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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
May 17, 1913
Page
3
Ad lists boys watches with leader chain. Swiss lever watches offered at sale price five shillings, usual price six shillings. Nickel or black lever models available.
May 16 report from London notes Pearce, set to row Barry on July 21, rowing daily and walking to shed weight. Public interest rises as both contenders train. McVilly, the Tasmanian sculler, is also preparing for the Diamond Sculls.
Dick Arnst returns from retirement and arranges a Parramatta River contest with Hagney for £200 to £300 a side within three months of signing. He also negotiates a match with Paddon.
A Friday contest for prizes from Miss Denshire produced best scores by Miss G Friedlander with 41 net and Mrs Buchanan with 45 net in a one club 9 hole event hosted by the Ashburton Ladies' Club.
General Godley in Auckland declares land defences rely on a citizen army growing from 23 000 to 80 000 by 1916, with three more years of training boosting efficiency. He notes coast forts in Auckland and Wellington are well manned, and Permanent Artillery staffing has risen from 265 to 315.
An advertisement extols Warner's Safe Cure as a remedy for urinary and biliary poisons. It explains how kidneys and liver work, claims the medicine restores their function, and promises permanent relief from gout, rheumatism, indigestion, jaundice and related disorders.
In Timaru on May 16 the Kia Ora arrived to load 30 000 carcases and other freezer goods. Unionists met with CO Webb as work began and agents formed all gangs from free labour. Free men held a noon meeting and decided to form and register a separate union.
About twenty men employed at the Gisborne freezing works for the season have left to Canterbury this week to take up work at Pareora. The movement follows the seasonal closing of the Gisborne plant.
Waterside workers at Lyttelton halted unloading on arrival from Timaru due to free labour at Timaru. After a two hour delay, work resumed following a Federation of Labour reply. The Breeze will sail north this afternoon.
The Labour Department plans to deploy a large number of unemployed men to public works in both islands. About 150 men are needed, with 40 to be sent from Wellington to Stratford for road and railway projects. Other workers will be dispatched to Tauranga, Otira, and nearby railway and tunnel sites.
Mayor J Parr tells the newly elected City Council finances are sound with debt at £1 550 000, £900 000 invested in productive services, revenue enough to cover interest, a sinking fund of £183 000 growing £15 000 to £20 000 yearly, plus £20 000 tramways profits in reserve and over £1 000 000 to the good after debts. Sales totals rise from £29 905 in 1893 to £496 474 in 1918, with total revenues this year near a quarter of a million.
Enthusiasm marked the Methodist Union celebrations in Christchurch. A general interchange of pulpits occurred Sunday among ministers and local preachers. A united tea meeting filled Durham Street schoolroom and later the Durham Street church for the after meeting. A vote of thanks to Mr. A Flesher was presented for organizing the New Zealand independence procedure. The Union Declaration was signed in Wellington by church leaders and witnessed by the Governor and Prime Minister.
The inspector reports that 223 of 986 candidates passed recent machinery department exams and notes the overall low pass rate. An accompanying ad promotes Baxter's Ling Preserver as a remedy for early chest discomfort and coughing in cold weather.
The notice promotes Hean's Essence as a cheap cough remedy for all ages. It claims quick relief for ordinary coughs and potential cure for chronic coughs in days, with simple mixing instructions and nationwide availability through chemists and grocers.
W Halliday late of Hotel Metropole Akaroa informs the public of Chertsey and surrounding districts that he has purchased from E P March the interest in the Chertsey Hotel and seeks to receive the same guarantees as before.
The advert promotes over 140 knife styles by Whitehouse Gilpin Skelton Rowe and other standard makers at John Orrand Co on Hast Street. It touts reliability and says stocks are “consider ably reduced” for the sale.
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