Ashburton Technical School Board Meeting Highlights
The Ashburton Technical School Board met with Mr C Reid presiding. Key items included salary increases for instructors from April 1 1920, a note on Trentham Scholarship ineligibilities, a resignation of Miss J D Park, and plans to advertise for a successor. The director reported on prizegiving, new exhibits in engineering and art, and forthcoming salary revisions. The board adopted the report and Buildings and Grounds Committee proposals for plastering rooms, laying water to lawns, and fencing the Cass and Cameron streets corner, with tenders for renovations to be sought. A protest letter was to be sent to the contractor over slow workshop progress. The chairman announced a bank balance of £1209 12s 7d and accounts totaling £1059 18s 3d approved.
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Ashburton Technical School Board
C. Reid
Messrs
T. Hayes
G. W. Andrews
T. Wilson
J. Watson
T. W. Watt
J. Cow
BR. Collins
W. G. Hillier
W. T. Lill
Friendly Society
Trentham
J. D. Park
BR. J. Thompson
Cass
Cameron Streets
Navy badges adopt distinctive shapes for ships
An Admiralty committee selects badge shapes for classes with the circular badge for battleships and battle-cruisers, the pentagon for light cruisers, and a square set diamondwise for auxiliary ships. Baxters Lung Preserver touted as a long trusted remedy for spring and summer ailments. bottle priced at 2s 6d.
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Admiralty
Baxter
Luong
Government Road Policy Aims for National Main Arterial Route
Wellington December 16 The Prime Minister and Public Works Minister outlined plans to build a main arterial road network for motor traffic across the Dominion with east and west links. They discussed funding changes, draft legislation, and using tyre tax and rate powers to start work addressing gaps between Avelland and Wellington, Hamiriri Taumarunui and Ohakune Taihape.
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Per Press Association
Wellington
Wellington Progress League
Massey
Dominion
CA National Memorial Highway
National Memorial
Imw
Right Treatment for Indigestion Promoted in Ad Copy
An advertisement promotes Bisulated Magnesia as the right treatment for indigestion caused by excess acid in the stomach. It claims quick relief from pain and flatulence by neutralizing acid stopping fermentation and soothing inflamed tissues. The ad warns to look for the word Bismag on the package to ensure the correct product.
Domestic economy lessons arrive in English schools in 1874
A fragment notes that domestic economy was introduced as a lesson in English schools in 1874. It mentions resting intervals of ten minutes in every thirty, a definition of sardine restricted to pilchard in its immature form, and compares merchant ship tonnages showing the United Kingdom at 18,311,000 tons and Empire total at 20,148,000 tons, with the United States at 12,406,000 tons and growth since 1914 from 2,027,000 tons.
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United Kingdom
British Dominions
United States
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Strange’s
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Ashburten
NEW Zealand Insurance
Foeremier
E Colonial
Nicoll Bros
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Goodyear
Michelin
Firestone
Fisk
Asco
Goodrich
Hupp
Dodge
Burnett-st
Technical School
Emer
Pascall
Manchester Bros
Rule
J. E. Rule, Ltd
Ford Service
Tancred Street West
Smas Fair
Emas Fair
Ashburton
Barrett’s
Paspro Ustally
A. Snip
Moen
le Re & Ba Clothing Factory
Men’s Fancy Sox
New Zealand
Zealand
Mala Factory
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