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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 25, 1907
Page
2
The eighty thousand bank clerks in Britain and colonies consider forming a union to press for higher wages. A veteran bank officer notes junior clerks earn about £40 a year, with higher grades getting similar pay, and argues underpayment fuels crime and social stress.
Frost registered at Ashburton Domain this morning as ponds show a skim of ice. Frosty conditions persist with icy surface likely to support skating. Local notes mention a Wellington appointee as Feilding’s new larough engineer at 400 a year and council decisions on grants and civic matters.
Captain Edwin notes easterly winds and falling barometer as New Zealand news covers a range of topics from voting machine production in Hillside Workshops to Southland trades protests against a proposed £100,000 fast steam line. The issue stretches to sport, farmers profits, and public notices across Wellington, Gisborne, and Dunedin.
An advertisement touts Rheumo as a universal remedy for rheumatism sciatica lumbago and gut issues. It promises rapid relief with purchases at chemists and stores priced 2s 6d or 4s 6d and urges avoiding Rotorna thermal springs.
At the close of the union meeting president W G Roberts awarded a fine oak liqueur stand to vice president A A Tools. Roberts praised Fooks for support. In a separate church event Mrs W R Davies and Miss Readhead received autograph books as they departed Ashburton for Australia.
The Hampstead Town Board appeals a decision by Mr W. G. Day S.M. on cost apportionment for maintaining roads in Hampstead Town District. The case before His Honour Mr Justice Chapman in Christchurch tomorrow features Mr Purnell for the appellant and Mr Orbell for the respondent.
Labour members of the House of Commons were specially presented to the King at Windsor during a garden party. T. E. Hammond completed a 104 mile London to Brighton and back run in 18 hours 12 minutes 7 sets. Olley set a 1000 mile road cycling record in 106 hours 3 minutes. Reece’s billiard break soared to 262135. Gels and Ormand Mashey won the golf championship with 312 strokes. Japan’s chambers of commerce warn anti Japanese demonstrations harm trade relations. Salar-ed-Dawlali seeks life-saving assurances from Hamadan authorities.
Canterbury College Board of Governors heard that the Education Department will not pursue legislation this session to vest the Coldstream Reserve in the college for university purposes. The board plans to press government and Home Affairs representatives to secure the reserve, linked to funding and the chemical laboratory project. Also noted was the appointment of Miss Anne Gilchrist to Canterbury College as Professor of Home Economics with resignation anticipated from Tennessee University.
London market report lists Canterbury and North Island lamb and mutton prices. Mutton quotes include Canterbury light 41d and heavy 33d, North Island 83d, lamb Canterbury light 54d and medium 54d, North Island 41-16d. Southland offerings vary with no bids.
Paris reports discuss Var department peasants demanding resignation of M Clemenceau's senate seat. Albert met Clemenceau at the Interior Ministry, urged troop withdrawal and release of Ferroul, Clemenceau demanded surrender to the law. London Reuters notes Clemenceau urged Albert to steer peasants to legality.
M Jaures quotes in Journal Humane an appeal from the General Confederation of Labour to the proletariat. The manifesto praises the Agde soldiers for their mutiny and predicts the imminent collapse of the bourgeois class.
A bill in the Chamber of Deputies would compel wine growers to declare annual crop amounts and impose supplementary taxes on sugar. It would also require grocers selling over 25 idles to declare quantities. Southern deputies acknowledge the measure should improve the situation promptly.
Disturbances over grazing in Roscommon escalate to armed police deployment as authorities equip rural units with the latest magazine rifle pattern to counter unrest in lonely areas.
The High Commissioner reports London market cables on June 22 noting weak mutton and lamb demand with heavy Canterbury and North Island stocks. Beef strengthens only for top quality while butter remains firm and Bradford wool tops show quiet trading with varied price quotes across crossbred and merino lines.
Mr Redmond spoke at New Ross unveiling a memorial to Wexford’s 1798 battle dead, asserting the national principle would not be surrendered. He urged unity for Ireland’s freedom, warning England she must win Irish goodwill through granting freedom, not colonial goodwill.
