Untitled Grocery Ad Fragment
Fragmentary ad text shows pricing for items: per ib 170, 9 tibs for 10, 4lbs for 10, and 1. This reads as a rough discount style grocery promotion with unclear item labels.
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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Mar 31, 1908
Page
4
Fragmentary ad text shows pricing for items: per ib 170, 9 tibs for 10, 4lbs for 10, and 1. This reads as a rough discount style grocery promotion with unclear item labels.
A business thanks customers who paid their accounts since the fire and says the writer plans to collect all payments in March. Anyone who has paid by 10 March will be included under the new arrangement.
The Upper Ashburton Road Board held its usual monthly meeting with members J Harper chairing and J Farrell A Horsey M Stitt and J Tucker present. Proceedings covered correspondence on gas mains on Alford Forest and Winters roads, a Crown Lands sketch, land revenue receipts, road fords maintenance agreement with Mount Hutt Board, lighting requests, and allocations for road work and sign painting.
The Toronto Globe editor reports a massive immigration wave in Canada, with about two million arrivals in two years. Most newcomers are English, many from East London. Auckland readers host daily dinners for roughly 8700 new immigrants, funded by about £4000.
Patient writes from Albany Place North Dunedin detailing a 15 year rheumatoid crippling cure after using Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills for three months. He praises subsequent recovery, notes no attacks in nine months, and recommends Comstock's Nerve and Bone Liniment in conjunction. Public notice lists sale details and supplier information.
An intoxicated man on horseback rode through the Salvation Army wing in Gishorne, striking bystander Joseph Spencer with a loaded stick and rendering him unconscious. Police arrested the offender, fined £5 for drunkenness, remanded on an assault charge with bail. Spencer suffered a head wound but is recovering.
Wellington March 40 The Appeal Court opened today with Justices Williams Dennis ton Edwards Cooper and Chapman present. Chief Justice Sir RB Stout unable to attend due to Native Commission duties. Four new cases added but not heard until tomorrow. In Moore deceased case the court awarded costs of £60 on both appeal and petition and granted leave to Crown to appeal to the Privy Council.
In Wellington a no-license council congratulates Auckland victuallers for highlighting women’s drinking but condemns their pressure on police. In Westport the Buller electorate conference backs licensing by bare majority and seeks a dominion no-license vote by simple majority at each general election.
The Arbitration Court in Wellington sets minimum pay for musterers from May 1 for two years. Rates include 10s per day for under a week and 2 2s per week for a full week with 10s extra on Sundays. Snow raking pays 10s daily. learners have stepped weekly rates. housing provisions and unionist non discrimination are included.
Sir Robert Stout and Mr Ngata presented figures on Maori land ownership in Rodney Waitemata Otamatea and Hobson counties. Occupied land totals around 6 000 to 9 000 acres per county with much leased to Europeans and portions of drift sand. The commissioners planned travel to Whangar i Kawakawa and Bay of Islands to conclude inquiries.
The Conciliation Board sat in Rangiora to hear Oxford witnesses in the farm labourers dispute. Farmers oppose a minimum wage and harvest-time limits, citing travel and weather and noting that contracts already govern much harvesting. The board refused to travel to Oxford despite protests and adjourned to the next day.
Auckland reports Dr Rivers lecturer at St John’s College Cambridge arrived from Samoa aboard the Navua to pursue anthropological and scientific studies in the Polynesian Melanesian Archipelagoes. He travels by the Southern Cross to the Solomon Islands to unite with Percy Sladen trust expedition members after visiting Hawaii and Fiji.
At the New Plymouth branch meeting on March 30 a vote of no confidence in the present executive was carried and a second vote found that Mr J M Hornsby had been unfairly treated by the executive.
The Premier called at Gisborne yesterday where he was met by many citizens. Sir Joseph said he would probably return in May and would, if possible, visit the Gisborne Rotorua railway route survey.
The death is announced of the Rev Daniel Wong, Anglican Chinese missionary. He formerly laboured among Chinese on the West Coast, but fifteen months ago he broke down and in October last he underwent an operation.
The Concilia tion Board’s recommendation in the Ashburton timber yard employees dispute has been filed. If no objections are made by April 28, the recommendation will take effect for three years, aligning largely with Christchurch and Timarg recommendations.
A dispute between the Canterbury Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners and 150 Christchurch employers will be heard by the Conciliation Board at 10 o'clock on April 14 in the Provincial Council Chambers. The union seeks a minimum wage of lis dd a day for eight hours, an under rate agreement with a minimum of Ys w& day, strict apprentice and sleeping away terms, travel allowances, and five year indenture with preference to militia.
Advertisement urging tea drinkers to try At Home Tea described as having a rich full flavour and the best quality. Mentions Manshes 4 Sole Agzanta as part of the promotional copy.
An advertisement touts Rheumo as a cure for rheumatism gout sciatica and lumbago claiming testimonials from H S Jannine of Feilding dated July 1907. It urges sufferers to try Rheumo and notes availability in stores and chemists at 3d and 4s 6d.
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