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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Mar 17, 1920
Page
7
The fragment references a correspondence between Hemingway and Robertson with schools and Auckland ties. It notes a School Ltd item and mentions a large student figure, suggesting an educational or literary context.
Report from Gisborne and Wairoa describe influenza rising on the coast with three deaths at the Native Land Court in Tiki tiki, Takomaru Bay correspondent notes. Takomaru schools close for a week as many natives migrate to Rotorua. in Wairoa 43 cases prompt halt of a celebration and school closures.
While trying to move a bull from a paddock at Norsewood farmer G Joyner was badly gored. He was rescued but exhausted and admitted to Dannevirke Hospital in a precarious condition.
Railway construction at Wairoa starts on March 16 with the Waikokopi line using Native labour at 1s 6d per yard. Officials expect completion within two years due to ease of construction and ample native labour ready to work.
The Auckland tribunal on profiteering heard claims that firms held credit balances owed to customers after money and orders were forwarded. It was alleged unauthorized committees tried to fix standard prices with producers. The matters will receive due consideration.
Sir W H Herries opens the conference and states the Customs tariff revision will occur in the next session. He notes the government has not set a policy on trading with enemy countries and is awaiting a declaration from man and actions of the empire. Britain appears inclined to declare its policy.
At a Dargaville Patriotic War Relief meeting the Auckland branch representative Mr Long spoke on funds. The gathering, led by Mayor R. E. Horn blow and Mr J. N. Hayes, unanimously approved a resolution opposing nationalisation or centralisation of funds and pledging to support the provincial funds for soldiers from Auckland province.
Christchurch report states Thomas Craythorne a married labourer of Prebbleton fell from a drag on Lincoln Road about 5 pm yesterday breaking his neck. Police at the Central Station received the details.
In Napier on March 16 the Supreme Court granted William Henry Plummer a decree nisi against Ruby Flummer and Herbert Arthur Meyrick as co-respondent, awarding £500 damages.
Sir Robert Stout informs the Otago University Council that he has assigned £500 in inscribed stock to the Treasury for an economics scholarship. The gift funds a prize for the year’s top first class honours in economics open to all students and may create a future second scholarship through reinvested income. He emphasizes economics study as essential for New Zealand.
A claim asserts Mazol is a scientific cold relief no mixture, promising fast relief. Rixty doses priced at It Od and marketed as a guaranteed remedy.
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