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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Mar 18, 1920
Page
3
Methven reports a close season finale with a 1 a.m. start next Saturday as the local club meets Darfield. The recentAncients vs Infants match saw Fryer 146 not out and Gabitel 48 headline a dramatic innings while Mollison and Burrows led the bowling.
March 17 Dunedin reports large yardings and softer demand at Burnside. Fat cattle yarding 234 head, prices 20s to 30s below opening. prime bullocks £16 to £10, cows £15-£17. Store cattle slow, many pens passed in. Four thousand sheep offered with demand easing. prime wethers 42s-48s, ewes up to 45s 9d, lambs 19s-34s. Pigs moderate yarding, small pigs in demand, baconers 1d-1s 0d per lb, porkers 1s 3d-1s 14d.
Rakaia batted first for 148 with McLennan Currie Holmes Skevington Cairns J Skevington and Smart contributing. Veterans replied 232 led by Fox 63 not out and Rattray 60. In the second innings Rakaia were 93 as Skevington and McLennan top scored while Rattray and White shared six and four wickets respectively.
Results show Ashburton triumphs in multiple events. Cant 45yds bike race won by O Connor with Birch second and time 2 min 9 4 5 sec. Mile and a half bike won by Birch in 1 min 33 sec. Handicaps led by Lewis and Smith with final times around 7 1 5 sec. Sheffield Handicap saw Lewis first, Wray second, Winshill third in 12 4 5 sec. High Stump finish had W Evlery and Wray tied at 5 ft, O Neill third.
A Rangiora resident praises Doan's Ointment as the best cure for piles after years of suffering. She reports rapid irritation relief in days and eventual complete cure using about two pots. She and her husband continued to trust the product, noting lasting improvement. Doan's is sold by chemists and stores at 3s per pot, via Foster-McClellan Co. in Sydney.
At Addington on March 17 fat stock sold well prime, with weaker demand for secondary quality. Store sheep yarding exceeded 35 000 head from Southland Marlborough and North Island, prices easing 3s per head overall. Fat lambs and cattle showed firmer or mixed signals with prime beef firm, lighter stock easing, and varied prices across classes.
The Goldwyn Company presents Rex Beach’s The Crimson Gardenia a dramatic carnival tale set amid confetti and masquerade. Emile le Duc escapes a counterfeiting trap while Roland Van Dam seeks thrills and faces death. a clever ruse connects to police HQ as the drama peaks tonight.
Ambiguous OCR fragment hints at a health tonics product. No clear names, dates, places, or outcomes are readable. The readable part mentions UNAZOL and a phrase about avoiding pay and colds, but lacks concrete events or entities to summarize accurately.
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