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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Dec 22, 1916
Page
3
A pamphlet-style notice urges easy to prepare foods and lighter cold dishes for hot days. It highlights fruit cocktails and cordials to serve with water or soda, promotes planning picnics, and offers delivery to ensure timely meal preparation with guaranteed quality and reasonable prices.
The Ashburton Trotting Club released acceptances for multiple handicap events including Harness and Saddle races such as Imperial Victor, Tamarisk, Miss Havoc, Muriel Star and Trixie Pointer. A committee meeting approved prizes for best stallion or mare at the A and P Show and to install a starting machine for Boxing Day.
North Canterbury Farmers' Union meeting chaired by Mr D. Jones notes fat price discrepancies between north and south factories with 32s and 17s per cwt. Debate on sending letters to companies ends with no action. Aims to boost harvest labour via schools. frost damages crops. outlook grim but labour supply may improve. Calls to curb unproductive occupations and reduce racing and trotting meetings to free workers for food production.
Loss granted to purchase mortages arranged on liberal terms deposits received at call or fixed periods highest current rates allowed office arcade and tancred street
The Star film Mice and Men shown at His Majesty's Theatre last night featured Marguerite Clark in a fitting role. The plot centers on an elderly scientist with unusual views on a wife for a housewife and a foundling he raises to adulthood before she falls for a captain. The program also included topical war news and a funeral of a ship crew, with wounded New Zealand soldiers returning home and a light comic piece.
Mr G H L Garson clears stock of second hand motor cars at very low prices for cash. The stock includes two Model T Ford touring cars one Ford Model T runabout one Belsize chassis with express body or five seater body one Clement Talbot express van and one Ford Model A runabout. Those seeking a motor car at a moderate price should inspect these cars.
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