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Kaikoura Star, Volume LVI, Issue 90, 16 November 1936, Page 2

The Anglican Church bazaar will be held in the Drill Hall on December 5. Quite a lot of excitement and fun was got out of the old motor cycle and light-car club members a couple of years since, and the public took keen interest in the various events. On Thursday night a meeting will be held at the Rink Garage, when an effort will be made to revive interest in the club’s activities. “I don’t remember ever having been present at such a ghastly success,’’ said Air Arthur Rosser, chairman of the Auckland City Council works committee, when speaking at the ceremony at D'cvonport when the new sodium vapour street lighting system was inaugurated. Most of the speakers remarked on the deathly pallor which the yellow beams of the light gave to spectators, although all were enthusiastic about the road-lighting effects obtained. Mr AV. J. Lyon, M.P., said that while he was glad to see that the new lights were going to minimise the danger factor on the roads, he had to admit that to him every pedestrian looked like an accident. AVhen two stalkers, who had enjoyed a week-end’s sport in the Blue Mountains, were returning to Invercargill, they observed near Willowbantk a sheep lying on its back with its legs beating in the ai.*. It was obviously cast, so they went to its rescue; but when they put it on its feet it almost collapsed and seemed in danger of dying. For a moment they were at a loss what to do. Then they remembered that in the car was a small bottle of whisky which they carried “for medicinal purposes.’’ Down the ewe’s throat the spirit was poured. The effect was miraculous. After a little coughing and spluttering, the animal did a schottische and a rumba and dashed across the paddock. Whilst dismantling the old twostoried residence attached to Newman’s Garage, a piece of board was picked Tip with the names thereon of those concerned in the construction of the building in ISS3. Van Classen (a Dutchman) was the builder, and those associated with him were the two Sandford 1 rothers. By a strange coincidence a Dutchman, C. J. A’an Dongen, has charge of the demolishing operations. Van considers himself the only Dutchman in the Dominion. Dutchmen were fine stamps of settlers, and many made their way to New Zealand iii the early days, but subsequently those leaving Holland made their way to the Dutch East Indies, South Africa, Argentine, and America, and there are but few men of this nationality in New Zealand at present—there is certainly none mentioned in the Official Year Book..