Fifty Years Ago To-day

Southland Times, Issue 23026, 21 October 1936, Page 4

Fifty Years Ago To-day

(From The Southland Times.) OCTOBER 21, 1886. Must be Invercargill.—The London Times remarks: The climate of New Zealand is almost notorious for its salubrity. Its average death rate, 10 per 10,000, is probably the lowest in the world, while its average birth rate, about 38 per 1000, indicates that the colony must soon be independent of immigration. There is one town, indeed, said to be so extravagantly healthy that when a man wants to die he has to move elsewhere. Invercargill Cycling Club. —The opening run of the season for members of the Invercargill Cycling Club will take place to-night. Members are expected to be in attendance at the Post Office so that a start can be made at 6.45 p.m. Home for Aged and Infirm.—lt will be noticed from our report _of the meeting of the Southland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board that it is intended to ere.', a home for the aged and infirm in Invercargill and that a tender for the work has been accepted. As to the necessity for such a building there seems to have been little difference of opinion among the members of the board, the only point upon which there was divergence of views having been the matter of site. Some of the members considered that the proper place for such an institution was the country, far away from the temptations and evils of town life. Others thought that the board should utilize some of the sections it owns in the city. The decision went in favour of the town site, bounded by Bowmont, Ythan and Crinan streets.