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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Aug 27, 1913
Page
8
Greymouth August 27 crowds attend by election events at three halls. Tennent hails Michel's era spanning Rokitika Greymouth Reefton as never beaten in polling towns. Government needs 475 votes to hold both Grey and Westland seats amid 12 000 voters.
Auckland City reports one suspicious smallpox case on Tuesday. The patient was moved to observation. fresh cases were reported from Kaikohe as the bulletin notes Wellington dispatches of August 26.
Sydney reports confirm nine patients yesterday with quarantine under way. In Auckland Amalie European, employed in a town shop, was moved to isolation hospital. Dr Ventry Smith, after touring Whangarei and Auckland, says about a thousand North Island cases exist and Christmas may not see the epidemic stamped out. He criticizes naming and warns sporadic cases may persist, noting many cases resemble chickenpox.
A correspondence letter from Ashburton dated August 27 asks Hampstead Town Board to study which roads are for riding and which are footpaths and to inform ratepayers of the distinctions. The writer urges clearer notices on road and footpath boundaries.
Police report two missing persons cases in Wanganui. William Osborne, 20, vanished after going to the river bank to fetch firewood last Thursday and has no relatives. Margaret O Connor, 40, housekeeper for John Atkinson, drover, left home this morning and was found to be missing with footprints toward the river bank.
Fragmentary notice reports a medical product claim by Inflaer Peppermint Cure related to Woods. No clear outcome or official action is legible.
We shall offer at the above Yards account clients 225 2-Tooth fine 2-Bred Ewes due mid September 295 %-Tooth 2-Bred Ewes extra 200 MLS Hoggets Full-Mouth Merino Ewes Pasling-Mouth Crossbred Ewes Stallion Sapience by Acumen dam Witchery 1 Stallion Ss Rosaleer by Sant Hario dam St Rosa yl Pony Stallion 12 hands Pony Mars 5yrs Further Entries Solicited.
NZ farmers co op, Asson, offers buy now pay later housing options on Victoria Street and other sites. Listings include 6 room J Roood house with outbuildings £600, 6 room West End bungalow, 7 room Wakanui Rd home at £900, 16 acres grazing with windmill and garden, and 3 to 14 acre building sites with prices from £45 to £280. Seed potatoes, oats, onions, barley meal, and pig feed advertised. Agent for...
Ferriman and Co advertise properties for sale and lease including 400 acres sheep country with dwelling and stables near the Tinwald Bale Yards, a half-acre with house on Alford Forest Road, 18 acres with house and garden, and a capital site of 1 acre with concrete foundations. Also offering insurance on mares and stallions, and a two-room cottage to let in Havelock.
Hawke's Bay Province property details a freehold 240 acre block with improvements and good ploughing, listed as a lifetime opportunity for a young man with capital. Owner cites advancing years and ill health. Also offering local residential properties, furnished offices, and other sales or rentals via licensed land agent T1 Burnett of Ashburton.
Farmers may ship meat to London through The British New Zealand Meat and Produce Company Limited. The firm promises superior returns for consignors and notes agents will handle skins by sale at market value or home shipment as directed. Local agents provide full particulars.
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