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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Sep 03, 1909
Page
4
Inspector Cullen urged three months in depot for new recruits and added practical training and law study. He warned against excess clerical staff and recommended exams for sergeants and detectives, medical checks for promotions, fewer transfers, and letting defaulters stay in their district.
At the Lyttelton Harbour Board meeting the chairman opposed the minority report. An amendment to refer the canal project to a special committee failed by nine to eight. A proposal for adjournment to two weeks passed while the next meeting is set for the 15th instant.
Germany leads in chemical work to color flowers on demand. Professor Henry Kraemer reports that applying solutions or soils with specific chemicals can alter petal colors such as red in white roses and blue hydrangeas, with colors potentially transported within the plant.
A letter to readers outlines a proposed special meeting to alter the societies rules and consider vesting land and properties in trustees rather than forming a corporate body. The writer disputes ministerial objections, cites prior registrations, and warns of potential government seizure of huts and paddocks.
A reader explains the Davenport Brothers cabinet trick known as coat changing. The performer is bound in a chair, knots sealed, and both participants swap coats as a cabinet curtain conceals the action. He uses practiced knuckle flexibility to withdraw hands and slip free, leaving knot examination inconclusive.
Br Mullin delivered an informative talk on the hygiene of the dwelling noting site selection, drainage, and gravel soils to protect water supplies. He urged sunlit kitchens, tree planting to reduce malaria, and careful rubbish disposal to prevent bacterial growth.
Sir Joseph Ward says New Zealand supports an undivided Imperial Navy but was outvoted at the Conference. He notes New Zealand backing for All-Red steamship and government-owned cable lines. The Challenger will sail to Fiji September 19 to embark Ward.
The Waipara has reached Moreton Bay. Churchill notes a White Paper on Britain Labour exchanges. He estimates 240 exchanges needed with total costs of about £100,000 this year and a peak of £210,000 next year. Rent savings later cut yearly cost to £180,000 by 1919.
Dalgety and Company with National Mortgaging Agency and New Zealand Farmers Cooperative Association held a clearing sale in Valetta for the estate of Roderick McDonald. Stocks included numerous crossbred sheep with varied prices, merino ewes, lambs and hoggets, several rams, two mares, six milk cows, and farming implements such as a Duncan roller, Massey Harris binder, and a Murray wool press. The sale drew good attendance and was deemed successful.
Messrs Friedlander offered at Valetta on Bros Limited on Thursday by order of the second mortgagee. The mortgager R Mc Donald occupies the Shepherd's Bush parcel surveying 640 acres more or less. It is all land in T vol 180 folio 198 rural section 36166. Mr Peter Drummond purchased at £5128 6d per acre.
The Colonial Consignment and Distributing Company Limited reports a slight rise in mutton value and a decline in beef. Current prices list Canterbury mutton at 21d and Napier Wellington North Island at 24d, lamb flat quality 38d, second 3d, beef hinges 84d, fores 21d.
At the Institution of Mining Engineers fifty year meeting in London speakers urged solar heat as a future energy source. Dr R T Moore noted global coal output shifts with the US leading by 1899 while consumption rises. Emerson Bainbridge cited Philadelphia work suggesting sun heat could supply hundreds of horsepower per acre, hinting at tropical heat delivery replacing coal.
A young donkey girl in Llandudno found a purse on the sands containing over seven pounds in gold and silver. She headed to the police station with the money, encountered the rightful owner, and was rewarded with sixpence for recovering theLost money.
A local firm claims to deliver made to measure suits for about £2 less than standard prices while offering a written satisfaction guarantee or full refund. George Davies, with extensive facilities and 38 branches, says direct mill purchases and in-house workrooms enable genuine savings and customized, comfortable suits.
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