Wednesday 28 August 2019

Advertising as a Career

CAPE TIMES – 1928, July 19

Important Posts Held by women
Of the many fields for women’s work which have developed in recent years that of advertising offers the widest scope and makes the most picturesque appeal. It is work for which the woman’s mind has an advantage over the mentality of the male. Advertising authorities, pointing to America and Great Britain, where many women in the advertising field now earn from £500 to £2,500 a year, agree that unparalleled opportunities in this profession are waiting to be seized by women in this country. There is a league in New York called “The League of Advertising Women,” and both London and New York have their Women’s Advertising Clubs. There is probably no profession in which the percentage of women holding responsible positions is so high as it is in advertising. This is no doubt largely due to the fact that it is of comparatively modern growth and women have not had to overcome prejudices that are deep rooted in tradition to the extent they have in some other professions.
There are many women directors of advertising agencies, at least two of whom have been in the business for 30 years or more and have advanced by the weight of great ability form subordinate positions to administrative posts, and in one case, to the chairmanship of a great advertising organisation. The most notable example is Miss. J. R. Reynolds, F.I.P.A., who arrived in Wellington this week.
A considerable number of the important posts in the advertising departments of the British newspapers and periodicals are held by women, including the coveted one of advertisement manager to London “Punch,” who rose to power because she believed in advertising, started her career as a copywriter on the staff of a London advertising agency. A large advertising firm in London has four women on its copy-writing staff, and one of its three commercial studios is staffed entirely by women. One of Sydney’s largest department stores has placed its advertising in charge of a woman. The advertising department of the “Queensland Country Press” is represented in Sydney by Miss Foote.
Appeal to Women
A factor that has had a considerable influence in providing their openings for women is that the bulk of advertising directs its appeal to women. One of the speakers at a British convention luncheon, at which a woman was in the chair, and for which the details were arranged by women in advertising businesses, emphasized the fact that 90 percent of the buying – not trading – in the world is done by women, and 75 percent of the shops in Regent and Oxford Streets, London, are for women alone. She quoted figures from an Oxford Street store which showed that 75 000 women each day passed in and out of the doors, inspecting goods or making purchases. The psychological effects of advertising are admittedly a highly important branch of study, and therefore the instinctive desire to bring women, into the profession, is thoroughly sound. A woman’s mind. With its love of detail and its big imagination, can appeal to prospective women customers better than the average man’s. 
The three chief branches of advertising offering wide scope to the woman expert are: 
(1) Advertising Management: the organization for business concerns of the advertising systems by which they aim to sell their goods. 
(2) Advertising Agency: the preparation and placing of advertisements and the organization of selling-schemes for trade advertisers. 
(3) Advertisement Management or the Organisation of Newspaper and Magazine Advertising. The sale of space by canvassing is an important feature of this branch of work.
For Clever Women 
Advertising is undoubtedly a profession in which a clever woman can secure big prizes. But it must not be thought that these prizes are lucky windfalls. They are the result of rigorous training, patient endeavor, and grueling work. One starts early, finishes late and when emergencies arise, burns a lot of midnight oil. But withal it is a fascinating business – curiously enthralling. It needs skill of a high order to put the facts of an advertisement in a form that will capture the imagination, and sway the buying moods of tens of thousands of people. It is work that gives a gratifying feeling of power and, being important work, it rightly commands high salaries. – “The Dominion” (New Zealand).


Tuesday 27 August 2019

Wild Flower Shows in Western Cape, 1933

CAPE TIMES - 1933, August 19 & September 2
CALEDON FLOWER SHOW
The most wonderful display of Wild Flowers in the World will open on Saturday, September 16, 1933, at 1 p.m. at the Caledon Show Grounds by Mr. A. Devine, Mayor of Paarl and President, C.P. Municipal Association.
Attractions
There will be a Floral Car Parade at 2.30 p.m., Rugby Match (Caledon vs. Moorreesburg) at 4 p.m. and a Dance in the Town Hall at 8 p.m. (Droomer’s Orchestra). Refreshments obtainable on Show Grounds.
Travelling Facilities
For particulars apply Thos. Cook & son and S.A. Travel Bureau, Cape Town.
The S.A. Railways are running SPECIAL TRAINS on day of Show, 7/6 First Class return Fares from Cape Town (3rd Class 5/-). See Posters at all Railway Stations.
P.J. Steyn and J.A. Krige, Hon. Secretaries.
Phone 34. Box 33, Caledon
CAPE TIMES – 1933, September 2

