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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Oct 29, 1908
Page
1
At Addington yards Christchurch on October 28 graziers and buyers packed the market. Store sheep, fat lambs, wethers, and hoggets sold with prices up slightly from last sale. crossbreds and merinos showed firm to higher bids. Fat cattle and pigs also moved briskly though cattle prices eased slightly from prior rates.
In Dunedin on October 28 fat cattle and sheep prices fell amid large yarding and few country buyers. Bulls and heifers ranged £7 to £11, wethers 21s to 28s 6d, ewes to 19s 9d, lambs 13s 8d to 21s 9d, pigs selling briskly with suckers 18s to 21s and porkers 43s to 48s.
Christchurch October 27 The local grain and produce market is lifeless with wheat on offer but sales difficult as buyers and sellers differ in value. Oats and chaff are dull. surplus grass this spring reduces demand for feed. Potatoes see only hand to mouth trade and stocks are small.
The letter argues against repealing prohibitory by laws and cites Ireland and New Zealand as examples. It rebuts the sly grog bogey used by liquor advocates and promotes strict police enforcement and magistrate action to stamp out illicit distillation.
A Melbourne article claims Australia seeks to rupture the Anglo Japanese alliance to create a white man s Pacific. In Tokyo the Mikado replies Roosevelt to the fleet visit would cement friendship and good will between nations. Ottawa reports Laurier government to return with a smaller majority. Indias in Transvaal rally for fair treatment and a boycott threat. Davis Cup match results from Perth with Wilding beating Parker. Melbourne rifle meet notes negligible results and Jo Stuart mentioned. Deakin proposes a referendum to empower commonwealth wage and labour control via new protections.
In Dunedin oats show slight gains with Prime milling quoted at 1s 11d and best feed at 1s 8d to 1s 10d. Wheat market remains quiet with Prime milling at 4s 4d to 4s 9d, medium milling and whole wheat at 4s 0d to 4s 4d, damaged grades 3s 6d to 4s.
Sydney Melbourne and Adelaide reports show wheat old and new prices, flour, oats, maize, bran, pollard, potatoes and onions with fluctuating ranges. Tasmanian oats Algerian oats and Cape prices noted alongside New Zealand Gartons and various markets in October readings.
Several local parliamentarians say the Education Act is defective and must be amended to make clear that salaries for current teachers should start from the beginning of the year at the minimum salary of their grade. They insist Parliament did not intend to penalise old teachers.
Wellington reports teachers remain unhappy as the amended Education Act delays full minimum salaries. Government cites £16,000 to £17,000 extra cost for a gradual £5 rise for all current teachers. Critics call for immediate alignment with sought minimums using a reclamatory judgment.
In Auckland on October 27 the Arbitration Court set coopers wages at £2 18s per week, an increase of 35s weekly, and reduced the weekly work by one hour.
Wellington reports the Corinthia bound from London will arrive next week with 670 passengers aboard. Of these 670, 528 travel in the third class, reflecting a strong third class presence on the voyage.
The Canterbury Drivers' Industrial Union of Workers files a demand schedule with the Arbitration Court seeking minimum weekly wages for one horse drivers at £2 10s and two horses £2 15s, with extra pay for additional horses. Youths under twenty receive 35s for one horse, 40s for two. overtime and holiday rates are specified. Over 600 employers cited. hearing date not yet fixed.
A motorist fined £20 for speeding was fined £50 on a second court appearance with £45 costs and had his driving license cancelled for 12 months. Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets are plant based and claim mild action without pain, sold by Ashburton Drug Company.
Mrs Parker of Darlinghurst Sydney recounts how she and her daughter suffered indigestion biliousness and dyspepsia for years until using Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills. She praises speedy permanent relief and urges others to try the remedy noting improvement during menopause and continued occasional use for system rectification.
Selwyn County Council received a letter from A. D. Paterson engineer calling for a public inquiry into charges of mismanagement and alleged excessive costs of works. He requests reporters present and a professional evaluator of the council’s past four years work before the current members retire. The council asked Paterson for definite charges.
At the sixth day of Christchurch Anglican Synod Bishop Julius presided. Rev J d BH Galwey moved to reconsider grants from the Church Mission Fund to award parochial clergy with young children on a fixed scale. The motion aimed at easing financial burden for families. Archdeacon Harper urged using Cranmer Square house for a girls boarding school. an amendment proposed Kilburn Sisters operate a Christchurch girls school. motions carried. An appended notice promotes Chamberlains Calo and Diarrhoea Remedy.
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