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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Apr 23, 1908
Page
1
Large stock entry despite rain as store sheep soften demand. Fat lambs rise on export demand with strong prices for large lines from Chaviot. Fat cattle dull. overall sale dragged late while pigs show firmer demand and mixed prices across categories.
On appeal Justice Chapman and a unanimous bench ruled the Book Gift Tea coupons legal under the act. The decision allows traders to continue selling the tea and distributing standard books, with buyers able to select a book per purchase from a list of over 1000 volumes.
OLPICE arcade in Ashburton welcomes visitors with hours posted for Tuesdays and Saturdays. The notice confirms operating days for the venue and invites patrons to visit during those times.
The Teachers' Superannuation Board held its quarterly meeting in Wellington with Hon G Fowlds presiding. Pensions were granted to four retiring teachers and five widows, allowances to two medically unfit applicants, and children’s allowances to age fourteen. Thirty-eight refunds were issued to former contributors. As of March end the fund had 2883 contributors, 141,? males and 1447 females, with a fund balance over £62,000, invested in bonds at 5 percent and 4 percent in Public Trustee hands.
Lord Roberts writes to Colonel Campbell Walker of the Camberley District Rifle Club praising a successful year and urging rifle shooting as a national pastime. He stresses discipline, drill, and coordinated training as essential to using individual marksmanship for defence and advocates compulsory military training or similar measures.
An expert touts a wood based paper yarn as a cheap substitute for cotton jute and linen claiming low cost and workable wear. The piece imagines paper caps aprons handkerchiefs and even lingerie replacing linen items while noting laundry and contagion considerations.
A reader from Lyndhurst shares a testimonial praising Doan's Backache Kidney Pills for curing a long lasting backache. The letter promotes the product as a remedy for kidney related pain and urges purchasing from chemists and stores at three shillings per box, with six boxes at sixteen shillings sixpence, available by post from a Sydney address.
A Bushey farmer loading a sack of potatoes at the local railway station had the bag caught by suction from a passing train. The sack and its contents were torn apart and the tubers scattered across the tracks, creating a messy scene and loss of produce.
In Dunedin on April 22 cattle and sheep auctioned with a light yarding but better quality. Best wethers 21s to 24s, ewes 17s to 10s, lambs 16s 3d to 17s 6d, extra 20s 3d, bulls £8 to £9 15s, heifers up to £8 2s, cows around £5, pigs porkers 44s, baconers 50s to 60s, suckers 9s 6d to 11s.
Oats firm with export demand. seed lines 2sSd to 2s1d, prime milling 2s4d to 2s44d, seed quality 2s8d to 2s9d, inferior 2s to 2s7d. Wheat dull as millers hold. prime milling 4s6d to 4s7d, medium around 4s6d, best whole wheat 4s6d to 4s54d, broken 3s6d to 4s2d, ex store, sacks extra.
Quotations from Sydney Melbourne and Adelaide show wheat prices across regions with oats barley bran pollard and livestock values. London cable notes steady frozen meat demand mild butter weakness and total UK imports for the week ending April 11.
The annual conference of the New Zealand Farmers Union will be held in Auckland on May 21 and 22. Subjects include the Arbitration Act and its effect on farm labour, with debate likely but not argumentative. Northern farmers favor the union staying non political and not active in elections.
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