TULBAGH FLOWER SHOW
The Flower Garden of the Cape Show will be held on Saturday, 23rd September, 1933.
Opening Ceremony by Dr. D.F. Malan, M.P. (former Minister of Interior), at 2 p.m.
Excursion fares from Cape Town and all stations up to Worcester and South thereof, including branch lines.
Special Motor Fares from Cape Town.
For particulars apply to the South African Travel Bureau, sole Agents, 52, St. George’s Street, Cape Town.
Refreshments obtainable on the Show Grounds.
CAPE TIMES – 1933, September 2

CERES FLOWER SHOW
The Ceres Wild Flower Show is to be held on Monday, October 2 (Wiener’s Day).
The widespread interest in the event is shown by the innumerable inquiries received from people as far afield as Johannesburg.
The Bain’s Kloof Pass is now open to motorists, and a special train will be run from Cape Town to Ceres for the Show, with the usual excursion facilities to travelers at the intermediate stations.
CAPE TIMES – 1933, August 19

Friday 23 August 2019

The ever-open door of Christ’s heart

CAPE ARGUS – 1939, February 20
Lines from Sunday’s sermon

“Holman Hunt in his painting ‘The light of the world,’ has pictured Christ as standing at the door of our hearts, knocking and waiting to be admitted. While this is a true picture of the state of many men and women in the world today, it is also equally true that the world is gathered at the ever-open door of Christ’s heart. But for many of us this is as far as we get. We are afraid or unwilling to enter. This is the root cause of all our troubles today. Until we are willing to pass through the door, there will not be that freedom, power, and love for which we long.” – The Rev. Norman H. Pike, Methodist Manse, Woodstock.

Electricity for Elephants


CAPE ARGUS – 1939, February 21

How do elephants react to electric shocks?
The ADDO Reserve authorities have decided to electrify the boundary fence to keep the elephants from breaking through and damaging the property of neighbouring farmers. Doubts have been expresses, however, about the results of the experiment. It has been predicted that electric shocks will enrage the elephants and lead to further havoc.
“No one can say what will happen until the experiment has been tried,” said Dr. L. Gill, of the South African Museum, to a representative of The Argus today. “Elephants have sensitive trunks, and if the electrified wire is not thick, they may sweep it away in an instant.”
LOW VOLTAGE
Animal welfare officials do not regard the experiment as cruel. A low voltage will be used, with the idea of causing surprise rather than pain.
One Bechuanaland rancher has already proved the value of a slightly electrified fence in preventing cattle from breaking down the wire. The fence is also used as a telephone line between the homestead and distant parts of the ranch. Animals have learned to keep away from the wire. 
Elephants, however, may behave differently. A circus elephant which had wandered away to explore an orchard once encountered a live wire. It became so infuriated that many trees were uprooted before its rage abated.
TELEPHONE LINE UPROOTED
Postal officials in many African territories know how telegraph lines suffer when there are elephant herds in the neighbourhood. A telephone line between Outjo and Okaukueyo, South-West Africa, was torn up for miles last year.
Elephants are said to dislike the humming noises of the wires. On the other hand, it may be that they receive a slight shock while lifting their inquisitive trunks to the wire, and uproot the poles as an act of revenge. Wireless is used for communication in the Kruger National Park. Elephants there have caused so much havoc that it is regarded as hopeless to erect telegraph poles.

