North Canterbury Farmers Union meets in Christchurch to discuss remits
The North Canterbury Executive of the New Zealand Farmers Union opened its Provincial Conference at the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association Tooms. Debates covered penal railway rates on flour coal timber and fruit and calls for a Christchurch Labour Bureau office and for protecting Dominion producers against Argentine goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christchurch
North Canterbury
New Zealand Farmers’ Union
Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association
Tooms
G. Sheat
Gardner
Waikari
Farmers’ Union
Holland
Bailey
Templeton
Livingstone
Patchett
Ensor
Bell
Agricultural railway reforms debated at Ashburton conference
The conference heard farmers push for fair average weights per truck and tarpaulins on railway trucks to reduce losses from wet sacks and damaged grain. Officials and growers clashed over cost and practicality while Stallion Bill provisions were discussed and the meeting adjourned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. W. Leadley
Ashburton
Minister of Railways
J. G. Stanton
J. G. Horrell
Railway Department
A. A. Johnston
Australia
Dominion
New Zealand
Johnston
Methven Life Quiet as Farmers Boost Harvest Work
Our travelling reporter notes Methven life is quiet with farming at the center of activity. Weather favors field work as grain carting resumes, stockpiles hold grain, fat sheep exports rise, and labor shortages press farms. Pig attacks on sheep prompt hunts in Black Hills. local gun club files shoot results. dramatic club rehearsals fund school prizes while railway officials consider station yard upgrades and moved sheep yards for merchants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highbank
Marawiti
C. Morrison
Imall
Methven
Black Hills
Snowdon
Valetta
Methven Amateur Dramatic Club
Railway Department
Minister of Railways
W. A. Herries
Baxters Lung Preserver Promoted as Natural Cold Cure
An old advertisement extols a herbal cough remedy named Baxters Lung Preserver. It claims simple, harmless ingredients and aligns with Nature’s method to cure a cold, urging readers to use the bottle form for easy relief.
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Nature
Baxter
Fletcher Bros. Great Stock-reducing Gale Advertisement
Paces are urged to visit Fletcher Bros. for a stock reducing sale. Offers include 5 packets Saxon Carnflour for 1s, 5 packets Table Dates for 1s, 6 Cakes Pumicene Sand Soup for 1s, tins Good Sardines for 1d, 10 dozen Clothes Pegs for 1s, and 3 pots Blue Leal Vaseline for 1s.
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Fletcher Bros
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