THE NEW YEAR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26040, 2 January 1946, Page 4

THE NEW YEAR

UNDEMONSTRATIVE WELCOME WEATHER A DETERRENT I The most prevalent remark in Dunedin during the past two days has been: “ It does not feel like New Year at all. Nobody seems to be doing anything about it.” Possibly the long spell of unseasonable weather has tended to depress public morale over the supposedly festive period, for a cold wind and scattered showers on New Year’s Eve combined to keep most people at home. The New Year was heralded by a modest blast of a ship's siren and a single mild explosion and there were few people to be seen in the streets at the time. Lights in residences after midnight were not very common and the average citizen appears to have, peer, content to allow the New'Year-to took .Si after itself while he snored com- v v ; fortably- 'in a warm. bed. Mosgiei voiced the most frequent complaints : concerning the removal of gates, once a traditional part of the New Year observances in spite of its obvious stupidity. Such activity . appears, to - have been centered ar-suml yoiilhifid larrikins. Others of the type were v sumably responsible for such'dubiously- ,-s humorous pranks as the iavhig put ;of; ’ a bed of broken glass ia,JE. a senseless act which caused uv least ,'. - one driver to see the New-Yett? in’frops December Itutis f-.-lMi 19« •; . Births . jy, ; - ~ ,j Deaths jtj ..Marriages >Uj| ' ug „ **s.* 1 . A