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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Aug 26, 1920
Page
4
A local advertiser promotes a sale of E.P.N.S spoons butter knives and bread forks priced from 2s 6d to 64 each. Jugs Teapots enamel dishes and glass cake dishes are offered from 1s 11d onward. Hanging lamps start at 12s 6d and table lamps from 1s 6d to 30s.
Just arrived fresh from the canners a new season line of pie fruits with prices in tins and gallons. Apples 10d per tin and 1s 10d per gallon for peaches and nectarines. Apricots 11d per tin pears 1s 10d per gallon plums 9d per tin pears 1s 10d per gallon.
A catalog of baby food and health products with prices. Items include Glaxo infant foods Neave's Food Benger's Food Melvin's Food Malted Mill Horlick's Robinson's Barley Robinson's Groats Sugar of Milk Lime Water Talcum Powder Fuller's Earth Magnesia Maids Newbury's Rusks Sponges Baths and Steedman's Teething Powders with varied prices.
A historical price schedule lists various patent foods and medicines with per unit costs including Calves Foot Jelly Granose Biscuits Malt Extract Scott s Emulsion Lane s Emulsion Bovril Ex Ox Meat Extract Clement s Tonic and Malted Milk Tabletells.
Garden seeds for the new season arrive with Nimmo and Blair's Standard Seeds offered as a guaranteed option. The notice promotes fresh stock and brand names for gardeners seeking quality seed varieties.
An ad lists prices for various patent medicines and teas including Bonnington Irish Moss Great Peppermint Cure Paxters Lung Preserver Nazel Fleenzo Bluenzol Chamberlains Cough Remedy Eucalyptus and other items with prices in shillings and pence and a contact line RBO TSON PHONE 24.
Business notice announcing Halliburton as land and commission agent. Details unreadable in OCR fragment. Further text not legible.
Classified listing offers multiple acreages with farm houses stables sheds and yards. Properties include 1040 acres 1180 acres 5000 cash terms, 180 acres ready for crop 74 acres dairy land and 55 acres with house and outbuildings. District agent and insurance ads follow.
The Public Trust Office proposes to draft wills, secure safe custody, act as executor or trustee, advise private trustees, administer estates of intestate decedents, and serve as agent or attorney during absences from New Zealand. It emphasizes vast asset value and widespread branches, with contact in Ashburton.
A tip top tailor explains that a fully tailored suit costs £7 10s, similar to or less than many ready made boxes. The same cutter measures, cuts, and sews on site, delivering individuality and quality without factory made chart suit drawbacks. Dominion made, all wood suitings, durable fabrics, and on premises stitching ensure real savings.
The notice proclaims New Zealand Insurance Company Limited with capital of £1,500,000, presenting it as the premier colonial enterprise in wealth and power.
An advertisement promotes Honta Ideal Tonic as a remedy for anemia in women and girls. It claims the tonic helps red blood cell levels and lists a bottle price through Donning Tone Pharmacy.
The notice lists upcoming events including a mortgage clearing sale at Highbank, a theatre show at Majesty's Theatre with pictures, a sale of works at Square Schoolroom, and social dances at Haack's Granary and Ruapuna Holl-Dance, with Riverside School Euchre and Dance planned for Monday.
The Polish forces rebound from earlier setbacks with French aid, driving Bolshevik troops back toward Smolensk and restoring Warsaw’s front. The counter stroke strengthens Poland’s bargaining power in armistice talks as Allies urge restraint on ethnographic expansion.
Dominion forecasts warn of heavy north west gales and snow with very cold weather to follow. Ashburton County reports rising pipe costs and a high price for a central water reticulation scheme while gravitation options would cost more. Spring draws and river conditions show improved moisture. a Dunedin board questions staff report disclosure as sales at Adding ton and other markets detail cattle and sheep prices.
A well known Pukekawa resident, Sydney Seymour Eyre, is found shot dead at his home near Tuakau. Details suggest a nighttime ambush as Eyre slept near an open window. his wife awoke to the gun blast and summoned help. Eyre, 48, a former Raglan County man who served with Canadian Highlanders, had no known enemies and left behind a family of five. The motive remains a mystery as police investigate at the rural Pukekawa residence several miles from the post office.
Eyre's residence shows a freshly ploughed paddock and footprints near a window. A small truck on wheels stood outside the window ledge, suggesting a shotgun shot at close range, with no clear weapon yet identified.
Reports from Brisbane reflect Dr Barrington and Dr Cumpston stressing hospital care reduces births complications and maternal mortality. They warn outside institutions see higher infant harm and urge government backing for a nationwide plan with medical guidance and strong administration.
Washington reports a New York Times correspondent says Chile is rumoured to purchase six 900 ton destroyers from Britain. The move would disturb the balance of power in South America as Brazil Argentina and Port. save consider increasing naval strength amid the question of naval expansion.
Isad buys 60 doses of Nazol for personal use as a pocket remedy against colds coughs and sore throats in a brief shopper note.
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