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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 15, 1921
Page
3
John Orr and Co present a dense catalog of teas coffees cocoa and groceries with multiple brand names and bulk prices including Triumph Tea Soluble Cocoa Bournville Cadbury's and various coffees and salts. It lists odds and ends for household use such as condensed milk cereals soaps and cleaning products with unit prices and bulk deals.
Beaumont Smith presents The Betrayer as the premier attraction at His Majesty's Theatre with The Whisper Market as a second feature. The story follows a European youth and a Maori girl in Rotorua and Sydney, revealing love, death bed confessions, and dramatic twists amid Australian and New Zealand settings. The cast includes Griffith, George MacQuarrie, and Leulalie Jensen in strong supporting roles.
A London sea tale to be presented on Thursday evening in The Mutiny of the Elsinore. The production features an all star cast with Mitchell Lewis as John Pike and Helen Ferguson Noah Beery and Casson Ferguson supporting. The drama promises suspense and vivid peril from Jack London’s celebrated novel.
A fragmentary paper notice touts Kodak pictures and albums with salesman rhetoric. It then shifts to an ad for Aker Bros Shaw and Fraser offering building work with special attention, followed by mentions of Johnston's knives and Ashberry spoons and forks under wholesale prices.
Ashburton Loan and Investment Society and Bank of Deposit deposits received at call or for fixed periods at highest rate of interest. The Society offers a thoroughly sound investment for savings combining good interest with undoubted security. J. B Christian.
The Anama Road Board met at Hekeno last week with J Brown W Jones D Duff and D J Morrow present. Elections elected Brown Duff and Morrow. E Jones chairs the meeting. They approve clearing gorse, forming Cree's Road, levying a rate, adding a Mayfield School finger post and street lamp. Rolls altered for several occupants and land parcels. They request railway and council actions on connecting road to station deepening a race and stopping overflow, plus 20 feet of pipes for multiple race crossings. Accounts total £646 4s 6d.
At the monthly meeting the board granted permission for gates on Latter's Road and accepted a pine planting offer at Mitcham with replacement in the next year. Tenders were invited for two rows of pines along Wolesley Road. The secretary was to seek shingle and well work, and rates totaling £216 6s 8d were approved.
The Mayfield Football Club held its annual meeting with Mr L Reveley in the chair. Officers elected include Patton, Hon W Nosworthy MP, Mr Burnett MP, secretary L Reveley, and E Burgess as assistant secretary. The club agreed to affiliate with Ashburton Rugby Union and enter a second grade team. A moonlight practice opens the season on Wednesday evening.
Senior team lineup includes Simes Farrell Farrel Burns Ryan Mc Cormack Clorgan Reilly ennedy Minehan Daly T J Witegerald D Fitzgerald Barry Walls. Junior side faces Old Boys with M Ciumeen Collins McKenzie D Wilson Jas McCormick Cowie Rooney Jas Smith Mr McAvoy Sullivan Jas Fitzgerald J Dwyer M O Grady W O Grady J Cairns W Smith B O Malley. Third grade meets Old Boys featuring Meeking G McCormack E Brophy L Laffey L Cooper H Hewson I McSherry H McSherry W Kane W Rapley R Cowie KR Hanrahan C Walker J McQuilkin J Gibson R Boswell A McTigue.
An old advertisement touts NA ZOL as a scientific remedy for coughs colds and sore throat with 60 doses priced at 6d. It also promotes WADI'S WORM FIGS as a safe worm remedy for children and urges refusing substitutes.
An assortment of consumer notices promotes NURSERY Hair Lotion for schoolchildren, Orth British Solid Truck Tyres for immediate truck use, Recene Fills for ladies, and agents like McIntyre’s and Safe. Includes Timaru Canterbury Farmers' Co-op contact details and post prices.
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