Ashburton Athletic Club backs combined physical culture and boxing plan
At the annual meeting Mr Cookson moved to blend physical culture with boxing training, arguing the club should promote sport beyond boxing and hire a professional instructor if needed. Members backed the plan, recalling past boxing success and aiming to extend classes to adults and county centers.
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Ashburton Athletic Club
Ae P. Codkson
Cookson
Cub
E. Maybury
Aea
H. RB. CO. McElrea
R. Meechan
Ashburton
Meechan
McElrea
Alf. Tresize
Rushcutter’s Bay
W. J. Robertson
New Zealand
W. Page
Canterbury
Methven
High Commissioner Reports New Zealand Wool Sale Conditions
The High Commissioner for New Zealand reports the eleventh series wool sales opened with strong attendance and competition. Merino and fine crossbreds up about 5 percent, other grades steady to up 5 percent, with 98,500 New Zealand bales among 100,000 on offer. Butter prices hold amid government control, Irish butter to be unregulated after March 31. Hemp markets quiet with lower January March quotes. wool prices firm and about 10 percent higher since February.
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Department of Agriculture
New Zealand
London
Dearer
Manila
Burnside stock market report shows declines in fat stock prices
At Burnside Auckland Dunedin on March 24 prices for prime stock eased with yarding of 224 head. Prime buttocks sold £20 to £24, medium £16 to £19, light and unfinished £14 upwards. Prime heifers £15 to £17 10s, medium £13 to £14 10s, stores weak due to poor winter feed prospects. Sheep yarding 2215 head, prime valued higher at 1s 6d to 2s, overall demand active though prime stock scarce.
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Dunedin
Burnside
Kat Gatle
Beng
Livestock Prices Show Mixed Returns at Market
A large yarding saw prime wethers reach 42s to 47s 6d with heavier ewes at 45g and primes 37s to 48s. Fat lambs numbered 1424 with prices from 18s to 34s per head as freezing buyers cooled on anything less than prime. Pigs sold well with top baconers at 11s 6d per lb and porkers at 1s 14d per lb amid keen competition.
Dispersal Sale Reported by National Mortgage and Agency
The National Mortgage and Agency Co with Pyne Gould Guinness held a dispersal stock sale at Black Yards Mount Somers for R B Neill. High attendance. Ewes and wethers sold well with prices ranging across merino and halfbred stock, including 271 sound mouth ewes at 25s 2d and 865 merino wethers at 25s 8d.
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National Mortgage and Agency Co., Ltd
Pyne, Gould, Guinness, Ltd
Black Yards
Mount Somers
R. B. Neill
Coney Island Giant Jack Wilson Compared With Historic Weights
A 26 day fast exacts huge losses across body parts including muscles blood and kidneys. The piece notes Jack Wilson of Coney Island as a notable weight figure and references Daniel Lambert and Leo Whitton in a comparison of enormous weights. It ends by promoting Baxter's Lung Preserver as a summer health aid for coughs and colds.
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Jack Wilson
Coney Island
America
England
Daniel Lambert Sii
Leo Whitton
Macclesfield
Stanus
Baxter
Sterling
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Fry's
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Page Agency
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