_The Evening Post_, 22 June 1925:
MAGISTRATE’S COURT
Mr. R. M. Watson, S.M., presided at the Magistrate’s Court to-day.
…
William Gordon, who was found in a Chinaman’s shop with cigarettes in his possession, pleaded guilty to the theft of two packets of cigarettes valued at £3 [ca. $375 today], the property of Joe Yee. He was sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment with hard labour.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250622.2.26

The first 20 years (1939-1959) of The New Zealand Listener are now available on Papers Past. This is an amazing treasure trove of Aotearoa's history and society.

#PapersPast #genealogy

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/new-zealand-listener

_The Evening Post_, 22 May 1925:
PERSONAL MATTERS
…
The death occurred at Helensville last evening of Mr. Samuel #Kirkpatrick, founder and managing director of the well-known firm of Kirkpatrick and Co. Deceased took a prominent part in sport in the early days. At the time of his death (reports the Press Association) he was Deputy-Grand Master of the English Masonic Lodge, Westland and Nelson. Mr. Kirkpatrick was a native of Newry, County Down, Ireland, and as a young man emigrated to America, where he first entered upon his long and successful business career, at Philadelphia, and later at Pittsburg. In 1876 he went to California, where he engaged in the fruit-preserving industry, and acquired the extensive practical knowledge which enabled him to found and carry through to success the well-known Nelson company. He came to New Zealand in 1879, landing in Auckland. For a time he resided at Dunedin, before leaving for England to bring to New Zealand a complete plant for #canning purposes, and to commence operations at #Nelson.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250522.2.101
Biography in DNZB https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/2k11/kirkpatrick-samuel

_The Evening Post_, 19 May 1925:
OBITUARY
SIR THEOPHILUS COOPER,
EX-JUDGE.
(BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
ELTHAM, 18th May.
The Hon. Sir Theophilus Cooper, ex-Judge of the Supreme Court, passed away this afternoon, aged 75 years, at the residence of his son, Dr. H. A. Cooper, Eltham.…
“From the printing office to the Supreme Court Bench” is a phrase that to some extent at least explains the ambition that impelled the late Mr. Theophilus Cooper to overcome all difficulties in choosing his career.… He was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court and president of the Arbitration Court in February, 1901, and shortly afterwards held his first session in that city. He continued as president of the Arbitration Court until September, 1903, when Mr. Justice Chapman relieved him. Thereafter his Honour, in conjunction with the Chief Justice, conducted the business of the Supreme Court in the Wellington judicial district. He retired from the Bench in 1921, in which year he received the honour of knighthood, and since then he lived in retirement at Eltham.
…
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250519.2.138
Biography in DNZB https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/3c30/cooper-theophilus

_The Evening Post_, 18 May 1925:
THIRTY-NINE YEARS’ SERVICE
MR. TROUP’S RETIREMENT
On the eve of his departure from the Railway Department, Mr. G. A. #Troup, officer in charge of the architectural branch, who retired … after thirty-nine of service, was met by the members of his office staff who were desirous of making him a small presentation … and to bid him farewell.
Several speakers eulogised Mr. Troup, referring to the sterling value of his service to the Department….
Mr. Troup has risen from the bottom of the ladder to the top…. He has left several structures as monuments to his labours, notably the Railway head offices and the #Dunedin Railway Station.
In replying, Mr. Troup said that … it was not as easy as one might imagine.… The happiest recollections he would carry with him were of the last few years of his service … with the architectural branch of the service, directing its activities since its inception in 1919. It had always been his desire and aim to be just and to treat those under him as he would have had them treat him had he been otherwise situated.
…
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250518.2.143
Interesting biography in DNZB https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/2t49/troup-george-alexander

_The Evening Post_, 17 May 1924:
TO REPAINT A BATH
When it is necessary to repaint a bath it should be rubbed all over with sandpaper or pumice-stone. After this apply two or three coats of bath enamel, which will adhere much belter when the surface is roughened. In order to preserve the paint when the bath is in use, be careful to turn on the cold tap before letting hot water run into it.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240517.2.132

