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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 27, 1912
Page
7
Hollis and Son and others offer single and double barrel guns at special low prices this month. Ladies tweed coats and proof coats also cut to special prices for the remainder of the season. Boys’ golf stockings in several boroughs and schools advertised with boots offered at right prices.
Clothing that is pressed and machine made lacks brains and shape. Tailor Made Clothes offer lasting form and prudence. The store has all New Season materials and invites customers to choose suit length and style.
A London report states an Australian cargo of wheat sold for 41 shillings 6 pence per bushel. The sale underscores market strength for export grain with Australian origins and London buyers engaging in the deal.
At the Sheep-breeders Association annual show in Sydney on June 26 New Zealand winners dominated. J Dowthwaite led multiple classes taking firsts and seconds across Border Leicester rams and ewes in two years and over, under two years, and under 18 months categories. J Nixon and J Dowthwaite received commendations in several divisions.
Paris reports the Senate adopted a bill to modify regulations and temporarily admit foreign wheat. The Minister of Agriculture said speculators caused a shortage to force duty suspension, but the plot failed.
Christchurch June 26 good fat sheep entries with full pens and large attendance. Store sheep rose in price with brisk competition. lambs sold 6d to 9d higher. Fat pens saw small lamb entries and strong demand from exporters with prime lots advancing. Fat sheep and wethers unchanged overall. cattle, dairy cows and pigs quoted with steady to firmer prices amid active bidding.
An elderly resident in Wellington suffered severe bruises after being swept by last week’s gale and colliding with a telegraph pole. The piece notes living wage debates at the Arbitration Court and criticizes urban Māori presence and public law observance, urging Arbor Day restoration led by the new Ministry. It ends with an ad for Great Peppermint CrDetailed chest remedy.
The note records strong demand for weaners and classes 16 to 20 with prices around 128 6d to Lda. The terse line indicates brisk trading and favorable buyer interest among livestock dealers.
At Burnside today a big cattle yarding of 200 fat stock included many medium weight bullocks and heifers with some extra good examples. Prime bullocks reached £143 2s 6d and up to £14 17s 6d, primes heifers to £10, and fat sheep yarding reached 496 with export buyers quieter and prices easing. 2665 fat lambs were penned and mostly sold to export buyers at about 1s to 1s 6d below last week.
A Geraldine stock sale shows reduced yarding with dull store sheep demand. Fat lambs bring 17s 5d down to 13s, fat ewes range 10s 4d to 18s 8d, and fat wethers around 28s 6d. Forward ewes sell at 7s 6d. steers fetch £4 7s 6d and yearling steers 22s 6d. Mr R Hammond Te Moana farm and Mr J W Macdonald residence were offered but passed in after the sale.
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