DUNEDIN IMPRESSIONS

Evening Star, Issue 19186, 1 March 1926, Page 3

DUNEDIN IMPRESSIONS

DR THACKER ON TOWN AND EXHIBITION MR RICKETTS HIS STAR PICK PRAISE FOR HIGHWAYS AND RECLAMAT.I ON ENTERPRISE. [Special to the ‘Star.’] CHRISTCHURCH, February 23. Dr H. T. J. Thacker writes interesting and characteristically to the ‘ Star ’ ol his impressions of Dunedin and the Exhibition. He says: “Having returned from a week in Dunedin, I should like to give yon a few ideas. There are plenty of loose coins in Dunedin, and many more loose stones on the road. Mount Cargill’s new highway is a revelation in road construction, but the road between Palmerston South and Waitati is a crime. No wonder a. South Island representative of the Highways Board had a serious indisposition on his return home.

'‘The chairman of every local body in Canterbury should see the Mount Cargill new road and roadmaking plant.. “ Dunedin has naturally and efficiently solved the dust problem by having a two-hour sprinkle out of the sky, and is amplifying that by some real tarred concrete roads. The new Anzac avenue is the finest thing in connection with the Exhibition, in that it is there for all time, and has sot a typo of avenue or boulevard construction of one-way traffic. How the North Island baokhlockers must think when they parade this line roadway with trees along each side! “The master of lie military band is my star pick of everything down south. Last Saturday, when he conducted the nine massed quickstep hands, ho simply inspired those bands to play as they never played before. He was a musical fisherman. Ho got out mako sharks and swordfish notes, and then delicately ho. fished out from tour-pound trout to individual whitebait iioU-s. His judging is meeting with universal satis!action. We want two or three men like him in New Zealand to raise the musical morale of our brass bauds, and make them equal to sending forth a band on a world’s tour, not to bo beaten, and labelled New Zealand. The president of the North Island Association is in entire agreement with this project. “ The Exhibition is just one bundle of joy and good-will, and all visitors are welcomed and treated well. Accommodation is classed, and is good and reasonable. The corporation buses and trams are having a surfeit time. The buses are not very observant of t ho rules of the road, and look upon smaller vehicles as victims to ho pushed on one side. Their attitude at the least is brusque and domineering. Reclamation is the wonder work of Dunedin. It has made Logan Park and the Exhibition a possibility, and to seo such oversea ships ns the Tainui (It).000 tons) going unaided to an easy berthage was nothing less than amazing. She was followed iu by the.warship Sydney. This port at Dunedin’s door is an object lesson to Christchurch, since the brains of the foremost business .men of Christchurch seem determined to perpetuate for ever an eight-mile haul from ship's side to warehouse.”