Methven Bowling Club Elects Officers after Tough Year
The Methven Bowling Club held its annual general meeting at the A and P Rooms with Mr W T P Lock presiding. A slight loss was recorded despite good prospects. weather caused season delays and several matches were dropped. Officers include Patron W Morgan, President Smith, Vice President T S J Doherty, Hon Secretary B J Cooper, Hon Treasurer W H D McKee, with committee members and a new delegate to the New Zealand Bowling Association named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methven Bowling Club
W. T. P. Lock
W. Morgan
Smith
J. Doherty
J. Cooper
W. H. D. McKee
Tiwan
Ashburton
T. Aschman
New Zealand Bowling Association
Christchurch
Elliott
Thompson
Lawson
E. Jessep
W. F. Halliburton Contact Listing
W. F. Halliburton operates from P. O. Box 72 and can be reached at West Street phone 25 occupying a local business address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. F. Halliburton
P.O
Phone
West Street
King Oiler device offered to motorists in need
Motorists urged to save oil and reduce repairs with a new oil level control device for crankcase fitted to cars. The booklet from MAN NING MACHINERY CO lists the King Oiler and is available free from 5 Bedford Row Christchurch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otorists
Machinery for Sale by Manning Machinery Co
A range of industrial equipment including gas and oil engines steam boilers electric motors dynamos woodwork machinery sawmilling lathes and portable tools offered by Manning Machinery Co of 5 Bedford Row Christchurch. Includes rails tractors wire rope and related items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ifin- VE Vines
Manning Machinery CO
Bedford Row
Christchurch
Harnessing the Tides Power Plan Proposed in Britain
Engineers outline tidal power using a Wall of seawall turbines to generate electricity at two thirds coal cost. Lewis Woodhead proposes 10 foot turbines yielding over 300 horsepower each with five foot head, claiming a mile of sea wall could produce 120000 horsepower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheshire
Lancashire
Eqtuaries
Leivis Woodhead
Murcat Mill House
Broadway
Worcestershire
Woodhead
Shakespeare Signature Found in Hampton Court Gallery
A 314 year old signature of William Shakespeare was found on a wall in the Haunted Gallery at Hampton Court during renovations. The inscription includes the name Shakespeare and the date 1606 with a rough hand sketch. Historians deem the mark authentic and note the Shakespeare company visited the palace and staged Hamlet there for King Christian of Denmark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Shakespeare
Hampton Court
Kespeare
Shakespeare
Christian
Denmark
Catherine’ Howard
Henry VII
Catherine
Congregational Meeting at St Andrew’s Pres byterian Church
The annual gathering led by Rev. A. S. Morrison reported on Presbyterian visitation at Rakaia with services held monthly and a busy Sunday school. Finances showed increases in income and a salary raise for the minister, while measles and hare abundance affected the district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church
A. S. Morrison
Rakaia
Bakaia
Busy Bees
P.W.M.A
R. Oakley
Pow.m.a
Boag
Bruce
Morrison
Rokeby School Social Raises Funds for New Piano
Rokeby School Committee held a large social in a converted grainshed to support buying a piano for the new school. Special electric lighting, bunting, and floor work accompanied Wells Band, with sixty participants in the Grand March. Revenue from tickets exceeded £50 and door receipts topped £8, plus a Dutch auction netted about £5 18s 6d.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rokeby
Wells
Messrs
Bell
Holmes
Goodwin
Hooper
Mlc
New Zealand land for sale with extensive sheep runs
Land sale listing offers 580 acres pastoral lease 12 to 10 years, annual rents 105 pounds with renewal, 4090 acres freehold, 65 acres miscellaneous lease, fenced with water, 5 miles from town, 6 from school. Price 18600 pounds as going concern. includes 6356 sheep, stores, and buildings. possession any time before shearing. DALGETY AND CO. LTD. land salesmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashburton
Australia Provincial Assurance Asset
Leading Life and Accident Insurrance Co. of Australia
Spleridid
New
Zealand
Private Treaty Auctioneer Seeks Inquiries for Belongings
David Friedland Sr an auctioneer and commission agent offers a large stock of proper ties and fat stock for private treaty sale. He invites inquiries and inspections for bona fide buyers and states all stock sales in the county are attended to personally. Fat stock drafted for sale through yards or works with skin sales every alternate Monday in the rooms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bona Fide Bay
SKIN
Amy
Mead School unveils roll of honour for returning and fallen
A roll of honour donated by Mr W. J. Inch was unveiled at Mead School on Friday. It lists 24 Mead boys who went to the front, including seven killed and 17 who served, with addresses and speeches by local figures and scenes of singing in the afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mead School
W. J. Inch
Mead
F. Cornelius
Inch
Casualties in King's Royal Rifle Corps Highlight Past Wars
At the ninth annual dinner of the King's Royal Rifle Corps Veterans Association Lieutenant Colonel Sir Edward Hutton stated that since 1914 about 600 officers and 14,000 other ranks in the corps died, totaling roughly 75,000 casualties. The 1st to 4th Battalions were shattered in 1914 and 1915, with most fallen in a five mile by one thousand yard area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King’s Royal Rifle ‘Corps Veterans’ Association
Edward Hutton
King’s Royal Rifle Corps
Ypres
Salient
Property sale and estate items offered for private treaty
Property sale notice lists several parcels near Cameron Street with 4 acre and 3 acre plots, 6 room dwellings, water, electric light, washhouses, and central town locations. Prices range from £420 to £1950 plus a complete chaffcutting plant valued at about £475. Contact details refer to Fol. pages and insurance offices for agents.
