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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Dec 13, 1913
Page
4
An advertiser promotes choice cakes described as the best possible and decorated nicely. A splendid assortment of chocolates in boxes and Xmas crackers in various varieties are also offered for sale.
Central hostelry featuring 80 bedrooms with sitting and commercial rooms and modern conveniences now under entirely new management.
Tonight at His Majesty's Theatre shows start at 8 with a program of 8 pictures. Churches schedule services at St Stephen's 8 am and 6 30 pm. Saint Thomas Square and other local chapels hold morning and evening services at 11 am and 6 30 pm. Tancred Street Hall hosts events around 9 90 pm.
Reads that these and all other lines usually stocked by chemists are always obtainable at.
The British Medical Journal praises a liquor access scheme as a possible path to total prohibition, arguing it could reduce sales to the youth and habitual drinkers. Critics doubt the anti liquor party would approve, fearing loss of leverage and reform pressure.
The piece surveys widening support for prohibition in the United States and abroad, noting Maine's local option results, the Gothenburg and Bratt systems, and calls for government roles in liquor control. It discusses corruption, capital influence, religious ministers' views, and the practical limits of state management and licensing schemes.
Weather indications point to fresh southerly winds strong to gale with changeable, squally conditions and a rising barometer. A Territorian named H Campbell was fined £273 at Napier Magistrate's Court for five years civil rights deprivation for missing parades. Presbyterian Assembly probes industrial motion. New fireproof railway carriages with asbestos flooring on Great Western line. Timaru reports Farmers' Union plans to import 50 domestic servants to Timaru with Miss Maud Hume Lindsay as matron. 12 month engagements at least a shilling a week. Ayrshire ship from Liverpool carries farm boys 15 to 20 to New Zealand under NZ Government supervision. Counterfeit sovereigns circulate in Christchurch and Ashburton. a 20s loss on a lead coin with gilded finish. Bank of NSW displays the coin. public warned to beware accepting altered notes.
Mr John Grigg and Mr Studholme return to Ashburton by the morning express. Mrs F M Wroughton arrives by the afternoon express from the South. The Hon Sir McKean and several MLCs head south. Wellington to Christchurch crossing noted. Three South Canterbury teachers plan Winnipeg exchanges for a year. MPs Dickie Buxton Smith and Lee travel via Ashburton with discussions on an expected evening session conclusion.
An advertisement urges motorists to own a Ford for health and relaxation, praising the simple mechanism and easy control. It highlights Touring Car at £205 and Runabout at £190, noting G F H Garson has a new Touring Car in stock for immediate delivery and encourages enjoying Xmas holidays in a Ford.
At the Ashburton Lechureal Classes Association meeting, a chairmans report on a December 5 breaking up ceremony drew sharp remarks. Members challenged a Mayor backed charge against a pupil from the High School and urged removal of that paragraph from the report before adoption.
A severe thunderstorm produced a waterspout over the Waikaka Valley near Gora injuring farms. Sixty sheep drowned and fences were torn free as a paddock was leveled. A railway line shifted four to five feet while water in gullies reached fourteen feet. Farmers were taken by surprise as sudden inundation swept stock away. The area was unusually dry nearby with only light rain elsewhere.
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