_The Evening Post_, 12 Sept 1923:
“A REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE”
In the opinion of Mr. M. J. Savage, M.P., there must be a revolutionary change of Government.… the danger of Labour’s accession to power lay in this… not gradual progress, step by step to a new order of things, but an alteration in outlook and methods so radical that it would defeat its own object, and would bring disaster upon the country.…
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19230912.2.21
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #NewZealand #Politics #MichaelJosephSavage

_The Evening Post_, 11 Sept 1923:
LOCAL AND GENERAL
…
During the recent severe southerly gale, a considerable amount of damage was done to the Day’s Bay-Lowry Bay road by erosion of the foreshore. The Hutt County Council inspector reported to the council to-day that the roadway had been reduced in width by from three feet tor four feet in the small bays, in addition to the sweeping off of some of the metal,…
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19230911.2.40
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #NewZealand #Roads #Damage #Storms

_The Evening Post_, 10 Sept 1923:
CHESS
NGAIO V. PALMERSTON NORTH
The Ngaio Club’s first telegraphic match was commenced on Saturday evening, it being a twelve-a-side contest with the Palmerston North Chess Club.… The local umpire was Mr. W. Toomath, honorary secretary of the Wellington Chess Club, whose wide experience proved very useful.… a close finish and some interesting end games may be looked for.…
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19230910.2.10
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #NewZealand #Chess #Telegraph

_The Evening Post_, 9 Sept 1922:
LOCAL AND GENERAL
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Having regard to the fact that red deer are, by eating out all undergrowth and ring-barking the trees, threatening to destroy much of the reserved forest throughout the Dominion, Mr. W. H. Field (Otaki) is asking if the Government will provide every facility for the killing of these animals when they are found to be committing such carnage and destruction.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19220909.2.25
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #NewZealand #Deer #Pests

_The Evening Post_, 8 Sept 1923:
AN OFFICIAL APPEAL
BUY ALL POSSIBLE FROM BRITAIN [1/2]
…
An appeal to New Zealand to buy from Great Britain instead of foreign countries was voiced by Mr. Noel Elmslie, British Trade Commissioner, at a meeting of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce.… “The outlook is not as promising as it was three months ago. Our position, from the point of view of British industry, is very serious…”
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19230908.2.48
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #NewZealand #Trade #Economy

_The Evening Post_, 7 Sept 1923:
ISLAND BAY THEATRE
An attractive Paramount double bill is to be presented at the Island Bay theatre tonight, Betty Compson appears in the leading role of “The White Flower,” and Wanda Hawley stars in the second feature, “Too Much Wife.” The programme will be repeated to-morrow.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19230907.2.8
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #NewZealand #Movies #Theatres

_The Evening Post_, 6 Sept 1923:
PENNY POSTAGE
NEW RATES FROM 1ST OCTOBER
The new Postal rates to be adopted in New Zealand from 1st October next will be as follow:—
“Letters (inland): 1d [= ca. 50c today] for the first ounce or fraction thereof, and for each additional ounce or fraction thereof.
“Letters (within British Empire and to certain foreign countries): 1d for each ounce or fraction thereof”…
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19230906.2.18
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #NewZealand #Postage

_The Evening Post_, 5 Sept 1923:
ROADS THAT LAST
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The big bituminous paving plant on order for the City Council should arrive in Wellington in the course of a few weeks now… Wellington in the early days was very well content to bump its carts and wagons along over plain beach tracks, over grass tracks just as they might happen to be, and over the ruts when the grass wore away. Clay, roads came next…
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19230905.2.55
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #NewZealand #Roading #Construction

_The Evening Post_, 4 Sept 1923:
MOTOR TOOTING
TO THE EDITOR, Sir,—Cannot the road hogs who sport themselves in motor-cars about the suburbs of Wellington be brought to book? Some owners seem to take a delight in scaring people by giving an unexpected blast on their horn, and causing the unfortunate pedestrian to almost drop with fright.… —l am, etc.,
DECORUM
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19230904.2.54
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #NewZealand #Cars #Driving

_The Evening Post_, 3 Sept 1923:
LOCAL AND GENERAL
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Wanganui “swankers,” as a result of a visit from Mr. Clutha Mackenzie, organised a collection and carnival in aid of the Pearson Memorial Fund for the Blind, states a Press Association message. The carnival took place on Saturday afternoon, and the total raised was £650. [= ca. $79K today].
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19230903.2.33
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #NewZealand #Blind #Fundraising

