GUIDE TO DUNEDIN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26043, 5 January 1946, Page 4

GUIDE TO DUNEDIN

EARLY SETTLERS’ MUSEUM.— Lower High street. Hours: Week days, 9 am to 4 p.m. Visitors will find the museum a storehouse of interesting relics, scenic paintings and portraits covering the activities of the whalers and early settlers in Otago. SCENIC WALK.—From the terminus «f the Lookout Point bus, which leaves from the Chief Post Office at 1.33 p.m. or 2.3 p.m. this afternoon, it is a pleasant walk along Riselaw road through the new Government subdivision and past the St. Clair Golf Links to the terminus of the St. Clair tram. The trip will occupy two hours and will reward the visitor with many delightful and unusual views of the harbour and Peninsula This walk could be* done to-morrow from the St. Clair end or from the terminus of the Caversham tram (No. 9). ART GALLERY.— Logan Park (bus from Jaccbs’s Corner). Hours: Week days, 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.; Sundays, 2 to 4 p.m. Attention is drawn to a selfportrait by A. Stuart Hill, “ Head of a Man,” by Glyn Fhilpot, and " Dorothy,” a study showing an unusual lighting effect, by Ambrose McEvoy. • ' .. BOTANIC GARDENS.—Dunedin North (trams 2,4, or 12). The rose beds still have many fine blooms, and are attracting considerable attention. Other displays worthy of mention are the hydrangeas and fuchsias, which are blooming in the Winter Gardens. PUBLIC LIBRARY.—Moray place west. Hours: Week days, 9.30 a.m. to 9.30 p.m.; Sundays, 2 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. The display tables this week feature bocks on. interior decorating, building, publicity, the Bible, Arabia, and Palestine. OBSERVATION TOURS: Corporation buses will be run from the Municipal Chambers, Octagon, at 2 p.m. on week days and at 2.15 p.m. on Sundays. Three trips are available —around Otago Peninsula, to Whare Flat, or around' Dunedin. GOLF COURSE.—The Ocean Beach municipal golf course, of 18 holes, situated near the terminus of the St. Kilda (No. 7) tram, is available for the use of the public on payment of a small green fee. TEPID SWIMMING BATHS.—Moray place south. Hours for mixed bathing: Monday, nocn to 1.30 p.m., 4.30 to 6 p.m., 8 to 9.30 p.m. Tuesday to Friday, 6.30 to 8.15 a.m., noon to 1.30 p.m., 4.30 to 6 p.m., 8 to 9.30 p,m.: Saturday, 6.30 to 9 a.m., 3 to 5 p.m., 3 to 9.30 p.m.; Sunday, 8.30 to 10 a.m. OTAGO MUSEUM.—King street. ' Hours: Week days, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays, 2to 4 p.m. The Otago Museum has the finest collection in the world of New Zealand greenstone ranging from a huge boulder ■ to a tiny Maori amulet.