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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 19, 1914
Page
4
Tomorrow's events include weekly produce and poultry sales at Farmers' Co operative Association's mart and Mr Henry Stephenson's mart. Also announced are two property sales by Mr A Stephenson.
Notices list events with His Majesty's Theatre showings and a bachelors annual ball at Lismore Schoolroom. Details reference various times and venues for pictures and matinee performances.
Mr T E Sedgwick urged bringing 2000 boys to work on Dominion farms with wages, clothing, and voyage costs arranged by the state. The Immigration Minister refused action until after the next session, despite a history of successful placements and calls for a vigorous policy.
Parishioners of Rakaia seek permission to sell the vicarage to build near the church. Juvenile Court adjourns cases of two youths charged with breaking and stealing from the Ashburton NZ Farmers Co operative Association after guilty pleas. A Dunedin businessman seeks a horse handler for a Central Otago fruit farm. 30 applications received. Horace Drummond, Wellington manager for Mesera took Son, charged with £350 theft, remanded to Wednesday with bail. Southland League forms in Invercargill with prominent figures backing it. North Island dairying reports record production and Weddell Cup for Matakana Factory. Radium as a cancer cure debated by American surgeons. cautions about ineffectiveness. Isle of Man TT results: Douglas wins multiple Junior TT placings. new models on display at G B Carson’s in Yencred Street.
The piece notes government interference halting a beneficial immigrant labor plan, leaving farmers reliant on outsiders. Rumors allege London officials pressured the move due to Sedgwick's progress in recruiting suitable boy immigrants, with calls for official explanation of the obstructive action.
The district reports youths in Masterton earning three to four shillings daily from salvaging vinegar bottles. Vestry of the Nativity in Blenheim denounces Sunday picture shows. Timaru hosts a space for a public art gallery opening. A trawler Wakatipu sinks after drifting from its moorings. A police court case in Christchurch involves obscene language.
The death is announced in Dunedin of Mr Robert Chisholm managing director of Scoullar and Chisholm and ex Mayor of Dunedin He arrived in Dunedin from Scotland in 1858 The report notes other names and honours including Cambridge Tripos results for Miss Knagegs and a Morris chair gift to W T Bond on his 4th birth anniversary and 21st year with the Nelson Colonist staff
Aleppo won the Ascot Gold Cup with Willbrook finishing second and Junior third, securing victory in a classic turf race reported from London.
London report notes Field took five wickets for 26 runs and Foster four for 33 as England county clash with Gloucester proceeded.
Weather was fine and Prest-Avich greens proved tricky as 8000 spectators watched the first round. Vardon 73 and Taylor and Breid 74 led. Ouimet 86 struggled from bunker after bunker with other top scores including Williamson 75 and Ockenden 75. Second round leaders show Vardon 150, Ockenden 161, Taylor 158, Ouimet 168.
Gordon Lowe loses to Gordon Lowe in a three set contest 6-2 3-6 6-2 6-3. Wilding and Brookes defeat Dunlop and Harding 9-7 6-1. Myers and Biddle rout Dunlop and Biddle 6-0 6-1.
In Invercargill on June 19 the Southland Restoration League endorsed seven year prohibitions after repeal, set 60 percent as the vote threshold for no license, demanded details on replacing £1,000,000 revenue loss, and argued against enforcing Invercargill style no-license methods that harm the community.
Judgment by default issued in multiple cases including Andrew Orr and Co. Ltd v Thomas and others with small claims. other actions include Mary Ann Giles v William Lee Bucur for £22, and John O'Kane seeking a judgment summing order. Breach cases involve a driver and a man fined for offensive conduct on a railway carriage and failure to attend drill.
At Hamilton on June 19 the watersiders strike echo is heard in the Supreme Court. Stuart Dixon, president of the Huntly Miners Union, sues the Federation of Labour for 1000 pounds alleging a libellous statement in the Maoriland Worker branding him a va scalab. The case proceeds before Mr Justice Edwards.
A fire at 7 am damaged a two-storey wooden shop on the Avenue housing the Victoria Tea Rooms Frost draper and Poynter bag seller. The tea rooms upstairs were the origin, downstairs shops suffered serious water damage. The building belonged to Mrs John Anderson and insurances total £2750 on contents and stock.
The notice urges thousands of housewives to use Camp Coffee for economy and health reasons. It extols the product as usable to the last drop and warns against waste, praising its practicality.
The OCR text hints at a fragmented 19th or early 20th century notice discussing illness afoot and a home remedy approach. It mentions a tom-tom tone and a person named Woods and a Peppermint Cure. The legibility is poor and key facts are unclear.
In the Darlinghurst hold up case dated May 6, jurors found David Kernahan not guilty of participating. Backhouse, who kept watch, urged two offenders to show cause for fines of £2. The offenders were fined and detained until payment.
Albert Gordon Smith alias John Ross, an Australian habitual criminal, admitted to three Auckland burglaries during Christmas. He confessed to breaking into F R Bailew, W Roberts, and F Maxwell premises on December 25 26 and 28, stealing jewellery valued at various sums. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.
In London May, Sir Clement Markham questions Mr Roosevelt's claim of a new river in Brazil. The discussion focuses on latitude longitude, the Tapajos Madeira system, and whether the waterway is a new river or an existing course misread by explorers and locals.
A fragmentary weather note reports yesterday’s rain ending in the evening with a cool night and a few showers this morning. Conditions today are bright and sunny with variable winds from the south. forecasts indicate cold and showery weather with an unsteady barometer and rising readings.
Fragmentary text mentions a cure described as pepperment style for a gal aged 26 to 68. No coherent event or full identities provided.
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