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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Mar 30, 1920
Page
4
The firm promotes rising prices and urges customers to buy now from its large stock of dinner and tea sets with the latest designs. It highlights hanging lamps from 2 pounds 27 shillings 6d to 5 pounds 10s, night lights, and table lamps priced 23s 6d to 30s as winter approaches.
New price list shows Silkstone and Laundrine bars priced at 1s 10d per bar and 1 12s per box. Silvasud 6d per bar and 1 0s 6d per box. Milling 1s 0d per bar and 1 0s 6d per box. 3 Crown 3d per bar and 1s 5d per box. Cost of living rising. list offered for reader benefit.
Ibbotson and Son advertise by telephone at 24 East Street offering services and contact details. The notice emphasizes accessibility via the listed phone and the shopping or business focus of the firm.
Shoppers urged to build a wardrobe list and save money on items. Cotton Neglige Shirts, Soft Collars, wide range tees, knitted silk ties, linen handkerchiefs, cashmere socks, fur and wool felt hats, leather boots, brogues, and travel bags are priced in shillings and pence. T. A. Bryant, Gentlemen’s Outfitters, Burnett Street.
If booked the rate is £3 per annum and prepaid at £2 12s per annum. New Zealand postage adds 13s.
Auction notices schedule events including Ram Fair at Ashburton Yards and Clearing Sales at Miffalton Rakala and Chrew. Meantime meetings and amusements include Orange Hall farewell for Mr W H Amos and His Majesty's Theatre showings with Welcome Home Socials and 8 pictures.
A bookseller and stationer lists health and household guides, medical texts, eugenics, first aid, and women’s fitness works with prices from 1s to 63rd. The catalog includes hobby books for winter evenings, toy making, wood carving, and 'Novelty Evenings' plays. Taas Street contact 120.
The Ashburton Guardian notes the Samoa trip of Dominion Parliamentarians sparks party lines over how to handle labour, with divisions on indentured Chinese labour versus Chinese exclusion. It urges compromise, respect for rival views, and warns against turning Samoa into a political football while acknowledging taxpayers funded the trip.
OOD Ranges that draw well include Shackrock s Orion Scott s Atlas Peerless New Record Hepburn s Kapai Barningham s Wealandia Miner and Crib Ranges all in stock plus Range Extras. John Orrand Co East Street Ashburton.
A Rotorua telegram reports Charles Turner a wholesale wine merchant was convicted of selling a bottle of whisky in breach of the Licensing Act. It was his second offence. he was fined £25 and costs, his license cancelled, and he was disqualified from trading for two years.
Swanee River has been scratched for all engagements at the C J C meeting. At a directors meeting of the Ashburton County Saleyards Company, C J Harper resigns as chairman after 25 years. J Grigg to succeed. Wages delayed due to Good Friday and bank holiday till Tuesday. Council, sugar, tariffs, rail crossings, settlement applications, bowling green work, and other local items reported, including transport, weather, and a range of public notices.
Ashburton High School Board met with chairman J Tucker presiding. Present were R Galbraith A Horsey T Doherty C Reid W T Gill and Rev G Miller. apologies from W Oakley and W B Denshire. Roll 120 boys 82 girls total 192. Attendance 177 92 percent. John Bell Memorial Scholarship discussed. bursary clause to be revised. Dormitory project approved £884 lowest tender accepted. Miss J Beaumont appointed preparatory mistress. Miss Kerr left in Marek. Applications for Belshaw vacancy reopened. temp female teachers suggested. Visiting Committee recommended Rectory improvements. Reid Millet named for next month.
Booth and Company planing mill destroyed by fire at Carterton last night. Building and machinery insured for £150, timber and corrugated iron losses uninsurable or unlisted. Mill wired for electricity. total loss estimated between £4000 and £8000. Rebuilding to start immediately amid a related mysterious house fire last year.
The Hon W Nosworthy leaves for Wellington to handle private business and future departmental work. Mr George Allport former Marine Secretary dies aboard Ulima roa en route to Sydney at age 66 on illness long known. Captain A I Hardy, 80, grandson of Sir Thomas Hardy of Trafalgar fame, dies in Gisborne after 50 years in Poverty Bay district and Maori war service.
An American university pages reflect a fading vigor as seven men audition for the Banjo and Mandolin Club amid a broader critique of campus morale. The fragment touches on historical musings, dental futurism, and a claimed remedy named Fluenzol, promoting its oil-based ingredients.
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