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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jul 01, 1909
Page
4
Visitors to the Winter Show are met with a stock of up-to-date goods in men and boys wear. Highlights include all-wool tweed suits from 4/6, Norfolk tweed suits, dark tweed and serge shirts, 4/6 ties and collars, gloves, braces, and merino under vests and drawers at 2/ per pair. Also offered blankets, rag, sheeting, and towels.
At Addington, June 30, small entry due to wet weather but good turnout. Breeding ewes advanced 6d to 1s per head. store sheep steady with hoggets prominent. Fat lambs down about 6d. fat cattle up to 6d per 100lbs. pigs steady. Store cattle small yarding. dairy cows in demand at £8 10s to £9 0s. Fat cattle total 289 head. steer £7-£11 5s, cows £4 10s-£8 5s. porkers 38s-54s, large stores 28s-38s.
A modest sale at Geraldine yards with about 2060 sheep offered. Stores and fats dipped slightly as prices moved. pat ewes sold from 9s 9d to 10s 6d, bat lambs ranged from 1s 4d to 12s 8d, pat wethers at 14s 6d, and a small cattle showing with fat steers at £1 1s and fat heifers to £6 12s 6d. Pigs ranged 19s to 16s for weaners.
At Dunedin on June 20, yarding included 195 cattle, 8148 sheep, 2088 lambs, and 140 pigs. Gate prices started near prior levels but eased toward the finish with best bullocks £9 10s to £10 10s, cows £6 10s to £8 10s, ewes 14s to 15s, best wethers 16s to 17s 6d, lambs 12s 6d to 14s, and pigs showing brisk sales as outside buyers entered.
Oats demand for London shipments remains firm with limited North Island freight. Lower grades slack. prime milling cartons quoted 1s 6d to 1s 8d, Sparrowbills 6d to 1s 6 1d, good to test feed 4 1d to 1s 6d, inferior to medium 2s to 1s 4d. Wheat prices steady. extra choice offered at top, song perried lines traded to shippers 4s 1d to 4s 9d. Prime milling 4s 1d to 4s 2d, choice 4s 3d, whole fowl wheat 3s 9d to 3s 9d, smutted medium 4s 4d to 3s 6d, inferior 2s 6d to 2s 8d.
In Tauranga on June 30 a steamer delivered 618 sheep from Gisborne to the Lean and Mercantile Agency Company. They were allowed to graze a vacant lot for hours, then about 500 were found drowned in the harbour. The manner of the loss remains unknown.
At a meeting in Invercargill on June 30 the group celebrated three years without licenses and unanimously resolved to support Government action in the Supreme Court to quash recent King Country licenses.
A brief item notes a nocturnal hacking cough affecting a child named Woods and mentions a claimed Great Peppermint Cure. The item lists remedies described as 1s fd and 2s and detail sparse guidance without medical endorsement.
A letter to the editor from Vox Populi criticizes Ashburton county and council over the stalled public market project. The writer questions public spirit, argues ratepayers deserve a market, and rejects excuses about population size and awaiting trials in Christchurch or Dunedin. The piece defends Ashburton’s potential and urges action.
June rainfall at Domain station totals 2 inches 40 points with daily breakdowns. Heaviest 24 hour fall on the 29th at 1 inch 7 points. Comparisons show June rainfall 1907 and 1908 at 48 points and 2 inches 77 points. Monthly and half year totals listed for 1908 and 1909. Temperature highs reached 69F on the 4th. lows 42F on the 26th. frost appeared on eighteen nights. July and August 1908 frost patterns noted.
In Christchurch on June 30 the Supreme Court, with Justice Denniston in Banco, granted an adjournment in Rex v McKinnon manager of Norton's Truth. The motion under the Crimes Act concerned contempt of court over a January case report. Cassidy requested the delay until the next Banco sittings.