_The Evening Post_, 16 May 1925:
MR. MASSEY’S DEATH

The first news which some Wellington residents had of the #death of the late Mr. #Massey was conveyed to them by wireless. The Prime Minister’s death was announced by the local broadcasting station, #2YK, when it opened up for the usual Sunday concert, and the programme was commenced with Chopin’s “Funeral March.” Even earlier than that, those who happened to be listening to #1YB, which was transmitting a church service, heard the announcement from that city. On Thursday evening 2YK opened up at 7 o’clock, and gave a special concert of a character appropriate to the day of the late Prime Minister’s funeral. The first item was the repetition by the Rev. G. Millar, of Dunedin, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, of the funeral oration he had given earlier in the day. The delivery was admirable, and those who heard it, transmitted with perfect clarity, must have been much impressed and touched.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250516.2.159.2

_The Evening Post_, 14 May 1925:
JOURNEY BEGINS
BORNE DOWN THE STEPS
HIS COLLEAGUES BESIDE HIM
AFFECTING DEPARTURE.
It was now past the half-hour after noon. The Ministers entered the building again to prepare for the final exit of their leader from the restlessness of the political stage.…
…
… The members of the funeral party took their seats in the long line of cars stretching right round the whole Parliamentary block.
There was a slight pause, and then almost on the stroke of 1 o’clock, with a little puff of smoke from its running engine, the hearse slowly began to move down the driveway, followed by the long procession of cars. The band struck up a new air, as of triumph over mortality, and thus, as it were, with a note of good cheer Parliament bade farewell to its long-time leader on his journey to a place where there are no debates and no divisions, and where the only majority is the Great Majority of those who have gone that way before.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250514.2.90.3
Biography in DNZB https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/2m39/massey-william-ferguson

_The Evening Post_, 13 May 1925:
ON THE THRESHOLD OF PARLIAMENT
SILENT TRIBUTE OF THE PEOPLE
FILING PAST THE DEAD
The casket bearing the mortal remains of the late Prime Minister lay throughout to-day in state in the vestibule of #Parliament Buildings, and thousands of people took the opportunity of paying a silent tribute to the memory of the dead, filing reverently past the catafalque in a constant stream from a comparatively early hour.
…
The day was in full harmony with the occasion—a soft, sad, mild day of late autumn, with the mists still lingering in a gentle haze over the city after last night's rain.… with a subtle atmosphere of rest after the turmoil of life.
…
The moving throng continued all through the morning in a varying stream, but never ceasing. Visitors from the country could be noted unmistakably, farmers and local body representatives…. Women were numerous, during the business hours of the day especially, and there were always children waiting outside while their mothers went through with the procession. The number who paid their last tribute during the day must have run into many thousands.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250513.2.63.1
Biography in DNZB https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/2m39/massey-william-ferguson

_The Evening Post_, 12 May 1925:
INSTALLATION OF MAYOR
It was arranged this morning that the installation of the new Mayor (Mr. C. B. #Norwood) and city councillors shall take place to-morrow at noon, but it is not yet definite whether the election of committees an dtheir [and their] chairmen will be gone on with to-morrow; quite probably this will be deferred till Friday.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250512.2.74
Biography of Norwood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Norwood

_The Evening Post_, 10 May 1924:
CAPPING CEREMONY
VICTORIA UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE
DECOROUS PROCEEDINGS
PROGRESS OF INSTITUTION
The graduation or “Capping” ceremony of Victoria University College—an annual event—took place in the Town Hall yesterday afternoon. There was a large attendance of students and friends, and the group of graduates, with their hoods, on the platform under the decorations left from the Navy League ball made a very pretty picture.
The chair was taken by Mr. Clement Watson, of the College Council, who referred cordially to the attainment of the 25th anniversary of the college… the number of students now exceeded 800, and was still increasing.… and the time had come to consider the establishment of day classes. Most of the students had to work at present.…
The Vice-Chancellor of the New Zealand University, Professor J. Rankine Brown, congratulated the graduates… He hoped that the graduates of the year—
Here the students popped a number of paper bags and sang the song about “John Brown’s Body.”
The Vice-Chancellor concluded.
…
The following is the list of graduates:…
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240510.2.129

(Accompanying photo from the next year).

