No-license rally energizes Ashburton audience
Mrs Harrison Lee urged No-License work across the electorate, recalling temperance travels from New Zealand to Samoa and Britain. She argued licenses harm families, cited Victoria and Maine as local-option precedents, and called for audience members to bring a moderate drinker and a drunkard to meetings.
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Mr Witt
R W. E. Collins
W. G. Lambert
I. Shiner
R. Tint Mester Blair
G. W
Eb, Ballkenee
R. J. Liddell
Mrg
Te of Sankey
Harrison Lee
Lee
Harrison Les
Avith
Asdburton
Ashburton
Flest
Victoria
New South Wales
New Zealand
Dominion
Cluthe
Australia
Samoa
Mre Lee
Hlanolulu
England
Canterbury
Taeland
San Francisco
Leo
Connecticut
Beecher Stow
Vermont
Maine
Canterbury Land Board Meets Sets Transfers and Licenses
The Canterbury Land Board met with members Mesara i C Gold Smith J Sealy A Pringle J Stevenson and J Avan present. Transfers included Mead Settlement 286 acres from Thomas Breading to Robert and Samuel Breading and 40 acres Arundel from Arthur J Cooling to James H Harris. An L I P transfer stood over. Mount Somers Coal Company sought a license to occupy town lands to lay a line to the coal mine, approved subject to tenant consent.
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Canterbury Land Board
Mesara i
C. Gold Smith
J. Sealy
A. ©. Pringle
J. Stevenson
J. Avan
Mead Settlement
Thomas Breading
Robert
Samuel Breading
Talaia
Arundel
Arthur J. Cooling
James H. Harris
Woodbury
L.I.P
Charles W. Bady
James Hill
Raksia
Mount Somers
South Rakaia Road Board Sits For Monthly Meeting
The South Rakaia Road Board held its usual monthly meeting with chair Lambie and members Magson Holmes Harrison and Hartnell. The clerk was instructed to seek Council approval to widen a flood-prone race near McLean’s to the irrigation channel. Gorse work and notices were approved and land bought near Barr Hill to replace the McPhail trust, with fencing and gorse control ordered on several roads. Complaints over motorist speed prompted a note to the Automobile Association. a crossing near Back Track received revised authority. Accounts totalling £101 1s 4d were approved.
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South Rakaia
A. D. McPhail
Barr Hill
James McPhail
Oon
Automobile Association
H. ©. Turner
Morrison
Weather Details From Ashburton Domain Station September 1907
Observations at Ashburton Domain station for September note barometer high 30.27 inches on the 5th and low 29.16 on the 23rd. Maximum thermometer peaked 70 on the 24th, fell to 46 on the 13th. minimum ranged 49 on the 5th to 23.6 on the 24th. Heavy frost reached 8 degrees on the 24th. Rainfall totaled 1 inch 34 points. September 1907 rainfall 4 inches 86 points.
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Ashburton, Domain
New Zealand Parliament Meets in Wellington on Bills
The Parliament of New Zealand met in Wellington at 3.30 p.m. on October 1 to read first times for the Naval Subsidy and Immigration Restriction Act Amendment Bills. The Public Bodies Leasing Bill was amended and passed to clause 14 before progress was reported. The Public Works Act Amendment Bill was read a second time and then a third time, with the Naval Subsidy Bill also advancing to a third reading and passage.
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Wellington
Findlay
Wield
J. McGowan
Joseph Ward
Prides Pal
James Allen
Guinness
Vancleve Lodge
Lamb's Road
Ashburton
Dingey
Vancleve
Gracie Gmp
Vancleva
Harold
Maud
Vassar
Fritz
Franz
Heir
Verax
Vestina
Durbar
Vanish
Euchra
Verity
Grace
Henrietta
Gracie
Australasia
Burlington B
Sunbeam
Moonbeam
Twilight
Starlight
Vivandiere
Daylight
Quincey
Burington
St. Louis
Burlington Junr
Velvet
Faithful
Cinders
Ben Hur
Burlingham
Young Burlington
Miss Burlington
St. Symon
St. Kilda
Roxie
What
Sunghi
Bir Joe
Smin
da Break
Don Cleve
Rotary
Ciny
J. A. Bucklax
Pine Ridge
N.S.W
N.Z
Plumpton
Christchurch
Glenie
W. Scott
New Zealand Old Age Pensions Bill Amendments Debate
Wellington report on the House discussing multiple bills. Old Age Pensions Act amendments aim to make registrars commissioners, relax drunkenness penalties, adjust life assurance and pension rules, and raise the commuted property value for public trustees. Infants Life Protection amendments debated and passed.
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South Rakaia Roqad Board
J. O’connell
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