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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Dec 10, 1906
Page
4
Laurence Eate joins a grim ship's hold crew under Menzies on a damp quay morning. He cleans the hold, empties buckets, and moves aboard with a new mattress and simple gear as tension with a sulky bunkmate grows.
In a press interview Hon. W Uall Jones minister of public works says the new Cheviot line should have passenger traffic by end of March next. He notes North Island Main Trunk works progress and hopes summer ends the line troubles before year end 1908.
A medical man writing from Auckland urges influenza patients to rest and take nourishing food. He recalls treating many cases without deaths, emphasizes prostration and nervous-system impact, notes long bed rest, and warns the elderly to avoid overexertion to prevent relapse.
The Longbeach Road Board met on a Saturday with Chairman Grigg and members Bishop Lill and Small. Officers discussed grazing on roads, by laws, water drainage works, and a noxious weed declaration for Lycium horridum. Rates unpaid will incur ten percent interest. shingle cleaning to pause during harvest. accounts total £169 16s were approved.
The Anama Road Board met at Hekeno with Gallagher cochairing after Pre ept-Moesara Murdock and Barricon. Discussion covered Woolmers ford costs, Valetta ford costs, a gate replacement on a road fence, boundary road control vesting in Upper Ashburton district, a proposed train control bill, and a January site inspection on Uswer Downa road with bridge surveys and repair estimates. Accounts for shingling and road works were passed.
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