Read an interesting story how African honeybees have been proposed as a possible deterrent to elephants. 
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5920247_African_elephants_run_from_the_sound_of_disturbed_bees



Nursing as a Career


Cape Argus – 1939, February 27
The profession of nursing, which was until comparatively recent times one of the few to which women who wanted a career could turn, has of late attracted an alarmingly small number of recruits. The reasons for this state of affairs are many, but perhaps the most important one is that, judged by the standard of most other professions, the conditions in which nursing is done are unsatisfactory and advancement is slow, but not very sure. In other words, hard work and little pay do not attract anybody but the girl who feels that she has a vocation and who is willing to give disinterested service in fulfillment of it. However, reforms are now being made in various directions and the nurses of the future should have a little cause for complaint.

To encourage the recruitment of young women as nurses, a monster meeting was held in London. Queen Mary, Princess Alice and the Earl of Athlone attended it and the Archbishop of Canterbury presided. In the audience were senior girls from schools all over the country and members of various youth organisations. Previously they had been taken over several London hospitals so that they could see something in the conditions in which nurses work and live.
The Archbishop read to the meeting a message given by Queen Mary in which she said:
“Certainly, now more than ever willing helpers are needed in the sacred cause of preventing ill-health, of securing the safety of motherhood, and of relieving sickness and pain. I appeal to the girls of the country to ask themselves whether they may not find in this profession not only a career of interest and usefulness but one of the truest and noblest forms of national service.” Her Majesty’s words, said the Archbishop, admirably summarized the purpose of the meeting. Referring to the report recently made by the Inter-departmental Committee on the Nursing Services over which Lord Athlone presided, he hoped that it would result in the removal of all reasonable grounds for dissatisfaction. He stressed, however, the fact, as did each of the other speakers, that nursing is a career which still demands a sense of vocation.
Miss Reynolds, matron of the London Hospital, suggested that women of teaching ability were sorely needed in the nursing profession, as sister tutors for the theoretical instruction of student nurses, or as dieticians; as ward sisters; as industrial nurses in factories and as district and public health nurses. For the ambitions, she concluded, there was unlimited scope in the profession of nursing.
The report of the Interdepartmental Committee on Nursing Services to which reference was made at the meeting was largely the work of the joint secretaries Sir Weldon Dalrymple-Champneys and Mr. W.A.B.M. Hamilton.
“To their energy and enterprise,” noted the committee headed by Lord Athlone, “we largely owe the immense amount of valuable information placed before us, while the co-ordination of as much complex detail is a tribute to their skill.”
Sir Weldon Dalrymple-Champneys, Bt., an official in the British Ministry of Health, was in Cape Town two years ago when he collected Button Spiders for a particular piece of scientific investigation in which he was engaged.
His interest in the medical health of the nation is hereditary. His father, the late Sir Francis Champneys, obtained the first charter for midwives in Great Britain (the first Midwives Act).
For some time Sir Weldon has been investigating the shortage of nurses in Great Britain and looking into the working conditions which seem to make nursing unattractive to young women. As a result of his committee’s report hospital conditions are likely to be greatly improved from the nurse’s point of view.

Wednesday 21 August 2019

Alcohol test for drivers

Cape Argus – 1939, February 14
A new device for testing drivers for intoxication has been tried in America in 1939. A police trailer has been turned into a laboratory for country doctors to test drivers who were picked up at random and examined for intoxication. In the picture a driver is seen blowing up a balloon which later releases the breath into a special device that register any alcohol in the breath. If this is over a certain percentage a conviction automatically follows.

In South Africa, at an event in KwaZulu-Natal, the 2019 Easter road safety campaign was launched on Monday, 8 April 2019. The new Evidential Breathalyzer Alcohol Test (EBAT) system which will begin being implemented on the country’s roads was introduced, aiming to combat drunk driving by providing immediate, accurate information on a driver’s intoxication level. The Department of Transport already had four centres in place – including one in KZN, one in the Western Cape and two in Gauteng. Plans to open one in every province are going forward.