Baxter's Lung Preserver Promoted for Children Health
An advertisement extols Baxter's Lung Preserver as a reliable, pleasant remedy for children’s coughs bronchitis whooping cough croup and influenza. It promises quick relief and urges purchase of a 4 large 2s 6d bottle. Also notes Forest production in British Columbia 1919 valued at least £12,400,000 and pulp and paper value rise from £2,198,460 in 1917 to £2,510,851.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baxter
Baxter’s
British Columbia
Henry Stephenson Auctioneer and Land Agent
Henry Stephenson advertised as auctioneer land estate and financial agent offering services for sale of property and estates.
London Approved Freehold Farm Securities Special
A summary note records approval for Freehold Farm Securities in London with amounts of £3000 £2700 and £2000 linked to the Bullock matter.
Rooms to Let in Mitchell and Saunders Buildings
Centrally situated upstairs rooms in Mitchell and Turner’s Buildings Burnett Street with upstairs rooms in Saunders’ Buildings Wills Street and Tancred Street near His Majesty's Theatre. Shop office space available in Tancred Street next to the gas works Bulock premises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bnite
Mitchell
Turner’s
Burnett St
Commer
Wills Streets
Saunders
Obice Tancred
Sieht
His Majesty’s Theatre
Farm for Sale and Various Rural Trades Offered
Rural listings advertise an about 200 acre farm with seven paddocks near railway and school and a seven room dwelling with outbuildings and stable. Ferriman and Co also offer wood sawing plant, a threshing outfit, and a block of light land for sale along with rental inquiries for 10 acres of ground suitable for potatoes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oate
Ashe
Ferriman- and: CO
IDEA
TIAS
Greeer
Evans
Bull
Yorkshire Insurance Co
Cathedral Square
Christchurch
For Sale Beach Road Ashburton Property features and 6 Acre Allenton mention
For sale a comfortable home on Beach Road Ashburton with one acre garden soil fruit trees sunny aspect and electric light. Also Allenton property 6 acres rich land with 4 room dwelling outbuildings and good water near Allenton School Ferriman and Coq listings describe frontage options and improved structures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ferriman and CO
Beach Road
Ashburton
Oxford Street
Allenton
Allenton School
Ferriman and Coq
Evans and Bull Land Brokers Promote Limestone Country
J B Evans and Roland Bull present a licensed land brokerage in Limestone country. An adjoining landowner has rejected an offer of 30 pounds per acre for similar land.
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the Methven Club
Rth
Greas
S Draper
W. F. Halliburtor
Mand
Commission
Ority
Columbia Grafonda
Webley Sons & Gorton
High Street
Dunedin
Mannelz
Jasta
Eee
Osman and CO
Ashburton Loan and Investment Society
Bank OF Deposit
J. B. Christian
Henry McEgrea
Havelock St
Crockery Ward
Triangle
Buxton and Thomas
Bornington
Ron Childrens
Percy
Pune
N.Z
K.P
Colesia Benty
David Friedland SR
David Friedlander
H.P . Fowler
Andrews
H. and C
Cameron Street
Norwich Union Fire Insurance Co
Norwich and
London
Norwich Union Life Assurance
Henry Stephenson
M‘intyres
Ap. Bullock
T. Bullock
Model Farm
Eves Dairy
Corner Park and
Wills ST
Ferriman
LV A
Aveling
Porter
Rriman and CO
H. .L. Barker
Tenwald
Me “Barker
Barker
Quederane Ensurance Co. Linitad
L. Sarkep
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