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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
May 15, 1920
Page
4
Local retailer announces a new range of aluminium ware for home use and invites customers to inspect goods. The ad lists numerous food items, teas, coffees, spices, dried fruits, and cleaning products with prices, and mentions discounts on bulk purchases and special brands like Lipton and Edmonds.
An itemized sale notice lists numerous food products and household goods including Melhuish tomato sauce Whitlock Worcester sauce Lefl, Lea and Perrins, Pickles Morton's and Pioneer Chutney Sun Chutney. Also featured are Calf's Foot Jelly Bovril Horlick's Malted Milk and Grange food brands, plus canned fish and milk products. A shipment of English tea sets in various china brands and glassware is advertised.
The advertisement lists fine indoor games for youth including Ludo Halma Snakes and Ladders Lotto and more with prices from 1s 6d to 18s 6d. It promotes Pearl's Cyclopægpdia new edition World Atlas and Bibby’s Annual 1919 20 and introduces new fiction titles by World Wide Authors with prices ranging 2s 6d to 6s. The retailer STATIONER at Wal Street invites visits and phone 120.
The Public Trust Office advertises lending on first mortgage and custody of wills. It invites inquiry for more particulars on its administration and tendered accounts at regular intervals.
Notices from Canterbury Roller Flour Mills request farmers and brokers to offer wheat locally before export to ensure flour, bran, and pollard for local needs. Government restrictions limit direct buying from producers, and rejected grain should be milled locally for better handling. Office hours listed as 2 to 4 p.m. on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
David Friedlander announces he handles many properties for sale by private treaty and invites inquiries and inspections for bona fide buyers. He conducts all stock sales in the county with his personal attention and lists fat stock drafted for sale through yards or works, with skin sales every alternate Monday in his rooms.
The New Zealand Shipping Co Limited promotes its twin screw passenger steamers to England via Panama. Vessels offer CQ2 fire extinguishers and wireless telegraphy with sailings possible May through October and tonnage around 10 000 to 12 382. First to third class accommodations, passages from London arranged through National Mortgage & Agency Co of NZ and Salgety & Co Ltd as joint agents.
A local store advertises a fine range of overcoats with durable service and smart finishes. The lineup includes light weight tweed coats medium weight and heavy weight lined with flannel for driving and marching use. Styles include single and double breast plain belt back trench and raglan cuts. Burnett Street phone 168.
An offer highlights a seven room dwelling with washhouse detached copper and tubs water connected to borough supply gas and concrete paths, plus a four acre property with seven room house H P water electric light near Cox Street and railway, all at bargain prices. Additional listings include a 550 acre farm with dwelling and outbuildings near the railway priced at 24 pounds 10 shillings per acre and insurance offerings from Norwich Union and Norwich and London.
Stock sale at Ashburton Yards with the Stephenson clearing sale scheduled on Cox Street at 1.30 pm Tuesday. Auctioneers advertise stock items for bidders to attend.
A compact roundup of morning and afternoon church services at Baptist, Stephen’s, St. Andrew’s Tinwald, Wills Street Mission Hall and United Friendly Societies. Also notes on a Royal Reception at Domain Oval and theatre showings at His Majesty’s Theatre and Theatre Royal with evening screenings of Possum Paddock.
A major Wellington meeting on May 27 under the Council of Agriculture will tackle disposal of wool meat and dairy in a post imperial purchase era. Leaders seek frank analysis of a collapsed frozen meat market and slipping wool prices, and consider shipping priorities and preferential treatment in London to protect producers.
A long colonial reminiscence notes that meat congestion in England will ease after Imperial tax changes. It reports shipping improvements in New Zealand with thirty vessels in sight and relief measures in cool stores. The managing director of the New Zealand Refrigerating Company says space will free up and June or July should see operations continue, though overall prospects remain mixed for producers.
The Bank of New Zealand grants a general staff bonus of 10 percent plus an extra 5 percent for married men earning £400 a year or less. Other news notes railway decor work for the Prince of Wales visit, a blanket shortage in the Dominion, and woollen mill output rising to offset England import declines. Also reported are an Auckland Superannuated Public Servants association formed, a teacher’s home coaching in Riva district, a magistrate’s lease adjustment case, Ashburton School assembly hall needs, a planned electric power outage, and the arrival of British KL/G sparking plugs for aviation in Ashburton.
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