Apparently, this is a vast improvement over the older blood tests system - motorists could be detained overnight or until the end of the weekend. They could spend months facing legal uncertainty while waiting for the results. Relatively common under the previous system, were missing and incorrect results. Because the results of an EBAT test are instant the case can be dealt with swiftly and efficiently.


Tuesday 20 August 2019

Granny’s Fruit Bars


CAPE ARGUS - 1939, February 11
Anyone can bake with the help of Royal’s Double Action Baking Powder!


The most inexperienced cook can bake a cake with confidence – if she uses Royal. For this unique Baking Powder has a scientifically regulated “Double Action” that ensures success before it is put into the oven.

The first action takes place in the batter when the leavening process really should begin. The second action takes place in the heat of the oven when the Cream of Tartar completes the regulated raising process ensuring a cake that is light, even-textured and delicious. There is no fear of failure or waste of ingredients if you use this balanced and economical baking powder.
Order a tin of Royal today, and make some “Granny’s Fruit Bars.” They are delicious and nourishing. Especially good for children.

GRANNY’S FRUIT BARS
125 ml butter
375 ml yellow sugar
2 eggs
250 ml raisins cut into quarters
250 ml currants
250 ml dates cut finely
125 ml chopped walnuts
562,5 ml flour (2¼ cups)
250 ml oats
10 ml mixed spice
1,5 ml salt
10 ml Royal Baking Powder
125 ml milk

Cream butter and sugar, add eggs one at a time, beating each in well.
Add cleaned and prepared fruits and oats.
Sieve in the flour, spice, salt and baking powder alternatively with the milk.
Mix well and spread on 2 well-greased Swiss roll tins, 40 x 25 cm (15 x 10 inches).
Bake 10 to 15 minutes in moderate oven 400°F / 200°C.
Cut into bars when cool, and when cold, store in airtight tin.


Origin of Tyres

CAPE TIMES – 1933, August 18
Where did the name "TYRE" come from?
The origin of the name “tyre” is shrouded in antiquity. There are at least two theories as to its derivation. One traces it to the Phoenician city of Tyre.
When Alexander the Great entered this city in 332 B.C. his war chariots were equipped with wooden wheels bound with iron or bronze. But here Alexander found other chariots magnificently constructed and reserved for the pleasure of the rich. He was impressed with the wheels on the pleasure chariots which had, secured by thongs to the bronze rims, an outer rim of leather.
This is the first known use of a tyre for reducing vibration and thereby promoting the comfort of the passenger, although, when Tutankhamen’s tomb was opened up by Lord Carnarvon and Mr. Howard Carter, the remains of a chariot were found, with wheels which, to all appearances, had carried some form of tyres.
Leather tyres were soon introduced into both Greece and Italy and even though iron and bronze wheel-rims had been in use for centuries before Alexander’s day it is just possible that the word “tyre” originated from the Greek or Latin name of this Phoenician city where this early cushion tyre is said to have been used.
Another theory favours a British origin. In ancient Britain it is said, the iron rims that bound the wooden cart wheels were called “tie-ers.”
In 1845 R. W. Thompson, a Scots road locomotive engineer, invented the first air-inflated tyre, which was laced or bolted to the carriage wheel. It consisted of plies of canvas saturated with rubber, but failed as the rubber was not vulcanized.
Forty years passed before anyone again gave serious thought to the possibilities of pneumatic tyres. But during this interval solid rubber tyres were generally used on bicycles and carriages and in 1884 Macintosh introduced the cushion tyre. This tyre, with a succession of cavities in the form of a spongy mass in the centre, was more resilient and was adopted at once for carriages.












THE STAR Johannesburg - 1918, February 28
Then in 1888, as recently described in The Austin Magazine, John Boyd Dunlop invented the first practical pneumatic tyre. So many inventors set to work to improve on J.B. Dunlop’s idea that for the next few years the Patent Offices in both England and the United States were deluged with applications.
Sometime antecedent to 1895 Dunlop motor tyres first appeared and in that year Dunlop 30 in. x 6¼ in. motor tyres were in use. With the Dunlop tyres of 1902 a foot pump and repair outfit were supplied! Incidentally, the minimum tyre pressure advised was 75 lb. per square inch!
In France the pneumatic tyre was first adopted for the motor-car in the early nineties, by the Michelin brothers, who unable to adapt the new type of tyre to their cars, actually built a car to fit the tyres. Though their first experiments were discouraging, by 1896 their pneumatic motor-car tyre was on the market. 