_The Evening Post_, 9 May 1925:
TOWN HALL DESTROYED BY
FIRE

(BY TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

GORE, This Day.
The Balfour Town Hall was destroyed by fire this morning. A dance was held last evening, when everything appeared safe. Apparently the blaze started at the boiler in the ante-room. The hall was insured for £500 [ca. $63,000 today]. The building is owned by a company.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250509.2.74

_The Evening Post_, 8 May 1925:
PERSONAL MATTERS
…
Mr. C. N. #Orbell, one of the oldest and best-known residents of South #Canterbury, who died at his home, “The Levels,” #Timaru, on Tuesday evening, after a long illness, was born in 1841 at Essex, where he was educated. He came to New Zealand in the sailing ship Metropolis, in 1863, landing at Lyttelton. … He was interested in sport of all sorts. But it is in connection with his work as a sheep breeder that Mr. Orbell’s name will be best remembered. He and Mr. W. S. Davison were originators of the #Corriedale sheep, the most noted breed in New Zealand to-day, and if he had done nothing but this his name would be entitled to a place in the list of those who have rendered the Dominion signal service. Mr. Orbell married Miss Fergusson, a cousin to a former Governor of New Zealand—Sir James Fergusson—in 1879. He had five children—Mr. W. H. Orbell, Mr. C. I. Orbell, Mrs. Maurice Harper, and the Misses Orbell (two).
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250508.2.106
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corriedale

_The Evening Post_, 28 April 1925:
HAWAIIAN ENTERTAINERS
   A VARIED PROGRAMME
  Kaii’s Hawaiian Troubadours made their first appearance at the Opera House last evening to a large and appreciative audience.… Very soon the company, generally and together, was on the best of terms with the audience, and a successful evening was assured. It was recognised that the troubadours were artists with the ukulele and the guitar, and Kaii himself an exceptionally fine performer on the banjo. Applause was frequent and demonstrative. On the whole the genuine Hawaiian items had the preference, and the song, “Ipo Lei Manu,” by Eddie Kinilau, was a decided favourite.… In Queenio Kaili was discovered a born comedienne.… Her tricks of voice, gesture, and facial expression, all unforced and seemingly unstudied, made everyone in the theatre a friend, and she was recalled again and again.… Four of the troubadours gave some brilliant examples of jazz music, finishing to a perfect tornado of applause.… The entertainment reflected great credit upon its producer, Ernest #Kaii. Taken in part and as a whole it was unusual, bright, and attractive, and was endorsed last night as an unequivocal success.…
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250428.2.105

_The Evening Post_, 27 April 1925:
GALLIPOLI, FRANCE, FLANDERS,
AND EGYPT
COMMEMORATION OF NOBLE
SACRIFICES
SATURDAY’S SOLEMN SERVICES

Ten years have passed since the Landing at Gallipoli, and a little more than six years and five months since there was quiet in reality on the Western Front, but to those who had some hand in the stirring scenes of wartime it seems as if they were enacted but yesterday.…
Throughout the crowded, solemn, and impressive services held in #Wellington and all over the Dominion on Saturday, Anzac Day, the principal theme was the call to service, which was the lesson handed down by those who had fallen in the conflict, or who had cheerfully borne with wounds and sickness in order that a false philosophy and a flaunting bid for world domination might be successfully withstood. Grief, poignant but proud, still evidenced the bitter sense of loss felt by those whose loved ones had been borne away, but withal there was dominant the note of anticipation of that promised time when swords shall be beaten into ploughshares, when the last enemy, Death, shall be overcome, when wars throughout the world shall cease, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250427.2.104.1

