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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 20, 1919
Page
4
Store offers a wide range of canned goods, jams and baking powder with new stock items and deep cuts. Includes Kirkpatrick jam made from Sunny Nelson fruit, Golden Bee Jam, Nestle coffee products, Bennet flour and rice, and glassware and lamps on sale with several jar clearing prices.
Rush of orders hits tailoring trade as experts offer Chart Suits instead of bespoke work. Dozens choose Chart Suits to avoid long waits while enjoying machine tailored service and top fabrics from world looms. Get measured for a Chart Suit now for style and satisfaction.
Daily memoranda advertise auction sales at Farmers' Co operative Association and allied marts including Stephenson Kinmont Friedlander and Landale. Upcoming meetings amusements and dances are scheduled at His Majesty's Theatre Rand Hall and Band Hall with times for football club dance and formation meetings of the A and P Association.
A Rangiora Borough poll shows 151 for the change and 145 against with 1 informal vote. The article notes other items including a large linen sale by the British Government and an import ban on wheatmeal and ground wheat in New Zealand. Inspector Kershaw visits Mount Somers to inspect miners dwellings.
The Royal Commission on the last year’s influenza outbreak is urged to prompt action and housing reform. It recommends dividing Health Districts, improving public health administration, and large scale housing measures. A Canterbury reform is highlighted and ministerial accountability debated.
McDonald and Dunlop merchant tailors East Street advertise agency for Millichamp and Sons Nurgery Ashburton with contact numbers. They offer large stocks of apples pears cherries plums peaches nectarines quinces gooseberries currants and a splendid collection of forest hedge and ornamental shrubs plus spraying oils lime and sulfur seeds and produce lines. Delivery by cart twice daily with options for faster service.
The 1918 Finance Act compulsion will begin with 3 percent interest on compulsory War Loan investments. Voluntary subscribers receive credit when compulsory sections start. The National Mutual Life Association offers a policy meeting Act requirements, with the benefits of ordinary life insurance. Full premiums details available from National Mutual Life Association.
A notice indicates Perpetual Trustees acting as trustees and executors with a Handsbesk Gratis provision available on request.
Before the war sons canaries were reared in Germany. Now most singing birds are produced in England. On March 1 the acreage in France of cereal crops under cultivation was about 30 percent less than normal pre war acreage.
Dr. Cleary the Bishop of Auckland has returned home after ten weeks in hospital though not fully restored. Mr Louis Cordner is appointed clerk to the South Rakaia Read Board. Locum tenens Dr Todd leaves July 1 for Auckland. Wakanui Board notes Mrs Adams honored at social dinner. Returned Soldiers Association pall-bearers attend funeral with Mayor Galbraith and Mr Ferriman present. Last Post sounded by Bugle D H Moore. Weather in Manawatu described as wet and cold during the show.
A reflective note on songs learned from a mother, sung from memory while recalling affection and gratitude. The speaker recalls childhood rhymes, the comfort of maternal guidance, and the lasting debt of love owed to the mother. The text references a family scene and the timeless bond of shared songs.
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