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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 06, 1910
Page
3
Vienna dispatch reports 10 thousand Greek reservists summoned amid Turkish troop movements. The Greek King, after staying with President Fulcres in Paris, arrives privately in Rome to continue discussions on the Cretan question with Italian officials and ministers.
Five men and three girls boating in the Gulf of Finland ignored pleas to move from an oncoming steamer. Laughing at danger, they were swamped by the steamer’s wash. three men and three girls drowned.
News from Auckland Wellington and Reefton details several fatal and serious incidents. Alfred Spalding, 20, fitter, died at Auckland railway workshops after his head was crushed by a hydraulic pump crank. Harold Kitchen, a youth, drowned in the Hutt river returning from a shooting trip. Reginald Watts fell 1900 feet in an Energetic mine shaft at Reefton. his body was dismembered. Thomas Johns sustained a bad facial kick injury at Ashburton but is improving in hospital.
The Ashburton Trotting Club lists nominations for its Winter meeting including multiple handicaps: introductory, Lulu Child, Longbeach, First Amateur, Lagmhor, Allenton, Telegraph, Advance, Mitcham, club handicap, Second Amateur, Autumn, Stewards, and Farewell. Notable entries include Wallace June, Miss Becky, Gold Reef, Andante, Prince Wilkin, Franzie, Master Raymond, and My Mistake among many others.
The New Zealand v Wellington football match on King’s Birthday raised £318 with about £200 for the Wellington Rugby Union as ground rental and lost revenue compensation. The remaining £100 goes to a pooled fund by the New Zealand and New South Wales Unions for the tour. John Marshall was fined 20s and casts for an onfield assault.
A Asherton Hospital and Charitable Aid Board led a conference to push Section 83 of the Public Health Act 1908 for centralised control of sanitation and infectious diseases. Road Boards including South Rakaia and Upper Ashburton backed the plan, while Tinwald and Hampstead councils hesitated. The motion urged local bodies to allow the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board to take over duties and appoint a health officer with government subsidy, despite borough opposition over cost and duties.
Proposals invited for painting and repairs at the Rival Hotel Ashburton and the Central Hotel Ashburton. Work specs available at Mr panty Davis, Borough Council Chambers. Also invites for 21 year Glasgow leases of Borough Reserves sections at Havelock Street Grigg Street Cameron Street junction. Leases offer d acre lots. Tenders due 4 pm Monday June 3 1910.
Crown Lands Commissioner Aly W. Managan says Ashburton reports on the sale of goodwill of a leased settlement at Highbank are misleading. The arrangement involves a widow transferring to her son in law with a nominal £8865 and a £500 payment. the rest remains on mortgage. The Land Board found no grounds to intervene as it appeared a family arrangement and not an extraordinary transfer.
The Australian Methodist Conference approves a draft plan for New Zealand. Under the scheme the dominion will continue its foreign mission support but will maintain a separate superninary fund credited with its share of the Australasian fund.
Adelaide June 66 The Premier told the Anti Gambling League that gambling would receive no shelter from him He said removing the totalisator would improve citizenship and urged reforms in betting controls through government action and public support.
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