_The Evening Post_, 24 April 1925:
BUSES FOR THE CITY
MACHINES TO BE BOUGHT
SOME BRITISH, SOME AMERICAN
REASONS FOR THE CHOICE
It was decided by the City Council after a long discussion in committee last evening to purchase three #Daimler machines, one complete #Mack bus, and five Mack bus chassis. The Daimler is a British machine which is considered to be very suitable for hilly country such as will be met with on several of Wellington’s proposed bus runs. The Daimlers are to cost £873 [ca. $110K today] each, the Mack bus £2467 [ca. $312K], and the five Mack chassis £6485 [ca. $820K]. The Macks are American.
…
COMPETITION LIKELY.
“There is every indication that the Corporation in the immediate future will be face to face with severe competition from privately-owned machines, and it may be taken for granted that competitors will not use British machines.…
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250424.2.69

_The Evening Post_, 23 April 1925:
         NEW ZEALAND LEPERS
   TO BE TRANSFERRED TO FIJI.
                        ——
 Some time ago it was announced that an arrangement had been arrived at with the #Fiji Government for the concentration of all lepers from British colonies in the Pacific at the Mokagai leper station, Fiji.
  On Quail Island, #Lyttelton Harbour, there are nine lepers consisting of four Maoris, two Chinese, and three Europeans.
  The Minister of Health (the Hon. Sir Maui Pomare) stated to-day that it had been decided to close the Quail Island station and transfer the lepers from there within the next two or three months. The cost of their maintenance at Fiji would be borne by the New Zealand Government. All the patients had consented to go to Fiji.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250423.2.68

_The Evening Post_, 22 April 1925:
CARGO OF GUANO
DISPUTE WITH WATERSIDE
WORKERS

(BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

AUCKLAND, 21st April.
Trouble arose to-day over the discharge of the Union Company’s cargo steamer Kakapo, which arrived early this morning from Walpole Island with a cargo of bagged #guano. Six gangs were engaged to work the vessel, but when the steamer berthed at Central Wharf only three gangs were ready to commence discharge. The hatches were lifted, and everything was ready for unloading, when the secretary of the Watersiders’ Union ordered the men to cease work. The hatches were again covered, and the steamer remained idle.
The Union Company state that the men were offered 2s 7½d [ca. $16.60 today] per hour to work the ship, but the offer was not accepted. The award wage for the working of guano is 2s 4½d [ca. $15], 2d [ca. $1.05] in excess of that for the handling of ordinary cargo. A similar situation arose when the Kakapo arrived at Auckland some months ago with the same kind of cargo. On that occasion the vessel was idle for several days before an agreement was reached. No decision had been reached to-night.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250422.2.112

_The Evening Post_, 21 April 1925:
ON A SUNDAY
SELLING SECTIONS PROHIBITED
—–
As the result of a judgment delivered by Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., to-day, land salesmen may not show prospective buyers over sections for sale on a Sunday.
The case in point was one in which James Francis Egan, of the Dominion Land Investment Company, Wellington, land salesman, was charged with working at his calling on a Sunday.
The prosecution alleged that a breach of the Act had been committed when the defendant showed two prospective buyers over sections for sale at #Johnsonville on a recent Sunday.
“It is clear that the defendant was working at his calling,” said the Magistrate, “which I take it, is his regular work or occupation. As he did this on a Sunday, and in view of a public place, I think he has brought himself within the prohibition of the Police Offences Amendment Act.”
As the prosecution was regarded as a test case, the defendant was ordered to pay costs.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250421.2.85
See also https://teara.govt.nz/en/weekends/page-4

_The Evening Post_, 20 April 1925:
         THE NORTHLAND
                 TUNNEL
“PERSISTENT RUMOURS OF
             INSTABILITY”
                      ——
 MR. R. SEMPLE ASKED TO
               INSPECT.
                      ——
  The following resolution was passed at a meeting held under the auspices of the Labour Party at the Empress Theatre last evening:—
In view of the persistent rumours in circulation concerning the alleged instability of the construction work in the new Northland tunnel, and the uneasiness felt by persons who have visited the tunnel concerning possible future risk to human life, this public meeting of Wellington citizens request Mr. Robert Semple, who is an expert tunneller, to report as soon as possible on the condition of the tunnel, particularly in regard to the matter of #safety.
  The resolution was this morning refer[r]ed to the Mayor (Mr. R. A. Wright), who said that he had no comment to make upon it.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250420.2.98
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northland,_Wellington#Tunnels