_The Evening Post_, 2 Sept 1923:
KELBURN CABLE SYSTEM
CITY’S PROPOSAL TO PURCHASE
Negotiations are still proceeding in reference to the proposed purchase of the Kelburn Tramway Company’s cable tramway by the City Council. The council has not yet received a definite reply to its offer to acquire the undertaking. The council has offered the company £45,000 [= ca. $5.3M today].
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19220902.2.56
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #NewZealand #CableCars #Kelburn

_The Evening Post_, 1 Sept 1923:
NEW ZEALAND WRITERS
CRITICISMS OF THEIR WORK
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The average [New Zealand] reader of fiction … prefers a story about London or Devonshire, or Wyoming or Ruritania, to one about Auckland or Wellington, or the sheep on a hundred hills at the back of the Canterbury Plains.… [and is] not particularly interested in a novelist’s conception of the life that he sees about him…
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19230901.2.163
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #NewZealand #Fiction #Reading #Publishing

_The Evening Post_, 31 Aug 1923:
THE ONGARUE REPORT
The report of the Board of Inquiry into the Ongarue railway disaster should give satisfaction to the public in so far as it shows that the Railway Department has not been sacrificing safety to speed or economy.… neither the Department nor its servants relaxed their precautions… those precautions were sufficient to guard against any reasonable risk.…
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19230831.2.47
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #NewZealand #Trains #Railways #Accidents

_The Evening Post_, 26 Aug 1922:
BETTER THAN SUMS
…
The Minister [of Education] spoke to the children [of Miramar school] … of the greatness of the Empire and the high duty of its citizens. Referring to the saluting of the flag and the weekly singing of the National Anthem, he said that that was better than doing sums, geography, and history, and the ceremony was one they would love and remember.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19220826.2.122
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #NewZealand #Schools #Patriotism #BritishEmpire

_The Evening Post_, 25 Aug 1923:
LOCAL AND GENERAL
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To the practical joker the Census paper is irresistible, and we find several, suspicious-looking entries in the list. There is one Free Trader, a Good Citizen, a believer in “The Humanity of Ireland”, two Puritans, one gentleman who “is saved, but not connected”, a “Holy Roller,” and a “Holy Jumper”… the “Skyterrian” faith … claims two supporters.…
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19230824.2.36
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #NewZealand #Censuses #Religion #Humour

_The Evening Post_, 24 Aug 1923:
LOCAL AND GENERAL
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Writing of the Canterbury acclimatisers’ war upon the weka (whoso alleged crime was the eating of pheasants’ eggs), Mr. J. S. Myers comments: “And this is the bird of which Guthrie-Smith writes … of its efficiency as a rat-destroyer… The days of cock-fighting are over, but crimes are still committed in the name of ‘Sport.’”
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19230824.2.36
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #NewZealand #Weka #Birds

_The Evening Post_, 23 Aug 1923:
LOCAL AND GENERAL
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The Technical College Students’ Association held another successful debate recently… “that the time has arrived when women should be treated in terms of absolute equality with men,” Mr. E. Evans and Miss L. Bolt supporting the motion and Mr. H. L. Bennett and Miss O. Payne took the negative. After an interesting discussion the voting was in favour of the opposers.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19230823.2.30
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #NewZealand #Women #Equality

_The Evening Post_, 22 Aug 1923:
WAR GRAVES
FREE PILGRIMAGES FOR THE POOR
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In January last a scheme was formulated by a joint committee of St. Barnabas and “Toc H” Hostels for a “pilgrimage” to the military cemeteries of the Ypres district. The pilgrims were all people in humble circumstances to whom such an opportunity of visiting the graves of their dead had never seemed humanly possible…
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19230822.2.21
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #NewZealand #WW1 #Graves #France

_The Evening Post_, 21 Aug 1923:
TEACHERS WELCOMED
ARRIVALS FROM CANADA
A pleasant social gathering took place at the Newtown School last evening, when the teaching staff and members of the School Committee formally welcomed Miss Agnew and Mrs. Takaberry, who recently arrived from Canada under the new exchange system for teachers, to take up positions at the Newtown and Berhampore schools…
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19230821.2.43
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #NewZealand #Schools

_The Evening Post_, 20 Aug 1923:
Spring & Summer Fashions
Every woman thrills at the call of Spring—the time of new Hats, Costumes and Frocks. Our message to-day is brief, but tense with interest. The New Millinery is here.
We give but an outline of the general fashions prevailing, together with an invitation to call and spend a pleasant hour viewing Fashion’s Exquisite Creations…
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19230820.2.41.6
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #NewZealand #Ads #Fashion #Women