De Volkstem - 1925, 8 October

From that time the improvement of motor-car tyres kept steady pace with car improvements. The first effort to overcome skidding, which frequently occurred with the smooth rubber threads, was the invention of a leather thread studded with steel rivets and vulcanized to the rubber tyre. Then came the moulded rubber non-skid thread more or less as we know it today. The first cord tyre was invented in 1893 by John F. Parmer, of Chicago, and was at that time a bicycle tyre. Some time later a cord tyre for electric automobiles was introduced known as the “Power Saver.” Later came the cord tyre for motor-cars, which has now replaced entirely the square woven fabric tyre of all types. The cord construction, which employs cords laid to the inflated shape of the tyre cover, so that no internal stresses are set up when the tyre is fully inflated, is used throughout the world today, and is actually the same as that used in the “Power Saver” tyres of 25 years ago. 
(G.J. Joint in Austin Magazine)

CAPE ARGUS - 1918, November 8

THE STAR Johannesburg - 1918, March 7









Sunday 18 August 2019

Peacemaking, like Charity, begins at Home

CAPE ARGUS – 1939, February 20
Lines from Sunday’s sermon
“Getting right with God involves an apology to the brother you have injured. Church attendance and good works are no substitute for the costly act of restitution that will put the broken human relationship right. Perhaps there was wrong on both sides; but never mind that, it is not your business. Confess your own sin with real repentance and a real desire for friendship. We all want to be peacemakers these days, and yet how can there be peace between the nations if there is no real peace among us? Peacemaking, like charity, begins at home.” – The Rev. James Rodger, Presbyterian Church, Bellville.



Thursday 15 August 2019

Folding Canoe & other interesting inventions

CAPE TIMES - 1933, July 18
CAPE ARGUS – 1951, November 3
Folding Canoe

This canoe folds up to fit into a rucksack. It weighs 6 pounds and is 15.5 feet.
Years later, an  Israeli designer for Tsor Design Studios, ORI LEVIN, created a Folding Canoe, the ADHOC, that assembled in about 5 minutes and weighed only 4.1 kg.







At an International Exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany, were a Three-Wheeler Light Car (top speed 31 m.p.h.) and an ultra-lightweight auto-cycle with a 49 cc. engine.
(CAPE ARGUS – 1951, November 3)









This is a model of a new design, evolved in Russia, for high-speed water travel. It consists of two hydro-plane hulls carrying the promenade decks between them, the cabins in the hulls, and the bridge in a little tower on the “roof”. A boat of this description would, the designers consider, cruise cheaply at over 40 miles an hour.

(CAPE ARGUS – 1951, November 3)



Wednesday 14 August 2019

First Woman Public Prosecutor


CAPE ARGUS - 1939, February 4


The appointment of Miss Christina Lombard (24) to be Public Prosecutor of the Auckland Park Juvenile Court, Johannesburg, is welcomed by social workers in Cape Town, who see in it a sign of the expansion of women’s opportunities for social service. 
Several women barristers, the first of whom was Advocate Gladys Steyn, have acted as public prosecutor on circuit. Miss Lombard’s is the first appointment of a woman to the permanent post.
Adv. Oblowitz told a representative of The Argus that a Public Prosecutor is less concerned with the legal aspect of the case than with the problem of getting a view of the child as a product of his social setting. The object is not to secure a conviction, but to do all possible to set the child on the right path so that he may be reconciled to his social surroundings.


