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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 17, 1919
Page
4
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Stock sale at Ruksia tonight at Ingram's Shop. Southern Cross Football Club and Borough School Committee meet at 7.30. His Majesty's Theatre shows 8 pictures. A and P Rooms feature poultry at 8. City committee meetings listed.
Local notice states one case of scarlet fever at Water ton was reported to the Hospital Board today, indicating a public health precaution and monitoring in the area.
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A Saturday gathering of Ashburton delegates backed abolition of road boards while stressing the principle over details. The group urged ratepayers to vote in a forthcoming referendum and welcomed a county council plan to draft a reform scheme.
A jumble of notes mentions Maenzel gargle, name changes for William Travers, and vacant posts at the Reid Board. Reports quote General March on army sizes, Westboro bread and cheese for sleepers, Rubens paintings found in Bolivia, and Marconi wireless stations planned for remote China regions. Weather forecasts, a minister’s school visit, and a sulfur gas rat experiment are noted amid miscellaneous items including Waitara coal troubles and London’s haunted St. Stephens with ghosts around royal deaths.
In Millbrook Bedfordshire investigators uncover two life size stone statues buried in the churchyard after a local myth claimed they were once removed from an altar tomb and later moved to a rectory cellar and buried. The figures, partly mutilated and in Elizabethan garb, were found after community tip and an old inhabitant named a likely spot.
A Sydney message reports the death of Mr O Hara recently elected member of the Assembly for Paddington and a leading figure in Labour circles among several prominent men who died of influenza.
On Friday evening the Presbyterian choir led by Rev Johnstone performed at the school with Mayfield friends. Soloists included Miss Fleming and Miss Taylor. duets by Rev Johnstone with Miss Withel and Miss Taylor. Other contributors were Miss Oakley from Ashburton and Messrs Craighead and McLean. Recitations by Miss Trevurza and Mr Milne. Revs McIntyre Wakanu Marshall and Afe Lean spoke. J R Simpson moved thanks. A supper closed the event.
The coroner presided at a hospital inquest into the death of Tanest Hatchard aged 18 a single man from Greenstreet. Hatchard, a cooper at Islington Freezing Works, left home weeks earlier in good health. A note to his mother dated June 13 offered no hint of self harm. Evidence described a pursuit, a paddock search, and a gunshot wound to the skull with powder residue. Police traced the scene and a verdict of suicide was returned.
The Ashburton County Rugby Union held a meeting to discuss reopening matters and to arrange a joint senior and junior match with Springburn Club at Ashburton on June 25. A subcommittee will review EH Aldridge's medical expenses, referees were named for Thursday games, and July 3 was set for a Town vs Country fixture with club nominations.
A garbled 19th century ad style snippet references Baxter’s Ling Pre nerver and Chamberlain’s Digest Diarrhea Remedy as handy cures. It mentions a mother’s instinct and common childhood sniffles and sneezes, with notes on summer diarrhoea and a chemist or store setting.
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