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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Dec 11, 1915
Page
2
August holiday promotions feature ladies white strap shoes in canvas and pop styles from 1 shilling 6d to 12 shillings 6d, men's white tennis boots and shoes at 8/6 9/6 12/6, children's shoes, and a wide assortment of washable dress fabrics with prices around 3/9 and 14 to 98/11 per dress length. Also offered are tussore silk shirts at 7/9 and wide-end ties at bargain prices.
Winghmore Red Cross members set up a stall opposite the Somerset Hotel in Ashburton to raise funds for wounded soldiers. The sale offered a wide range of goods from dressed rabbits to Christmas cakes, selling quickly with twenty pairs of poultry snapped up in minutes.
The Waterton Branch ladies invited male friends to observe their work. Mrs J Watson presided and commended the group for completing 239 articles and 15 dozen medicine cloths in the month, with £15 raised and 20 men joining. Since inception three months ago nearly 1000 articles have been processed. The evening featured songs recitations and games followed by refreshments and a National Anthem.
Fundraising note from Ashburton County outlines war relief efforts with a £6 contribution mentioned in the brief.
In Auckland on December 6 a man George Gordon killed Rosannah Nora Gordon aged 22 and her infant May in a Hobson Street boardinghouse and then injured himself. Witnesses testified the couple’s relation was unclear while the sister described a row before the killings and Gordon’s confession to the police surgeon: I did it myself intentionally after tomahawking both the woman and the child.
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