NSW breadstuffs shipments since January show 3,146,665 bushels of wheat and 245,865 centals of flour from Sydney. Wheat exports span New Zealand, Britain, South Africa, and other regions. flour exports list New Zealand, Britain, Hong Kong, India, and more. Net flour imports reach 19,972 centals after deducting re-exports, with NSW over-export requiring imports of wheat and flour from nearby states.
A warning from the era on coughs as symptoms of throat or chest illness. Describes cough types indicating pleurisy pneumonia bronchitis asthma and chest strain. Promotes Peps fumes tablets as a non narcotic remedy, detailing usage benefits pricing 1s 6d or 3s per box and distributor in Sydney.
An essay on professional duty, sincerity in labor, and the debt professionals owe to their callings. It argues true success comes from work for its own sake, not for money, fame, or material gain, with examples from medicine, law, journalism, and public life. It cites Kipling and Epictetus, urging ongoing effort to uplift profession and society.
Hoarseness in a child subject to croup signals the approach of the illness. If Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is given at once or after the croupy cough appears, it will prevent the attack. Pleasant to take and contains no poison. Wholesale by all chemists and storekeepers.
A Nelson Presbytery meeting endorses restraint amid British German tensions. It urges calm unvindictive Christian conduct, prayer for peaceful relations, and urges joining in united prayer with allied faiths to reduce armaments and avoid embittering nations. The resolution seeks broader discussion before the Supreme Court assembly.
The Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade held its annual inspection with Captain Barber and staff present. Councillor Dr Burgess praised the brigade’s drill and engine care, noted a single turncock loss, six calls last year, and water supply shortcomings at Hampstead fires.
Miss Mabel Edwards of Wellington suffered years of skin disorders and pain. After trying many remedies and a doctor’s advice, she found relief with Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills, claiming the pills purified her blood and restored health. The ad touts the pills as a world wide remedy for blood impurities and skin troubles.
The first conference of directors and supervisors of technical education and manual training in New Zealand convened in Wellington at the Education Board office. Attendees included Mesars George e icore, F D Opie, R Grant, W A McGaw, A Varney, W D Latrobe, W Fossey, J H Frowell and BE King, with inspectors Hoghen and Brown present. A committee formed to draft association rules and an agreement for enrolling technical students. a shift to morning and afternoon school books was proposed.
A record from the department meeting notes a proposal to replace capitation payments with a block grant to Education Boards at 6d per pupil. Debate covers promotion certification, manual training, and domestic science, plus delaying new regulations until the following year. Recommendations urge higher capitation for advanced technical classes and definite-building grant foundations based on population.
At a Charitable Aid Board meeting, C J Harper said the Tuarangi and Jubilee Homes annexe is near ready with occupancy to follow in about a month. He noted staffing and furnishing delays and that about thirty eight places exist, with transfer of current cases from Tuarangi and Ashburton hospitals planned. The board argued over alleged delays and clarified it is not obliged to house incurables, while stressing ongoing work and staffing challenges.
In New Zealand men overpay for made to measure suits. George Davies opens modern cash basis branches offering suits to measure from £2 10s to £3 1s, matching quality and fit of pricier rivals. Ashburton Arcade display showcases new British and Colonial fabrics, inviting inspection and sample submissions.
Special sums of £100 £200 £500 £600 and £1260 are invested at lowest current rates of interest as advertised by G H Buchanan a Barrister and Solicitor.
E Hate Money offers loans in large or small amounts at the lowest current rates with easy terms of repayment. Maude, Amy Harman, Burnete Street, Ashburton, represented by Kennedy, Solicitor, Burnett Street, Ashburton.
Trust moneys to lend including approved second mortgages. Interest at lowest current rates. Principal repayable by installments if desired. Perry, Perry & Kinnerney, solicitors, timea, Geraldine head: YYeroks.
A promotional notice extols Dr Fellows Pile Cones as a curative remedy for piles. It cites testimonials of rapid relief from itching and bleeding, claims father was cured, and directs readers to the Only Prescribing Chemist in Christchurch with wholesale source details.
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