Labour conditions in Ashburton reported by Department of Labour
The Journal notes mixed activity in Ashburton. Trade and business are normal with few idle workers. Some sectors like dairy and meat-freezing show reduced activity, while building, carpentry, plumbing, and electrical trades report varying demand and full or steady employment. Agricultural work continues but with grass scarce and short feed. Unskilled labor remains in short supply.
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Ashburton
Department of Labour
Thers Ik
Christchurch Stock Market Outlook Harsh on Cattle and Sheep
June reports from Addington show strong entries and good attendance with firmer prices for fat lambs and ewes while fat cattle ease slightly. Yardings include 2015 fat lambs and 290 fat cattle, with brisk exports and rising demand from exporters and butchers.
Burnside Stock Market Ladles Prices In Yarded Sale
Burnside Delivers cattle yarded with prime bullocks 11 to 12 pounds and up to 14 1s, cows and heifers 8 to 9 pounds. Fat sheep 6d to 1s, 4050 penned with prime wethers rising 1s per head. best wethers 18s 6d to 21s 6d, ewes 15s 6d to 23s. Fat lambs 14s to 18s, pigs 86 penned with parkers about 7s higher due to shortage.
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Christchurch
North Island
Dunedin
Burnside
Australian Markets Roundup June 21 Ocean Trade Highlights
Sydney reports dull wheat trade with shippers bidding 3s 3d and millers 3s 4d. Flour prices London and colonial parities listed. Peas and maize quoted with regional variations. Melbourne notes firm hides and stable cheese. wheat inquiry improved to 3s dd to 4s 4d. potatoes and bran prices listed. Adelaide shows wheat and flour ranges with maize and onions noted.
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Sydney
Cheese—Ltd
Melbourne
Adelaide
Onte
Johnson Curran fight set for end of July in Dublin
London reports Johnson will meet Curran in a ten round bout at the Theatre Royal in Dublin at the end of July. Parliament adjourned until Monday. In other items Bank of New Zealand shares quoted £12 12s to £12 15s and government planning includes £6,000,000 for post-telephones development. Sydney notes Immigration League organiser doubts work for any able worker in British Islands.
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London
Johnson
Curran
Theatre Royal
Dublin
Bank of New Zealand
Samuel
Post Office
Lord Denman
Lloyd George
Mawson
Asquith
Lord Balcarres
A. Acland-Hood
Sydney
British Immigration League
Admiralty House
Newcastle
Warrimoo
Mackay
Townsville
Frm
Sheffield
Wimmera
Auckland
Railway Commissioner Takes Hard Line On Gambling Among Servants
The Chief Railway Commissioner rejects appeals of employees dismissed in a gambling raid. He vows to stamp out gambling in the service and will act harshly in all similar cases to uphold discipline.
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Sydney
Meat Trust Seeks Global Land Control Warns of Worker Opposition
In response to an inquiry the Minister of Customs received a letter from the secretary of the Amalgamated Butchers' Workmen of North America. It claims the Meat Trust is expanding abroad, notes alleged control of large landed interests in Australia, and warns that opposition from workers will arise if it gains a foothold.
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Melbourne
Amalgamated Butchers’ Workmen of
North America
Meat Trust
American “Meat Trade Journal
Australia
Dean's Backache Pills Prove Back Pain Cure
A reader testimonial from Ashburton credits Dean's Backache Kidney Pills with ending years of back and leg pain after a wheat lifting injury. Mrs Black concurs, noting eight years of relief and ongoing kidney support. Available from chemists and Wester McClellan CoSydney with a urging to obtain DOAN'S.
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Ashburton
Dean
Wester-McClellan Co
Pitt Street
Sydney
Doan’s
World cattle production shifts across continents
Cattle supplies vary by region with Australasia gaining 1.0 million head and Russia adding 1.5 million while Canada and the United States drop by 1.0 million. Total stocks in the latter pair stand near 79 million, beef consumption reaches 18.5 million annually, and southern republics Argentine and Uruguay gate export volumes as meat groups source most shipments for the United Kingdom.
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Australasia
Russia
Canada
United States
Argentine
Uruguay
Republica
United Kingdom
Fever Cure Claim Spurs Mixed Public Hype
An old newspaper blurb touts an influenza remedy called Woods' Great Perperaint Cure claiming it never fails. The brief notes public interest and skepticism around such patent medicines in contemporary health reporting.
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Woods
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Symond
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