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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Dec 02, 1907
Page
4
An advertisement touts Wiluroade Suite as an individuality fountain against cheap factory ready-to-wear suits. It emphasizes fashion, quality, and reputation, urging customers to choose a smart, long-lasting suit from their shipment of summer goods arriving from the Tiflis and act promptly to benefit.
The Ashburton branch met with Mr T W Till presiding. Debates covered the Flour and Other Monopolies Prevention Act, farm labour disputes, and cornsack weights. A committee was formed to address grain merchants and laborer evidence at the Conciliation Board.
An advertisement extols Doan's Ointment as a universal skin cure. It cites Ashburton user Mrs Good praising its soothing, quick-irritation relief for pimples rashes and nettle rash, and claims two to three pots cure chronic cases others fail. Sold by chemists and stores at 3s a pot. Foster-McClellan Co. sells by post from Sydney.
Mr B. D. Johnston has opened a further stock of new bicycles including Royal Enfield Rudge-Whitworth B S A and New Hudson models. Buyers are invited to inspect these beautiful machines.
Conciliation Board heard further evidence on the Leeston farm labourers dispute. Farmers argued wages and hours, noting costs, piece work, and contract work versus day labour. Labourers described earnings, living costs, and call for changes while many favored maintaining present conditions. The board planned another sitting after the New Year.
Your storekeeper stocks My OKG The Great Cough Cure advertised as the greatest remedy the world has ever known. A bold claim highlighting its availability and shelf presence.
Mr James Bishop of Wheatstone submitted orchard pest samples to Government Biologist T. W. Kirk who identifies them as pupa cases of the common Bagmoth Asceticus omnivorous. He prescribes Paris green or arsenate of lead sprays and gives detailed preparation formulas and notes on the Bordeaux Paris green fungicide mixture for use in gardens and commercial orchards.
An Oct 14 Los Angeles Examiner article reports a German idea to spray iron sulfate to destroy weeds in grain fields without harming the crop. Wisconsin tests validate the method against wild mustard and other weeds, potentially saving hundreds of millions continent-wide. letter from W. Foudi Wright explains soil iron deficiency and chlorophyll link.
In a dated testimonial from Port Aburiri Napier Henry George Bristow Harbour Board Carpenter describes severe rheumatic gout for eight to ten weeks, then rapid relief after using Rheumo. He claims early use prevents long sickness and urges others to try Rheumo at once. Available in stores and chemists.
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