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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Mar 29, 1909
Page
3
The press report records UK shipments of 4 155 000 quarters and Continent 2 600 000 quarters with 93 000 Atlantic and 15 000 Pacific quarters. Total Europe shipments for the week reach 850 000 quarters, including 304 000 from Argentina and Uruguay.
At the wool sales 180000 bales were offered with 95000 bound for home markets 69000 for the Continent 18000 for America and 12500 held over. Prices rose across grades with superior greasy 5 percent higher medium 10 percent up inferior 7 to 10 percent higher and fine crossbreds 10 to 15 percent up. The High Commissioner notes firm sales with excellent competition and improving manufacturing district activity.
Fortnightly Ashburton sale prices list wool and skin values across categories. Skins cover crossbreds to merinos with per unit and per pound figures, plus lambs, pelts, and black furs. fat, wool, and hides also show varied rates for caul, bag fat, ram feces, hogget wool, fleece types, calfslins, and horsehair.
The Timber Commission in Invercargill held hearings with E Leary of the Otago and Southland Sawmillers Association testifying on 1907 formation, member counts, output limits, and price trends. J Hensley of Southland Timber Co spoke on production costs, wages, mill life, and profits.
Wellington report says a drunken man resisted a constable during arrest on Cuba Street. Over three hundred bystanders watched as four people were arrested. At court, fines from £2 to £6 were imposed for inciting the man to resist, and one defendant received a month in prison.
In the Divorce Court today decrees absolute were granted in Ada Patton v David Patton Ada Lacy Burch v George Francis Burch and George Reckard v Beatrice Reckard.
Telegrams sent to Lieutenant Shackleton convey hearty congratulations from Christchurch authorities and the Berlin Geographical Society. The messages praise the triumphant return and invite Shackleton to report to the Berlin society, possibly in October.
Mr Clement Wragge cites Antarctic observations suggesting northerly currents could erode the Polar plateau and, far in the future, trigger a tidal wave. He cautions the danger may not arise for a thousand years, if at all.
A large Nimrod congregation attended a thanksgiving service for the Antarctic explorers. Lieut Shackleton and officers were present as prayers and hymns reflected on the voyage. The piece discusses science gains from South Pole expeditions, including geodesy, astronomy, glaciology, and atmospheric studies to improve understanding of Earth and solar-terrestrial relations.
The United States Biological Survey proposes deer breeding for market as a profitable venture. Venison and deer products are in strong demand, with several species adaptable to domestication. Laws restricting hunting and sale would need modification, with registration and selected species like wapiti and Virginia deer highlighted for potential farming.
Diet plays an important part in rheumatism gout sciatica lumbago and related ailments. The ad warns certain foods raise uric acid and promotes RheumG as the quick cure with relief from the first dose. It claims chemists or storekeepers sell it at 6d and 4d6d per bottle.
Lieutenant-Colonel A Weston Jarvin recounts in a County of London Yeomanry address how Lord Roberts fixed May 18 for Mafeking relief by emulating Stonewall Jackson tactics. He explains Roberts kept Boers around Mafeking to safeguard lines, while tying in Kimberley relief and Cronje’s capture as wider war moves.
Judge Lumley Smith in a City of London Court case warned that upholding a broad rule would ruin the Act. Plaimuf, injured at work, could not be forced to work yet was able to earn part of a livelihood. The judge rejected full maintenance for life, urging work within ability to reduce employer compensation and avoid injustice.
Enders invite sealed tenders for the Weldons Farm on Green Street comprising 200 acres Rural Sections 14351 and 14859 with a six room dwelling and outbuildings. Tenders due noon Saturday 24th April with cash or cheque for a percentage of purchase money as a good faith guarantee. Conditions available at the tendering office and not all tenders may be accepted.
Three-quarterbred two tooth ewes six hundred head plus four-year-old halfbred ewes three hundred head five-year-old halfbred ewes three hundred head listings for stock sales by Nasworthy in Wakare Mount Somers.
W R Cooper departs the district and seeks to sell his Hast Belt property of Z-ACRE with a six room dwelling, modern conveniences, plastered interiors, wash-house, garden, and good water. Six minutes from the Post Office, over the Town Belt, with low rates and six months' ownership. Call for details. quick sale expected.
Undersigned offers ground floor shop with 18ft frontage and 40ft depth in Burnett Street. Immediate possession available. Former tenant to dispose of gas fittings, window fittings, counters and partitions at reasonable rates. Full particulars from Sides 2nd to 3rd, with listed butcher shop items and prices included.
The listing shows per tin prices for assorted canned fish including herrings in tomato and in sauce, kippered herrings, salmon, herringlets, sardines, mullet, lobsters, whitebait, bloaters, and red herrings with unit costs ranging from 4d to 1s 4d at Fletcher Bros.
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