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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 03, 1911
Page
4
Auction style notice offering 900 acres freehold tussock country at 2100 per acre with easy terms. Also 2760 acres SGR rent land described as good sheep country with ploughable portions and going concern stack and lant valued at 8750 total with 1000 cash and balance on a six percent term.
Seventy two acres near Balclutha offered for sale subdivided into 11 paddocks. Land productive for oats and potatoes with good buildings. Easy terms available and high quality soil noted.
Gore farm salesman Jack Virgo offers an extensively improved property 3 miles from the railway and near a post office and school. 1175 acres fully plowable with 14 paddocks, sheep fences, nearly new eight room house, stables, wool shed, barns, and modern conveniences. Grass established on varied acreages, 26000 trees planted, high stock-carrying capacity, no recent cropping, price £9 per acre. Enquire at once.
Ashburton County Council discusses traffic by laws and bridge work. The report notes licenses for three traction engines and breaches near Ashburton Traffic Bridge. It also reviews Saleyards lease bids, fencing tenders, and plans to shorten or asphalt the southern bridge end. Debates over water supply, storm drains, and local deputations are noted with decisions on funding and next steps.
The council discussed open water race fords with two crossings to be concrete and footbridges. A deputation opposed piping crossings arguing higher costs and dangers. Other actions included hospital levy payments and water service consideration at Mount Hutt with settler co funding for a race change.
The County Council debated Coronation Day funds with proposals for school grants and a permanent memorial. Money ranges from £100 for a memorial to 125 for a distribution among schools and refreshments for visiting children, plus £20 for Methven cemetery gates.
A Melbourne reader describes long battles with biliousness vomiting indigestion and sharp pains between the shoulders. She credits Bile Beans with reducing attacks improving digestion and restoring health urging others to use the remedy sold in stores and chemists.
An old advertisement urges readers to try Baxter's Tung Preserver for cough relief and throat strengthening. It promises instant relief and lasting improvement, selling a 10d large bottle at chemists.
Mount Hutt ratepayers push to secede from Ashburton County and form a separate County Council to govern their affairs. The proposal spurred discussions on water races, borrowing powers, and potential impacts on bridges, hospitals, and charitable aid, with mixed views from council members and local solicitors.
From Our Own Correspondent reports a nearing completion of the new vicarage with plastering underway and a likely finish by June. It notes F B Goldsmith building a new house beside his shop in the township and the creamery closing for winter, to reopen in spring with more cows as herds grow. The Railway Department has erected fences along Tinwald to Hinds, with inaccurate surveying possibly endangering traffic, and a road shift is anticipated soon.
James Langley a Waikaka resident and long time miner aged 104 was removed by police to the Old Men's Home at Invercargill yesterday. Langley has lived alone for most of his life and is known in the colony for nearly sixty years.
The record lists nominations for the Ashburton Trotting Club Winter meeting across multiple races on First Day. Entries include Miss Quin cey Sunshine Milda Nugget Shakspeare Gee Whiz Bellfounder Princess Dolly Hazelfold Anly Regan Radiant Morn Lionheart Black Betty Black Monarch Imperial Tracey Telec tric Jack and many others, with various handicaps and amateur heats.
The Defiance line of Men’s Alata shoes, produced by Roslyn Woollen Mills proprietors, emphasizes style comfort and durability for independent wearers.
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