Overview
Tues Mar 5
After breakfast walked to the Te Aro baths taking 1/4 pl[ate] photos (1)Cambridge Terrave + (2) Queen Vic's statue + (3) Clyde Quay School + Mt Victoria en route. Later we trammed up to the Zoo + saw most of animals, smelt 'em too alas, + took1/4 pl. photos (4) + (5) Four young lions (Felis leo), born in Zoo, Jan 1917. (6) Avery [sic] red-billed gulls (Larus scopulinus), a white ibis (Ibis moluca), a penguin, two white storks (Ciconia alba) etc. Lunched at Kirks' - priced fencing wire at Stewart Hardware, Duthies', Briscos + E W Mills + finally purchased at last mentioned: -3/4 ton plain at £50 per ton less 1 1/2 % for cash; 1 cwt [hundredweight] 1 1/2" [inch] staples at 55/- + 1 cwt 1 1/4" dito at 56/-. Called on Mr Jno R Palmer, Town Clerk, to get permission to take photos - courteously treated but only got permission to photograph in Zoo which was absurd. Tea at the P[eople's] P[alace]
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+ in evening we went to "Look Who's here" at the Grand opera House, sitting in the back stalls - a rather good show of the variety type, by Jack Waller Company, but marred by the veiled indecency of one performer.
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