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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Aug 10, 1921
Page
4
Ebotsen and Son pledges to give the public the best service by selling groceries and hardware at the lowest possible prices. The firm promises no waiting and stocks only the best quality goods in New Zealand.
The ad lists seeds from beans to parsnip and many kitchenware items with prices for cups, jugs, teapots, kettles, basins, dishes, fry pans, spoons, forks, and cutlery. It emphasizes value and prompt planting with extensive stock and seasonal offers.
Ibbotson and Son provide telephone contact 24 hours a day from P O Box 13 offering prompt local service.
A business notice urges prompt attention to spring suit needs. It argues that reduced tailoring prices may rise with the market and encourages readers to choose now, highlighting an export staff and a range of English tweeds and Worsted domestic suiting.
McDonald and Dunlop, merchants tailors on East Street, advertise their services and provide telephone contact number 291.
Daily memoranda and town notices list tonight and tomorrow events at His Majesty's Theatre including 8 pictures, a dance, and a school concert. Other venues host lodge meetings and dances with youths and organizations scheduling dances and parties.
A correspondent argues Allenton’s abstention from the Borough costs ratepayers for poor sanitary service. The Guardian notes 32s 6d annual sanitation for fortnightly service versus Ashburton topyr weekly, suggesting joining borough improves efficiency and lowers total charges. The piece questions what the County Council will do for weekly sanitation and compares Borough versus dual rural governance.
Residents complain that Allenton pays £358 yearly for weekly sanitary service and 5-1/5d in the £ general rate for capital value yet receives poor footpaths and roads. The piece urges merging with the Borough Council to gain economies, expertise, and better municipal efficiency.
The Navy details the deafening salvage of Leonardo da Vinci raised from Taranto mud after blowing up in harbor. The hull was righted upside down then towed to dry dock for a year of repairs. Six 12 inch guns were recovered. the operation cost more than building the ship, but yielded new salvage knowledge. Italian naval officers were decorated and a relief medal was issued by the Italian Navy League.
New Zealand Women's Christian Temperance Union executive backs relocating headquarters to Wellington as a memorial to the late Mrs A Atkin son. Mrs Johnson Wright and Mrs James McDonald named joint treasurers of the Headquarters Memorial Fund. The report also notes fire insurance bonus inquiries, the Pacific Congress fate, and upholstering news in Ashburton with Mr H S Davis launching a new business at 85 Victoria Street. Woods Great Peppermint Cure endorsed for bronchial coughs.
The Wellington Provincial Industrial Association will stage a tariff exhibition in Wellington Town Hall from October 22 to November 5. A combined New Zealand industries exhibition by the Wellington Industrial Association and Wellington Trades and Labour Council was postponed indefinitely.
The Rev James Marchant CBE plans a world tour including Australia New Zealand Canada and the United States with aims to organise an international conference in Europe in 1922 on sex marriage parenthood birth rates and population. He says the tour is not a party creed or association but a stand together of white peoples to prevent racial submersion. Support comes from bishops Nonconformist leaders General Booth and other philanthropists.
A reader endorses Woods Great Peppermint Cure as a remedy for bronchial complaints. The note urges trying the product to ease coughs and congestion.
A report states an explosion at the mine near the town killed or injured about two thousand people. Authorities and emergency services scramble to assess the disaster and assist survivors.
A reader criticizes councillors for lack of vision and suggests appointing a new inspector to periodically visit the reading room. The writer urges protection for those who seek a quiet place to read and questions Sunday closures and boyish mischief. The note seeks fair consideration and broader public well being.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe mothers seeking remedies for sick children with a reference to Woods Great Peppermint Cure. The lines imply a promotional or instructional tone urging parents to use the product to ward off colds.
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