Lewis, licensee of a #Kumara hotel, for refusing accommodation to F. King, a #Prohibition lecturer.
Mr. Justice MacGregor stated that no valid reason was given for refusing accommodation, and the real reason seemed to be the fact that King was a Prohibition agent. That was not a valid reason in law, however distasteful the supplying of such accommodation was to the licensee. King was a member of the travelling public, and the licensee was bound to supply lodging for the night. A clear breach of the law was made, and the licensee should have been convicted. The Judge expressed surprise that the Magistrate had not convicted, as it was difficult to imagine a clearer case of refusal.
The case was remitted to the lower Court, and costs of the appeal, £10 [ca. $1200 today], were allowed to the police.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250406.2.110

_The Evening Post_, 5 April 1924:
LOCAL AND GENERAL
…
An interesting account of the amazing recovery of a small bird after a serious injury is given by a chief petty officer on H.M.S. #Philomel, says the “Auckland Herald.” The bird, a white dove, was savagely attacked by a dog; and had its chest so torn open that its heart was actually exposed, the beating being plainly visible. After lying unattended for half an hour the bird was taken to the sick bay, where its wounds were sewn up with horse hair, and a bandage wound round its body. It was then put to bed in its box, while its mate waited nearby for company. On being visited next morning the bird was found to have freed itself from its bandages and to be flying around the room. When the door was opened it flew outside. The dove appears to be now as strong as ever, though the stitches can be plainly seen in its body.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240405.2.18
Wikipedia article about the Philomel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Philomel_(1890)

_The Evening Post_, 4 April 1925:
NEW ZEALAND AND THE EMPIRE
(REUTER’S TELEGRAM.)
(Received 4th April, 2 p.m.)
LONDON, 3rd April.
Earl Jellicoe made his first public appearance since his return as the guest of the annual dinner of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce. Replying to the toast of “Our Guest,” Earl Jellicoe expressed exceedingly deep regret at leaving New Zealand. He told how when a Peninsular steamer was going outwards as the Mooltan was anchoring at Tilbury, his children said: “Let’s go aboard the other ship and return to New Zealand.” He dwelt on the Dominion’s keenness for #trade within the Empire, which was primarily due to the New Zealanders’ characteristically strong patriotism and their strong Imperial instinct. Earl Jellicoe concluded by deploring Mr. Massey’s illness.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250404.2.89
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #GovernorGenerals #NewZealand

_The Evening Post_, 3 April 1925:
          FLATS AND HOMES
   MODERN HOUSEKEEPING
REMARKS OF PROFESSOR OF
          ARCHITECTURE
  … Professor C. R. Knight, who arrived at Auckland this week to take the new Chair of Architecture at the Auckland University, laughingly denied having any particular plans for teaching new architecture to New Zealand. Every town… had to be judged from an architectural point of view by its local conditions…. Location, trade, and lay-out all had their influences on building.
  Trained in England, France, and America, Professor Knight is a young Australian…. He says that the most striking thing about architecture in New York at the present time is the development of the “flat.”…
“I think… #flats will continue to grow with the cities,” added Professor Knight, who instanced one or two very large Sydney flats. As the business of a city grew, private houses gave way to shops and stores. The people had then to either live in flats or get out to the far suburbs, and a very large proportion of them preferred the flat with its close proximity to the theatres, shops, and restaurants, and its absence of many of the usual household worries including the servant."
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250403.2.109

_The Evening Post_, 2 April 1925:
NEW PAVILION
Though those who had hoped that the new Basin Reserve pavilion might have been available to the public and sports bodies during the summer now ending have been disappointed, winter sports people may look forward fairly confidently to the benefits of an up-to-date pavilion during the coming session for the work is now very well advanced and may be completed within a couple of months. Latterly efforts have been concentrated upon the completion of interior work, but the pavilion will be topped off during the next two or three weeks by the covering of the steel roof girders, a fairly big job, but a straight ahead one.
Plans are already tentatively prepared for further improvements to the Basin, including the terracing of the slopes to the north and south of the pavilion, thus affording very considerable open-air stand accommodation, and the setting back of the western boundary line of the playing area proper to give a broad sweep in place of the present straight line.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250402.2.88

_The Evening Post_, 1 April 1925:
A DANGEROUS BUSINESS
That good housekeeping rule as to a place for everything and everything in its place is particularly applicable to the ancient art and sport of kite flying, and in general it may be said that the place for kite flying—at the present time in tremendous vogue—is out of town, and especially well away from overhead electric power cables. This, mere annoyance to linesmen who are called upon to waste time, and energy in clearing lines is one sufficient reason for the unpopularity of the sport, but parents should remember, if youngsters will not, that kite flying near cables carrying 3000 to 11,000 volts may be extremely dangerous; under certain conditions the child might receive a very severe shock.
A definite warning as to the danger which follows interference with power lines is given by notices placed on the Hutt River pipe bridge, but there the warning is given to fishers, who may, so run the notices, receive a fatal shock should a wet line be thrown across the high[?] power lines across the river.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250401.2.99

_The Evening Post_, 31 March 1925:
TARANAKI TOLL-GATES
It is understood that in pursuance of powers which he may exercise the Minister of Public Works (the Hon. J. G. Coates) is taking the steps which are necessary for the abolition of the toll-gates in #Taranaki as from 1st April.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250331.2.81

_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 #Taihape, 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.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250330.2.29

_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 #Muritai from the harbour service next week, and the time-table will be maintained by the #Duchess and #Cobar. 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.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240329.2.94

_The Evening Post_, 28 March 1924:
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.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250328.2.82

_The Evening Post_, 27 March 1924:
DRUNK IN A MOTOR-CAR

(BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
CHRISTCHURCH, 26th March.
William #Hayes, 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 #buggy or something when he comes in.”
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250327.2.146

_The Evening Post_, 26 March 1924:
BURGLAR CAPTURED
EXCITING CHRISTCHURCH INCIDENT
A BOLD BID FOR LIBERTY
…
CHRISTCHURCH, 25th March.
Masked by a silken scarf Whitefoord Jukes #Curtis, 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 #police said that there were other charges to be preferred against him.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250326.2.134

_The Evening Post_, 25 March 1924:
HEAVY CATCHES OF FISH
While the question of a regular and plentiful supply of fish is engaging attention of scientific and commercial men, #Wellington 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.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250325.2.142

_The Evening Post_, 23 March 1924:
                 NELSON NEWS
        YOUTHS AND AQUATICS
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
                NELSON, 21st March.
  The aquatic proclivities of the #youth of this city are always to the fore in the summer months. Canvas #canoes 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.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250324.2.108