She welcomed the appointment of a woman as an indication that this view of the problem was accepted, but she was not prepared to say that a woman was any more likely than a man to get a full grasp of the situation. In many places the chief constable was the public prosecutor, and she had often found him a man of human sympathy, with a complete understanding of the child and a full acquaintance with the child’s environment and its drawbacks.
“It is not the sex of the person but the understanding of his social background that matters,” she said. “A human understanding which induces its possessor to be at pains to ferret out all relevant details is as often found in a man as in a woman.”
The Public Prosecutor of a Juvenile Court, the Magistrate and the Probation Officer set themselves the task of reconstructing the child’s social background so that he may be in harmony with it. This is their common problem, uncomplicated by legal points.
SPECIAL INTEREST
One great drawback in the present system of promotion in the civil service is that work in juvenile courts offers no higher grades. A magistrate who finds special interest in a children’s court and is particularly useful in that kind of work is completely lost to it when promotion moves him elsewhere.
If women were to find a scope for usefulness in this work, some means of grading should be devised to enable them, though promoted, to continue in the work in which they were most useful, said Miss Oblowitz.
She pointed out that people remained juveniles up to the age of 19, and it happened sometimes that licensed drivers of motor-cars were under this age and might be charged before juvenile courts. On the other hand, young people charged with a serious offence had to go to the Supreme Court. A young girl charged with infanticide, for instance, sadly needed some such understanding as she might expect from a woman.
SCOPE FOR WOMEN
Although a magistrate in South Africa differs entirely in position and responsibility from the English conception of a magistrate, Miss Oblowitz said she did not see that that constituted an insuperable barrier against women being sometimes appointed to the Bench, provided they were civil servants and possessed the necessary qualifications.
Besides Miss Lombard, who is a B.A. and LL.B., there were several others in various Government departments. There were Miss Steyn, the probation officer, Miss Sutton in the Department of Justice, and Miss Dawes in the Labour Department of Pretoria, to mention only a few of the women who had taken their LL.B.
Women in the clerical ranks of the civil service, Miss Oblowitz pointed out, had to resign upon marriage. She wondered whether a similar disability would hamper their usefulness in the professional grades

Monday 12 August 2019

The "RUNAWAY PLANET" - OBJECT REINMUTH (HERMES)

THE STAR Johannesburg - 1938, 10 January 

The German astronomer, KARL REINMUTH, discovered “THE RUNAWAY PLANET” in 1937 when it zipped past Earth at about 800,000 km, just twice the distance to the moon. Unfortunately, astronomers lost sight before they could precisely determine its orbit. “THE RUNAWAY PLANET” - OBJECT REINMUTH 1937 UB (O.R. for short) missed the earth by 5½ hours on October 30, 1937. On 10 January 1938 THE STAR Johannesburg reported that Cape Town astronomers, Dr. H.E. Wood and Mr. Arthur W. Long, predicted that O.R. may be coming back in a few years’ time. The asteroid was named after the swift messenger god of the ancient Greeks, HERMES. 
After 66 years, on 15 October 2003, this kilometre-wide asteroid became visible again and the new orbit was firmly linked to the scant observations of 1937. Relieved astronomers announced that the potential killer rock will not get uncomfortably close to Earth within the next century. They predicted that HERMES will make its closest approach to Earth on 4 Nov. 2003, at a safe distance of 7 million km. They expect that it won't get any closer than about 3 million km within the next hundred years or so. According to astronomers it is hard to predict what will happen in the distant future, as HERMES seems to be very eccentric. At least HERMES won't get lost again, thanks to the new observations. 

(Additional info taken from an article by Govert Schilling:


Sunday 11 August 2019

Too Skinny? Too Fat? Use a Corset!


