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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 20, 1916
Page
7
Advertises a limited time sale of men’s clothing with emphasis on coats overcoats underwear and raincoats at reduced prices. Highlights include Scotch tweed overcoats and raincoats marked down from standard prices and urges men to shop before stock runs out. Includes specific price references and notes shipment cause.
Ashburton Borough Council met last evening with His Worship the Mayor RY Galbraith presiding. A motion lamenting Earl Titchener’s death was carried. Overdrafts stood at £6868 8s 1d. receipts totaled £289 12s 10d. Various committee reports and building permits were discussed, including water supply terms with Hampstead Town Board and a £50 donation to Sailors’ Dependents Fund.
The Abattoir Committee reported fees effective June 19 1916 for meat slaughtered outside the Borough and sold locally. Charges include 3s per cattle carcass, 1s for calves, 3d per pig over 100lb, and 8d per pig under 100lb. Dr Buchanan defended the tariff as a public health measure and the council unanimously adopted the report.
The eighth episode of the serial film The Million Dollar Mystery titled The Wiles of a Woman screens tonight at His Majesty's Theatre. Norton foils conspirators in a sewer confrontation and Florence remains engaged. Other features include Birds at Home, Strength, Pathe Gazette, Billie's Heiress, Lovers Lost Control, and a Chaplin Keystone comedy Making a Tiv ing.
The Chairman reported a bank debit balance of 377 pounds 6s 6d. Receipts since the last meeting totaled 6 pounds 178s 6d, including plot sales 4 pounds and burial fees 2 pounds 17s 6d. Accounts amounted to 9 pounds 12s 8d.
The Pandarves town hall gathering of the Lady Liverpool Society saw strong attendance as members and friends packed a box of comforts for boys in captive service destined for the Christchurch depot. Treasurer Mr Tom Hampton gave £8 6s to the secretary Miss Doak for the fund. The evening featured progressives euchre, dancing, and a ladies’ supper before adjournment.
A noisy OCR fragment asks a chemist for cold remedy and specific codes NA-407 and NA-20. It mentions a misread name NAROL or NAROL ron and urges to look for the name. The text reads like OCR glitches rather than a complete report.
A Napier crowd in the Municipal Theatre backs resolutions urging the Prime Minister to pass legislation barring naturalised subjects of German parentage from holding or standing for local and national offices. They also support stronger measures against German duplicity and urge consideration of Vigor Brown's Naturalised Subjects Transnational Bill.
An aged advert extols Baxter's Lung Preserver as a tonic and remedy for chest and bronchial troubles. It promises rejuvenation and lasting demand after 50 years, with sales at chemists and storekeepers and a price of 10d for a large bottle.
Fragmentary text shows a shadow, misery in visage, a whispered song and a reference to Woods' Peppermint Cure. indicates a damaged poetic fragment with themes of haunting and recovery, lacking clear events or identities.
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