Dunedin's Glamor

NZ Truth, Issue 1208, 24 January 1929, Page 11

Dunedin's Glamor

MINETEEN - TWENTY - EIGHT cvidently had a surplus of waterballast m his weather, holds, and elected Dunedin as a final port of call .wherein to lighten his load before entering the harbor of Memory.: The result was an eleventh/hour deluge, and young 1929 had literally to float m on a rain- drenched and heavily overcast city. Nevertheless, music, song and dance were m no wise dampened, and an unrestrained glamor of festivity gathered round the Old^., Year's deathbed to show that coloniaf sons and daughters of old Scotland were.; mingling modern revelry with thev' traditions of their forefathers^ 2 ' ; :<" -.y-.'j ; ' But, oh!' those pestilent crackers and other such ear-splitting, nervewracking, peace -disturbing, aye, and dangerous compositions of cardboard and powder! :'. ■-' •'■■ ." ?■ "' ■' • •' ; If city by-laws say that \:fireworks must not be "let off".' in the highways, why, oh, why, not kill the noisesom* nuisance altogether by preventing the shops from stocking the noxious goods? . ... . .... .;■ „. ;..•