IN TOWN AND OUT

Southland Times, Issue 22012, 11 May 1933, Page 6

IN TOWN AND OUT

NEWS OF THE DAT Mails Delayed. Owing to the ferry steamer Maori being delayed by bad weather on Tuesday night, North Island mails did not connect at Lyttelton with the south express yesterday. The mails are not now expected to reach Invercargill until 5.18 p.m. to-day.

Help Appreciated. “I am very thankful to all those persons who so willingly assisted the police in many ways in connection with the Makarewa tragedy,” remarked SeniorSergeant Packer to a Times reporter yesterday. “In the stormy weather the lot of the helpers was not an enviable one and several, too, were put to considerable expense in bringing boats, etc., to the scene of the accident. Thanks are particularly due to Mr A. Pasco, who conveyed several boats by lorry from the Invercargill wharf.” » » * ♦ Camera Chib’s Display.

At the Southland A. and P. Association’s Winter Show yesterday considerable interest was taken in the display arranged by the Invercargill Camera Club. Prominent in the display were the photographs which secured for the club second place in the last New Zealand inter-club competition. The whole display is a particularly pleasing one, and illustrates convincingly how a little ingenuity, combined with artistic skill, can find varied and interesting subjects scarcely surpassed by any other city in the Dominion. Indeed, the whole section is exceedingly meritorious, and shows the effective work which is being carried on by the club in an unostentatious manner. * ♦ » ♦ Horses Rescued. The unusual spectacle of horses being rescued from an “island” which had come into existence owing to the floods in the Eastern District was witnessed at Gore yesterday. Five horses had been put to graze in a paddock adjoining the Waikaka river near the domain and when the flood waters rose the animals were isolated on an island of no great area which was lapped by the swirling waters. It was expected that the water would subside in a day or so, but as it was still high yesterday the owners decided to rescue the horses. A light flat-bottomed boat was brought to the scene by a lorry and several men were ferried across to the island. The horses were caught in succession and by dint of pulling and persuasion from behind they were induced to enter the flooded stream and swim across to the “mainland.” The horses were not very willing, but were eventually brought over without mishap.