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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Mar 27, 1913
Page
4
An itemized list promotes various goods and prices including currants pineapple brand names Prize Winner and cube pineapple, Havelock Derby Sticks and tobacco brands, cigarettes, matches, vestas, and canned fish with unit pricing. The text reflects a market catalog style from a historic period.
Listings announce a clearing sale at Highbank on Friday and a series of auctions and sales on Saturday including a weekly produce and poultry sale at Farmers' Co operative Association and sales at Mr Henry Stephenson's marts.
Hig Majesty's Theatre presents Hayward's Pictures with Fuller's Pictures at Theatre Royal and Hig Majesty's Theatre. A farewell social announces events for tomorrow evening with multiple venues and showings.
A leading British view condemns suffragette violence, arguing it harms the cause as Mrs Pankhurst and her lieutenants push incendiarism and property destruction. Lloyd George notes persistent defiance while Mrs Millicent Fawcett condemns violence and recalls past peaceful progress for women's suffrage from 1886 to 1912.
Mrs Fawcett deems militants misguided enthusiasts and the most dangerous obstacle to immediate suffrage success. She states that thinking women in New Zealand share this view and notes emancipation was achieved decorously with little bitterness, suggesting home concessions might follow under pacific conditions.
At the Ashburton Police Court a man arrived from Christchurch under the influence of liquor, was fined 6s and ordered to pay 2s cab fare. The column also notes cabling about free school passes for Lyttelton, housing plans, and local notices, including a suicide, railways letter, and various local items.
Ashburton reports that His Excellency the Governor intimated acceptance of the position of patron of the Navy League in New Zealand. Also noted are health updates on Hon A T Neate, Holdsworth’s travel plans for Union Company, and local staffing changes at banks and education boards.
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