STEWART ISLAND

Southland Times, Issue 23342, 28 October 1937, Page 14

STEWART ISLAND

LABOUR WEEK-END A fair number of people took advantage of the special trip run by the Tamatea on Saturday. The vessel arrived about 4 o’clock on Saturday and made the return trip on Monday afternoon. The weather over the week-end was fine and sunny, but on Sunday there was a fairly strong easterly wind blowing. This brought a surge into Halfmoon Bay so the Tamatea left the wharf and berthed at Golden Bay in Paterson Inlet. MOVING PICTURES SHOWN On Saturday evening in the Halfmoon Bay public hall Mr G. M. Turner gave an exhibition of moving pictures taken during his recent travels abroad. The first part of the programme comprised a very interesting record of the passage through the Panama Canal, showing the different locks and cuts and the electric mules which tow the big liners through the locks. Another one was titled “Springtime in London’s Parks,” and was mostly in colour, picturing the beautiful woodlands and masses of tulips, hydrangeas, azaleas in the heart of London. There were some beautiful pictures also of Edinburgh, and another of a flying display at Hendon taken during a former trip Hdme. The main part of the programme was a long record of Mr Turner’s trip by canal through Sweden, thence through Lapland and Northern Norway to the White Sea. The canal passed through pleasant agricultural scenes, lovely woods where the passage was so narrow that the branches brushed the boat on either side past medieval fortresses and great cities. The contrast with some of the far northern fishing villages of Norway, perched among rocks with no sign of vegetation was very striking. At the conclusion of the programme Mr Willa, on behalf of the residents, thanked Mr Turner for his screening, the proceeds of which were to go towards the cost of repainting the County Hall. YACHT CLUB The Stewart Island Yacht Club which held a Queen Carnival recently for the purpose of raising funds for the purchase of a new yacht has now purchased the Lavina from her northern owner. Some of the local yachtsmen put her through her paces recently. She is to be fitted with a new mainsail and will enter for the trials for the Sanders Cup this year.