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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 03, 1916
Page
4
War price pressures drive changes across imported goods with beer, tea, dried fruits, cereals, baking items and soaps listed. Includes condensed milk cornflour and margarine items with bulk packing and new bottle glass jars. Discount tickets issued with each purchase.
The final sale items include 8 pairs White blankets and Colonial wool quilts at reduced prices. Discounts cover a wide range of linens, quilts, sheets, towels, dresses, coats, suits, and menswear with many items marked down to low sale prices. The sale ends in about 16 days at Mitchell el Tusner.
Auction listings show stock sales at Tinwald Yards scheduled for Tuesday with details on items and times. Local notices invite bidders and specify sale conditions and terms.
The article notes shipowners in wartime Britain raising freight rates from Britain to Australia by 20 percent with potential further hikes if the war lasts. It cites Statist figures on freight surges from Bombay, River Plate, and Atlantic ports, highlighting soaring costs and record net profits for shipping in 1916, alongside cases of individual vessel earnings and rising transport costs for wheat.
War-timed supply disruptions push wheat from Baltimore to Liverpool up to 83 21d per bushel and lift newsprint freight from British Columbia to Auckland from 30s to 6 per ton. Analysts blame wartime vessel destruction and government inaction for a growing monopoly among remaining ships.
Reports of infantile paralysis cases in the Wellington health district include Weraroa Levin and Masterton as the affected towns. Ashburton frost hits 13 degrees, near the heaviest frost of the winter. Fairfield freezing works face work stoppages due to frozen mutton stockpiles. killing to resume next week. Nelson ratepayers approved loans of 106000 pounds. Napier plans a 40000 pound tramway loan at 54 percent. A question to the Agriculture Minister concerns Tasmanian flour priced at about 9 pounds 5s per ton f o b versus 11 pounds delivered, with wheat prices rising in Ashburton and Christchurch. A defence aide note about Herr Lehmann in Napier’s moving picture orchestra is recorded, with government inquiries ongoing. Music sale promotion ends the note with Gramophone offers.
The report lists leading cricketers at Lord Hawke's and notes marriages and naval losses. It records MPs and public figures like Mrs R A Wright and H W Carpendale, and mentions several enlistees and on active service including T A H Field R Sykes A J Okey and others.
Wool prices spread across the market with New Zealand clips showing firmness. Gear top 19d average 18 1 2d, Marama 8d and 173d reported as sales. An ad notes rear Windscreen for motor cars, highlighting folding screens as essential and promoting the Perfecta Molding Rear Screen from Maelish made via G B Carsons Motor Supplies Depot in Tancred Street.
The Auckland winter meeting began in fine weather with the course in July order. In the Maiden Steeplechase Waiimai led early but New York finished strong to win by half a length over Waiimai. The handicap race saw Pendoon take top position ahead of Bowler, with Brows Lac third.
Weather fine as Canterbury Park Trotting Club holds second day events. Notable results include Galindo Bele 2, George 1V 3 winning by 40 yards in 3m 5.52s. Maoria T winning the Hinds handicap. Jody Haldane tf Princess Sherwood 2, Apathos 3 taking Middleton Handicap by five lengths. Hardy Wilkes leads Sockburn Handicap by 50 yards.
The Dunedin Jockey Club winter meeting continued with clear weather and several races. Notable finishes include Ringform winning the Provincial Handicap by a neck in a one mile event, and Brewer taking the Steeplechase by a tight length.
Thirty Canterbury teams challenged at Ashburton with observably tight scores. Leading individuals include W Hamilton Southbrook 69, BG Trustram Maia pol 69, A Clark Ashburton 67, S O Hay Sydenham 67, Ru Marsden Kaiapoi 67, FE Steeds Christchurch 67, Lieutenant Wardell Christchurch 66.
A rugby match at Ashburton ends with the Raksia School team beaten by 15 points by the Borough Fatial. Scorers for the victors include Campbell who made two tries Pocock Gourdie and J Stoddart. The visitors were entertained at the school and left on the first express.
The annual conference of Sunday School workers from Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Church of Christ, and Salvation Army branches in Ashburton and eight nearby districts began at Square Methodist Church. Rev. G Frost presided. Miss Kershaw gave an engaging talk on the primary scholar’s mind and Miss McKee demonstrated practical lesson priming with blackboard and wand. Mr St A Lock of Muthven spoke on methods used in conducting county Sunday Schools, followed by discussions through lunch.
Shackleton resumes his narrative of the Endeavour expedition after the ship sank. The party, trapped by ice, established Patience Camp and endured three months of hardship. Five dogs were shot for food. they pressed toward Elephant Island and then South Georgia seeking rescue, facing storms, frostbite, and dwindling supplies.
Birross Shackleton's expedition endures a mild Antarctic winter as the Endurance drifts across the Weddell Sea. Dogs fall ill and some vanish for 209 days, while the crew braces for pressure and a possible shipwreck. A sudden drift shift saves the vessel, though the ice tears the rudder and the ship heels as it breaks from the floe. The crew prepares for worst as the floe splits and the ship drifts toward distant waters.
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