The potato blight has appeared in many parts of Ireland. The Department of Agriculture recommends immediate preventive measures to be taken.
In Auckland June 24 the Hon Mr Millar's Christchurch remarks on anomalies in the kauri timber trade drew mixed reaction in timber circles. Prominent sawnmillers say wholesalers do not control the forests, deny any miller ring, and complain of unreliable ministerial information. They oppose a further board of control as unnecessary and intrusive.
Mr P. Kelly is remanded to gaol for a week on incitement charges. Tensions run high in Galway with a planned demonstration averted by his secret arrest on arrival.
The Sinn Fein executive dissents from the National Directory policy and asserts its minimum demand is a sovereign Parliament with powers equal and coextensive with those of the British Parliament.
Mr Ure in Manchester warned against Liberal Trimming and Fashioning Bills to placate groups with constituencies under their hats. He said the Irish League's Home Rule demonstrations and calls for cooperation by Nationalist MPs and Gaelic and Athletic societies would make self government demand irresistible.
Nightcaps mine sealing completed after a fire, limiting output at some sections. The incident leaves widows and several children affected, with three families named. Damage deemed comparatively slight and production only temporarily restricted.
The Committee of Public Accounts condemns the Ayrshire Foundry Company for concealing a large rudder casting defect in the battleship King Edward VII by electric welding. A dismissed employee revealed the deception. The firm is bankrupt, blamed on lost Admiralty orders.
The Lords committees elected Lord Zusebury as chairman of the committee handling Lord Newton's bill and ordered a complete set of official papers on past attempts to reform the House of Lords.
Daily Long Island burglaries escalate as robbers employ motor cars revolvers chlorofurm and spray guns. Millionaire residents organize an eight member private detective force to guard property on the island.
June reports describe a cyclone along the coast with a hurricane passage over the Mice group in mid April. Natalselio island was devastated with 8000 coconut trees leveled and native houses demolished. A separate note from Perth says a timber dispute ended with a cooperative agreement and work resumes.
At the stud sheep show in Sydney on June 24 New Zealand claims multiple prizes led by W Nixon with the Leicestor ram two years winning first and seconds for eighteen months ewes and various Border Leicester and ram classes. J Nixon also secures numerous second and third places across two and under eighteen month categories.
In Wanganui a nine year old boy fell into the river and was rescued by John Braid after E O Neil failed to swim. George Kidd died at his Saddle Hill home in Dunedin after illness. George Gavyn Philips was fatally injured by a falling tree while bush fel ing at Mangaopao and died in hospital. Hugh Welch, a former athlete, drowned near Huriwa Mahanga. James Cormisky, burned in a Wharekopai station fire, was committed to hospital.
Wellington dispatch notes ministers doubt a dissolution this session, hoping to survive with a small majority. Tariff reforms aimed at removing anomalies are expected to pass with broad public support, while Labour lobbies plan bills including regulating Chinese laundry owners who enlist employees as partners.
Public Works Under-Secretary Me H J L Blow returns to Auckland from inspecting the North Trunk Railway works. He reports Raurimu to Rangitoto about 28 miles, Ohakune extension to start, rail gap reduced to 24 miles in three months, spiral rail laying to Makatate Viaduct finishing by Christmas, viaducts to Horopito by year end, leaving only four miles. A through train should run 426 miles in twenty hours by end of 1908.
The Arbitration Court seated in Wellington on June 24 sets pay scales for bottling workers. Factory foreman £3 weekly, cordial makers £3, machine bottler £2 10s, bottle washers £2 2s, casual labour 1s per hour, Sundays and holidays 1s 6d per hour. Preference to Unionists.
At J Sydney on June 24 the AJ C spring meet lists Solution top on 9 stone 9 pounds for the Epsom Handicap with Maniapoto Mahutonga and others below. Metropolitan Handicap weights crown Poseidon 9st 9lb and top on Solution 9st 0lb with Putty 8st 11lb and Cross Battery Subterranean among others.
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