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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Aug 22, 1913
Page
4
A grocery price list fragment from Fletcher Bros lists numerous items and prices including oats, raisins, dates, onions, jam, coffee, sugar, sardines, seeds, and cooking essentials. It advertises savings through the store with a bold note Peruse our big grocery price list it will save you money.
It proclaims superior tailoring but urges customers to judge for themselves by visiting and viewing the new patterns. The ad invites Gall and see them or request samples before buying elsewhere.
SEASON S SEEDS We have now opened our supply of Yates s New Season Garden Seeds and full stocks of all varieties of Vegetable and Flower Seeds Fresh Reliable Tested Seeds guaranteed Best Quality obtainable Vegetables Onions Beet Kale Cabbage Mustard Melon Cauliflower Celery Pumpkin Cucumber Marrow Sage PEAS Parsley Carrots Lettuce Spinach Tomato and more listed with packets priced sixpence per packet.
Tomorrow features weekly produce and poultry sales at the Farmers' Co operative Association and Henry Stephenson's marts. Arcade hosts a 2-Property Sale event.
Tonight at 7:30 the Commercial Hotel hosts friendly societies' M A Club meeting. His Majesty's Theatre shows pictures and an 8 oclock venue hosts a Masonic Hall gathering. Tomorrow at 2 and 4 matinees at His Majesty's Theatre followed by more pictures.
The minister in charge of the Old-age Pensions Department refused in the House to allow pensions to be paid through the post for distant recipients. Critics argue it imposes travel burdens that consume a large share of the pension and argue the post payments would reflect sound policy. They urge public sympathy and question the minister's view as out of touch with need.
A brief report notes an incident at a kitchen site in the city resulting in several injuries. Officials are investigating the cause and potential hazards. Local responders arrived to assist and secure the area.
Citizens prepare to form a Ashburton branch of the Honorary Territorial movement. A Masonic Hall meeting is set for this evening to discuss organization and respond to local anti militarist demonstrations as a planned civic response. The Guardian article spurred public opinion, aligning local leadership with the cause.
The article describes the Defence movement as a practical arm aiding soldiers with food housing and other support while providing moral backing to Defence authorities. It emphasizes avoiding public displays of patriotism and notes influential associations assure officers, reducing concerns over sporadic law defiance. Citizens are urged to support by numbers at the evening meeting.
Local and general items report anti militarist activists distributing circulars in Ashburton. Canterbury women delegates plan a conference in Ashburton in two weeks. The Wanganui Museum break-in yields about £30 in gold specimens and damage to fittings. Court cases cover damages for a road incident in Dunedin and ejectment, while council talks on Temuka Gasworks purchase and financing loom.
A Hastings land agent reportedly earned a commission of £1000 from the sale of rural property changing hands last week. The report notes broad financial concerns from New Zealand to Britain, with various local and international items including costs for cabbages, hospital purchases, and a Terra Nova discovery.
The Domain recorded seven degrees of frost overnight. Today was fine and warm with a light northwesterly breeze. The Government Meteorologist expects freshening winds and a veering pattern to west and south with clouding and rain later. barometer to fall and then rise in 24 to 36 hours.
Mrs D M Montgomery is recovering after a serious operation in Palmerston North. A Sydney cable reports the marriage of Greta Mills daughter of David Mills manager of the Union Company Sydney office. George Ritehia, associate of Hivestons and General Manager of the National Mortgage and Agency Coy NZ. The Canterbury Tournament Hockey Shield for the Timaru winner is on view at Mr H Barrett Ashburton window. presented in 1911 and kept since.
Wellington August 21 Liberals meet at dinner to finalize stance before Sir Joseph Ward's return from the South. Colgin chairs as the party adopts a resolution inviting Ward to lead and pledging loyalty if he accepts. Labour members were absent from the caucus and independents were also missing.
The Counties Conference discusses opposing local bodies franchise extension and endorses a motor vehicle tax to fund arterial roads and hospital boards. Proposals for merging councils and reducing rural boards are considered, with amendments debated and a reform bill rejected.
At the Counties Associate Conference on August 22 1922 the rating of Native land was approved with commendations. The conference urged Maori Land Boards and native owners to provide owners names on notice and endorsed amending the 1910 rating law to cap rates when native freehold land is vested in Maori Land Boards or the Public Trustee. Unpaid rates would become a charge in favor of the levying local authority.
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