Trade catalog fragment notes linen sheet stock sizes
Fragmentary item lists stock sizes for heavy linen sheets with best quality. Mentions larger sizes at proportionate prices and references post free offers.
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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jan 29, 1913
Page
6
Labour federation looms as unions unite across trades
The World To-Day notes Labour, unions, and socialists joining to form a powerful federation in Wellington and Australia. A Sydney conference outlines a vast Australian Workers Union linking carriers, farmhands, dairies, and rabbit-trappers. A Melbourne meeting is planned for February to cement a national federation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellington
Federation of Labour
United Labour Party
Australia
Sydney
Bacween
Vorers
Australian Workers’ Union
Melbourne
Federation of Unions
Waterloo
Reduction of Licenses in Victoria Affects Hotels
In Victoria a Licenses Reduction Board formed in May 1907 closes hotels to reorganize the trade. By December 31, 19xx, 102 hotels were shut, averaging £474 per hotel in compensation. The board targets offenses like Sunday trading, with a goal of a healthier trade and better law observance, while some licensees profited minimally from closures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
Glenaunce
Begiana
Land-Law Reform Risks State Loss in Southland Grants
The paper argues the Land Act amendment favors G Brighton a socialist farmer who seeks two more freeholds in Waido sectors 907 and 210 totaling 312 acres. Original values were 53 to 7s 6d an acre and 7 pounds per acre now including minerals. The state would lose about 36000 pounds for Brighton alone and up to 100000 to 156000 before the law is amended. Southland land Board has delayed two further areas Brighton wishes to buy, potentially enriching a syndicate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southland
G. Brighton
Waido
Brighton
New Zealand
Southland Land Board
Thoughts for the Day and Aphorisms Collage
A fragmented set of quotations on pleasure, virtue, and ambition. Notable lines touch on temperance, wealth, truth, nature, and progress attributed to Temple Emerson Shake Spears Milton Goethe and others. The garbled text reads like a compile of maxims with incomplete attributions.
Smiles and Quips From Social Moments
A collage of light humor and social jests from a church gathering and drawing room scenes. Jests touch on appearance and intelligence, decorum at meals, wine, butlers, and flirtations among old friends. A minister recounts a joke about a gate and a safety pin plate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
Frelio
Drill in Schools in Wellington Sees Tightened Oversight
Wellington Education Board notes that military drill in public schools ended December 31 under the Defence Amendment Act and Education Amendment Act. Regulations may allow drill again in certain junior cadet linked schools with officer supervision and inspector visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellington
Education Department
Dominion
Education Board
Defence Department
Welington Education Board
A. W. Hogg
Hogben
J. Kebbell
R. Lee
Ghuznes Street
Defense Department
Inquest Finds Accidental Death in Mount Egmont Case
At New Plymouth on Evelyn Oxenham the inquest returned an accidental death verdict. Coroner noted Ernest Locke remained with her and did all he could as she wandered from the spot where he left her. In Christchurch a motor launch named Tesa capsized off Sumner bar with single occupant Rowlands rescued. launch sank with recovery doubtful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Plymouth
Evelyn Oxenham
Mount Epgmont
Ernest Locke
Christchurch
Sumner Bar
Rowlands
Sumner
New Brighton
Lyttelton
Scottish engineers drive new bamboo paper plant
A site near Kagi Japan hosts a factory to produce 300 tons of bamboo pulp monthly, with future growth. Cane is cut small, boiled with lime, bleached by electricity, washed, rolled, pressed into tissue, and dried by steam. The resulting sheets are pleasing and of high quality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kagi
Japan
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Donaghadee
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Fr. Coleridge
Confucius
Streat
EL. Maclean Watt
Ore
Sir Wm. Temple
Emerson
Milton
Beritt
Jewitt
Canon Knnox-Lattice
Heaven
Jonnie
John
Wet Press Association
Pot Press Association
Rods Bros. & Kirk Ltd
J. Sutherland
Cass and Wills Streets
Next Theatre Royal
J. M. Cambridge and
E. A. Johnson
Proprietors
N Tovin
Frai
AMA
HALEN
Triangle
My . Consulting Room
Frank, Curtis
F.P.O.C
Opt. D
N.Z. Optical Association
East Street
Ashburton
McDonald
Great
Britémm
Sam A
Stephen Madden
Warner
Warr
Landia” Bicycle
Gygles
Jowest
The
T. Turtill
Praservice
Drill
Ife
Ling
Iphen
Gladstone
Reeneyes
Thomas Bros
Havelock Street
E.P
Robilliard and Son
Watchmakers
Jewellers
Walt Street
Bank of N.Z
Pelephone
James
Cass Street
Sunbeam
Wolvele
Anie and
Delarge
Mellor's
Mellor’s
Jas
Zealandia
Mellor, Store, Tangred &Treet
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