QUEENSTOWN NOTES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18757, 10 January 1923, Page 4

QUEENSTOWN NOTES

(From Our Ovfn Correspondent.) QUEENSTOWN, January S. The weather is not quite as settled as it usually is here in raid-summer. There has, however, not been much cause for complaint, for the rain we have had has come m occasional showers rather than in a prolonged downpour. People, consequently, have not been altogether prevented from making excursions on any one day for weeks past. The farmers regard it as. splendid for there has been just the required amount to proceed steadily. The innholders who have not yet finished their shearing, however, take a different view of the position. Showers mean “wet sheep - ’ and idle sheds. The shearers meals go on, eo do the shed hands’ wages, and all the time the biddyhid ripens, thus increasing the anxieties of the woolgrower. The bowling green has proved a very great attraction this year. The surface is excellent. and many enjoyable games have been played. Tho tennis courts in the Park ns well as the Queenstown Club’s two new courts have also boon well patronised this season. In fact, never before has such a large number of tennis players been in evidence here. Among the visitors of note in Queenstown at present is Dr Jack, professor of physics at Otago University, ’and he is here engaged in his wireless experiments. On the Eastern Terrace he has erected some apparatus, by means of which ho has been enabled to pick up messages from various parts of the dominion as well as from vessels trading near the New Zealand coast. It is understood that during the present month ho purposes installing apparatus that will pick up speech and music from the broad-cast-ing stations of New Zealand. All this is proving of great interest to people in this district, as it is hoped in the near future to have some wireless installatione here, thereby giving us soma of the advantages of the city dweller and reducing our isolation somewhat. Tho Rev. R. de Lambert, vicar of Watalipu, has gone for a few weeks to Dunedin, where he will undertake duty for the Hev. J. H. Rogers, North-East Valley, and other clergy who are on holiday in the country or at the seaside.