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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 21, 1921
Page
4
Ibbotson and Son and Cash Supply Stores advertise in bold terms, inviting customers to buy in dozen lots for the lowest prices on a wide range of groceries and soaps. The display lists vegetables, cleaning products, and metal goods with numerous 6d to 1s pricing units and multiple item quantities.
Local delivery service promises home drop offs twice daily with a full assortment of items. No further details on service areas or pricing are provided.
Sele Agents for The Royal Broadwood Piano advertise Broadwood pianos with 200 years of royal provenance from George II onward. The latest model is featured in the window, housed in English mahogany with copperised fittings. Located at Bristol Piano Company new premises Hast Street Ashburton managed by E M Spellerberg.
General note on men's outerwear pricing contrasts cheap inferior stock with quality lines. The advertiser claims to avoid panic pricing and to maintain traditions of quality. They invite customers to visit and discover a compelling inducement to buy, emphasizing dependable, well cut overcoats.
Local apparel store operates at Burnett Street offering men’s and boys’ clothing with telephone contact listed as 166 for inquiries and fittings.
Second edition lists Tonight's amusements with 8 pm show at His Majesty's Theatre for two 10-MORROW pictures. Winchmore Hall hosts a Bachelors Ball at 8 pm, Wakanui a W. Butterick farm demonstration at 10 am, and Coldstream holds a social and dance at 8 pm.
Dr J L Cope leads a voyage to Graham’s Land seeking new whaling grounds and Antarctic weather data. The mission, linked to Shackleton’s era, aims to forecast Australia’s climate variability and may traverse toward the South Pole. Captain Wilkins notes commercial and scientific goals guiding the expedition.
The article discusses using Ross Sea observatories and wireless to forecast Australian weather, linking Antarctic and Australian patterns. It notes past expeditions hinting at a sea‑level connection, the value of wireless reports from Cope explorers, and the broader aim of uncovering mineral wealth and mapping uncharted Antarctic regions.
Contents include farm labour wages in Pajaro Valley with tasks and rates, an inquest into James Classey’s death at St. Andrews Church finding cerebral hemorrhage, a Tancred Street window advert for half price coats from G Hefford and Co in Ashburton, and Woods' Great Peppermint Cure advertisement for children’s hacking cough.
Variable winds with rain and snow in high country, unsettled conditions likely. The Staveley Cheese Factory earned awards at the Manawatu Winter Show with top placings for full cream Cheddar and coloured four tocheese. Boxer A Terris won in Christchurch and Bob Williams defeated Pat Gleeson in Australia in three round pro bouts. Bunz Studio expanded with an electric retoucher and rapid print washer to improve quality and permanence of photos.
The selectors announce Ashburton County XV to play Malvern Sub-Union on Saturday at an undisclosed venue. Full-back Stimes. three-quarters Sullivan Stills Holford. halves Horgan Burns. wing Dennehy. forwards Argyle Daly Duggan Francis Brown. back rank er Fitzgerald tic. emergencies Minchan Mead Manchester Mollison Templeton.
The Ashburton Poultry Pigeon and Canary Society anticipates a record Winter Show with major gains in roots needlework baking and bread soap and home made items. Entries rise across open bread scones cakes needlework and poultry with strong participation from South Island breeders and fanciers.
London June 20 engineers at Harrow passed a resolution to resist wage cuts and instructed executives and unions to aid miners in maintaining a decent living standard.
A morning blaze at Suarangi Old People's Home broke out in the boiler-room shortly after 1 am. Log piles ignited and were quickly held to the boiler area by Master F H Knight and two attendants with extinguishers and water. Firefighters, aided by Ashburton Brigade, tackled attic smoke, with damage limited to charred logs and two ceiling holes. The incident exposed inadequate fire-fighting gear at the Home and sparked discussions on connecting to Borough mains or obtaining a hand-pumped cart to improve rapid response. Insurance stood at £6000, deemed insufficient for current costs.
An eight-room house at Ravensbourne owned by William Dunne, a figure in racing circles, burned down with no water available. Total loss listed at £1200.
A Huntly train collided with a motor-car at a crossing in Auckland. Dr. McDermott of Huntly and another passenger were aboard the car. The driver tried to back the train to avoid impact but could not, leaving the car damaged while the passengers escaped unhurt.
The body found on Birkenhead beach on Tuesday is Myrtle Underhill Ingles, formerly of Thames then Hamilton, where she lived with her mother after her father died. She was 28, single, and had come to Auckland for a holiday.
In Invercargill this day an inquest into the death of John Robert Thompson a chemist of Wyndham found dead in bed heard medical evidence that he died of heart failure caused by excessive use of alcohol and drugs. A verdict of death by heart failure from overuse was returned.
Poem fragments describe a geisha mare on deserted sands of Japan sighing for Sayonara. The speaker Yosamal endures tears and cold Fuji Yas maintained by a playful line about a peppermint cure called Wouda Great Peppermint Onre for influenza.
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