Indiana daily times., 1921-05-12

naturally was twelve feet deep and was
dredged ont to twenty feet in day
when the great ships Of today were not
dreamed Of So II Is only the smaller
vessels which get up 10 Dunedin today.
II is proposed TO dredge out several feet
more or to build locks in order TO make
the channel sufficiently deep to care for
the big vessels. This also would again
make available tho big dock, once the
largest in the dominion.
The Union Steamship Company, which
controls most OF the shipping IN Aus
tralia, and which started In 1872 with
three tiny vessels for New Zealand ports
only and which now owns almost 100 yes
sells, was one Of the factors in making
Dunedin a city, and !n making its name
known in the maritime world. The
Union company has most OF the mail
carrying contracts between Australia and
New Zealand, Canada and Australia and
virtually all the shipping TO and from
the islands Of the South sea-. 1t also
carries passengers and virtually all Of
our sea travel in this part Of the world
has been over its lines.
But Dunedin does not depend upon its
marine business alone for its pros
perity Near it are located four out OF
the nine big wooden mills IN New Zealand.
1t IS a center of iron and steel manu-
featuring and its proximity TO the fruit
district has made 1t tho logical place
fer preserving plants and candy fac
tories. Its suburbs manufacture farm
ing implements, stoves and ranges, II
has one OF the car building factories OF
tho dominion railways and only a few
miles away is a big mill for the manu-
facture OF wrapping ana other heavy
papers There are several large packing
houses in the province near Dunedin to
take care OF the great flocks OF sheep
on the 100000 acres in OtagO half OF
which is taken up in sheep runs and
farms.
Some day Dunedin viii be a much
greater manufacturing center for, like
Christchurch, it is close to many sites
capable Of developing great waterpower
and even now has the second largest
hydro electric plant in the dominion,
located at Waipori Falls. Already utago
province has one seventh of the entire
population Of New Zealand
CITY CENTER OF
RABBIT INDUSTRY.
dunedin has one industry which is
peculiarly its own in New Zealand and
1t has grown out Of what have been
South Island-the rabbits who overrun
things Miles after miles of rabbit
proof fencing are to be found in Otago
and special boards deal with the problem
of extemlnating the pests. Many persons
have found in the rabbits a good source
Of income and they are slaughtered by
the wagon loads in drives in which many
hunters take part. Quantities of them
are shipped to other countries in re
frigerating ships a trade which was
developed during the war and since has.
assumed big proportions.
Dunedin has much to show in the edu-
catonal line. 1t is the location of Otago
University, one Of the four affiliated
schools operated by the Dominion gov
ernment as the University of New Zea-
land; Of Knox College and Selwyn Col
lege, denominational schools; of the only
medical school in New Zealand which is
operated in connection with a hospital
OF dental school and of two of the finest
high schools in the State
Andrew Carnegie has given four public
libraries to New Zealand and that of
Dunedin costing $4,000, is the best. l
found it very much up to date and the
volumes upon its shelves more recent and
better, covering subjects than any I have
seen in the Dominion. 1t was built in
1907
Much of the land upon which Dunedin
Is built was once mud fats. Hundreds
Of acres between the high hills back of
the business section were under water in
the early days, but today are populated
by some $4,000 persons. The site of the
city seems to have been jumbled together
by some upheaval of the earth in the long
ago. It's hills are steep and to be
reached only by cable cars.
The morning after our arrival we were
awakened at O'Clock by a shaking Of orF
beds and a rumbling noise which l, ha{-
ing been in a slight earthquake in Peru