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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Aug 13, 1920
Page
2
The store offers a line of EPNS jam spoons butter knives and bread forks from 2s 6d each. Jug sizes and prices range from 8d to 22s 6d. Tea pots from 1s 11d to 35s. Enamel pie dishes from 1s to 10s 6d. Cake dishes at 1s 6d. Bannister brushwas at various shillings. Hanging lamps from 12s 6d to 110s and table lamps from 1s 1d to 30s.
The list catalogs prices for fruit canned goods and health items. Items include peaches pears nectarines and apricots with prices per tin or tin weight, plus infant foods Malted Milk Horlicks and baby powders. Also listed are medicines powders and bath items with multiple price points.
A historical trade list outlines various tonics foods and medicines with prices. Items include Calves Foot Jelly Granose Biscuit Malt Extract Scott's Emulsion Lane's Emulsion Kipler's Malt and Oil Parrish's Food Bovril Ex Ox CMC Meat Extract Clement's Tonte and Malted Milk Tablets with their respective prices.
A local seed shop promotes the arrival of new season seeds with a guarantee on Nimmo and Plair's Standard varieties. The notice highlights fresh stock and seed quality for gardeners.
Advertises cough and gold remedies with prices for Bonnington Irish Mots Great Peppermint Cure Baxter Lung Preserver Natol Ficenzo Fluenzol Chamberlain Cough Remedy Eucalyptus and a phone number for contact.
The advertisement boasts I C S training for many fields including salesmanship, advertising, draughtsman, architecture, carpentry, electrical and marine engineering, and more. It claims simple, quick, certain training with no cost to learn if you act now, inviting readers to fill a coupon with name and address.
A fragmentary clipping highlights a tailor crafted suit described as tip top for a performer named Paige. The quick read notes the suit as custom and fashion forward within a themed page.
Second Edition Auction and weekly sales list with meetings amusements and concerts tonight at His Majesty's Theatre Mayfield Lodge Wakanui Ealing Hall Limelight Orange Hall St Stephens and others. Events include school concerts lectures band socials and Society meetings with times noted such as 2 30 and 8 p.m.
An archival Bangor Ashburton Guardian fragment dated Friday August 18, 1920 appears with Latin phrases and repeated titles, indicating a page header or masthead style note from the era.
The piece argues for a nationalised medical system with centralized public hospitals and limited private facilities. It cites Ashburton and Canterbury disputes, promoting state funding and modern central hospitals while asserting public efficiency and economic benefits.
A Halifax message reports the Cape Breton squadron plans a return for the America Captain, Ottawa notes an 18 000 monthly immigrant influx with British and U.S. departures. Ashburton topics include population figures, a fresh water bath at the Domain, road conditions, and local weather forecasts.
London correspondent recalls Ashburton in Devon during a visit to the Grammar School with a memorial flag from Ashburton, New Zealand. He describes historic buildings from St Lawrence Chapel to St Andrew Church, the Mermaid Inn, and views across Dartmoor, including Holme, Widecombe, and Berjoy Tor, ending with a meal at the Golden Arrow in East Street.
Advertisement invites readers to act as Executor or Trustee under wills, or as Administrator for estates of those dying intestate. Promises avoidance of surety burdens, and offers agency support during absence from New Zealand. Notes extensive assets over £20,000,000 and a nationwide network. inquiries directed to the District Manager.
In the House yesterday Mr G W Forbes asked the Prime Minister when the new railway rates would commence. Massey said the Department was still at work and did not think the tariff would operate next Monday, likely the Monday after. He could not speak definitely but thought so. Mr Malehan asked if the Department had consulted commercial and farming interests and if not would the Minister instruct it to do so. Massey’s injury would test the community by 16 rate e. In 1903 there were 290 minoton owners in Canada. Registrations in 1919 totalled 824880. Mexico was the first great laridy off the American continent to be developed by Europeans. Swain ruled the country for three centuries.
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