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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Dec 11, 1909
Page
2
A dairy farm listing offers 60 acres with a six room house verandah cow shed and piggeries. Stock included. Second property at Staveley 44 acres freehold with 4 room house orchard garden stable cowshed victorias and subdivision into three paddocks. Easy payment terms offered by F Ferriman land and estate agent.
Wellington reports a conference between freeholders and leaseholders over government policy. The Premier moves that the House sit daily from 10 a.m. for the rest of the session. Public offices will observe Christmas and New Year holidays on December 25 27 and January 1 3.
Holiday excursion tickets will be issued from any station to any station between Culverden and Glenavy inclusive and on branches between those points on Thursday 16 December with return until 17 December. The 5.40 p.m. Christchurch to Ashburton and Methven service will depart Christchurch for Ashburton at 5.40 p.m. and reach Ashburton at 8.50 p.m. and Methven at 9.30 p.m. The Ashburton to Christchurch service leaves at 5.6 p.m. arriving Christchurch at 8.25 p.m. For fuller particulars see handbills and posters.
Mr John Studholme of Coldstream returns from a trip, plans to leave for England and expects back in New Zealand by September next. Hugo Gorlitz travels Ashburton to Christchurch and beyond before Dr Charles Harris arrives in July 1913. Sheffield Festival Choir assists local groups in a monster festival while Old Colonists' Association marks Canterbury's 59th anniversary with memorials and gatherings. Mr W A Scott tests bowling standards confirming a new NZ Bowling Association official bowl, with tournament usage undecided.
Select Committee reports the Defence Bill keeps few amendments but grants Crown transfer of trustee property for Volunteer corps to the Territorial Force. It requires non combatant duties for religious objectors and bans intoxicating liquor at canteens, a move praised as strengthening internal national defence.
A festive lineup promises simple choices for shoppers this Christmas. The article highlights accessible options designed to please a broad audience and boost holiday sales with clear, straightforward recommendations.
The annual Bible Class Summer Conference, under the New Zealand Presbyterian Young Men's and Women's Bible Class Unions, will run December 28 to January 4 at Ashburton. Expected attendance is 200 to 300 girls with talks by male and female speakers, plus picnics, sports, basketball, and tennis.
A second Black Family show in Oddfellows Hall drew about the same crowd as the first night with loud applause. Mr Black announced plans to form another company after the ladies retire and to return to New Zealand in about four years. He noted Ashburton would be skipped in future tours due to poor attendance. The remark mirrored a trend of cold reception affecting other companies and causing losses for the current tour.
Reports from Sydney December 10 11 indicate a strike congress approved of its leadership and urged unions to follow its orders. Wharf labourers refuse to load coal from the Palermo due to foreign coal, while Government mediatory efforts falter and trade shrinks spread through Newcastle and Melbourne areas.
Do plausible agents. Not be misled by results of three reliability trials in New Zealand showing Talbot cars as top for reliability and low petrol consumption. I can supply French models or English 4 cylinder cars from £825. Come along and arrange a trial. Burnett Street. B D Johnston.
London dispatch reports Quartaud and Company's Braintree silk and crepe mills devastated by fire. About five hundred workers lose livelihoods as damage climbs to around £100,000. Other items note Nobel prizes across physics chemistry medicine and literature, tariff imports, shipping prospects, theatre success, and memorials.
New York reports George Crocker leaves 300000 pounds sterling to Columbia University for cancer researches. The bequest is recorded by the Press Association. The donation arrives as a major funding boost for medical research at the institution.
Mr Weir denounces any Liberal Labour alliance as impossible and says Labour must remain independent to unite the working class for socialism. Lord Robert Cecil in Blackburn calls Lords reform with fewer hereditary peers and bishops, plus one hundred life peers and cross religious representation.
Mr Austen Chamberlain spoke at Greet saying the Birmingham Post article outlined what he viewed as the main lines of tariff reform. He stated details must be examined by the Government and many points involve negotiations with kinsmen overseas and later with foreign powers.
Mr Lloyd George addresses 8000 at Carnarvon denying the budget is socialist and arguing it seeks justice and equality. He defends death duties and super tax while claiming most British wealth results from luck and urges taxes on unearned gains to fund government needs.
Mr Robert Blatchford proprietor of Clarion urges electors to place national defence above constitutional questions raised by the House of Lords action on the budget after his recent Germany tour and articles for the Daily Mail.
The Earl of Portsmouth disapproving of the Budget will not assist in the Liberal campaign. Lord Portsmouth was Under-Secretary for War until last year, succeeded by Lord Lucas.
London December 10 The Budget Protest League has been dissolved having attained its object It issued 20 000 000 leaflets 300 000 posters and arranged for numerous meetings The various organisations have merged with the Central Conservative offices
The Prime Minister spoke at Carnarvon, declaring Ireland and Wales must win rights by marching over the House of Lords. He was visibly moved, bursting into tears then resuming his speech, insisting Carnarvon would not be forsaken for Cardiff.
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