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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Dec 22, 1916
Page
4
Fletcher Bros. continue their Christmas custom by giving away thirty prizes. December Discount Tickets will be printed in red ink on yellow paper. Participants must return their December Tickets by Friday January 12, 1917. These presents are extra to the usual Cash Discount Tickets.
An advertising notice lists numerous giveaways and goods for cash, including tea, ham, dried fruits, currants, raisins, figs, dates, cordials, syrups, meats, fish, cheese, and vegetables. It markets low prices, trade terms, and a wide range of groceries and household items offered by Letcher Bros and Moore's stores. It promotes new season dried fruit, imported goods, and various imported and local brands, plus holiday specials and a discount ticket with each purchase.
Public notice states the Ashburton Guardian will not publish on Monday December 2 due to Christmas Day.
Second edition daily memoranda lists tomorrow auctions at the Farmers' Co operative Association and Henry Stephenson with weekly produce and poultry sales and other items.
His Majesty's Theatre hosts pictures and a matinée. Lady Rooms and UACD hold meetings. Tomorrow the theatre offers a matinee and another picture program.
The Ashburton Guardian notes farm labour shortages discussed by the Appeal Board with witnesses and the chairmen asserting wages, factory arrangements, and the Wheatland Wairarapa plan. It covers Belgian relief fundraising, a Christmas matinee for soldiers’ children, holiday safety notices, and local social events.
The article proposes a Trust Board of retired farmers to supervise farm schemes during wartime. Members would be unpaid or nominally paid, with audited accounts and active service personnel kept on the list. Ashburton reports a similar Farmers Union branch idea, offering rural men a chance to contribute while others are called up.
Ashburton residents are praised for supporting a progressive drug store where Dr WIlson's Regenerator is stocked. The British hair treatment, valued at eight shillings sixpence per bottle, is advertised as a genuine remedy for grey hair dandruff and itchy scalp. Available also through Ashburton hairdresser A C Percy.
Sixty one Canterbury soldiers arrive by the Mahkeno steamship, expected to Dunedin, amid a hearty welcome at the station. The party includes five Ashburton men, several Eighth (South Canterbury) Regimental and Salvation Army musicians, and many Ashburton residents. Private Wright is hospitalized with multiple wounds. Private Hight is invalided home. Mayor R. Galbraith thanks the men and expresses pride in their service.
A New York dispatch reports an American note signed by Secretary Lansing inviting belligerents and neutrals to share views on war ending terms. It emphasizes safeguarding neutrality and independence while considering a League of Nations and aims to clarify concrete objectives before peace arrangements.
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