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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 25, 1913
Page
5
An advertisement from Strange's Bedding Factory touts hygienic manufacturing and sweet, pure bedding. It highlights affordable prices with a chart showing various sizes and prices, claiming high quality and reasonable cost.
Advertisement listing folding push carts and collapsible push carts with hoods. Various stock colors and prices quoted, including Williamson's Go-Carts with Plunket hoods and multiple price points. May reference dates or units in the markup.
Hand and drophead models priced from three pounds fifteen shillings to seven pounds ten shillings. Oak or walnut finishes available. Each machine carries a ten year guarantee and a stock of spare parts is held in cash to cover breakages.
An old newspaper ad lists Fletcher Bros Cowslip Calf Milk and various poultry items. Prices: 75lb bags of certain feeds, 50s bags, and 10s 6d. notes for poultry keeps. Includes eye supply guidance and products like Singer's Egg Producer and Poultry Tonic.
The notice advertises Red Spraying Oil for fruit pests with mixing instructions and pricing for tins, gallons, and related garden chemicals. Also promotes sulfur, washing soda, bluestone, and Belgian lamps offering candle-power light with claims of convenience and no odor, listing Fletcher Bros as sole agents.
Fletcher Bros lists June prices on dried fruits and jams, featuring Muscatel Sultanas, Golden Sultanas, Raisins, Tasmanian Dried Apples, Dates, Figs, Prunes, and assorted jams from Frimley and Kirepatrick. Also includes sugar, sago, tapioca, rice, lentils, beans, and basic chemicals with itemized per-pound and per-pound-equivalents.
A scanned notice lists a stock sale at Methven yards and a clearing sale at Seafield. Upcoming events include a horse fair at Arcade Friday at noon, a pruning demonstration at Rendle's Orchard, a missionary lecture at St Andrew's Church, and an annual meeting of the Old Pupils' Association at High School Assembly Hall. Also shows a pictures program at His Majesty's Theatre and a Rifle Club concert at Walser School.
The article surveys two camps over Britain's coastal defense sparked by Lord Roberts opposition. It contrasts critics who favor fleet power with those stressing food and material security, citing A. J. Balfour and H. G. Wells. Wells urges a new arm for research alongside dreadnoughts.
The article argues that future warfare will favor smaller, numerous, mobile devices over large dreadnoughts and armies. Military experts foresee the decline of the big ship and big army due to invention, with Britain’s defense hinging on protection of supply lines and naval mobility rather than sheer fleet strength.
A long Auckland telegraph reports the Star of Canada driven ashore near Gisborne with the foremast partly visible and the bow buried. observers note the stern level with high tide as the hull slowly lifts from the wreckage, while other items cover Wellington politics and railway replies.
Mr Alches' Drayton named water ranger by Ashburton County Council. Mr Hindmarsh of the Bank of New Zealand to replace R W Gibbs as manager of the Timaru branch. Lieutenant-Colonel Lind receives colonial auxiliary forces decorations and long service medal. Obvious notices include musician Herrich Balling's career and the funeral of Mr Bud S Cassels from Ashburton with Requiem Mass and local wreaths.
Wellington June 25 The Unity Congress will hear a Labour programme by Mr T Young chairing the Unity Committee. The plan calls for a single political industrial Labour organisation, pension reform, delayed residential qualification, a 60 year male age limit, voluntary military service with standard wages, a peacetime defence stance, end to conscription, free hospitals and pensions, national investments in land and housing, lower living costs via tariff reform, compulsory primary education, and a right to work with a six hour day and Saturday half holiday.
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