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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Aug 19, 1913
Page
4
A local tailoring shop proclaims Superior Excellence and invites customers to judge their work by viewing new suitings and customer-worn suits. It offers to show patterns and urges readers to compare before purchasing elsewhere.
Yates and Co announce the new season seed stock with fresh reliable tested varieties of vegetables and flowers. The firm emphasizes high quality onions beet cabbage mustard water jacket cauliflower leek celery lettuce pumpkin parsley cucumber carrots marrow cress sage thyme broccoli Brussels sprouts parsnips tomato spinach rhubarb and related seeds.
Daily memoranda announce auctions for tomorrow a clearing sale at Methven and a stock sale at Rakaia. Evening events include Ashburton Trotting Club annual meeting, Beebes vaudeville, Lodge social, and a W J Elholt lecture at His Majesty’s Theatre and Theatre Royal.
The Guardian piece contrasts cost of living concerns in London and Sydney with wage trends in Australia over a decade. It notes a 10s 6d weekly increase for 368,444 workers, but Premier Holman questions real gains given currency depreciation. It cites Board of Trade data on rising living costs, wage trends, rent, and strikes, and discusses broader implications for workers, unions, and policy across Britain and New South Wales.
A afternoon reports list Sir George Clifford and Mr Finlay in Ashburton with mentions of McKenzie Christchurch stock inspector, E Cummings income tax inspector, and John Studholme representing Ashburton at the New Zealand County Councils Conference in Wellington. Also noted are travel plans of the Jaine family to Great Britain, Timaru tenor Alec Moore and local orchestral concerts, and Sir Joseph Ward’s reception in Winton and Wellington.
The writer cites carpenters coal and ferry strikes to show gains by workers are followed by higher rents and fares. In New South Wales strikes ended with increased costs for housing and transport. He argues such lessons falter against divine law that what a man sows he reaps.
The Ashburton Agricultural Pastoral Association held a meeting with members including J Cairns and C Wood. They paid tribute to late W J Sileack, reviewed correspondence with Farmers Union, and decided on committee changes and affiliations with the Clydesdale Horse Society.
Regent cigarettes praised for purity and quality as readers are urged to write for the gift catalogue from Ree gent Box 331 Wellington. Forty fresh gifts offered.
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