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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 27, 1912
Page
4
O o J B Christian located at the corner of Arcade and Tancred Street in Ashburton.
Bracelets Ruby and Diamond Rings marked in plain figures sell at overstocked prices. Call for details. Mention of Loewes Pipes priced at 2s hints at clearance style pricing and quick sale intentions.
Arcade noon sale and horse fair. Clearing sale at Sherwood Saturday. Weekly produce and poultry sales at Farmers' Co operative Association Mr Henry Stephenson's Arcade properties sale.
Victoria Tali host Mrs. FE Hugo lecturing on diaries and handwriting at Mayfield Hall begins 7. Sale of Work and Concert and Dance at Staveley Hall followed by the Dairymen's Annual Social.
S M Court 11 a m St Stephen s Schoolroom 230 Mothers Union Meeting Tinwald Town Board 730 Orange Hall Quadrille Assembly Dancing Class Long Night
A Scottish Gothenburg plan analysis compares Gothenburg and Norwegian systems with Ashburton limits. It notes that licenses sit with a municipal linked society, profits capped, and debates whether such controls reduce harm or tempt vigilance and deceit in liquor distribution.
The piece contrasts Norway’s rule that any surplus over 5 percent from public funds must fund charities and public utilities with Sweden and Scotland’s Gothenburg model. It notes Norwegian profits go to benevolent causes, while Scottish Gothenburg pubs in Fife were privately run yet profitable, with profits spent on parks, halls, and housing rather than tax or public coffers.
Reports say footballers’ clothes in the Domain pavilion were raided during games. A man arrested for drunkenness at Ashburton Station was fined 10s with 48 hours’ imprisonment and costs. Agricultural and pastoral industries are praised for exporting up to 90 percent of Dominion profits. Wireless talks with Maman and Miltiades showcase distant communications. Rural mail deliveries expand using regulation tester boxes and motor cycles. Ashburton offers a clearance sale on bicycles from £10 and second-hand stock from £1.
News notes the death of Sir John Logan Campbell marks Mr C D R Ward of Dunedin as the last survivor of New Zealand's 1856 House elected under responsible government. The item also covers tram fare reforms, education inspector proposals, a Timaru court interest, farm implement shows, and motor car pricing.
The Governor's Speech outlines new administration after resignations, notes deaths of Jas McGowan and Sir John Logan Campbell, and recalls the Titanic disaster. It covers defence shifts for New Zealand, training and discipline in the Territorial Force, rifle clubs expansion, and new field guns. It also details land settlement, native land surveys, and agricultural development.
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