THE STAR - 1918 & 1935

It’s a Shame to be Skinny – Add 5 to 15 pounds Fast!
Thousands have gained Attractive Flesh this new easy way – in just a few weeks!
Although doctors for years have prescribed YEAST to build up health, with this new Ironized Yeast in pleasant little tablets, you can put on Pounds of Firm Flesh and Enticing Curves in a far shorter time. Not only are thousands quickly gaining Beauty-Bringing Pounds, but also Clear Skin, Freedom from Indigestion and Constipation, New Pep.
Ironized Yeast is made from specially cultured Brewers’ Ale Yeast imported from Europe – the richest yeast known, 7 times more concentrated and powerful.
Day after day, as you take Ironized Yeast tablets, watch Flat Chest Develop, Skinny Limbs Round Out Attractively and Skin Clear to Beauty. Those Scrawny Hollows and Unsightly Bones will speedily change to Lovely Alluring Curves – you will be an Entirely New Person in just a few short weeks!
(THE STAR - 1935, July 30)









“Middle age spread” or FAT?
The one thing that makes any woman look middle aged is excess fat. Some women never seem to grow older, and if you’ll notice, those are the women who keep their slender, youthful figures – who keep their youthful pep and vitality. Fat is the foe of beauty, the hallmark of middle age. And fat is unnecessary. Science has discovered a simple, easy way that supplies the same normal element that the body itself uses to control excess weight. Thousands of women are using Marmola every day. Moderation helps, of course, but starvation diets and strenuous exercise are not necessary. When you take four tablets a day, you will be delighted at how well you feel and will hardly believe your eyes when you see the hated fat disappear. Stop when you reach the weight you desire. It is so simple and easy that you will regret that you did not do it months or even years ago.  (THE STAR - 1935, August 6)





Corsets to make you look 10 to 20 Pounds Lighter
Every woman who is inclined to Fleshiness, who feels that she is Losing her Graceful Contour, will find the solution of her Corseting Problem in W.B. Elastine Reduso Corsets. It Instantly Reduces Hips, Waist & Bust one to five inches, and makes you appear ten to twenty pounds lighter. It is a comfortable and beautiful corset without complicated contrivances.
It can reduce an Over-Stout Figure to Fashionable and Youthful Lines. Corsets are made for all types of stout figures – the Tall Stout, the Short Stout, and the Stout of Medium Height.
(THE STAR - 1918, March 12)



Saturday 10 August 2019

Still Bay Harbour / Stilbaai-hawe

CAPE TIMES – 1933, July 19
Considerable progress had been made with the construction of a fishing shelter at Still Bay. At a meeting of the Riversdale Divisional Council, it was announced that, of the £1,130 voted for the work, nearly £1,000 had already been spent. The scheme was to provide safe moorings for the boats of a large number of Still Bay fishermen who had been working under considerable difficulties. The extension of the scheme to provide facilities for curing and salting, was not to be considered at that time.
The Council had subscribed £3 3s towards the expenses of the South African Wild Flower Exhibition to be held in London in October. A motion for the proclamation of the Langeberg Ward under the Vermin Proof Fencing Act would be considered at the next meeting. If this motion would be adopted, it would mean the fencing of about 400 square miles of jackal-ridden lands.

In 2018 Stilbaai/Still Bay became one of 13 Western Cape harbours that were due for an upgrade to boost the small-scale fishing industry and tourism in the Western Cape. The Small Harbours Programme implemented by the Department Of Public Works (DPW) has teamed up with the Coega Development Corporation (CDC) for the first phase of the upgrade of 13 harbours in the Western Cape. This project might change the lives of many fishing communities. The South African Heritage Resources Agency declared Stilbaai/Still Bay’s Noordkapperpunt Stone-Walled Fish Traps as a National Heritage Site. These fish traps are still usable today and apparently most of them have been built during the past 300 years, some as recently as the latter part of the 20th century. According to Avery, some of the fish traps could date as far back as 3,000 years ago, with a possibly of an even more ancient origin. Archaeological excavations near Stilbaai indicates that the ancestors of San hunter-gatherers were exploiting marine resources as much as 60 000 years ago. 

Read more about Stilbaai/Still Bay at 



Cape Town’s new £22 000 Broadcasting Station at Milnerton

 CAPE TIMES - 1933, July 18 The Cape and Peninsula Broadcasting Association started Cape Town’s first Broadcasting Station on September 15, ...