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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
May 08, 1920
Page
4
The notice announces H Ibbotson and Son offering household hardware including a new aluminium range. It promotes tea, groceries, spices, canned goods, soaps, sauces, biscuits, beverages, and imported English tea sets with discounts and bulk offers, inviting customers to inspect goods.
David Friedlander auctioneer and agent announces a large number of properties for sale by private treaty. He invites inquiries and inspectable access for bona fide buyers and notes regular county stock sales and fat stock drafts through yards or works with skin sales every alternate Monday in his rooms.
Land and estate listings by Henry Stephenson auctioneer include acreages with cottages near town belts, 4 acre parcels with cottages in Allenton, 8 room dwellings with conveniences, Hampstead 4 acres with small cottage, and a first class boarding house. Prices range from £160 to £700 with furniture at valuation and immediate calls advised.
Norwich Union Fire Insurance appoints agents for Norwich and London Life Assurance Norwich and London Accident coverage.
A Whethersfield shop advertises books for winter reading and teaching aids. It lists chalk drawing books by Chas Rogers at 5s 6d, painting books from 3d, boxed stationery with envelopes, writing pads, and a large selection of titles priced around 5s and 2s 6d. A window look promises new supplies and popular novels by Hales, Trent, Le Queux, Kyne, and others.
A fragment shows a shop on Bay Street offering petrol and tyres in stock with a contact phone number 40. No other details are readable.
Auction and sale notices briefed for Monday and Tuesday at Rakaia Mayfield Tinwald yards. Also listed are church services at Soraubet and other meeting times, Army and mission hall services, and a hospital board monthly meeting.
A 1919 analysis notes Europe’s postarmistice economies suffer from depreciating currencies and volatile trade. It calls for currency stability, increased production, and new overseas markets while warning that reparations, credit limits, and rising government obligations threaten recovery.
A memorial argues that inflation and rising debt threaten savings and risk widespread bankruptcy unless governments curb current expenditure with tax and asset growth. It discusses Germany's indemnity, proposing payment in commodities, higher taxation, and a strict fiscal limit.
Stratford voters elected Robert Masters in a by election that followed his December defeat. J B Hine, former Internal Affairs minister, challenged the result claiming minor illegalities. The Election Petitions Court voided Masters’ win on technical grounds, and Masters emerged with a larger majority. The decision does not threaten the government’s working majority.
County Council votes to observe May 16 1 6 and 1 9 as special holidays in honor of the Prince of Wales visit. Government Statistician directed to collect Dominion industrial manufacture stats for year ending March 31. Also reports on land transactions, lease cancellation application under War Legislation Act, and benzine shipments easing shortages. Bulldog radiators for Ford cars advertised with dealer display and inspection invite at Tancred Street theatre.
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