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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Dec 24, 1921
Page
6
A local shop promotes a broad range of Christmas gift items for men including dads and brothers, with many suitable choices for young boys as well. The catalog emphasizes variety and practicality for holiday shoppers.
Direct importers advertise Pure Ceylon Indian and China Teas blended under Triumph label with guaranteed quality at lower price than ordinary teas. The note also offers top cash prices for butter honey beeswax eggs and other produce from John Orr and Co., East Street Ashburton.
The annual school concert and prize giving filled the Public Hall on Wednesday. Dr McKee chaired and thanked all, with £20 1s raised and nearly £7 from a cricket patch collection. Prizes went to standard by standard with Rhodes scholar gold medals awarded to Doris Ireland and Arthur Osborne.
Westerfield School held its annual prize presentation with a large gathering of parents and friends. Students performed musical items including a boys drill and a Chinese Umbrella song, followed by prize distributions and a supper dance. Special awards recognized proficiency, navy league, agriculture, progress, spelling, writing, attendance, sales, and sewing, with numerous named students and teachers acknowledged.
In Aquila Haly a clerk tidying a safe uncovers papers over twenty years old including a postal note for a large sum. An elder ex-employee recalls a fellow clerk accused of stealing a postal order but later cleared by Ministry inquiry. The government awards £4750 to the innocent man for salary owed.
Harold K. Ferguson of Cleveland concludes that manufacturers who advertise are five times likelier to stay in business. He reports 84 percent of failures occurred in non advertising firms and over 80 percent of his built factories were bought by national advertisers.
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