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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Mar 29, 1920
Page
4
The advertisement notes rising prices and urges customers to buy from Ibbotson and Son, formerly Fletcher Bros, highlighting a wide stock of lamps and lighting items with winter approaches and night lights priced from 23s 11d and lamps from 27s 6d to 5 10s.
Silkstone per bar 1s 10d per box 1 12s Laundrine per bar 1s 10d per box 1 12s Silvasud per bar 1s per box 1 0s 6d Milling per bar 1s 9d per box 1 0s 6d 3 Crown per bar 1s 3d per box 1 5s S-Star
The article notes escalating living costs and states efforts are underway to address the issue. It mentions a list provided to aid readers in understanding price pressures and potential remedies.
Ibbotson and Son advertise a G phone model at box 13 in the East Grand district. The listing emphasizes a compact unit with standard features and a contact for purchase inquiries.
The notice lists subscription rates: 3 pounds per annum if booked, 2 pounds 12 shillings per annum paid in advance, and New Zealand postage set at 13 shillings extra.
In a meeting led by Mr F P Ferriman the community pledged active support to returned soldiers nurses and other war winners. He urged service in deeds not words and demonstrated the principle by his own actions.
Ashburton returned soldiers face profiteering and broken promises as the district funds the Returned Soldiers' Club and discusses repatriation. Local reports note government efforts, public notices, graft warnings, and community actions including a Labour Day fire brigade demonstration and a bridge loan proposal.
The notice lists Monday stock sale and Wednesday raw fair at Ashburton Yards. Tonight multiings amusements at His Majesty's Theatre. Presbyterian Church Rakaia hosts a 7.30 musical evening by Mr Robert Hark ness. A and P Rooms hold a 2.15 meeting of sheepfarmers and meat producers. Orange Hall hosts a farewell social to Mr W H Amos.
The bulletin notes southeasterly winds and frost inland with a rising barometer. A motorcyclist collided with two horses at National Mortgage Corner West Street sustaining skin abrasions and a cut. Tram service disruption in Auckland followed a employee dispute but service resumed with a settlement conference underway.
The Prince of Wales is named Knight Grand Cross of the Victorian Order. Amy Gladys Mack, eldest daughter of M J Mack, dies at Hamilton aged 26 after illness. S P Curtis, New Zealand Railways chief clerk, retires after over 50 years service. Bishop Diggle of Carlisle dies. General Booth sails to Australia and New Zealand. Trinity College of Music appoints examiners for Australasia. P J Dunne, former editor of West Coast Times Levin Chronicle Ohakune Times, dies at 55.
General cable notes from London, New York, Delhi and Rome report policy on butter purchases, talks with Argentina and France, a king’s potential visit to Belgium, Annunzio’s republic, famine removals to Italy, and ferried political trials. Reports include shipping lessons, inflation concerns, Panaman Canal reopening, Mesopotamia fighting, and a Times dispatch on March 29.
London March 24 Professor Mackenzie reports a breakthrough in heart disease digestion research. The investigator says recovery occurred not by stimulus but by showing the action, a finding that significantly aids recent experiments.
In the Admiralty Division judgment dated March 26 1919 the Shaw Savill Karamea and the Norwegian Haugland were found at fault in a February collision while crossing ships rules were disobeyed. Karamea three quarters blameworthy and Haugland one quarter.
Advices from Vladivostok report the Soviet Union has proposed renewing diplomatic ties with China. The offer includes handing over the Chinese Eastern Railway and renouncing Russia's share of the Boxer Indemnity.
The Times reports Rot terdam correspondent finds descendants of Scots from Trebizond era living in a Caucasus village near Batoum. They are blue-eyed and red-haired, wear kilts and sporrans, play bagpipes from pigs' bladders, and speak a Gaelic Georgian Tartar mix. The correspondent offers escort to ethnologists.
Paul Carnot of Paris proposes in the Paris Journal that maternity should become a remunerative career. He argues the mission should be confided to volunteers and that the community bears the burden of rearing children.
A March incident near Pontedba sees a train decouple its carriages and descend a slope colliding with an express. Thirteen people are reported killed and nearly all were injured, according to Rome dispatches from March 27.
Egyptian students journey toward Berlin University when a transport mishap leaves three carriages plunging into a river. witnesses report bystanders rescued some riders.
The Government Profiteering Bill, introduced into the Assembly on March 27, establishes a Board of Control and local committees. Magistrates may impose penalties up to 500 pounds or 12 months imprisonment for violations.
Lawson and his secretary van Riper are among a score arrested in a silver dealing case. Prices moved from a few cents to nine dollars, then fell after arrests. The Attorney General prosecutes Lawson. The Daily Mail notes tests of Marconi wireless under tough conditions. The phase from plane to plane proves successful and messages are clearly heard. radio range reaches 200 300 miles.
Northern floods cause loss of life as a worker Matthews and family drown near the Main Trunk railway works in upper Paparoa. A man clung to a tree for six hours before rescue. another remains missing. Bridges damaged cut Paparoa communications. town flooded. shipping weathered by storms. hopes rise as weather clears.
Auckland March 29. Severe floods from the Baparoa breach inundated homes. A man and child were rescued from a roof, others perished including a mother and three children whose bodies were found later. Pearce and a rescued motorist were recovered, and a car occupant was found among the wreckage. Women hid in attics as water rose three feet. Roads and bridge works suffered serious damage.
A torrential storm hit Whangarei late Friday lifting water to house heights in low areas. Bridges washed away and stock losses reported as rivers rose nationwide. Five men may have died at Maungaturoto. power at Wairua Falls flooded. town plunged into darkness Saturday night before lights returned. Train and ship traffic disrupted. Manaia with James Allen aboard unable to depart harbor until Sunday morning. Weather now improving though unconfirmed details persist.
John J. Taylor of Streator Illinois authored a lengthy study on deep sea life featured on a single postal card. The text discusses phosphorescent creatures and their luminous mechanisms used to navigate dark ocean depths.
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