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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 28, 1913
Page
4
The fragment lists bedding items at Strange's with mentions of flax and Kapoc wafer mattresses. Dates shown include 19/6 to 22/6 and 24, 28/6 and 29/8 32/6, indicating a pricing or sale period. The text references best bordered Kapoc mattresses and various quotation marks around terms.
An old advertisement notes collapsible push carts and go carts from Williamson's featuring Plunket hoods and stock colors. It lists model names and prices in a dense catalog-like line. The fragment includes numbers and price codes typical of a period trade page.
An advertisement details Eldridge B sewing machines including hand and drophead models with oak or walnut cases and prices, plus a 10 year guarantee and cash on breakages. It also markets poultry products such as Singer Egg Feoducer, shell grit, poultry tonic, game and poultry food, urging keepers to stock essentials.
An old newspaper ad lists prepared red spraying oils for woolly aphis peach aphis red brown mixes with cold water and red spray oil pricing per gallon quart pint and per pound for wax blue stone lighting products praise a blue stone wonder lamp with 70 candle power and a no chimney draught lamp option priced at 30s 70s for higher power. The ad credits Fletcher Bros.
Ad copy lists prices for currants and muscatel sultana at Fletcher Brothers with deals like 12 lbs for 40 3 and 12 lbs for 40 3. Mentions golden sulta tubs and refined fruit items.</analysis>
The text lists prices for tins of fruits including strawberries and blackberries, marmalade, gooseberry, peach, and raspberry conserve. It mentions tartric and citric acids, washing soda, borax, sulphur, and related per pound and per item costs in a terse shop-note style.
A list highlights several properties for sale including ALFORD FOREST dairy farm with a nine-room dwelling, 260 acres, a five-stall stable, sheds, and land improvements. Terms are described as very easy with options for government lease in perpetuity and low prices. Proximity to railway, school, and post office is noted, with a comfortable dwelling and quarter-acre plots available.
Monday clearing bale sale at Lismore announced and Tuesday stock sale planned at Tinwald Yards with details stated in the notice.
Description of a good suburban home featuring four rooms and a scullery on four acres. Includes an excellent garden and orchard, suggesting ample outdoor space and productive land.
Excellent 237 acre farm with all RecA buildings in place. Well fenced and subdivided for creamery, school, post office and railway access. includes complete infrastructure and flexible layout for varied agricultural or development use.
Properties offered by Ferriman and Co include the Hekeao estate a 10 acre parcel with a dwelling house washhouse stable and a quarter mile from School and Post Office Splendid district for working men. Also for sale a Wolseley motor car 16 p 2 cylinder water cooled 5 seater with Stepney wheel plus duplicate parts and tools. Low price to effect sale. Full particulars on application.
Fragmentary notice indicates a grain and produce sale on Burnett Street with multiple buyers involved. The text is incomplete but implies a local trade event or auction of grain, feed, and produce on account of various buyers in the area.
Advertisement lists freehold and leasehold lands in Canterbury North and Waikato River areas with prices up to £40,000 and terms. Includes large sheep flock values, 000 acres and 12/6 clock prices, plus estate agents contact.
A Labour Unity Committee manifesto argues for a new unionist scheme of government though critics call it a panacea. It seeks class concessions while warning democracy must emancipate itself. The piece notes delays in reform, a six hour day, infant protection, and peace aims, with other items from land sales to rail safety.
The Mount Somers schoolchildren contributed to the Scott Memorial Fund, while the Remuera arrival to Wellington listed assisted passengers including twenty six farm labourers and forty two domestic servants with families. The Timaru Harbour Board discussed laying the ladder dredge after piecework completion to save £3000 for the year, though the topic was not decided. Chronie Chest Complaint: miguel Great Pilpermint Care def.
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