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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 29, 1909
Page
2
An ad proclaims lower cash prices for meat to all town and suburbs. Ewe mutton parts now 2d to 4d per lb with various cuts listed. primest wether mutton cut to cost price with several cuts priced. beef and small goods receive marked reductions. Booking fee half to one penny per lb, 24 percent discount for accounts paid next month. A trial solicited.
The record lists hours from 9 a.m. to 5 30 p.m. for a private residence located on Cameron Street West.
Well improved 140 acre farm with 5 room dwelling scullery bath wash-house dairy 6 stall stable trap house and workshop at Ashburton Forks.
Notice directs visitors to a winter show featuring Burnett Street stock on display. It highlights a large stock collection and invites public attendance to view the items showcased in the event.
The record lists phase dates for the full moon last quarter new moon and first quarter with corresponding times. It also notes perigee and apogee events with specific times in the cycle.
The British Government pursues labor exchanges and compulsory unemployment insurance as a remedy for joblessness. Churchill outlines costs and structure for regional clearing houses and benefit payments. The piece then surveys volunteer military service history and compares past royal generosity to modern state encouragement.
Reports from the Ashburton and South Canterbury Hospital Boards show little news on the planned Fairlie consumptive canatorium. The town records light rain and frost, with snow on the hills, and unemployment relief calls easing. A Hinds school party and a Go-cart sale offer local diversions amid civic notes.
Peas and beans fetch 8 a d per peck and 2s per peck in Wellington while Timaru wheat exports grow. Auckland reports a mild season with only light frosts. Oamaru and Timaru meat auctions continue strong. Council lamps on Ashburton Bridge unlit alarm residents. new registrar appointments announced. UK trade and local dairy yields cited. Geraldine mail arrangements improved. Military life anecdotes at a Wellington concert. Feilding courthouse opened. NZ justice buildings count noted. Farm union remarks and NZ vs NSW boot trade competition discussed. Immigrant ships Morayshire and Tarskina bring assisted passengers, families, and workers to Wellington. Advertising notice for L G S McClurg watches and H Carson bicycles concludes item.
Horace Bastings longtime Waikaia representative in the House of Representatives from 1875 to 1882 died at his Ponsonby residence this afternoon. Joseph Ainge proprietor of the Grandotel died of heart trouble in Dunedin on June 29.
The Christchurch City Council received Dr. C. J. Russell’s letter requesting authority to cremate his body at the city destructor after death. The letter was referred to the Reserves Committee with power to act for decision on cremation power and costs.
The Union Steam Ship Company will discuss winter substitution of the Patea for the Mararoa with Hon J A Millar. The Mararoa is to resume the Lyttelton run on September 1 and the report mentions awaiting Millar’s arrival in Dunedin soon.
The Attorney-General issued instructions that if the grant of licenses in the King Country is beyond the Committes powers, proceedings should test the grant by certiorari in the Supreme Court. The notice dates from June 29.
The New Zealand Chess Association decided last night to institute country clubs' tournament events for this year to encourage local clubs. Wellington report notes the move aims to broaden participation across the country.
The Star details staff moves including Richardson from Addington to Wellington as Locomotive Engineer and Evans from Hillside to succeed him. Haskins moves from Government Inspector at Prica Bros Foundry Thames. Hillside replacements named for the Wellington shops project. Also notes a medicine RHEU MO promising rapid relief for uric acid related pains.
United States and Britain back a new company planning five steamers to transport Argentine beef and foreign meat to Europe starting in October, with a later Buenos Aires packing plant goal. Half capital from America, half from Britain, to preempt Chicago packers.
A movement backed to create international student interchange proposes a three year trial costing 4500 pounds annually. It would award 14 travelling scholarships 10 for the United States and four for Canada and set up information bureaux in New York and London. The honorary secretary is Mr Cress of the University Club Birmingham.
The Times comments on the Imperial Defence Conference noting battleships act in concentration while cruisers guard communications. It argues dominions could provide interchangeable cruisers with the Motherland to better embody fleet unity than battleships.
The Times notes Lord Charles Beresford’s premature remarks on imperial defence face strong objections while the Daily News attacks him and backs Admiral Sir John Fisher. The Morning Post and Standard stress the speech’s importance as press debate centers on naval readiness.
The Times reports the press conference as memorable and a milestone on the road to unity, with the Daily Mail summarizing the event as a notable step forward.
A London Liberal meeting in the House of Commons argues that licensing based on annual value unfairly burdens London pubs. They claim publicans would favor a sixpence per pound on liquor. Under the bill London would pay about 30 percent of the duty though it holds only about one-tenth of the population.
Reuter's Pekin correspondent says Chinese attacked Harrah a Native surveyor in Indian service and Mr Sowerby an interpreter with two meteorological expeditions under Lieutenant Clark near Lundon All killed others rescued At the instance of the American Ambassador the Board of Foreign Affairs Alfatra held an enquiry and dismissed the Viceroy of Kansa.
The U S Senate adopted Aldrich's amendment allowing President Taft to impose a double duty on pulp and a duty of eight dollars per ton on news printing paper if Canada maintains restrictions on pulp and wood exports.
In Berlin on June 28 Prince Bulow sought permission to resign immediately. The Kaiser deferred action until Bulow’s finance reform efforts produced a position acceptable to the Federal Government.
A brief note describes a night time hacking cough among children in the woods. It mentions a remedy labeled Great Peppermint Cure and references two individuals named Ig and 2s Gd in conjunction with the remedy.
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