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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 14, 1919
Page
4
A long list of discounted groceries and kitchen staples includes NEAVE'S FOOD BENGER'S FOOD Nestle and Brooks coffees various jams marmalades and dried fruits. Bulk baking powders cocoa milks and sugars are offered at reduced rates. Cleaning supplies and glassware are cleared with bulk jar deals and lamp stock promotes household preparedness.
Business notice proclaims Ashburton agents for J Millichamp and Sons Nursery men offering stationeries and a wide range of fruits including apples pears cherries plums peaches currants and wine stock. It advertises plants shrubs and ornamentals plus garden seeds and supplies with delivery options and stock items listed.
Local supplier Thomas Bros Merchants promotes envelopes of various sizes and paper goods at reasonable rates. It also lists new books including The New International Atlas of the World, The Golden Bough, The Restless Sex, and works by Rex Beach and Zane Grey with prices. bookseller and stationer at East Street, phone 120.
Second Edition announces a Tuesday stock sale at Tinwald Yards. Also lists Tonight's events at His Majesty's Theatre with 8 pictures and a Sunday church services timetable across multiple venues including Baring Square Victoria Hall and Wills Street. Municipal chambers and borough council meetings are noted.
One scarlet fever case at Mitcham and one non serious influenza case at Rukuia were reported to the Hospital Board today. A hare drive by Mr Colin D Chisnall at Hinds supplied many hares to Ashburton Hospital and Tua Fungui Home, much appreciated by patients and inmates. Mr H McKenzie of Hinds delivered the game by motor car.
A 1919 Guardian and Saturday edition commentary weighs global unrest and rising prices, noting strikes in Napier, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It cites a Consumers' Association push to reduce living costs, government inertia, and calls to empower local branches to pressure policy.
A retailer promises a broad winter range for men including overcoats suits shirts underwear and warm accessories. The ad touts variety and value with gifts and a free pocket corkscrew for purchases over five shillings and highlights Big Ben alarms from John Orr and the Premier Hardware Merchants.
The New Men s Store offers trench coats garbardine and all wool overcoats in latest styles. Prices range from 5s 6d to 30s with waterproof lined options and guaranteed satisfaction or money refunded.
A vintage ad for T. A. Bryant offers men’s wear at Mitchell and Turner’s store, featuring Huidinga and Bourne ty Srey as available brands or lines.
For sale sections and building sites including Section 828 Cox Street four acres with shed, Moore Street site with Laurel Fence front, two cheap sections River Terrace, over three acres in NE West near High School, and building allotments in Tinveld Hampstead.
Premises located in Jubilee Buildings formerly occupied by Mr T Turtill include a shop at the corner of Wills and East Streets fronting the main thoroughfare to the railway station. Also available are shop premises in Somerset Buildings, rooms in Arcade Chambers, offices and rooms in Arcade, and motor premises on Fancied Street near Union Bank.
Fletcher Bros Cash Supply Stores announce a small shipment of Neave’s Food and Bengar’s Food now in stock at low prices. Neave’s Food tins 6d Bengar’s Food 2s 6d and 4 6d Robinson’s Patent Groats and Barley at 1s ad.
A historical advertisement urges farmers to buy reliable wheat dressing from Ashburton suppliers. It lists Clark's dressing at 1s 8d, Smith's at 2s 9d, and references Formalin Tanza and Bluestone from John Orr and Co The Premier Hardware Merchants on Past Street with phone 42.
Advert claims Stevens' Health Salt provides perfect health, prevents constipation and liver kidney disorders, and compares favorably with imports. It is described as a sparking effervescent saline made in New Zealand with a 3s 6d bottle price available at chemists and stores.
The Jordan winds roughly 220 miles in a historic journey, forming a river system whose course and impact span countless civilizations and landscapes.
Personal news from Linwood School headmaster Mr F. T. Bryans who becomes acting-inspector of primary schools in the Canterbury district. Also Mrs F. Clemens of Nowlands learns her son Private J. J. Clemens will return on the Maricanal after leaving New Zealand with the Twenty-seventh Reinforcements.
The past week shows a quiet grain market with most of the season's bulk already moved. Wheat remains plentiful though some trucks delay deliveries while oats offerings are modest as merchants push for new contracts above parity. Prices quoted for various grades and seed oats show firm but cautious activity amid uncertain demand.
Prices realised at the weekly auction sale include hens from 3s to 6s 6d per pair, roosters 2s 3d to 6s per pair, ducks 4s 6d to 6s 10d per pair. Fat pigs 4s 6d to £6 12s 8d each, porkers 53s 6d to 63s, stores 25s 8d to 47s 6d, weaners 4s to 24d. Potatoes 10s 6d to 12s 6d per sack, apples 8s 6d to 8s per case, pears 8s 6d per case, fowl wheat 18s per sack.
An old advertisement touts Nazol as a remedy for stopping coughs and colds. It claims soothing relief for sore throats and banishing influenza, suitable for men and young users.
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