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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Mar 13, 1920
Page
4
The ad notes rising prices and urges customers to buy dinner and tea sets and lighting from Ibbotson and Son, late Fletcher Bros. It advertises hanging lamps from 27s 6d to £5 10s, night lights, table lamps, and other lighting options as winter approaches.
Clearing sale at Lauriston on March 22 1920 lists English Leicester and Border Leicester flocks with numerous ewes rams and ram lambs plus dairy and beef cattle. Horses draughts hack stock and farm implements accompany oils, groceries and hardware in a comprehensive consignments sale.
An extensive sale listing covers livestock including 4 cows 1 dry cow 3 heifers 3 steers 6 calves and pigs bred by C Brice Sunnyside Mental Hospital and W Lang. It also lists machinery tools furniture and household items from motors to engines seed cleaners plows carriages and a large array of kitchen and bedroom furniture with dozens of named brands and makers. The ad notes items like Panhard Levassor car tools carpentry gear sewing machines and a rich assortment of carpets and bric a brac ready for auction.
An extensive sale notice lists livestock and farm implements to be auctioned by Finnhe Ashburton Associated Auctioneers and Dalgety with items including 1000 Fat Lambs 900 Fat Ewes 100 Fat Wethers 800 Farm tools grain drills and machinery plus furniture and household goods. The sale includes ram and ewe fairs at Tinwald and Ashburton Yards and a clearing sale at Highbank Methven. A new Ashburton branch of the auctioneer is announced with emphasis on direct local service and dressings for grain and seeds.
Bonnington's Pharmacy advertises Nursery Hair Lotion as essential for homes with schoolchildren, claiming it keeps heads clean of parasites and the scalp healthy. John Orr and Co. of East Street, Ashburton, promotes Petrol Irons that are self heating, efficient, and supported by available spare parts and repairs.
An OCR fragment from Bonnington's advertises Essence, a wholesome borarage and a Delicious Svrueila' hot beverage. The text references wine, a gallon and a half quantity, and unclear product names.
Daily notices list stock sales at Mount Somers Monday and Ashburton Yards Tuesday along with meetings and amusements tonight at Stoddart's Hotel His Majesty's Theatre and various churches. It notes an Underground Drainage Scheme and the Annual Meeting of the Permanent Building and Investment Society at the Society's Taicred Street office.
The Railway Department confirms a Royal train composition with three day coaches and specific cars, while Petone workshops prepare the Royal car. Harvest activity rises across Canterbury with strong turnip yields and good rainfall easing irrigation concerns. Farmers forecast a bright winter with ample feed and rising prices as fat sheep sales surge in Tinwald and Ashburton yards.
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